Posted on 05/11/2021 1:53:43 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Yah that’s an option.
:-D
I guess the Cobs (adult male swans) have wing spurs, but not very big ones?
Proportionately to my daughter’s roosters, if swans had big sharp leg spurs they could really rip the thief a good one. Esp. if wearing shorts. My daughter’s oldest rooster has nicked me (drawn some blood) a couple times — I learned I have to now and then show him who’s the head rooster. (Just chasing him will do). And, don’t turn my back when he’s close and hens are around, if I’m wearing light clothes!
I grew up in a nearby neighborhood and, as small kids, we used to feed the swans at Lake Eola after church. Those birds are stately but not very bright. They would peck at my sister’s ankles thinking that her white socks were slices of bread.
Taste like chicken?
So I came home to a baby possum in my kitchen with its hand caught in a mouse trap.
Put it in a 40 gallon breeder aquarium until I can be sure its hand is okay, and then I went outside and found an even tinier baby wandering around the yard.
They obviously fell off the mom who lives in my smokehouse.
Normally she dumps her brood on me every year and feed them out by the smokehouse every night but something went sideways this time.
I have NO idea how it got into the kitchen, though.
At first I thought it was a rat.
o_O
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