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[Chickielady]

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In addition to leaving food out overnight & feeding the wildlife, you can actually have them walk right in your pet doors...seen many a time, a stray feral cat, racoons & possums and rats, will go right in the pet door & walk around inside your house!
Lock the pet doors at night!

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[VelvettFog]

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Very nice. Way better than what I make. I'm jealous

 

[pettec63]

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I'm so sorry, he must be an old friend!!

I'm sure you may have already tried this, but we used to take some smelly canned food and heat it up in the microwave to tempt their tummies!! If I can think of anything else I'll pm you!! good luck!!

 

[Chickielady]

OMG........more fun here!

as I post, DH runs in & says there sounded like a big wreck down the street & he is off to go see................so I gotta go~~

 

[AriLovesChickens]

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My dog and cat are both getting old. It's unfamiliar territory for me.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Hi, I'm Julia, and have been a she as long as I've been a stumpfarmer (Dad had kids to get crew; Dad only had girls).

 

[justbugged]

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Oh you are going to have fun with that!!
We love ours!
You can see neighbors where they are not supposed to be..people dumping unwanted animals off in front of your house...and wildlife beyond your dreams.
I set ours up (just for kicks we rotate it from spot to spot) and the next day, we saw a huge skunk!!!
never smelled a thing!
The skunk came in under a gate 2" off the ground smashed itself flat like a house cat!
It then wandered from that pen under another gate into a back pen, and from there it went under the coop and came back out in the yard, where it was seen ambling off into the woods.
We had never seen a skunk here & had no idea it was in what we thought were secure pens.
So we beefed up security.
We have also gotten lots of shots of deer, bob cats, coyotes, racoons & bad humans.
DH set the cam high on a tree looking out our driveway gate, and you would not believe the people who stopped to both relieve themselves (one did #2 !!!!!!!!) and clean their cars out & left trash & dumped house cats.

This may be a lot of fun spying on the neighborhood. I must say that in the past 50 years, I have never felt the need to relieve myself on the side of the road. I can't say that I haven't been back country hiking though.

I know that with the way my house sits that I miss a lot of what goes on out front of my house. I only have two windows that face the street. The cam may be a good way of knowing about what is really happening around here.

I would love to have your skunk as a pet.

They make great indoor pets, except for the potential for having it get upset, or perturbed at things. It's illegal to have pet skunk in Washington, or I would so have one or more. I would need mine de-skunked first, and if anyone asks I going to tell them that it's a Norwegian Snow Kitty. So if I ever live somewhere that it is legal, you will all know the truth.

I know that I don't get a lot of larger wildlife here at my house. I am located near the center of the sub-division. I do know that we have rats here, as in very large <img src="http://smileys.emoticonsonly.com/emoticons/r/rat-65.gif" border="0" alt="Rat" title = "Rat emoticon" />. We have also had opossums, and I have been told about the raccoons. I have seen coons, but I'm told that the neighbors 3 doors down feed them. The neighborhood is full of cats, and those that are feeding them. So I could stop feeding the cats outside, and get rid of the chickens, and nothing will change around here. I have the feeling that the nasty little dogs do a fairly good job at discouraging things, and that the neighbors do a better job at feeding things.

 

[justbugged]

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I want one of those too but I'm afraid that it will be very confussing to set up. DH get real upset when things don't go smoothly, I just keep trying till I get it right. Please let me know how your set up goes. Okay?
Thanks

I will. I hope that it is going to load up to my computer. I just wish that I could have gotten a wireless cam. I spent more than I should have as is. So I'll be happy with what I get. I think it will upload like digital camera.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Probably bot flies- not as icky as maggots but still not a good sign; they don't usually infect dogs unless they have poor immune status.

So sorry, anyway, and sorrier still because I'm right there on the old dog schedule. We almost lost Ruby to inhalation pneumonia last year, and Griz is more and more like one of those old dandies who go out and take the air around the lake (Capital or Green, take your pick) with their mustaches waxed and their best cashmere scarf neatly tied and a spring in their step and then limp up the steps at home and spend the rest of their weekend sleeping in their recliner and having oatmeal for dinner with their teeth out.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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In addition to leaving food out overnight & feeding the wildlife, you can actually have them walk right in your pet doors...seen many a time, a stray feral cat, racoons & possums and rats, will go right in the pet door & walk around inside your house!
Lock the pet doors at night!

Check this out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*********************************LOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!***********************************

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q...2CB29DB39F75C551B3C22CB29D&first=0&FORM=LKVR2

This is a crack up too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!****************************LOOK!**************************************************

I was trying not to think about the pet door thing; we've never had pet doors for just that reason. Scares the heck out of me!