Wildlife, living next to nature

[xoxoxoBruce]

Dear customer,
as your electricity supplier we have always tried to give the best price, best service, and best advice. In that vein we must inform you we will no longer supply electricity as we can not access the meter. Our best advice is to burn the house to the ground, and get far, far away.
Good Luck, The Electric Company

[Lamplighter]

Oh come on now. Motherhood is a wonderful thing.


A clerk in the Goodwill Store in McMinneville, OR made a negative remark
to a mother who was breast-feeding her baby in the store. It made the local tv news.
Today, it became a cause célèbre, with the towns women bringing their babies to the store to protest.

The clerk was let go, and motherhood survives in all it's forms.

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[xoxoxoBruce]

If that mother brings her brood, I'll offer them a drink... of Molotov cocktail.

[infinite monkey]

Yeah, that pic should be in the nightmare thread.

Thank you very much!

[busterb]

This is the lady that I posted about whacking off a breast by mistake. Western PA.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Glad T-Rex isn't around.... just his teeth.

[xoxoxoBruce]

The proper way to unbox your turtle... even not box turtles.

[Carruthers]

Alligator hazard is par for the course at Florida golf club

There must be something in the local rule book to cover this eventuality.

[Gravdigr]

So there I am, driving down the country road, minding my own bidness...





He wasn't being particularly photo-friendly. Very short video to follow in the not-too-distant future.

Shitty-camera-through-the-dirty-windshield pics.

[glatt]

May be a shitty camera and may be through a windshield, but they are great pictures anyway. I've never seen a wild turkey from that close before.

[Gravdigr]

I was using most of the 24x (optical) zoom.

Anyway, here's the driving, rolling down the window, videoing a turkey, short, shaky video I mentioned.



That's about a eight inch beard on that there turkey. This time next month, turkey season, he'd be a shooter.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Since the seventies MA has been actively building the wild turkey population(feathers not bottles), and they've become a huge pain in the ass.

The flockers travel in feathered biker gangs, think they own the joint, eat everything in sight, treat bird feeders as private stash, attack pets & kids, and will take out a windshield in a heartbeat. The damn things can run about 25 mph and fly at over 50 mph, so a 15 or 20 pound bird can hit hard. They're vying with deer to be the biggest pain in the ass.

[Gravdigr]

The various breeds of wild turkeys are one of the great success stories of wildlife restoration.

As are whitetail deer.

And don't think I ain't made a mental note of where I saw that one up there^^^.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Attacked and bitten on the leg by a rabid Raccoon, she did what any seventy five year old lady would... she strangled the sumbitch.
Well then unlike normal people, she felt bad about being forced to do that. What?


After the strangling, shoot it
axe it
sledgehammer it
crush it
burn it
and send it to raccoon hell.

[classicman]

Speaking of Racoons ... this guy/gal was in my parents backyard yesterday. He/She was on their front porch last week. They live in suburbia! There should be no racoons around, let alone in the middle of the afternoon. I was 10' from it as it barely walked away from me. Thats as high up the tree as it could go. I walked away and it just hung there for maybe 2 minutes and then came back down and meandered away.