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Great, you guys, now you got me started watching stuff like this...
http://youtu.be/acO54CL-YeIYes, I smell like a horse. No, I don't consider that to be a problem.
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Momma bear and two cubs, checking out the barn after a snack from the manure heap.... _. ._ .._. .._Comment
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You don't mention how many weeks on the couch that got him...?Originally posted by ReSomething View Post~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Today I will be happier than a bird with a french fry.Comment
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None in New Zealand. We have possums, but they are an imported pest and tend to keep away from dogs etc. Rats and mice, but although they are pains, nothing like the stuff people are writing about here.
I am sooooo glad I live here and don't have to contend with giant spiders, poisionous spiders, snakes of any sort, racoons with rabies, any animal with rabies. Good grief.Comment
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Coyote. I was finished feeding at a barn where I boarded my horse and he crawled out from under the barn, gave me a surly look, and then trotted off.
I also found one of these in the barn cat's mouth. Saved the wee one, took her home and nursed her back to health (she had a few punctures from the kitty). Turned her loose a bit further away from the barn near the county park. I avoided handling her so she wouldn't tame.
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=...9QEwAA&dur=392
(She was a baby brush rabbit).“Pray, hope, and don't worry.”
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None in New Zealand. We have possums, but they are an imported pest and tend to keep away from dogs etc. Rats and mice, but although they are pains, nothing like the stuff people are writing about here.Originally posted by phoebetrainer View Post
I am sooooo glad I live here and don't have to contend with giant spiders, poisionous spiders, snakes of any sort, racoons with rabies, any animal with rabies. Good grief.[/QUOTE]
Okay, I have to ask: what genius decided to import possums to NZ?
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My barn was sold and me, my horse and the barn cat conveyed to the new owners. During the transition it was just me and my horse alone in the barn for several weeks, or so I thought. The wildlife moved in! I had racoons move into the hay loft eating all the cats food, fox in the pastures and one evening I came around the corner with a bag of shavings and came face to face with a skunk taking a dust bath in an empty stall! It was mostly white and I first thought, hey where did the white cat come from, but it rolled over and looked it me. I froze and it simply waddled away crawling under a stall door and left. I was very happy with the new owners and their 5 horses arrived. The wildlife left.Comment
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I saw a coyote last night while hand grazing my guy. I heard something bouncing around in the tall grass (about 50 ft away), and thought maybe it was a young deer. Then his head popped up out of the grass, he and I looked at each other, I did my "WTF??" pose, and he bugged out. Seriously, after this week of random animal sightings, I don't want to find out what I'm going to discover today.Originally posted by microbovine View PostComment
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Was walking through the boarding barn outside Columbus, OH, a few years ago on a cold Nov night to make sure the horses all had blankets on. I walked past one of the gi-normous tack trunks and something moved from behind the trunk and started following me down the aisle. At first glance, I thought it was a new barn cat. Nope. Skunk. I ran, screaming for hubby to "do something". Skunk panicked and turned the other way, running toward hubby and the open stall door for hubby's horse. Hubby jumps on top of tack trunk, and skunk stops to say hi to the horse. Horse was <<not happy>>, tried to climb the back wall of the stall to escape through the window. Skunk went over the top of the sawdust pile and escaped outside. We sat down and laughed so hard we about wet our pants. Hubby's horse was very indignant that we were laughing, I think Slots thought we were laughing at him
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Originally posted by dogontired View PostWas walking through the boarding barn outside Columbus, OH, a few years ago on a cold Nov night to make sure the horses all had blankets on. I walked past one of the gi-normous tack trunks and something moved from behind the trunk and started following me down the aisle. At first glance, I thought it was a new barn cat. Nope. Skunk. I ran, screaming for hubby to "do something". Skunk panicked and turned the other way, running toward hubby and the open stall door for hubby's horse. Hubby jumps on top of tack trunk, and skunk stops to say hi to the horse. Horse was <<not happy>>, tried to climb the back wall of the stall to escape through the window. Skunk went over the top of the sawdust pile and escaped outside. We sat down and laughed so hard we about wet our pants. Hubby's horse was very indignant that we were laughing, I think Slots thought we were laughing at him
I wonder what skunks think when the path clears in front of them with such energy ...
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They puff their chest out and feel 10' tall.Originally posted by OverandOnward View Post
I wonder what skunks think when the path clears in front of them with such energy ...
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We lived for several years in the western foothills in central California, and were in the path of a tarantula migration route. I was sort of taken aback by some dark, fuzzy moving things when I first saw them, but grew to think of them as being pretty cute dark fuzzy things. When I found them on the trail the horses used to go down to pasture, I'd move them out of the way.
I was told by the old timers in the area that there used to be thousands of them moving through in the fifties and sixties. Thirty years later, when we lived there, it would be unusual to see 20 or 25 of them at once. I thought that was sad. My dh, otoh, is terrified of spiders & reacted the way Bluey's neighbor did.
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I also want to know who imported possums to New Zealand. More importantly, WHY? Must have been a case of accidentally hitchhiking possums. No one would do such a thing purposely!Comment
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I don't believe the possums in New Zealand and Oz are the same creatures found in the US. I have a dear friend in Oz who is very fond of the wildlife down under. She has taken to sending me stuffed toys of several different indigenous animals, one of which is their possum. It, too, is a marsupial, but completely unlike the American version. I now have a virtual fake fur zoological park of furry, Australian fauna on my chest of drawers...I'm in my sixties!
Having lived in Hawaii for twenty years, and now living in England for almost nineteen, I have become quite comfortable spending almost forty years without worrying about large predators, poisonous snakes, hairy spiders (there are some large ones in Hawaii and the UK, but nothing the likes of those described in this thread). Hawaii is snake-free and the UK has adders (I've never seen one) and grass snakes (I've seen only one in all our years here). We do have bats (wonderful creatures, and, no, they don't land in one's hair), rats, mice, foxes, badgers, weasels and stoats (rarely seen, usually found dead, killed by the cat).
For me, the most eewwwww, yukky creature in Hawaii is the bird-sized cockroach. I was never able to conquer my fear of them. There are several varieties, but the big, brown, barbed-legged ones fly, and when they open their wings they are quite impressive! If they land on your clothing, the barbs stick to the cloth and are quite difficult to remove. I remember a most disquieting experience early on in our
lives there. It was a Sunday morning and my DH and son were sitting in the living room, the Sunday paper on the floor, unopened. I was wearing a loose, nylon,
sleeveless housedress and I kept feeling something tickling my back. I finally went over to the boys and asked if there were something on me. All I remember was my DH picking up the entire Sunday paper and hurling it at my back. I, of course, became hysterical and pulled the dress off, revealing a monster cockroach scrunched up in the material. Hubby was a good shot! I wasn't into horses then, but was very involved in the dog fancy. More often then not, I'd find the dogs stalking or munching on the cockroaches!
Every time we consider the possibility of returning to the States (with four Shire horses and two Poitou donkeys) the fear of predators and snakes puts paid to those thoughts. This thread has only intensified my fears...thanks!Comment
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Now I'm going to have nightmares about tarantulas leaping 3 feet and then petting my noseHaHA! Made-est Thou Look!Comment
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Are you very short, Chester's mom?
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A horsey friend that is not from this part of the country was visiting yesterday and entranced by the wild stuff.
Antelope, deer, rabbits, porcupine and even a few snakes, one a rattler, those were all worth aoh and ohing over.
He got to see his first tarantula and second and third and another one walking on the house's roof and some more on our way out.
He came with someone else to pick up a horse and all he could talk about was the tarantulas.
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