Posted on 08/07/2007 7:33:14 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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A table with slick metal legs and a substantial overhang ought to do the trick!
Good morning.
Trying to catch up here and mark my place.
Good morning... me too! In my whole life, not just here. :~)
We always just thought they were following the migration of the fire ants north. They were all over South Alabama where my family lives for years before we started seeing them up here North AL). Somebody put one in my brother-in-law’s car as a prank when he and my sister got married. I can still hear the screams!!!
Do they bite?
Nah, they've got a little bitty snout, like an anteater, but they have MONSTEROUS claws for digging and I'm sure they'd rip you from one end to the other if you tried picking one up, not that you'd want to. ;o)
I'd heard about the jumping phenomenon but thankfully have never personally experienced it. I imagine it'd be about like catching a bowling ball in your grille.
Oooooo, that was mean! I imagine it didn’t do a whole lot for the upholstery!
They really will fling a mallard, so I bet they could get some distance out of a dillo!
You put REAL DUCKS in there????
Maybe you could put her in a different cage, next to the kittens??? The picture of her broke my heart.
I think it’s better if she just got over them. It’s like weaning horses... just have to do it eventually. If they were next to each other they’d be both trying to strain and push at the cage.
The ducks are farm-raised mallards and by and large they are already dead when flung from the winger (in some cases, especially if you are in a Junior Hunter flight in an AKC test, or trying to eke out the frozen ducks for just one more practice session, they have been dead for FAR too long). Never go into the freezer of a dedicated retriever trainer for ice cubes.
Occasionally in AKC (where they sometimes use live fliers in the hunt tests) they will launch a live duck out of a winger for the gunners. That's a bit unpredictable -- once the dog in line ahead of us for a JH test in Sparta GA was a 90-pound bruiser of a Chocolate Lab male named Porter. Porter's live flier was a big old mallard hen, and all three gunners missed her completely. She landed in the drop zone and waddled up and down, quacking irritably. Porter came up the hill, and she promptly pecked him on the nose -- he ki-yi'ed all the way back down the hill and hid behind his handler.
They let Mrs. Mallard go on the lake (she had earned it) and gave Porter another chance with a duck that was actually dead.
Lab males are far more softhearted than Lab females. My little 45 pound Choc girl once encountered a mallard that was just winged and VERY annoyed. You could almost see her thinking, "That's enough of THAT, my fine fellow" before she grabbed him by the back, shook him smartly, and trotted back to the line.
Did I understand you'd successfully caught mama and spayed her, Hair?
Dang! Who knew there WAS such a thing?! Think of a need and somebody will make it I guess.
Yeah - she was spayed and had shots a month ago.
It may be that she'll tame down a little bit. Those tortie cats are very smart - I've never known a dumb one, and we've always seemed to have friends with the tortie and calico kitties. She may well figure out which side her bread (or her cat food) is buttered on!
You know she's a good mama by the splendid shape those kitties are in! I love the little tortie, and that pic of her purring and rubbing your hand is just precious. . . also the pic of her with her brother.
That’s hysterical about Porter! Makes you kinda embarassed for the poor guy.
Have you tried the glove-on-a-stick routine with Brother yet?
But Porter didn't care - he was like, "That wasn't in the contract, Boss!" He was a big, goofy, lovable Lab, and he was smitten with my little girl. She was spayed at 7 months (stupid me - bought her for a pet and didn't know what an outstanding dog I had) but she's a terrible flirt.
The momma was the one where we trapped her and had her spayed, not knowing where here kittens were. Because of that, we only kept her 24 hours and released her so she could get back to them. A little risky, but all we could do, unless we wanted those kittens to starve.
We found the kittens a couple weeks later, and they were all really thin. There were six, and perhaps her milk production went down when she was spayed, or there were just so many. These, on the other hand, have gained weight at least as well as the ones I took here. So either she did better just nursing two, or was better able to manage getting them fed with only two, because they’re real healthy now.
The other nifty inventions in that picture are the things in the back that look like small mortar batteries -- in a way they are. They're called "Bumper Boys", and they fire bumpers by remote control. You have to acclimate your dogs to them though because they smell like gunpowder . . . . they're fired off with .22 cal primers.
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