Wildlife Encounters

[revbob]

My sister found a new born deer in the shrubs around her home.

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Wow. Does she live in a wooded area?

Less and less all the time. She sent a pic of a momma bear and some cubs recently.

Whoa. The neatest thing I've seen here in town was a bunch of wild turkeys strutting around on the road like a violence gang.

[Dr. Medulla]

My sister found a new born deer in the shrubs around her home.

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Wow. Does she live in a wooded area?

Less and less all the time. She sent a pic of a momma bear and some cubs recently.

Whoa. The neatest thing I've seen here in town was a bunch of wild turkeys strutting around on the road like a violence gang.

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So much awesomeness in that.

[Flex]

A couple days ago I saw a prairie dog in the middle of the road that had its hind legs or something squished by a huge ass truck that had just passed. I must have been watching it's final second of life, but I was still scrambling with it's front half trying to crawl off the road and flailing around. It was... pretty horrible.

Sorry to share, but that's haunted me for like 72 hours now.

[Dr. Medulla]

A couple days ago I saw a prairie dog in the middle of the road that had its hind legs or something squished by a huge ass truck that had just passed. I must have been watching it's final second of life, but I was still scrambling with it's front half trying to crawl off the road and flailing around. It was... pretty horrible.

Sorry to share, but that's haunted me for like 72 hours now.

I can, unfortunately, relate. Maybe a dozen years ago, I was biking along a trail on the Ottawa River. Cruising along at 35 kph or so and a squirrel ran in front of me. I had no time to properly react and I clipped him pretty good. I stopped to go back—tho, what was I going to do?— but he'd crawled back into the woods. It's a memory that emerges unbidden and unwanted every so often. I know it was an accident and all, but it still nags at me when I think of it.

[Sparky]

A couple days ago I saw a prairie dog in the middle of the road that had its hind legs or something squished by a huge ass truck that had just passed. I must have been watching it's final second of life, but I was still scrambling with it's front half trying to crawl off the road and flailing around. It was... pretty horrible.

Sorry to share, but that's haunted me for like 72 hours now.

Horrible, sorry you had to witness that Flex. I can still remember probably 40+ years ago seeing a cat hit by a car, something you'd like to forget, but I never will.

[Flex]

A couple days ago I saw a prairie dog in the middle of the road that had its hind legs or something squished by a huge ass truck that had just passed. I must have been watching it's final second of life, but I was still scrambling with it's front half trying to crawl off the road and flailing around. It was... pretty horrible.

Sorry to share, but that's haunted me for like 72 hours now.

Horrible, sorry you had to witness that Flex. I can still remember probably 40+ years ago seeing a cat hit by a car, something you'd like to forget, but I never will.

Yikes. Yeah that stuff will stay with you. Makes you appreciate life, at least.

[Mimi]

A couple days ago I saw a prairie dog in the middle of the road that had its hind legs or something squished by a huge ass truck that had just passed. I must have been watching it's final second of life, but I was still scrambling with it's front half trying to crawl off the road and flailing around. It was... pretty horrible.

Sorry to share, but that's haunted me for like 72 hours now.

I saw that happen to a rabbit. It haunts me still.

[Sparky]

Apple thief on our backyard wall just now.

[Dr. Medulla]

Apple thief on our backyard wall just now.

BEANEATER SMASH!

[revbob]

Apple thief on our backyard wall just now.

I have a solution

[Sparky]

Apple thief on our backyard wall just now.

I have a solution

I'm sure you do!
All kidding aside, I'd rather have it eat our apples than my plums!
We have a sheet metal band I used to put around the lower 3' of the trunk, but my wife moved the tree over against our side wall, so it's touching the wall and the squirrels can reach the apples with very little effort.

[Kimmelweck]

I'm sitting alone at the picnic table in my backyard right now, just after 11pm on a Friday night. Quiet night, nice breeze. Listening to the local classical music station quietly on the radio in the glow of a Coleman lantern, enjoying a beer and reading on my phone. I just heard a rustle in the weeds along my garage, and there, 5 feet away from me, is a skunk. Not knowing what else to do, I yelled "Hey!" He stopped in his tracks, we stared at each other for about 5 seconds, and then he ran off into the darkness towards the back fence. Crisis averted, for now.

[Dr. Medulla]

I'm sitting alone at the picnic table in my backyard right now, just after 11pm on a Friday night. Quiet night, nice breeze. Listening to the local classical music station quietly on the radio in the glow of a Coleman lantern, enjoying a beer and reading on my phone. I just heard a rustle in the weeds along my garage, and there, 5 feet away from me, is a skunk. Not knowing what else to do, I yelled "Hey!" He stopped in his tracks, we stared at each other for about 5 seconds, and then he ran off into the darkness towards the back fence. Crisis averted, for now.

Being rejected by a skunk has to hurt a little bit.

[Sparky]

I'm sitting alone at the picnic table in my backyard right now, just after 11pm on a Friday night. Quiet night, nice breeze. Listening to the local classical music station quietly on the radio in the glow of a Coleman lantern, enjoying a beer and reading on my phone. I just heard a rustle in the weeds along my garage, and there, 5 feet away from me, is a skunk. Not knowing what else to do, I yelled "Hey!" He stopped in his tracks, we stared at each other for about 5 seconds, and then he ran off into the darkness towards the back fence. Crisis averted, for now.

Better buy a lottery ticket, you just got lucky!

[revbob]

I'm sitting alone at the picnic table in my backyard right now, just after 11pm on a Friday night. Quiet night, nice breeze. Listening to the local classical music station quietly on the radio in the glow of a Coleman lantern, enjoying a beer and reading on my phone. I just heard a rustle in the weeds along my garage, and there, 5 feet away from me, is a skunk. Not knowing what else to do, I yelled "Hey!" He stopped in his tracks, we stared at each other for about 5 seconds, and then he ran off into the darkness towards the back fence. Crisis averted, for now.

I've often had skunks come towards me. Unlike a lot of wild animals they don't at all seem afraid of humans.