Posted on 11/14/2019 12:15:11 AM PST by Viking2002
TOMS RIVER, N.J. — There was a time when Don Kliem enjoyed feeding sunflower seeds and millet to the wild turkeys that wandered near his ranch-style house in Toms River, N.J., a coastal town about 75 miles south of New York.
“But then they got very bold,” said Mr. Kliem, 81. “They would knock on the door — peck on it to get our attention.”
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Are people allowed to hold sunflower seeds in one hand, and swing a sharp machete in the other?
I think I would feed them onions and carrots and celery. That way....
These days, half the people would be missing a hand.
*snicker* My buddy up in VA texted me a few pics a couple of months ago. He owns a house on 1.5 wooded acres and has bird feeders all over the joint. One morning, be was getting ready for work and heard something on his screened-in back porch. He looked out the back door, and there was a black bear tipping the scales at around 125 pounds there. It didn’t do any damage, it just came up the steps and opened the door like he was paying the mortgage on the place. He was on his side and was shoulder-deep in a big five gallon bucket of sunflower seeds my buddy puts out for the wildlife. I told him, that bruin is fattening up for the winter. He found an easy mark, and he’ll be back. Sure enough, two weeks later, he texted me another pic of a fresh bear muffin that was a full 10” long (he snapped the pic with a ruler across it), and it carted off a doe carcass at the end of his driveway that was killed by a car the day before. When critters find an easy food source, they can get downright ballsy about it. Look at tree rats. (That’s squirrels and/or raccoons, for you urban types. Think pizza-mooching subway rats in NYC.)
Did he eat bear meat soon after that?
Gawd, Thanksgiving is only two weeks away, and I gotta cook most of it all again.......*grumble*
God knows he should have. He’s got two ten-point buck racks mounted that he took in Minnesota - 208 and 212 pounds, respectively. But I hear bear meat is greasy if not cooked right, and we’re both getting a little too old to tussle with anything bigger than a five pound bass. Easier to surf a local butcher shop during hunting season and buy it out of the case.
Hahaha! If you feed them, they will come.
Lyndon Johnson taught us that!
LOL! You are correct, FRiend!
Turkey: [Knocks on door.]
Me: [Opening door.] “Hello! Come right in! Just in time for dinner!”
I had some bear meat, when I was in the USAF. To me, it tasted like beef.
Turkeys can be pretty hard to hunt in the woods. I wonder if they would let me open a “Turkey guided hunts” business there.
That’s kinda what I told my buddy. His wife passed away, most of our mutual acquaintences have moved on, I told him he’s gonna get a knock on the door one day and the bear’s gonna be sitting there with his paw out. I told him to invite him in and watch the Sunday games. You know, slouched on the sofa, beer bellies sagging, holding a couple of cold ones, munching on a bag of pretzels..........order a pizza and have the bear answer the door. Bet they get that pie for free. LOL
Staten Island has them too!
Squirrels are “tree rats.” Raccoons are “trash pandas.”
A friend used to can bear meat. Said it was like the best roast beef.
While we do have ‘tree rats’ in AB, we don’t have the real thing. Rats can’t make it over the Rockie Miuntains from BC and we have a ‘Rat Patrol’ that protects the borders on the South and East. Their hob is to kill any rat that is reported or found.
On a totally unrelated note, somehow Justin True-dope, the Prime Mistake of Kanadahar still makes it to the Stampede every year. ;>\
You’d think the PETA types would get on him about condoning animal abuse.
Aaaah, great clarification. ‘Trash Pandas’. I love it!
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