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then if he's from here,,, he should KNOW ta keep ya gun accessible at all times ,,, lol,, cept in the country ya need it for animals hehe
Well when we married ten years ago I still had teens at home and had a no gun house. DH came with a case full of guns and used to go on big time corporate hunts. My rule was all guns locked in cabinet; bullets locked up somewhere else; and clips locked somewhere else. I wasn't so worried about my kids getting into the guns but I traveled for a living and the kids, who were high school age, always had parties while I was gone (neighbors would always tell on them) and would have friends and people they didn't even know in and out of our home - so I was pretty adamant about no guns.
Now that we're in the country I've had to run inside three different times and call for him to come running with his gun. Once Rex (our GSD) had something cornered in the barn and it was howling and growling and I couldn't call the dog off (turns out it was an armadillo and a hole full of them); then there was a anaconda-sized water moccasin (three actually) that the dogs had discovered on our dried up pond eating the dying fish; then finally the timber rattler in the yard right by our side steps. So my rules have changed - no longer any kids at home - all grown and married or military now - just DH and I and the critters we need to protect.
I do thank the Lord that the rattler and the moccasins did not bite the dogs that were, in both cases, just standing over them and barking non-stop at them.
I've heard there is a new snake vaccine that can be given to dogs, before the fact, so that if they are bitten the effects are less - applies to rattlers and not water moccasins though but the timber rattlers are very bad around these woods right now.
