On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:00:12 +0100 Alan Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Robert Connolly wrote: > > Last night (3 hours ago) I took 140 pictures of 7 skunks! I saw 9, > > but 2 got away. Some pics here (much better pics than last time): > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~robert/skunks/20070815/ > > > > This is turning out to be a great hobby. 2 of the skunks sniffed my > > foot. I got within a foot of most of them. I feel like the > > crocodile hunter. > > > > Another warning for any of you who want to take up this hobby, > > skunks tend to have rabies; don't try to hand feet them and don't > > touch them. > > > > robert > > > > Nice photos. > > Perhaps you could be starting a trend. The new wave of blogging could > be "photos-I-took-of-wild-animals-in-the-dark-on-the-way-home" > > Our nearest beast to a skunk is probably a badger. I think it's a bit > bigger but not as smelly ;-) > Fortunately it is unlikely to have rabies either (in the UK anyway, since we are still rabies-free, except for Blairite Warmongering politicians, of course). Badgers (and policicians) are also not to be hand fed - not if you want the hand again later anyway. Actually, the nearest we have to Skunks ARE politicians. R. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
