Silkie gone. Nothing but feathers :( More raccoons, more deaths.

[Boyd]

usually does. I am just glad I got there. These guys were actually not only on my property, they were parked in my driveway. Needless to say it was like watching the clowns pile out of a car, only in reverse. I wish I had a couple of snake loads that I could have peppered their tailgate to add further insult to injury, but the cops n judges now a days have no sense of humor on this sort of thing.

 

[jjthink]

So sad. Poor little thing.

Predators..........The best thing of course is to pred proof so well that you don't have issues with preds, what to do with them, etc. in the first place. If the silkie was in a doghouse that was not closed up at night in an area fenced but not covered that was unfortunately - though of course not intentionally - an open invitation to a pred. A little bird cannot possibly defend itself. In all such cases it would be best to keep a bird safely indoors (in the human house) till proper accommodations can be built.

I'm really sorry this happened.
JJ

 

[AHappychick]

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OMG too funny I would have laughed so hard to see their faces. and no there is no humor in the system they would not have found it funny but I would have!!!

Good for you for catching it phoenixbantam I conduct trials for just about everything, my late husband started it you should see all the methods we came up with for the roaches in our first apartment lol (there were not many but the ones that tresspassed were sentenced with out mercy. he would be in the bathroom and I would be in the living room and hear him with the first part and come running in to chime in as the jury

It goes something like this and is best when there are 2 people but you can always act like you have a split personality as I do now that dh is gone.

" Racoon you have been charged with the unlawful act of tresspassing and murder. On all acts I find you guilty and ask the jury for your sentence, what say you jury? "

" DEATH BY ________ !" (drowning, fire, sqishing, fire range what ever you like depending on creature of course)


"the jury has spoken"

 

[Boyd]

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OMG too funny I would have laughed so hard to see their faces. and no there is no humor in the system they would not have found it funny but I would have!!!

Oddly enough, shooting to injure/maim/scare is illegal, shooting to kill isn't

I decided that these guys may learn from this so the raccoon won the darwin award's that night. Natural selection at work.

 

[saddina]

I dunno Boyd, you may be teaching people who won't shoot it themselves to bring it to you for the dirty work.

 

[Boyd]

possibly, but I am sure that having me show up behind them and shooting it, well my .45 leaves about a 3' streak of fire coming out of the barrel in the dark lol

 

[saddina]

Wait you shot it at night?

 

[Boyd]

sort of adds to the sneakiness of them dumping the critter. Since I was up watching zombie diaries (scary movie by the way) and everyone else was lights out, they figured A. either we weren't home or B. we were all sleeping.

Being supremely ready for a zombie attack, the .45 was actually close by, and happened to grab it when somebody pulled in my driveway at 1:30am. Nothing good goes on after midnight, and trust me, nobody drives past my house, let alone pulls in the driveway past 9ish...ever..... So I sneak out, see them... and the rest is history.

I was a little disappointed they weren't zombies though

Sorry, I should come with a warning... Thread Hijacking alert. Sorry!

 

[saddina]

I do say, you have some of the best stories....

Oddly enough the kids' favorite game here is "Zombies eat your brains" where you play tag, but instead of a touch, you brain sucker the head with your hand.

Edited for typos, I'm not drunk, just typing like I am.

 

[AHappychick]

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Being supremely ready for a zombie attack, the .45 was actually close by