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Message 1781105 - Posted: 21 Apr 2016, 20:48:26 UTC - in response to Message 1781101.  


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Message 1781150 - Posted: 22 Apr 2016, 1:02:41 UTC - in response to Message 1780903.  

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.
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Message 1781159 - Posted: 22 Apr 2016, 1:21:35 UTC - in response to Message 1781150.  

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.


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.
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Message 1781841 - Posted: 24 Apr 2016, 0:13:04 UTC
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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

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Message 1781855 - Posted: 24 Apr 2016, 0:32:20 UTC - in response to Message 1781841.  
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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


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,.
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Message 1781864 - Posted: 24 Apr 2016, 0:49:47 UTC - in response to Message 1781855.  
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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,.

Not only cats.
Horses as well:)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/23/wildlife-returns-to-radioactive-wasteland-of-chernobyl/
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Message 1781870 - Posted: 24 Apr 2016, 1:03:33 UTC - in response to Message 1781864.  

[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.
The simple fact is that their lifespans are too short to be affected by radiation,. They die naturally before they get tumours,.

Not only cats.
Horses as well:)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/23/wildlife-returns-to-radioactive-wasteland-of-chernobyl/[/q

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Wild Horses.
Fine animals. Another of God's best.

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Message 1781885 - Posted: 24 Apr 2016, 1:27:50 UTC - in response to Message 1781870.  
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Wild Horses.
Fine animals. Another of God's best.
Mewowhinnney.

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:)
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Message 1781887 - Posted: 24 Apr 2016, 1:31:33 UTC

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Message 1781900 - Posted: 24 Apr 2016, 2:22:08 UTC

My favorite life form. Picea Pungens Glauca (the Colorado Blue Spruce) grow to 70 feet or more. They really are blue.



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Message 1781929 - Posted: 24 Apr 2016, 5:34:56 UTC - in response to Message 1781150.  
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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.
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Message 1782018 - Posted: 24 Apr 2016, 11:50:59 UTC - in response to Message 1781929.  

No wonder I prefer cats as pets......
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Message 1782086 - Posted: 24 Apr 2016, 16:35:06 UTC - in response to Message 1781929.  

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.


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Message 1782089 - Posted: 24 Apr 2016, 16:43:56 UTC

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.
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Message 1782100 - Posted: 24 Apr 2016, 16:53:53 UTC - in response to Message 1782089.  
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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!



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Message 1782101 - Posted: 24 Apr 2016, 16:57:13 UTC

I think Mark knows that we are the ones who have been domesticated.......

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Message 1782102 - Posted: 24 Apr 2016, 16:57:36 UTC - in response to Message 1782100.  
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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!



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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.
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Message 1782112 - Posted: 24 Apr 2016, 17:41:59 UTC



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



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Next it will be the Woolly Rhino that shall soon disappear.....
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Message 1782428 - Posted: 25 Apr 2016, 18:32:51 UTC

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Message 1782434 - Posted: 25 Apr 2016, 19:07:17 UTC

...And three days later the raccoons will have worked out the solution ;-)
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