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betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11361 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 |
How to catch an escargot? |
Suzie-Q Send message Joined: 9 Mar 07 Posts: 3327 Credit: 4,746,812 RAC: 1 |
Cody is a doll, but Eric is really adamant about not having "indoor raccoons". Wild indoor raccoons, or a tame, pet raccoon? A raccoon that was raised by humans and that was very tame - domesticated - wouldn't be much different than having a cat or dog, imho. ~Sue~ |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65738 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
Cody is a doll, but Eric is really adamant about not having "indoor raccoons". So as the Russians who were breeding foxes proved, one has to breed for tameness, otherwise they can be anything but tame... That is the most likely way that Dogs and Cats were domesticated around 10,000 years back. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
This is weird. 30 years after the world's worst nuclear disaster area around the meltdown in northern Ukraine it has now become one of Europe's most interesting wildernesses. Wildlife thrives in the forbidden zone |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
This is weird. Wierd?? Not at all. Cats are the most resiliant and adaptabke animals on the planet. They are adaptable, and have show the ability to thriev when most mammals fail. The simple fact is that their lifespans are too short to be affected by radiation,. They die naturally before they get tumours,. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
Wierd?? Not at all. Cats are the most resiliant and adaptabke animals on the planet. They are adaptable, and have show the ability to thriev when most mammals fail. Not only cats. Horses as well:) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/23/wildlife-returns-to-radioactive-wasteland-of-chernobyl/ |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
[quote]Wierd?? Not at all. Cats are the most resiliant and adaptabke animals on the planet. They are adaptable, and have show the ability to thriev when most mammals fail. Not only cats. Horses as well:) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/23/wildlife-returns-to-radioactive-wasteland-of-chernobyl/[/q I cannot let you slide through my hands. \;p Wild Horses. Fine animals. Another of God's best. Mewowhinnney. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
Wild Horses. Now I get some flashbacks. As a kid I spent some summers at a farm. They had an old mare (märr in swedish) I think she was about 20 years old. And her name was Mary. What else:) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnShth-cQy4 |
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JaundicedEye Send message Joined: 14 Mar 12 Posts: 5375 Credit: 30,870,693 RAC: 1 |
My favorite life form. Picea Pungens Glauca (the Colorado Blue Spruce) grow to 70 feet or more. They really are blue. "Sour Grapes make a bitter Whine." <(0)> |
Angela Send message Joined: 16 Oct 07 Posts: 13130 Credit: 39,854,104 RAC: 31 |
A raccoon that was raised by humans and that was very tame - domesticated - wouldn't be much different than having a cat or dog, imho. Super smart, excellent climbers and ridiculously dexterous, raccoons would be able to open most of your closets, drawers and cupboards to rifle the contents. You would have to baby-lock EVERYTHING all of the time, and never slip up. I wouldn't want a bored raccoon trapped in my home, looking for entertainment. Also, they climb up on to things and poop down them, so shelves in your house would pretty much have to be eliminated. So would anything they could climb on. Raccoons do not use litter boxes or puppy pads. |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
No wonder I prefer cats as pets...... "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0 |
As a child one of our neighbours tried to keep one for a pet from the time the animal was a pup, or what ever they call a baby raccoon. The thing just started leaving for short periods of time, then as time moved on, one day it never came back. Now at the time we lived way out in the country. The world was just starting to get sick in those days, so there was still a great population of all kinds of wild creatures in the bush. The bush came up to most peoples back yards. I personally never heard of one being kept in side all the time. |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
Cats are basically a wild animal we try to keep at home. Domesticated, my ass. Some are better at that than others./ Some will bolt at the best opportunity from the front door, never to be seen again. I had an experience with my departed Squirrel kitty many years ago. She somehow slipped out of the house and roamed the neighborhood for weeks before she finally returned, cold and tired, to my front door. I will never forget the look in her eyes. I lost years of my life trying to find her. When she finally returned, I spent hours cuddling her, and she then refused to leave my side. Hard to go to work. But for the rest of her life, she never ever got close to the front door again. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0 |
Cats are basically a wild animal we try to keep at home. Good Sir you are completely wrong on that point. Our little Moghie, the 'Fryja Cat' is not only civilized but she also reads a new novel every month and helps me with the taxes most years! edit: Get it straight then..... |
JaundicedEye Send message Joined: 14 Mar 12 Posts: 5375 Credit: 30,870,693 RAC: 1 |
I think Mark knows that we are the ones who have been domesticated....... "Sour Grapes make a bitter Whine." <(0)> |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
Cats are basically a wild animal we try to keep at home. LOL...my two remaining kitties DO seem so be rather content simply holding down the covers on the waterbed. And are most attentive when I get home from work very tired and retire with them. I do not see them accumulating much reading material however. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0 |
Wood bison are disappearing from our north country! http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/wood-bison-now-a-threatened-n-w-t-species-1.3550512 edit: Next it will be the Woolly Rhino that shall soon disappear..... |
Dimly Lit Lightbulb 😀 Send message Joined: 30 Aug 08 Posts: 15399 Credit: 7,423,413 RAC: 1 |
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rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22190 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
...And three days later the raccoons will have worked out the solution ;-) Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
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