Can't happen here? VOTE DEMOCRAT AND WATCH IT!!
Posted on 09/11/2023 10:48:09 AM PDT by nickcarraway
The large and commanding gosling answered to no one but Amanda, who diligently tended to them all as her pets. For the next few years, I could count on two things when I visited my friends: a large goose eyeing me warily from its enclosure with the flock of chickens and honking away when I arrived; and always, the question: "Do you want some eggs?"
“The large and commanding gosling answered to no one but Amanda, who diligently tended to them all as her pets. For the next few years, I could count on two things when I visited my friends: a large goose eyeing me warily from its enclosure with the flock of chickens and honking away when I arrived; and always, the question: “Do you want some eggs?””
Yeah, they can be very aggressive birds. Nature is fascinatingly wonderful, eh? I often wish I had been blessed to be able to live in the country where I could raise chickens and other animals like that. Oh well...
With an early boyhood on a small farm, my late father was an animal lover. In his last days, crippled by a stroke, he could at times still carry on a lucid conservation. When I mentioned that our next door neighbor had died and his cat became a stray, my father immediately asked if I was putting out food and water for it.
Gritting my teeth, I promised that I would. Within a couple of weeks, my father passed. After a year and a half of kindness and patience, that formerly stray and near feral cat now lives in the house with me and my brother. In that way, a stray cat that we never wanted has become a pampered house cat, almost as a command from our dying father. And I am forced to admit -- we like the cat.
I was at the DC National Zoo in 1991.
Someone trained an orangutan to flip the bird at cameras.
They're beneficial since they consume ticks in large quantity. Tick borne illnesses such as Lyme Disease are a real problem for pets and humans here.
Good on you for taking out your version, especially in NZ where they must be an invasive terror to the native birds.
I want to apologize for the harsh remark I initially made to you.
You think I am an Aussie. I am a Kansan, as my Freeper name is “man from oz.”
I am fully aware of the US version of possum. Yes, they may eat ticks, and good on them for that. However, I still view them as Vermin.
The Kiwis have major issues with cats, dogs, and all other imported predatory pets (the Aussies with rabbits). So a predatory "possum" from Australia would be a good candidate for shoot on sight.
Still can't get over seeing a guy shoot black swans from a kayak on Taupo, though. And that was the first memory I thought of. Around here we have a serious issue with white tail overpopulation and deer ticks. So we tend to leave the possums alone. Good deer hunting every Fall, though.
Can't happen here? VOTE DEMOCRAT AND WATCH IT!!
Yes, whitetail are a real problem in KS. I have lived here since 1990 and have had 5 vehicle collisions since that time. Sure, they are cute and all but they are overpopulated.
(And shucks, they cancelled the program! )
(Well...maybe the Orangatan just thought it was one of these flying possums!)
https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/blogs/creatura-blog/2014/11/australias-greater-glider-the-clumsy-possum/
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