One day a squirrel fried itself in the high transformer in front of our house, popping the fuse. While SWMBO and I and the Gulf power guy stood over the still-smoking squirrel, the semi-wild neighborhood mama cat shot through our gaggle grabbing the squirrel on the fly and disappeared for the rest of the day. Animals have such amazing reflexes.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of > Curt Raymond via Mercedes > Sent: Friday, June 26, 2020 6:25 PM > To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Cc: Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] ***SPAM*** RE: OT: chickens > > I shot a lot of squirrels in the backyard when I was a kid, dad still does. > My > parent's house sits on the rural/urban divide near a dirt access road. City > folk > trap squirrels and drop them off on the access road, the squirrels then find > my > parent's bird feeder.Their yard will handle 4 squirrels at any time, meaning > with 4 or fewer squirrels there is enough feed that they don't attack the bird > feeder. When I 5th squirrel turns up the attacks begin and one of them, > usually > the fat, dumb city squirrel gets fatal. > Dad has gotten the crows trained, when he shoots the body lasts for about 5 > minutes. He says they need 3 trips to take it all away. Interestingly crows > seem > smart enough to leave the pellet behind. I've read that eagles eat lead from > dead animals and die from it but dad says the crows will pick the pellet back > out of the body. Most of the time its not a problem as the pellet passes clean > through. > -Curt > > On Friday, June 26, 2020, 5:08:41 PM EDT, Mitch Haley via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > That was known as Mom's Rule when I was growing up. > Squirrel, rabbit, deer, if she could watch it from the kitchen window while > doing dishes it wasn't game. > > Mitch. > > On Fri, June 26, 2020 5:04 pm, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: > > > In fact I have a rule that I don't shoot rabbits closer than 200 yards > > from camp. Outside of the 200 yard circle they're no longer pets. I > > know the rule doesn't make sense but it is what it is... > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
