Anyone have luck catching a feral chicken?? UPDATE: Rooster caught, no hen

@apryl29 Did you know Ohio has porcupine!?! If I saw one wandering through the woods I would think I needed my eyes checked.
I had no idea! That would def freak me out a bit. We had that panther sighting several years ago. It attacked a donkey on a farm in Mantua. Though I hope that was a one-off and that they don't frequent the area. Now I'm getting more interested in getting a trail cam up and running. The guy across from my parents saw a small black bear run across his yard earlier this summer.

We moved from the east coast to Arizona for a few years about a decade ago. Wow!
It was like being dropped off on another (animal) planet!
Coyote, mountain lions, turrantulas, scorpions, javalinas, rattlesnakes EVERYWHERE,
-and that was just in my backyard!
After I got over being scared to death I LOVED IT!
*cue the Disney music*
"A whole new world..."
Holy wow. nope. no. My aunt lived in TX and she said they have to shake out their shoes b/c of scorpions. That was enough for me to not want to go there. And giant spiders. I can handle the daddy long legs type of spiders, but big hairy spiders - nope. Snakes either.. can't have too many or too few legs. They shouldn't be able to move that fast. I heard all the bugs down south are giant. Big mosquitoes, beetles... I'm not really an outside person.

WTH? I scrolled through pages and pages of shirts looking for it. smh. It says crazy chicken lady right there in the description. Thank you! At least I know where to get it for when she grows out of it.
 
Good morning and Amen! I completely agree with you. That's so great to read!

I used to train dogs professionally for work. I attended (now defunct, I think) Arizona Canine Academy dog training school in Sierra Vista, Arizona right outside of Fort Huachuca.

Eventually I just got tired of fighting the losing battle of getting people in this demographic to understand that you can't expect a male intact dog to be trained by leaving him chained outside in the yard for 99.9% of its life then expect him to respond in class.

Now the only thing I train is
my birds not to bite and my own dogs not to poop in my house and to come when called.

I'm a huge fan of premack principle and Ivan Balabanov method of dynamic shaping.


:frowGood morning , And :hugs and :love to everyone here that needs it today.

*fun note. :old
Clicker training as an application of behavioral analysis is now almost 50 years old.
As a former dog trainer who uses 100% positive reinforcement as my training model, :love I found it to be almost universally successful with incredible results. :celebrateThe hardest part for me was teaching the poor HUMANS :he the coordination to to use it effectively! Takes a little practice, and the human's timing on the CLICK ( as an event marker) has to be spot on, but once they've mastered that, they are amazed at how fast their dogs LEARN!:ya:woot :lau

Oh the pic attached was a chicken that is half male half female... who knew?!
 

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What scared me the most in Arizona was the darn dust devils!

I had no idea! They were everywhere!

We moved from the east coast to Arizona for a few years about a decade ago. Wow!
It was like being dropped off on another (animal) planet!
Coyote, mountain lions, turrantulas, scorpions, javalinas, rattlesnakes EVERYWHERE,
-and that was just in my backyard!
After I got over being scared to death I LOVED IT!
*cue the Disney music*
"A whole new world..."
 
Holy wow. nope. no. My aunt lived in TX and she said they have to shake out their shoes b/c of scorpions. That was enough for me to not want to go there. And giant spiders. I can handle the daddy long legs type of spiders, but big hairy spiders - nope. Snakes either.. can't have too many or too few legs. They shouldn't be able to move that fast. I heard all the bugs down south are giant. Big mosquitoes, beetles... I'm not really an outside person.

My grandpa lived in Hueytown Alabama and they had these little blackish scorpions there, too.

We had to check the shoes, bed clothes, and regular clothes before using them.

I only saw one and I don't think they were deadly.

He would tell us stories of the Hueytown Hum which was supposedly the sound of air blowing through the mines that were dug years back. I never heard it, though :/
 
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