[TheForge] Fox news

[Bruce Freeman]

I don't believe any of this.  I've learned not to trust "Fox News"!

On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Bob Ehrenberger <eforge at centurytel.net> wrote:
> Mike,
>
> We have a live trap, but the only thing we ever catch are our cats.
>
> Robert Ehrenberger
> Shelbyville, Mo.
> eforge at centurytel.net
>
> From: mspencer at tallships.ca (Mike Spencer)
> Subject: [TheForge]  Re: Fox news
> To: theforge at mailman.qth.net
> Message-ID: <201007241550.o6OFokU05632 at nudel.nodomain.nowhere>
>
>
>> It makes me sick, 24 dead chickens.
>
> I know the feeling.  Since there's nothing to be done now, perhaps a
> little levity will help.
>
> Forty or so years ago, our hens were living in a disused VW Microbus,
> maybe a dozen and a half of them.  One morning we found several of
> them dead and one gone, evidence of a raccoon as the culprit.  He was
> back the next night and got some more.  Laid for him with a shotgun
> and a live hen staked out for bait.  Missed him in the total darkness,
> scared the daylights out of the bait chicken.  Must have scared, or at
> least mildly annoyed, the 'coon because he didn't return right away.
>
> A couple of months later, when there were big banks of snow along our
> narrow gravel road, I heard men's voices outside around 11:00 at night
> and went to investigate.  Two guys were digging their car out of the
> snow bank they'd ploughed into trying to miss a 'coon that was walking
> down the middle of the snowy road.  Dang, I thought, you coulda just,
> you know, *hit* him.
>
> A couple of nights later, I was driving home and there the SOB was,
> boldly huffing down the middle of the road toward our hen house.  And
> I buried our old Volvo deep in the snowbank trying to hit him.  Missed.
> Dang.  So then I had to get out the shovel and dig myself out, too.
> Double-dang.
>
> Next day, I followed the tracks.  The bastard was hiking nearly a mile
> along the middle of the road to get to the poultry counter.
>
> Well, now we no longer keep chickens and we live-trap the 'coons to
> keep them from devastating the corn.  2008 must have been a bumper year
> for 'em because we relocated 8 'coons to the other side of the river
> five miles away.  Only one this year so far.
>
> I kinda doubt that foxes will fall for a live trap, though.
>
>
>
> - Mike
>
> --
> Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada
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-- 
Bruce
NJ