William Robb wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "keith_w" > Subject: Re: Peso: ~ King ~ > > > >>>> We Canadians have the mighty but rather slower beaver as our national >>>> symbol.
>>> We set out traps for them. They taste not bad. >> Depends. It allll depends... > Funny beaver story.. > My mother in law phoned me one day in a bit of a panic. Apparently, there was > a beaver trying to > attack her dogs, which fortunately were in chainlink mesh dog runs. I tld her > that what she > realy wanted to do was phone the Lumsden RCMP detachment and get an officer > out with a shotgun > to shoot the darned thing, since it was obviously rabid. > Of course she had to know how I was making that sort of judgement from 30 > miles away, so I asked > her if she thought a beaver that didn't have rabies would be trying to attack > her dogs. > > Point taken, and an officer was dispatched. > > They have the coolest way of dealing with rabid beavers. They use a 12 guage > shotgun, loaded > alternately with shot and slugs. The first round of buckshot is supposed to > slow the animal > down, and then the slug kills the thing. > If they miss, then another round of buckshot and then another slug. > Beavers can be pretty hard to kill, from what the RCMP boys say. > > William Robb Mmmm hmmm... Several comments come to mind, none of which I will use here. Yes, beavers are a very tough and hardy lot... keith -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
