Why .303's should be carried in the bush (link)
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Topic: Why .303's should be carried in the bush (link)
Posted By: Hatchetman
Subject: Why .303's should be carried in the bush (link)
Date Posted: October 01 2006 at 11:48am
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http://www.cryptomundo.com/bigfoot-report/australian-mystery-cat - http://www.cryptomundo.com/bigfoot-report/australian-mystery-cat The DNA report came back and it was a match with that of a house cat http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200511/s1518331.htm - http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200511/s1518331.htm The Victorian government, and the CSIRO is doing a study on these monster feral cats or "penrith panthers" as they are sometimes called. I would love to shoot one of those bloody things. |
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Posted By: White Rhino
Date Posted: October 02 2006 at 6:41am
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Nice, but how big was it actualy? with the hunter standing in the back ground its hard to say how big it really is. this is just like the ferral hogxwild hog killed in georgia on Ken Hollyoaks property, and if you went by the measurments on the picture the guy that shot it should of stood at least 9 feet tall. but then they did a piece on the hog and nick named it Hogzilla. Both Ken and the Guy that shot the hog contridicted each other on film when the remains were measured.
I would like to see a meter stick/Yard stick put up against the animal in such a way that the photo could not be alterd.
The "White Rhino" ------------- "White Rhino" "Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer." --W. C. Fields |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: October 02 2006 at 8:20am
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Geez..always the skeptic! You SURE you aint from Missouri?
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Posted By: Hatchetman
Date Posted: October 02 2006 at 9:29am
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Allegidly, and i say Allegidly this thing was 1.5 meters from head to the base of its tail, and weighed 35 kiligrams. There are feral cats commonly shot in the bust that are about a meter from the end of the rear legs to the head when hung out, and easily weigh 6 kilo's. Im sure dave can back me up on that one. The things have been running round in the bush for 200 years evolving all the time, and they are top of the food chain because there is nothing else to oppose them killing everything in sight. |
Posted By: White Rhino
Date Posted: October 03 2006 at 6:27am
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Hold on im going to do some measuring,
Things needed: One of the wifes cats.
: my tape measure.
: some one to hold the cat in a hung out position.
but first im calling my buddy, he is a veterinarian and pass this question of a feral cat getting to this size. now i used to have an old tom a few years ago that weighed in at 16 lbs and his head was the size of a bob cats skull, Doc. compared them. he has a bob cat skull. but 1.5 meters long???
only if you mean fully stretched maybe,
this is measurments from my Wifes favorite tom cat.
Ok 16inches from back of the tom cats head to the base of his tail, 36inches from paw to paw while hung from back feet, and 32 inches from hind feet to tip of nose.
And he is not an extremly larg house cat. so ya gotta know where the measurements are taken and how.
and by the way i have seen big foot... Oh Yea! she works out at exxon refinery pretty close to my office! she even growld at me for cutting through there area one morning.
The "White Rhino" ------------- "White Rhino" "Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer." --W. C. Fields |
Posted By: White Rhino
Date Posted: October 03 2006 at 6:36am
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Ok Doc is in surgery at the moment and so is my Wife so i will have my wife bring in this giant feral cat therory and see what doc has to say about it.
I will post the results Wed. evening OK.
The "White Rhino" ------------- "White Rhino" "Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer." --W. C. Fields |
Posted By: White Rhino
Date Posted: October 03 2006 at 9:40am
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Well guys, my Wife said as for the length, it is more believable depending on how you are measuring. BUT the weight is highly questionable because a feral animal is not likely to be obese and for the length it had to be obese. but i will let you know what Doc says tomorrow.
The "White Rhino" ------------- "White Rhino" "Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer." --W. C. Fields |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: October 03 2006 at 10:45am
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hoadie wrote:Posted By: White Rhino
Date Posted: October 04 2006 at 6:17am
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skeptic?
Nope, sure aint! just cant believe in something i cant prove or is too good to be true.
------------- "White Rhino" "Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer." --W. C. Fields |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: October 04 2006 at 8:23am
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Skeptic!(a Missouri skeptic!)
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Posted By: White Rhino
Date Posted: October 04 2006 at 8:31am
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What you trying to say Hoadie! ------------- "White Rhino" "Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer." --W. C. Fields |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 8:37am
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You GOTTA be from the "Show Me" state!
