zogger
Tree Freak
well, dang....
I just ain't never seen it. I mean, shazzam..ya, pretty dumb snake then... I got white rocks, barred rocks and RRs now so they are all good size (although my flock size is tiny now, used to have over a hundred, now just a dozen). I *had* some jersey giants but they were the flyingest chickens and made it over the eight foot fence I built so oh well. They got et, most likely by the coyotes....
My barn cats only like me, they won't even let my girlfriend pet them any. House cats different story, they are much tamer.
It's funny but all the cats know their turf and have predictable habits. A few actually hang out in the coop or immediate area,(none ever bothered the cluckers, but all of them would sit and stare at the quail..I no longer raise quail...) some only in the barn, some only around the house, some go free ranging in the woods and only come out when I am out there. Look down, here comes one over for a pet. Thirty seconds later they sneak off go hunting again. I am amazed they can last for a few years real wild like that, but some have. I get pretty sad when they eventually disappear for good though, some of them have been real nice cats, but I also figger they got real nice cat-lives while they are around. Best of both worlds for them, some human companionship, and mostly getting to be free cats.
I know I'll never run out, people just dump animals off in the country all the time.
Ha! I give em just enough dry food to keep 'em hanging around, but not so much they get lazy about doing their rat hunting jobs...
Kinda fun too, we got seven dogs now and a few of the cats will tag along and go for our walks. I got one cat that *swims*. voluntarily. She so much wants to be around that if I cross the creek and she can't find some rocks to jump to, to get across, she'll just suck it up and wade in and swim across. I've tried a few times to get some pics, eventually I'll catch her doing it with a clear enough shot to prove it. The shots I have managed to grab are just too blurry to see it. About bowled me over first time I saw it happen. I'll stop and sit on a stump for five minutes here and there and that's all she wants, that five minutes of petting and sitting on my lap then.
Snakes in the woodpile, yes! Got one like that, a king snake, I've seen him three years running now, another one lives in and under and around the little rock pool in the greenhouse.
GF freaked out first time she saw them snakes, I mean they are big, but I told her "you can have those guys or rats and copperheads..your choice". So the king snakes stay.
man, I saw one about..hmm...lemme see... in around 2002, back when we lived further up in the mountains a few counties over. Another king snake. It was crossing a normal 15 foot wide dirt road and was 2/3rds that in length! I saw it while driving and hit the skids so I wouldn't run it over and got out and looked at it,. biggest dang wild snake I ever saw. Normally around here they are like four to seven feet, five to six foot is most common for "big", that one had to be around ten foot long as it was well over half the distance wide that road was. I looked it up and apparently that is off the charts giant size, well over any official recorded maximum length.
Double dang, you start to get older and you just wish you had some pics of some of the goofy/oddball/unusual stuff you have seen in your life....
I just ain't never seen it. I mean, shazzam..ya, pretty dumb snake then... I got white rocks, barred rocks and RRs now so they are all good size (although my flock size is tiny now, used to have over a hundred, now just a dozen). I *had* some jersey giants but they were the flyingest chickens and made it over the eight foot fence I built so oh well. They got et, most likely by the coyotes....
My barn cats only like me, they won't even let my girlfriend pet them any. House cats different story, they are much tamer.
It's funny but all the cats know their turf and have predictable habits. A few actually hang out in the coop or immediate area,(none ever bothered the cluckers, but all of them would sit and stare at the quail..I no longer raise quail...) some only in the barn, some only around the house, some go free ranging in the woods and only come out when I am out there. Look down, here comes one over for a pet. Thirty seconds later they sneak off go hunting again. I am amazed they can last for a few years real wild like that, but some have. I get pretty sad when they eventually disappear for good though, some of them have been real nice cats, but I also figger they got real nice cat-lives while they are around. Best of both worlds for them, some human companionship, and mostly getting to be free cats.
I know I'll never run out, people just dump animals off in the country all the time.
Ha! I give em just enough dry food to keep 'em hanging around, but not so much they get lazy about doing their rat hunting jobs...
Kinda fun too, we got seven dogs now and a few of the cats will tag along and go for our walks. I got one cat that *swims*. voluntarily. She so much wants to be around that if I cross the creek and she can't find some rocks to jump to, to get across, she'll just suck it up and wade in and swim across. I've tried a few times to get some pics, eventually I'll catch her doing it with a clear enough shot to prove it. The shots I have managed to grab are just too blurry to see it. About bowled me over first time I saw it happen. I'll stop and sit on a stump for five minutes here and there and that's all she wants, that five minutes of petting and sitting on my lap then.
Snakes in the woodpile, yes! Got one like that, a king snake, I've seen him three years running now, another one lives in and under and around the little rock pool in the greenhouse.
GF freaked out first time she saw them snakes, I mean they are big, but I told her "you can have those guys or rats and copperheads..your choice". So the king snakes stay.
man, I saw one about..hmm...lemme see... in around 2002, back when we lived further up in the mountains a few counties over. Another king snake. It was crossing a normal 15 foot wide dirt road and was 2/3rds that in length! I saw it while driving and hit the skids so I wouldn't run it over and got out and looked at it,. biggest dang wild snake I ever saw. Normally around here they are like four to seven feet, five to six foot is most common for "big", that one had to be around ten foot long as it was well over half the distance wide that road was. I looked it up and apparently that is off the charts giant size, well over any official recorded maximum length.
Double dang, you start to get older and you just wish you had some pics of some of the goofy/oddball/unusual stuff you have seen in your life....
