Posted on 03/05/2015 4:56:35 PM PST by Olog-hai
The bottom pic is a snakely snake, the top one, not so much, LOL!
Oh, I dunno...I kinda like the thought of Steampunk Boas.
:)
The feds, btw, are set to add Boas to the Lacey Act tomorrow.
Peta and HSUS won.
Our dogs are next.
Awwww.
Is he a yellow dog?
And that’s bad, because?
Dunno; did the AP say it was bad?
Is that related to the old BC comic strip?
“Clams got Legs”, Snakes got Arms.
Nice healthy looking Boa; but I am sure she could do without the hat, unless it’s Sunday Go To Meet’n Day.
Beats me.
It’s some new internet craze that I think started with some gal putting polymer clay top hats on her Hognose Snakes.
They’re both somebody else’s Ball Pythons.
Mine are all running around nekkid.
:D
Feeding a pet is a nessesity.
Pampering would be buying a $ 5,000 dog house that Jim and Tammy Fay Baker bought for their dog from funds of their ministry.
Or that wealthy woman who left in her will a inheritance of $ Mission to her dog.
We had a black lab before, so mello happy go lucky kind of soul.
We also had a all black German Shepherd, smart dog, protective and loyal.
He saved my brother and I from a thug, and kept our house safe from intruders.
Had a CHEWawa once, cute dog who loved socks and catching rats and bring the dead rat to my mom on her bed.
What’s the Lacey act ? Never heard of it before.
I had a guy pull into my drive way on the farm, got out of his car carrying a shot gun. Said he would like to hunt on my property...He was told no so he got what he though was smart and said I noticed you got a pheasant run (I did and had about 30 young pheasants) and its illegal to raise Ring neck pheasants. I informed him he was mistaken and for my own use I can raise as many as I want, now get off my property...He figured he could intimidate me by coming to my house with a gun....ass hole never came back..
When dad was fixing up the mountain for the deer, he had to clear cut a meadow for their buckwheat and clover graze.
Naturally, there was a lot of small branches that the pulp wood buyers did not want so he threw them into the ravine, thinking nnothing of it.
The EPA came buy and told him he couldn’t “foul a waterway”.
We all said WTF?
Turns out that over a two centuries ago, according to a 1789 map, the ravine was once a small stream.
There are hundreds of constantly shifting underground springs here and they come and go, over time.
But once they’re gone, they’re gone and nothing is left but the gully.
We all found this fascinating and he continued to throw brush into the ravine.
The EPA came again.
This time, dad met them with his rifle slung over his shoulder.
[coyotes and bears ya know, can’t be too careful]
Words were exchanged and the EPA dweeb never returned.
The brush is still there, along with the shrubs that grew up around it, after all these years and lots of wildlife uses it for food and shelter.
For myself, there’s gun and Doberman signs on the front fence.
I have not seen one pencil pusher in at least 20 years.
The last one I do recall was a 1990 Census taker.
She showed up while I was cleaning a 30.30 on the front porch with my yard Dobes laying at my bare feet.
I did not get enumerated, that year and have never gotten a form in the mail, since.
I must have impressed her.
I’m still too livid to really detail it but suffice to say it’s basically the snake version of global warming.
Four more species were banned from interstate transport Friday and hundreds of breeders are frantically liquidating their animals before the transport ban begins on April 10.
I’ve heard stories of some breeders unplugging their incubators full of viable eggs because they will not hatch in time to beat the deadline.
Not only are innocent animals dying right now, thousands of people who made their honest living have just been financially and emotionally gutted.
As you might imagine, peta and hsus had their hands in this.
They have a fortune in lobbying money and we don’t.
The premise is that anacondas and the like are imminently going to colonize every state, including places like Maine and Montana.
When it was proven that the snakes can barely even make it in everglades, they came back with “projected impact maps accounting for global warming”.
I kid you not.
They showed Burms living in the mountains of Maryland.
No one is addressing the human impact of developers and sugar cane plantations, of which many studies show to be the primary reason for loss of native species.
Lies, more lies and “statistics”.
Ironically, the lacey Act is over a hundred years old and was created for the fur trade and was once a good thing.
Then liberals and animal rights wackos got their paws on it.
It was a dark day for the reptile industry.
I should be celebrating that Boas were left off the list but it’s hard to be happy when I see so many of my friends desperately trying to sell off their life’s work at fire sale prices.
As an addendum, what I’m seeing in reptile forums is the incredible amount of military families this is affecting.
The very people who guarantee our freedoms will not have the freedom to take their pets with them when they are reassigned to another place.
That is not right, no matter your view of snakes.
the water table was high and the old well was only 8 foot below the old Michigan basement. Then one of the neighbors decided to turn part of his property into mine for construction sand. It ended up 10 acre pond and 15 feet deep. It became a problem for the big trucks to dig out sand. He decided to pump out all the water and every ones wells went dry..I had to have a pro well digger dig me a new well. Woke up one morning and no water. Made it difficult to water goats and various other things on the farm....Talked with the old guy we got our hay from and he taught me how to be a dowser. I had a dowser out to help find a good place to start a new well, and he came up with spot and it was only 4 feet from what I found...he asked if I had another dowser out and I proudly told him it was me...The well digger hit water at 45 feet. It pumped out 15 gallons a minute....
I asked him how he determined where to dig a well and he said he threw his hat in the air and where ever it landed he dug...a dry hole cost the person 1/2 of what the bill was..If they told him where to dig, and it was dry, they paid for the dry hole and they would try someplace else. ,p.
My dowser told me he was heading for a farm that had 5 dry holes and was told about my guy. It was great watching him walk the property looking for water. His trunk was full of several dousing branches he used...the old fashion way with the forked fruit trees.He asked me about having someone out before him cause the place I had picked I put a rock....the only rock on that part of the grassy area... I used 2 wire hangers cut in a certain way like I was shown. Loved living on the farm, but when my husband died and the goat # was up to 80, the house was beautiful but 100 years old and it took a man to deal with the upkeep. Very little was up to code including septic and electricity etc. etc. Everything had been fathered in when codes were written.. GG
Before they dug our well, I dowsed a really “hot” spot out by fence beside the lane.
They said no, we don’t want to dig there.
It’s not a good spot.
They went down almost 400 feet at the spot they dug.
Cost a damn fortune.
About two months later, the guy a hundred yards across the road dug in a straight line from the spot I picked.
He hit an Artesian well and the water geysered for a week before they were able to cap it off.
He has the cheapest well anyone ever heard of.
His water is crystal clear while ours is muddy, due to digging so far unto the bedrock, into a half ass underground spring.
Nobody listens to me.
Only good thing was my dad paid for the digging, not me.
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