Look K...if theres Sasquatch, why cant there be "Catzilla"? I mean -after all-down under has different EVERYTHING! Even they're dinosaurs were different!(Just look @ Dave's picture,for confirmation.) I bin hearing -off & on - bout reports coming outta there bout this same thing.Now someone has bagged one.Lets get it measured & have a celebration!! Here in Niagara, we've had reports of the same thing for a few years now.The tracks & sightings suggest Felis Concolor(Cougar, Puma, Mountain Lion,Panther) No one has caught one yet...But last year the SPCA & Police observed one RIGHT BEHIND RIDLEY COLLEGE in town, here!! But no further sightings this year, so far. Hoadie ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: White Rhino
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 9:38am
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Naw not from there but my Dad was born in Joplin then they moved to Wichita,KS And i seen my big foot and man was she big, We have to go through her to throw our oil contaminated garbage away. man am i glad i can send my Men over there and I dont have to go to her office no more. Well Hoadie, its not that i dont believe that there are feral cats but the size is what stumps me. Having a Wife that is a Vet. Tech. and her boss is a good friend of mine and also knowing a bit about animals, I just cant believe a feral cat that size from what i seen of the picture. it just doesnt look in proportion to the other things in the picture. ------------- "White Rhino" "Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer." --W. C. Fields |
Posted By: Hatchetman
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 1:55pm
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Yeah i agree that is a dodgy pic, but the government is taking it seruously. But here is some food for thought, also about 200 years ago pigs were also bought to Australia and some were released or escaped between now and then. Any way there are heap of pig muscly angry feral pigs with tusks and a ridge of hair that pretty much stand on end (hence the name Razorback) that have evolved from your regular farm pigs like the tamworth and berkshire pigs that were sometimes interbred with asian pig species. If a farm pig can turn into that I think that is is plausable that you can get big feral cats. And dont get me started on dropbares.... |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 5:49pm
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Attack of the 60 ft bandicoot!! Hey - that'd be a good movie!
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Posted By: allan
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 7:43pm
well in the "goodies" they were gettin chased by a 60 ft cat!!! 
(goodies being a "pommy" comedy show) ------------- 'SAVIOUR OF OUR SKIES BOYO!' |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: October 06 2006 at 6:02am
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Hey - has anyone heard from Dave of late?
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Posted By: allan
Date Posted: October 06 2006 at 1:05pm
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nah mate..maybe that big cat got im... ------------- 'SAVIOUR OF OUR SKIES BOYO!' |
Posted By: Tony
Date Posted: October 07 2006 at 1:15am
Evolutions is a slow process ! Some places have big cats and wild pigs that escaped so maybe Hoadie did the same!  ------------- Rottie (PitBulls dad.) “If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons Born free taxed to death!!! |
Posted By: White Rhino
Date Posted: October 07 2006 at 6:31am
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the farm pig will revert back to the wild faster than any domestic animal, we are talking about something growing beyond its normal size, but like tony said it takes time and natural selection in the direction of size. like getting bigger or smaller. and also taking a proper picture helps too. ------------- "White Rhino" "Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer." --W. C. Fields |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: October 07 2006 at 12:37pm
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Or -like Tony says_ let Hoadie at 'em!!
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Posted By: White Rhino
Date Posted: October 08 2006 at 9:59am
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Hoadie, I think thats against the law! Beastiality??? ------------- "White Rhino" "Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer." --W. C. Fields |
Posted By: Hatchetman
Date Posted: November 04 2006 at 9:57am
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I thought i might flog a dead horse a little more. http://www.news.com.au/sundayheraldsun/story/0,,20423656-2862,00.html - http://www.news.com.au/sundayheraldsun/story/0,,20423656-2862,00.html This is a reputable source, one of the major Australian newspapers. |
Posted By: Smokey
Date Posted: May 11 2009 at 7:41am
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Hatchetman,
We have puma on my property. They can weigh over 200 pounds. One followed me around once while I was checking on the property. I saw the tracks in the snow when I returned along the same path I walked out on. Since the snow was still falling, it couldn't have been very far behind me.
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Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: May 11 2009 at 8:10am
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Ya dont have much ta fear from a panther,mate(felis concolor).Normally-less they're sick or starving-they'll avoid ya like the plague!!
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Posted By: Smokey
Date Posted: May 12 2009 at 7:18am
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Hoadie,
That might be true, but we have several pumas in town, they've been seen in the daytime in people's yards. Quite a few dogs have been killed. I don't think these cats are that skittish.
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Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: May 12 2009 at 8:26am
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1 on 1 a dog(usually teid,as well) under normal circumastances wouldnt be much of a match against a mountain lion.,outwiegh,outreach,outbite.
Normally they are nocturnal.Now-if they're habitat/food sources are under duress-so are they. They may take a target of opportunity...but they dont like to be around man. There HAS been a case or 2 over the years of a starved & nearly blind cougar has gone after a small child..but that is an extreme rarity-not the norm by ANY means. The town would be better off to try to trap & re-locate these cats. There is mounting evidence HERE that we may have a few returning to the province..but @ this point it seems inconclusive.Not sure if its exotic pets released/escaped..or natural return.Getting livestock with the classic attack marks..& even a case of positive DNA Hoadie ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: Lost Kangaroo
Date Posted: May 12 2009 at 12:17pm
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I hear they make a pretty good stew....
