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Message 1505300 - Posted: 17 Apr 2014, 18:38:46 UTC - in response to Message 1505205.  

Well... how I see it is this.

Every one of the creatures we class as "vermin" do have a legitimate and vital part to play in the big ecological picture. We're the ones who have divorced ourselves from that.

They go through trash or rubbish because we put it there.

We've encroached on their natural habitats to the point where our homes are likely to become their homes by the simple fact that we're on each other's turf... and exploiting opportunities for shelter and heat (what they are doing) is what we're doing all the time, only much more destructively.

Perhaps we should be reducing our waste, and building homes that allow us to live alongside, under, and above one another in more harmonious, less destructive ways, I don't know.

I still, daily, see pigeons in London, with feet burned and mangled or missing from making the mistake of perching on a surface coated with creosote. :( Yet they're no more vermin than I am... they are simply, what we're making them... and making them out to be.

I welcome all creatures, because they make me smile and/or because they're fascinating. :)


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Message 1505399 - Posted: 17 Apr 2014, 23:04:28 UTC

I don't post to often because I am kind of shy and quiet person so with a low voice I'll just wish everyone good health and happiness :)
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Message 1505412 - Posted: 17 Apr 2014, 23:35:27 UTC - in response to Message 1505399.  

I don't post to often because I am kind of shy and quiet person so with a low voice I'll just wish everyone good health and happiness :)



Byron! It's you! Hello! So nice to see you! :)
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Message 1505415 - Posted: 17 Apr 2014, 23:53:36 UTC

Marcel, Donna and Magoo all came by last night for a visit. I never see Who, What, When, Where and Why because I was unable to socialize them properly last summer. I did a very good job of socializing the previous year's litter. I am hoping for the best this year.
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Message 1505418 - Posted: 18 Apr 2014, 0:57:36 UTC

Angela, you have the west coast covered. I do my best to feed the east coast raccoons, but I only see them in infrared, so it is hard to name them.

My job is to keep putting out food, and keep them coming here. Actually, I feed every animal that comes in my yard. Foxes, skunks, porcupines, deer, turkeys, pheasants, bear, and even stray cats.

I feed snakes also, but only pre-frozen food......

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Message 1505451 - Posted: 18 Apr 2014, 4:38:43 UTC - in response to Message 1505418.  

Angela, you have the west coast covered. I do my best to feed the east coast raccoons, but I only see them in infrared, so it is hard to name them.

My job is to keep putting out food, and keep them coming here. Actually, I feed every animal that comes in my yard. Foxes, skunks, porcupines, deer, turkeys, pheasants, bear, and even stray cats.

I feed snakes also, but only pre-frozen food......

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I deliberately feed plants, cats, raccoons, birds, squirrels, opossums and astronomers. I inadvertently feed skunks, but I'll confess to liking them. Skunks are really beautiful animals.
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Message 1505456 - Posted: 18 Apr 2014, 5:22:40 UTC - in response to Message 1505451.  
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Angela, you have the west coast covered. I do my best to feed the east coast raccoons, but I only see them in infrared, so it is hard to name them.

My job is to keep putting out food, and keep them coming here. Actually, I feed every animal that comes in my yard. Foxes, skunks, porcupines, deer, turkeys, pheasants, bear, and even stray cats.

I feed snakes also, but only pre-frozen food......

Steve


I deliberately feed plants, cats, raccoons, birds, squirrels, opossums and astronomers. I inadvertently feed skunks, but I'll confess to liking them. Skunks are really beautiful animals.

Skunks are one of only two types of racing stripes that I like, from a distance of course on the skunks, the other would be a black Mustang GT with white racing stripes w/a custom disabled license plate that says either LePew or LPew, as in Pepe Le Pew. A guy can dream.

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Message 1505465 - Posted: 18 Apr 2014, 6:06:04 UTC - in response to Message 1505299.  

