Michigan

[wyliefarms]

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24 years old?!?! I thought our 13 year old cat was old!

 

[Bluemoon420]

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24 years old?!?! I thought our 13 year old cat was old!

Yeah, he's not our first either. Our cat Samantha died a few years ago. She was 26. We had her since we were kids, and my brother kept her with him. For some reason our cats live a long time.

Bluemoon

 

[Riverdale]

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6 magic bunnies huh?

I'll see if I know anyone who would like them.

Roger

 

[vicki2x2]

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24 years old?!?! I thought our 13 year old cat was old!

Yeah, he's not our first either. Our cat Samantha died a few years ago. She was 26. We had her since we were kids, and my brother kept her with him. For some reason our cats live a long time.

Bluemoon

So what do you feed these cats????

 

[Bluemoon420]

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Yeah, he's not our first either. Our cat Samantha died a few years ago. She was 26. We had her since we were kids, and my brother kept her with him. For some reason our cats live a long time.

Bluemoon

So what do you feed these cats????

Just normal cat food. Nothing fancy.

He goes outside and hunts from time to time, but he's slowed down quite a bit the past few years. They both were fixed, Sammy didn't go outside much. She was more of a lazy house cat. She was pregnant when she showed up at our house, she had one litter, and I think her son is still around. Ivan was abandoned as a kitten in our driveway by the mother. He has double claws on all his feet.

Bluemoon

 

[GotChicken?]

Anyone else been having fun with racoons lately? Combined, my Dad and I have sent 14 of the buggers to a new plane of existence, but there's still two more that we know of that need to go into the light.

It doesn't help much that the property next door is owned by a guy who's been dead for 5 years, and it is currently being used as a portal by his various relatives and their hanger-oners to trespass onto everyone elses' place (including ours). The half dozen camper shells/trailers and the rotting remnant of a coop littering the place just adds to the fun. Tempts me to grab some gasoline, a lighter, some marshmallows and start singing "Kum-ba-ya!", but it wouldn't be worth the hassle. Love thy neighbor has some issues.

I also have an EE rooster Slug who hit puberty (like a brick wall) and he's gone temporarily insane. Walks around cackling like Beavis and Butthead, macking on all the pullets, especially my young Silkie pullet Mousse. Unfortunately, she already has an admirer in my Silkie roo Squirrel, so it's "Young and the Restless" over here. I even had to - Silkie people avert your eyes - give Squirrel a crew cut so the nutjob would have a harder time ambushing him. He's got a high top now, but Squirrel loves it. He can see now! What amazing sights to gaze upon! And those blobs- they're HENS! Time to do the feather dance!

 

[michickenwrangler]

GotChicken? :

Anyone else been having fun with racoons lately? Combined, my Dad and I have sent 14 of the buggers to a new plane of existence, but there's still two more that we know of that need to go into the light.

DH got one in his pajamas a few months back. FOund one in the feed/wood shed and ran inside to get DH and have him shoot it. When I dragged it out of the shed, it smelled horrible--had gotten sprayed by a skunk--and had its mouth and muzzle full of porcupine quills. Poor thing. At least all the chickens were safe.

Do you or your husband have a fur trapper's license? Set traps and sell the pelts.

ETA if there is a creek on neighbor's property that eventually drains into the Great Lakes, it is entirely LEGAL for you to set a trap within 10 feet of the creek bank regardless of whose property it is. A friend had a bad experience with that law. Her dog ran into the wheat field across the street, didn't come home, she found him with his foot in a steel trap. Turns out the property owner hadn't set the trap. When both Friend and property owner went to press charges, that's when they found out about that law. It was within a few feet of a creek that drains into the Saganing River which goes into Lake Huron. Nothing they could do.​

 

[Opa]

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DH got one in his pajamas a few months back. .

Never seen a coon wearin' PJs.

Tomorrow's weather forecast

 

[Bluemoon420]

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I suppose. I guess they are leaving the person they were talking about before me alone.

They like to gossip.....

I'm hoping my brother has good beer because I will be subject to listening to the last 3 years of gossip all in one evening.

I'm sure I'll get asked multiple times what the people sound like in Michigan too.

A couple of them have NEVER left the state of RI. Not even to go to Connecticut, or Massachusetts. All they know is RI.


Bluemoon

 

[michickenwrangler]

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I suppose. I guess they are leaving the person they were talking about before me alone.

They like to gossip.....

I'm hoping my brother has good beer because I will be subject to listening to the last 3 years of gossip all in one evening.

I'm sure I'll get asked multiple times what the people sound like in Michigan too.

A couple of them have NEVER left the state of RI. Not even to go to Connecticut, or Massachusetts. All they know is RI.


Bluemoon

Dey don't know what we in Michigan sound like, eh?

Ask for pop and Faygo. Then ask any Bostonians what a Boston Cooler is! While you're at it, ask the ice cream places if they have any Blue Moon ice cream.