Musk ox invasion keeps Nome wildlife managers busy

Anchorage Daily News ^ | comJuly 2, 2014 | SEAN DOOGAN

[skeptoid]

Nome is used to rowdy residents, but some relatively new transplants are making a real nuisance of themselves -- although unlike the colorful characters of the early 20th century gold rush days, these visitors have four legs, not two.

Musk oxen are wandering into the city on the Seward Peninsula, and despite loud noises, water hoses and even a blow-up bear coated in ursine urine, they don't want to leave.

[moose07]

Well, you say that...some times waiting at the delicatessen counter for service does seem to take an eternity.
Perhaps she forgot to take a service ticket and has paid the ultimate price. Doomed to spend all eternity waiting for the sliced ham that never came.

“Long exhale”.....”Specter smoke, don't breath that!”

[Darksheare]

Ah.
The skunk has returned.
Wonder where the albino one is.

[Darksheare]

I don’t need to worry about specter smoke.
I’m already a shambling horror.

[moose07]

That isn’t what the Rabbits told me.
Painted a totally different picture.
They said your Deposition/ Sublimation routine was something to behold!
And i aint arguing with Rabbits.

[Darksheare]

Rabbit exaggerate, greatly.
And their sense of time passage is tenuous.

[NoCmpromiz]

What colour where the eyes shinning?

Critter eyeball colour... (glowygreen but not like cat)

Haven't seen the albino one for a while.

[moose07]

If the eyes are Green upon reflection ,the safety catch is operational.
Have either of you ever smelt the um...thiol emitions?

[Darksheare]

Idiot dog creature of “D.O.G. unit Mk II” manufacture ( medium sized husky hound mix) decided one fine night that she’d snuffle the funny looking fur thing.
D.O.G. unit adored cats, couldn’t understand that not all cats liked D.O.G. units snuffling them, and further did not understand that not everything smaller than her was a “cat”.
Sooooo, idiot dog creature got us both “ blessed”.

[moose07]

Erk ,Eau de la skunk...
Now D.O.G. unit has all the data it needs.
natures Renadine, cough .

[moose07]

[Monkey Face]

PS: I got all my reading glasses at Dollar Tree, and marked each bow with a Sharpie, denoting the strength. Just sayin’.

[Monkey Face]

...I’m surprised any of us make it anywhere in one piece.

I make it because I'm walking so slowly, I can see what's coming at me...or hear it, as the case may be...

[NicknamedBob]

Okay, marking reading glasses. Sure.

Did you mark them in Braille?

[NicknamedBob]

"... I'm walking so slowly, I can see what's coming at me...or hear it, as the case may be... "

Said the bowling pin to the bowling ball.

[Monkey Face]

LARGE PRINT, silly! LOL!

[NoCmpromiz]

smelt the um...thiol emitions?

Butyl mercaptan? The naturaly produced defensive fluid that does not protect the producer from the effects of compression via car tire, er, tyre?

Well... being in the country we are often blessed with a vapour trail...

I have managed to avoid direct personal experience though. Unlike...

[moose07]

Just getting ready to revert to the horizontal position for the night .
It has been a long hot sunny day.
A little rain is forecast for tonight ,then sunny again tomorrow.

22:00h
‘Night. :)

[Monkey Face]

Ta, Moosie! Sweet dreams!

[moose07]

[GeronL]

I am still slightly upset that #341 got no comments.