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Post by sherri on Nov 5, 2017 8:57:18 GMT
It's funny how their little brains work, isn't it!!
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Post by DADDY O on Nov 6, 2017 1:10:37 GMT
I can recall losing all our cereal packets one day back when the kids were young. We had had an ant invasion overnight and there were thousands of them rampaging through the contents. Nowadays I buy rolled oats & oat bran in plain plastic bags and empty it into Tupperware and no worries, although my husband's cereals are all in the original packets. Used to hate how some things lose their crisp within days though. When I had my ranch in Texas I always had dogs. Possums would come through the "Doggie Door" and raid the dog food. They were fairly vicious little beasts, but the dogs would only bark at them, and I would have to get out of bed and then shoot them in the kitchen area (where the dog food was). After a while it gets pretty old, not to mention the holes in the floor and side of the house. So, one day I was driving to the lake and there was a dog shivering on the side of the road, so I stopped and picked her up. She was a very friendly dog and got along well with my other dogs. One night a Possum came through the Doggie Door and my new found stray grabbed that Possum and snapped his neck. Then she drug him back out the Doggie Door and left him outside. She had a little Pit Bull in her.....not much, but enough to protect the homestead. From that day on I renamed her Lizzy. As in Lizzy Borden....the American Ax Murderer who killed both of her parents. Ever hear the song.....Lizzy Borden took an ax, gave her mother 40 whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father 41. An old American Folk Song. One of the best dogs I ever had. I miss that dog. She took on one too many Raccoons one night and was killed by them.................but there were 4 dead Raccoons near her......all of them with snapped necks. She was a real Champion.
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Post by sherri on Nov 6, 2017 10:07:53 GMT
lord in heaven, you shoot inside the house? Over here, possums are protected and you are not *supposed8 to rehouse them in another area but a friend of mine does that. They have 25 acres in an area about half an hour away & they take them there.
Sure do know the Lizzie Borden song-immortalised in one of the Agatha Christie books.
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Post by beachbum on Nov 7, 2017 0:59:22 GMT
The American opossum and the Australian possum are different creatures.
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Post by DADDY O on Nov 7, 2017 1:47:03 GMT
Now there"s something I did not know.. Thanks Beachy...........and yes Sherri we do shoot inside the house. Possums on this side of the pond are very nasty creatures. Pick one up and he will chew your arm off...........same with Raccoons.
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Post by sherri on Nov 7, 2017 8:55:44 GMT
I don't know that our possums are that aggressive but if they get into your ceiling they wreak havoc & they're up all night, thumping around. Famous children's book here is called "Possum magic."
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Post by sherri on Nov 7, 2017 20:53:36 GMT
Now there"s something I did not know.. Thanks Beachy...........and yes Sherri we do shoot inside the house. Possums on this side of the pond are very nasty creatures. Pick one up and he will chew your arm off...........same with Raccoons. Sometimes I read these online news articles (fake news as someone famous might call it ) about all the dangerous creatures in Australia but I reckon that's just a load of rubbish. There's hardly anything much here that is likely to hurt you (as long as you keep away from the snakes), whereas USA is a veritable hotbed of danger. You've got deadly possums, racoons, coyotes, even bears & maybe wolves. You're more likely to run into a bear than we are likely to run into some of our dangerous creatures, which tend to be smaller. Put it this way, I've never had anything run into my home that could have torn my arm off! Mind you, I had to whack a huge huntsman to death about 30 years ago. Gone but certainly not forgotten!
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Post by DADDY O on Nov 9, 2017 13:33:38 GMT
WOW..............you killed a man who was hunting? I bet he was in your house shooting a Possum? No? Is this the guy? My wife would have been all over that Dude.....or, maybe it was the Ambassador to Russia? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Huntsman_Jr. You're not still afraid of Spiders.............are you?
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Post by sherri on Nov 9, 2017 22:08:15 GMT
If you saw an enormous huntsman you'd feel a bit apprehensive too, believe me. They put up their front legs to fight back too so you've got to respect them I suppose.
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