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Prairie dogs sucked up by vacuum (That's ONE way to get rid of 'em...)
AZCentral.com / Arizona Republic ^
| 9.28.03
| David Kelly
Posted on 09/29/2003 9:05:38 AM PDT by mhking
Edited on 05/07/2004 5:21:40 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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CORTEZ, Colo. - On a lonesome alfalfa field in the shadow of the San Juan Mountains, a little brown head pops up and swivels like a periscope in its hole.
Not far away, Gay Balfour squints hard in the midday sun. "That's it!" he exclaims, leaping into his boxy truck and gunning it down the field. The head swiftly disappears.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: wildlife
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posted on
09/29/2003 9:05:38 AM PDT
by
mhking
To: Howlin; Ed_NYC; MonroeDNA; widgysoft; Springman; Timesink; dubyaismypresident; Grani; coug97; ...
Just damn.If you want on the new list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...
[As i mentioned, the B/C & JD! lists are going to float into and out of whack over the forseeable future, while I try to cobble a rig back together for myself. My apologies for any incovenience or misunderstandings in this time frame. New signups/removals may be flaky in this time-frame as well; please bear with me, and keep in mind you may have to FReepmail me more than once for me to get it done. Thanks again!]
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posted on
09/29/2003 9:06:00 AM PDT
by
mhking
(Anyone who disagrees with me is mentally ill and should be shot.)
To: mhking; Naked Lunch
Caddyshack ping.
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posted on
09/29/2003 9:08:38 AM PDT
by
maro
To: maro
Make this work on moles, and you have a real business!
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posted on
09/29/2003 9:20:24 AM PDT
by
50sDad
("There are FOUR LIGHTS! FOUR LIGHTS!")
To: mhking
"But dealing with them has become a politically charged issue. Widespread poisoning and shooting of the animals is increasingly frowned upon despite the damage they do."
Red mist.
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posted on
09/29/2003 9:22:05 AM PDT
by
mad puppy
To: mhking
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posted on
09/29/2003 9:23:14 AM PDT
by
tazman3
To: 50sDad
There is a company in Texas that has a back pack device...cylinders of Oxygen and Propane.....fill the warrens with this mixture then light it up.....resulting overpressure fries the moles/prarie dogs etc.
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posted on
09/29/2003 9:24:04 AM PDT
by
spokeshave
(A vote for McClintock benefits Bustamante/Davis)
To: Dog Gone
His company, Dog Gone, plucks thousands of prairie dogs from ranches, Indian reservations, medical centers and housing developments every year. Uh oh. But even if you're a prairie dog plucker, I'll still respect you.:)
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posted on
09/29/2003 9:25:09 AM PDT
by
xJones
To: maro
Varmit-Cong ping
To: mhking
I wonder what happens when he puts the machine is reverse?
To: mhking
I like this article. This gave our little clinic a good laugh this morning.
To: mhking
It's the cute name.
To: mhking
Exaust pipe from my truck, A fexible hose of same size, a baseball bat, a few sandwiches and a bottle of wine. In recent years we gave up the bat at my children's insistance and just let the Aussie Cattle Dog tear em up.
Ground Hogs, or Terras Swini as we call them are cute, but cause horror in a livestock field. If you've ever been on a horse at a good run and hit varmint earth, you might have lived to talk about your bones mending. The horse does not.
The truck exhaust drives em up and out of the holes a bit dizzy and the dog gets em.
We also used to fish for them with flyrods. You put a noose of flyrod line around the hole. When their heads pop out, you yank for all you're worth and hold on for dear life. A 30lb groundhog can work up quite a length of line before you tire him out.
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posted on
09/29/2003 9:30:12 AM PDT
by
blackdog
("This is everybody's fault but mine")
To: reagan_fanatic
"The only good varmint is a dead varmint"- Carl Spackler
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posted on
09/29/2003 9:31:17 AM PDT
by
blackdog
("This is everybody's fault but mine")
To: mhking
Not to be outdone, but a .223 rifle hit to the dog is pretty painless from 300 meters out......At least that is what we tell our kids when we hunt Prairie dogs.. :)
To: 50sDad
Man, it must suck to be a prairie dog these days.
Make this work on moles, and you have a real business!
Years ago in my neighborhood we had a vole infestation. They were eating everyone's bulbs, etc.
It was learned that a self-sparking MAPP torch, with the button half depressed, would flood the vole hole with an explosive mixture of MAPP gas and air..then when the button was fully depressed, the spark would detonate it. Rocks and dirt and a little smoke would come flying out of the newly-discovered exit holes, or sometimes from new craters in the ground. While no one ever saw a dead vole from this, the holes never seemed to become re-occupied. More and more neighbors would go to the hardware store and get MAPP pushbutton torches. Saturday mornings were a chorus of muffled THUMPS as The Enemy was engaged.
I suppose ELF and PETA would not like it much.
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posted on
09/29/2003 9:37:31 AM PDT
by
Gorzaloon
(Contents may have settled during shipping, but this tagline contains the stated product weight.)
To: Squantos
Sod-poodle ping
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posted on
09/29/2003 9:40:29 AM PDT
by
Tijeras_Slim
(Ideas in tagline are closer than they appear.)
To: Gorzaloon
When I lived near Charlotte, the gas lines were so bad that on calm early mornings before the air was stirred up, dogs would drop from the gas fumes rising from the sidewalks.
When Charlotte built a golf course on top of an old landfill, a golfer couldn't find his ball in a crevice that he hit it into. He used his Zippo lighter to see if he could spot it and BBBBOOOOMMMMMMM! He ignited a gas pocket the size of a swimming pool.
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posted on
09/29/2003 9:44:11 AM PDT
by
blackdog
("This is everybody's fault but mine")
To: Gorzaloon
And the acronym stands for....
(Just Curious Of Course!)
19
posted on
09/29/2003 9:46:28 AM PDT
by
50sDad
("There are FOUR LIGHTS! FOUR LIGHTS!")
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