➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[Kiki]

He should have used your kitchen knife and cut it's head off!

No way in the world I would get close enough to a nasty possum to be able to touch it.

 

[The Phantom]

Congrats on finally catching the raccoon. I know what you mean about having trouble sometimes. You want the critters gone, but it's hard to justify if they haven't done anything "wrong" yet. That's my relationship with the bunnies. I don't want wild rabbits and prairie dogs on my property, but felt bad when we found the whole nest of bunnies. We almost killed them all the first day we found them, I felt bad, let them all live, and now my animals are finding them one at a time. I don't know that this is any better. I guess I really just want all the critters gone, I don't necessarily want them all dead, but I'm not relocating every vole, rabbit, coyote, etc. If they don't have the wits to relocate themselves and make dens somewhere safer, I suppose they have to face up to the consequences, neighborhood dogs, cats, coyotes, and multiple neighbors with pellet guns (which would probably be legit firearms if we didn't all live so close to each other).

I know what you mean. I had some coons kill my expensive pheasant pair. Since then we have been shoting them. We have probably shot 20 in the last month. You feel bad shooting the babies, but you have to think about them going after your birds when they are adults. I also put up electric wire running 13,000 volts around my coops. So if they come they are fried.

 

[Kiki]

Grizzly bear is delicious! So are the rest!

This is just not normal food down here.

 

[Tesumph]

Agreed - Not all of us grew up on a farm! My grandparents and uncles ran a dairy farm and there is nothing cuter than a big doe eyed calf. Every month, the truck would come for all the males.

Woot you caught the killers!!!

I thought there was more than one raccoon from the prints. I now realize I was seeing raccoon and this possum’s prints.

He should have used your kitchen knife and cut it's head off!

The raccoon was shot through the head, not worth it. Although, I suspected it was newly pregnant or in heat (just based on nipples), and I suggested cutting it open just for the sake of practicing anatomy skills/morbid curiosity.. the Ginger shut me down so I dropped it.
don’t judge me.
We didn’t have a gun early this morning so he took the possum to work (the ranch). I’m not sure what he did with it.

 

[PirateGirl]

I know what you mean. I had some coons kill my expensive pheasant pair. Since then we have been shoting them. We have probably shot 20 in the last month. You feel bad shooting the babies, but you have to think about them going after your birds when they are adults. I also put up electric wire running 13,000 volts around my coops. So if they come they are fried.

Also think about the overall population. If you kill one... in the course of a few years it's like you've prevented 20 from living on your land and making a meal of either your animals or your garden or your feed.

 

[Kiki]

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I thought there was more than one raccoon from the prints. I now realize I was seeing raccoon and this possum’s prints.
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The raccoon was shot through the head, not worth it. Although, I suspected it was newly pregnant or in heat (just based on nipples), and I suggested cutting it open just for the sake of practicing anatomy skills/morbid curiosity.. the Ginger shut me down so I dropped it.
don’t judge me.
We didn’t have a gun early this morning so he took the possum to work (the ranch). I’m not sure what he did with it.

Dang Ginger!
Tell him to bring the raccoon back so you can cut his head off!

And so we can see the guts.

 

[Kiki]

Make the Ginger a hat with the fur!
He needs a raccoon hat!

 

[jwyles]

I get that. I’m having a hard time killing the possum and raccoon I just trapped next to my coop that have been leaving prints all over it for the last week.

IMHO I think if people eat an animal then they should see how it’s raised/killed at least once before picking and choosing favorites, within reason (as I know not everyone grew up on a farm).
I find cows to be ridiculously cute, cuter than sheep by far.

My grandfather raised cattle. Also I worked for a vet that specialized in large animal and I assisted during many farm calls involving cattle. That vet actually farmed cattle himself and I went to his place often. I too think cattle are absolutely adorable, the calves for sure, and I've bottle fed my fair share. But I grew up eating beef. Lamb not so much. It's not commonplace where I'm from and I've never had the desire to try it. Now that I know it's got a "musky aftertaste" I'm even more sure that I won't ever do so.

 

[The Phantom]

Also think about the overall population. If you kill one... in the course of a few years it's like you've prevented 20 from living on your land and making a meal of either your animals or your garden or your feed.

Yup!

 

[Tesumph]

Also think about the overall population. If you kill one... in the course of a few years it's like you've prevented 20 from living on your land and making a meal of either your animals or your garden or your feed.

I was actually thinking of it the other way around: if I kill something now, what’s going to take it’s place?
But then I realized that’s more applicable for lone hunters like foxes. A raccoon could have dozens of family members in its group all living together..
Also, I just learned a group of raccoons is literally called “some raccoons.” Lol.

Dang Ginger!
Tell him to bring the raccoon back so you can cut his head off!

And so we can see the guts.

Well, I’m the one who tossed it in the forest. I could go cut it open now that he’s at work.
It’s been sitting out for 12 hours though.

Make the Ginger a hat with the fur!
He needs a raccoon hat!

We HAD a coon hat. It was Peter’s (ferret) favorite toy, he used to flip it around and sleep curled up in it.
I threw it out when he died.