Marcel dropped by the backyard for a visit last night. We don't see him too often now that he is all grown up, but we always enjoy seeing him when he does decide to come "home" for a little visit (and a snack). After Marcel polished off Spawnie's kibble, he looked around for his grapes. I was out of grapes... bad Raccoon Mother that I am. I was, however, baking sugar cookies at the time and Marcel found one of these to be an acceptable dessert substitute. He sat around on the back porch for another 40 minutes or so, just grooming himself and being bored and hoping that I would come back outside with another cookie for him. I figured one cookie was more than enough for an already pudgy little raccoon boy. When he finally figured out that he was not going to get another cookie, he ambled off.

Life with raccoons is so much fun!!! I simply cannot understand why so many people dislike them.

I don't understand it either Angela :(

Yes, they are so much nicer than possums........


They are so much nicer than people.



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Message 1505844 - Posted: 18 Apr 2014, 22:28:12 UTC

Some people don't mind the smell
of these beautiful creatures
that much at all......
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Message 1505851 - Posted: 18 Apr 2014, 22:37:27 UTC

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Message 1505904 - Posted: 19 Apr 2014, 3:52:42 UTC - in response to Message 1505399.  

I don't post to often because I am kind of shy and quiet person so with a low voice I'll just wish everyone good health and happiness :)



Hello, Byron!
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Message 1506333 - Posted: 20 Apr 2014, 4:01:07 UTC - in response to Message 1505415.  

Marcel, Donna and Magoo all came by last night for a visit. I never see Who, What, When, Where and Why because I was unable to socialize them properly last summer. I did a very good job of socializing the previous year's litter. I am hoping for the best this year.

WOOHOO, thank you for the update Ang. Glad to hear about my God Daughter Donna.
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Message 1507004 - Posted: 21 Apr 2014, 19:14:16 UTC
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Baby had an adventure last night.

I woke up for euphemistic reasons around 1am, and after taking care of business decided to step outside for a minute to look at the sky. When I came back in, Baby went out. I stood there calling him for a few minutes, but he used his feline prerogative to ignore me and just kept strolling and sniffing around the area. I finally went back to bed. When I got up again about 6:20, I called him and he came sauntering up the stairs and inside, as if condescending to my request that he come in and be fed.

Just a few minutes later, he had the audacity to scream at me as usual for a 2nd can of food, even though he hadn't finished the first. Lately, he even does that while I'm in the shower.

No catnip for him today.
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Message 1507286 - Posted: 22 Apr 2014, 15:10:34 UTC - in response to Message 1507260.  

Malta

Totally disgusting, someone needs to fix Malta's bloody wagon... Or some birds could go extinct very soon.
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Message 1507420 - Posted: 22 Apr 2014, 21:40:33 UTC - in response to Message 1507260.  

Malta


Bastards!
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Message 1507422 - Posted: 22 Apr 2014, 22:03:05 UTC

I went out this morning to take some pictures. At a local park, the only thing(s)
worth photographing were these geese. I started out quite a distance from them,
using my zoom lens to take a couple of pictures. When I got up to where I thought
they were, I couldn't see them. I started making a bad version of a duck noise, and
they became very vocal, swimming over near where I was standing. I was
standing on an embankment about 10-15 feet above them. I talked to them and
they talked back. (I wonder if Star Trek's Universal Translator would have allowed
us to communicate.) I thought I had video of them vocalizing. I don't. I don't know
why not. (Brain cramp?)







As I walked away, they climbed the embankment and followed me. I kept a safe
distance. (They can be quite mean.) I climbed into my car to drive away and they
escorted me part way out of the park. You can see a video of them walking
along side my car here: http://www.zannpix.com/geese2.mov.
It's a quicken movie.

I plan to visit them again. Next time I'll take some multi-grain bread and make
sure I get a video of them talking to me.
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Message 1507439 - Posted: 22 Apr 2014, 23:16:09 UTC

When geese talk to me, I usually tell them to shut up.
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Message 1507479 - Posted: 23 Apr 2014, 3:11:01 UTC
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Fuzzy asked that I share a couple pictures of one of his many friends that stop by for snacks.
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Message 1508442 - Posted: 25 Apr 2014, 16:53:24 UTC

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