I thought about it for a bit, Slip, but the neighbors get cranky when I fire up the wood chipper at 2am. Cops never believe the "but its a possum, sir!" story anyway.
The raccoons that opened the commercial fertilizer bags made a clean escape but I cannot verify their health after opening so many bags, as I recall there was only a small amount of grain available in that barn so I have no idea if they ate any of the grains of fertilizer. They were seen by neighbors after leaving the barn and that is how we found out they were raccoons. Raccoons, possums, deer, they all can do the job. Once while sleeping out on the ground, (while camping...I don't do that normally) a porcupine just came up a couple feet away and slithered up a small pine tree and went to sleep while I watched him join my camp. All I could think of was him throwing needles at me so soon I began to slither too...........to get away and try to sleep just outside my camp. I didn't sleep well.
LOL you guys are so funny. I live in PA and my back yard is the forest, goes straight to the game lands. Every wild animal you can imagine wanders in my yard to wreak havick on a nightly basis. My old man gets made fun of for the strange smell of his jeep, which is used as a meat grinder everytime he starts it in the morning, some thing is up in the motor gets chewed up. He shuts it off gets out slamming the door cursing and pops the hood to pull out a raccoon or possum. I got a six point buck in my yard that has taken over the garage and won't let me gain accesss to it. I have a bb gun next to where I park and have to ping his but on a daily basis.
Animals are smarter than we give them credit. Buck 6 is prolly pimpin' doe in garage. Better leave 'em be 'less you want a cap in the arse.
With a pimp goblet, Cadillac with bull horns on front, gold watch chain, zoot suit... Dave Chappelle:Player Hater's Ball - YouTube
Man..the British are by FAR the funniest bastards in the world....but Dave Chappelle is a very funny man...he doesnt need a laugh track...he has the balls of an Australian comedian...but funnier.
LOL We need pics, Reebukk! Went out camping down at Big Bend with my Dad and a friend a buncha years back, had all manner of critters come wandering through the campsite. Roadrunners came up and would stand next to the picnic table, waiting for you to drop something. The vultures....well, they were just freaky. Rangers warned everyone to pull their tent zipper tabs inside the tent because the skunks had figured out how to unzip a tent to investigate what was inside (they're curious critters). I was camping up in Idaho a few years previous to that, and pitched my tent (low, green A-frame jobber) in a nice field....tent was barely higher than the grass in the area. Which is how the herd of moose that came through that night barely missed running it over (had very heavy hooves running down both sides of the tent). Needless to say, I didnt' get a very good night's sleep that night, either, and IIRC, those skivvies were buried in a deep hole the next morning.
Hehe...good story! Glad to hear theres so much wildlife left in the US of A...I remember camping down at a local river (wildman river) and heard a dragging sound about midnight...i was secured in the tent so went back to sleep...next morning there was a drag scar on the ground 2 feet from my tent...a croc had wondered through the camp looking for food...the scar was about a foot and a half wide...we camped further back from the river that day.... : )
Walked out of a bathroom in Banff after showering at night. Into the middle of an elk herd. They were huge. Big antlers. Managed not to panic, but got to the closest tree. They wandered off. A little tame but if that had happened in the rut...
Heh. One of the voices in my head couldn't help but finish that sentence: "...I would've been walking funny all the way back to camp!" Sorry, couldn't help it! Last time I took the wife camping (biiiig disaster...apparently "nature" isn't "clean" and doesn't adhere to schedules. Had a tornado drop about 5 miles away, had some very strong winds and horizontal rain come in one afternoon. She freaked out for some reason. The first night there, she woke me up about 3am because something was outside the tent. Sounded like an elephant, of course, turned out to be an armadillo looking for free food. We ran into him and several deer on our way back from the potty (well, she was awake anyway, and wasn't about to go by herself...). Ya know, there's some critters you look at and just have to wonder "what was God thinkin???"
He he...your wife wouldnt last five minutes in the NT....on her way to the potty, she may have walked straight in to an Assassin spiders web...they eat birds! Or stepped on a croc...or a death adder, or a Taipan...umm...or a King Brown (most dangerous land snake in the world, about 10 times more venemous than a King Cobra, and VERY aggressive, will chase YOU for a hundred yards!) Or a Razorback Bushpig, rip you open...or a Buffalo wanting you out of his territory...or...or.... : ) Thats if you arent already dead from the heat (most common cause of death in the NT among tourists each year...unless you"re German...then you are likely to be taken by a croc...we say its because they smell like sausage...but probably becasue they arrogantly think they can ignore the warnings...) But, apart from the King Brown and the Razorback...they are all happy animals!
Seems darn insensitive to me. Here Slip returns to duty (protecting his neighbors) and folks want to talk about road kill and poor peoples pets. Although it is interesting to think about a Raccoon for a Mascot. Who needs a Dalmatian? By the way, the best way to cook a Raccoon is to pressure cook the varmint for 45 minutes (a couple hours won't hurt) then remove the meat from the bones and slow simmer in BBQ sauce. Slap that between two slices of Sourdough bread and enjoy with your favorite beverage. Keep the tail for a toy for the little ones.
well you guys can head to my woods full of frikin turkeys they need a major thinning. screw the coons we have enough of them as well always poopin on my roof and playing NFL on my carport at 2am. Dang wish I still had my Wolf . . .
I'll swap a few for a couple of wild bore, we have tons of those here and those Wilde Saus have nothing to do with the Nachtjagd I'm afraid .
