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Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31009 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Welcome to East LA. |
Admiral Gloval Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 21287 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0 |
Lol. |
Dimly Lit Lightbulb 😀 Send message Joined: 30 Aug 08 Posts: 15399 Credit: 7,423,413 RAC: 1 |
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Admiral Gloval Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 21287 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0 |
LMFAO! |
Angela Send message Joined: 16 Oct 07 Posts: 13131 Credit: 39,854,104 RAC: 31 |
A mother skunk and two rather well grown babies stopped by this afternoon to eat seeds that had fallen out of the bird feeder. Usually skunks don't come out during the day, but the mama was obviously nursing and I'm guessing rather hungry. Tonight she came back, but with three babies this evening. Very cute! Sue, your godson Sampson also stopped by this evening. He is growing rapidly. |
Suzie-Q Send message Joined: 9 Mar 07 Posts: 3351 Credit: 4,746,812 RAC: 1 |
LMFAO! +1 ~Sue~ |
Suzie-Q Send message Joined: 9 Mar 07 Posts: 3351 Credit: 4,746,812 RAC: 1 |
Sue, your godson Sampson also stopped by this evening. He is growing rapidly. Give him a kiss for me! (LOL) ~Sue~ |
Dimly Lit Lightbulb 😀 Send message Joined: 30 Aug 08 Posts: 15399 Credit: 7,423,413 RAC: 1 |
Found Angelas uber driver... :) Member of the People Encouraging Niceness In Society club. |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24912 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
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rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22534 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
One's got to admire the little fella's grit and determination. Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
I'm glad he made it. :-) |
Admiral Gloval Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 21287 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0 |
Now how will he get down? |
SciManStev Send message Joined: 20 Jun 99 Posts: 6658 Credit: 121,090,076 RAC: 0 |
She was lured into a trap with cat food, and was released into an appropriate area. I bet the grass felt good on her feet. Steve Warning, addicted to SETI crunching! Crunching as a member of GPU Users Group. GPUUG Website |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51478 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
Yeah, he's gotta be very happy that adventure is over. And what a story to tell his raccoon brothers and sisters! Meowraccoon! "Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once." |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22534 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
After all that climbing I bet the brave little fella was glad of some food!!!! Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
Bernie Vine Send message Joined: 26 May 99 Posts: 9958 Credit: 103,452,613 RAC: 328 |
Yesterday I went to the park near me that has the tamest most voracious squirrels in the area, to see if they were still the same. Yep they were. Still as tame, sitting down to eat a few feet away. Still as hungry. "Please sir can I have some more" |
Bernie Vine Send message Joined: 26 May 99 Posts: 9958 Credit: 103,452,613 RAC: 328 |
A little critter story. Now I live in a 2nd floor(3rd to those in the US) flat, sixties built concert floors. One door in. So imagine my surprise back last December when one Sunday evening just as I was preparing my evening meal I thought I saw movement by the kitchen door. I decided it was probably the light. However later that same evening as I prepared for bed I definitely saw the tiny grey shape streak across in front of me. I had a mouse. So I brought a humane trap, started to check all the places I could think of but could find no sign of a mouse anywhere. I set the trap, apparently the "old faithful" cheese is not the best bait, chocolate biscuits were recommended. However no luck, I tried different places no change. I did not see or hear anything from December to May. I spend quite a lot of my evenings sitting at my PC, to my right is an old wooden bureau, on top of which sits my phone, router, NAS and an 8 port switch. So there I am when out of the corner of my eye I see movement, a little twitching nose appears followed by the rest of the mouse who then sits next to my router sniffing the air!! I shouted and it was gone in an instant, should have watched what it did and where it went. It was able to easily climb up due to all the wires down the back of the bureau. So another round of cleaning and hoovering (I admit to not moving the bureau to often as it is so heavy. Still found no sign, re-baited the trap and put it in the living room. Nothing. Then a couple of days ago while searching in a box I brought back form the Isle of Wight I found a "trail camera" I had brought to watch the wildlife in my dads garden and I had forgotten all about it. It is free standing has movement sensors and an infra red light and camera. So I set it up on the landing, just wondering if it would catch anything. First night nothing, second night sure enough s blurred shape that was definitely a mouse. So yesterday I re-baited the trap with a few bits of Sainsburys Belgium chocolate cookies. I went to be earlier that usual and was just closing my eyes when I thought I heard a "click", now I have thought I heard a click many times before, however in case it was the trap I didn't want the mouse to be in it all night so I got up. The infra red light making its eyes reflect, I had finally caught my mouse. I got up dressed and release it at the far end of my flats near the rubbish bins, it shot off into the shadows. So now I just have to hope there are not more. I still have no idea how it got here, my only thought is that it could have been in something I brought back from my dad's house as I know there were many field mice living in the rockery just outside the back door. Note: seems mice prefer Sainsburys Belgium chocolate cookies to ordinary chocolate biscuits :-) |
Suzie-Q Send message Joined: 9 Mar 07 Posts: 3351 Credit: 4,746,812 RAC: 1 |
Mice can squeeze through a hole the size of a dime*. (No idea what the UK equivalent might be.) Thank you for using a humane trap. <3 *Google says: The dime is the smallest in diameter and is the thinnest of all U.S. coins currently minted for circulation, being .705 inches (17.91 mm) in diameter and .053 inches (1.35 mm) in thickness. ~Sue~ |
Bernie Vine Send message Joined: 26 May 99 Posts: 9958 Credit: 103,452,613 RAC: 328 |
Mice can squeeze through a hole the size of a dime*. (No idea what the UK equivalent might be.) That would be our 5 pence. Loved by all :-0 (actually universally hated !!) I have a bag full of coins from my last visit to the USA so the comparison was easy. As to humane traps, I remember a line from a radio play many many years ago "Creatures of the light that we are, do not bring darkness to others" and it sort of sums up my philosophy of life. For instance having been badly stung by a wasp when a child I do not like them to this day, however if one gets into my flat I go out of my way to try and get it to leave rather than kill it. It can't help being what it is. PS. My camera caught a grey blur last night!! not a lot of definition but it seems like my Mus musculus either got back in or had friends!! |
Angela Send message Joined: 16 Oct 07 Posts: 13131 Credit: 39,854,104 RAC: 31 |
Found Angelas uber driver... LOL!!! Loved the squirrel pics and the mouse story too! |
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