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Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: May 12 2009 at 5:36pm
Chicken-chow-meow! Hoadie ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: Tony
Date Posted: May 12 2009 at 7:12pm
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Oh dear Hoadie for gods sake don't give up your day job !!!!
------------- Rottie (PitBulls dad.) “If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons Born free taxed to death!!! |
Posted By: White Rhino
Date Posted: May 13 2009 at 7:25am
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They Tast good grilled .. I found out the easy way..... ------------- "White Rhino" "Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer." --W. C. Fields |
Posted By: unrealpara
Date Posted: May 13 2009 at 7:44pm
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wow thats a huge pudy kat!
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Posted By: Smokey
Date Posted: May 15 2009 at 7:56am
Kill them and grill them (but don't tell anyone)
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Posted By: Smokey
Date Posted: May 22 2009 at 5:50am
Sightings around New England: 
http://b3.boards2go.com/boards/board.cgi?user=katchaya - http://b3.boards2go.com/boards/board.cgi?user=katchaya
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Posted By: Smokey
Date Posted: June 01 2009 at 7:24am
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A Mountain Lion ran across the road less than 100 yards in front of my sister-in law as she drove through town, in a more populated neighborhood.
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Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: June 01 2009 at 2:24pm
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Aw-leave the cougar alone...he's just crossin the road.(probobly tryin ta get outta Dodge!!)
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Posted By: Tony
Date Posted: June 01 2009 at 7:12pm
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I'm with Hoadie on that 1!
------------- Rottie (PitBulls dad.) “If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons Born free taxed to death!!! |
Posted By: Smokey
Date Posted: June 02 2009 at 7:27am
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Never ate big cats before . . . .
Actually it illegal to shoot them here. It's just that these critters haven't developed a mortal fear of humanity yet, and to have them running around town in broad daylight is not reassuring.
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Posted By: Lost Kangaroo
Date Posted: June 02 2009 at 12:08pm
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You may have never eaten the big cats....but they will eat you given a chance....
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Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: June 02 2009 at 3:01pm
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The big cats HATE being around man...but given enough time with people FEEDING them-they're stomach will over-rule their better instincts.
Trust me..normally they avoid man like the plague(& rightly so..)Cause whenever their paths cross,it ALWAYS ends up badly for the cat.That usually born out of IGNORANCE & stupidity on man's part. HOADIE ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: Tony
Date Posted: June 02 2009 at 7:30pm
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That usually born out of IGNORANCE & stupidity on man's part.
HOADIE Thats so true Hoadie! Man is the only mammal on earth that hunts for fun or profit. Yeah I shoot but most of what I shoot we eat the only animal I shoot and we don't eat are foxes and thats only when the farmers ask for them to be thinned out. The most sickening sight I ever saw was back in the 80s we had a real harsh winter and the hind cull was due. Poor sods were so starved they couldn't run away and basically the shooter could near enough walk up to them and administer a mercy shot. The tractor came back with 9 hinds on the trailer and all of them were badly emaciated. ------------- Rottie (PitBulls dad.) “If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons Born free taxed to death!!! |
Posted By: Cookie Monster
Date Posted: June 02 2009 at 9:47pm
| Tony had that Hind herd been managed before the winter there would not have been all that starvation, I try to explain that to all these anti hunters that selective hunting is better that a slow death by starvation or disease |
Posted By: Tony
Date Posted: June 02 2009 at 10:13pm
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It gutted me CM. If the locals had half a brain they'd have put some silage out for the poor buggers at leaast then they would have had some breeding stock left for the next summer.
------------- Rottie (PitBulls dad.) “If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons Born free taxed to death!!! |
Posted By: airforcediver
Date Posted: June 03 2009 at 5:04am
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The big cats here are getting pretty bold on the island there has been and increase of cougar attacks in more populated centers as the god dammed hippies are feeding the deer in there back yard so they never leave town, and they are inbred lil bastards so they are smart like truck. so now the cougars are coming into to town to eat the easy meal.
that aside I'm with CM on the selective hunting, however the people in our country don't seem to manage it that well, just my opinion I'm sure Hoadie has a view about how they run it back east. they seem to overdo it so things begin to get out of hand like the wolf population right now.
AFD ------------- If all else fails call in a MOAB and call it a day |
Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: June 03 2009 at 7:24am
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For a while there was a quote going the rounds that the real reason Dinosaurs went extinct was that they were managed by a State Game Comission. ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: airforcediver
Date Posted: June 03 2009 at 9:41am
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lmao @ Shamu ------------- If all else fails call in a MOAB and call it a day |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: June 03 2009 at 3:00pm
THATS hillarious...& probobly not too far from the truth! We are going through a similar problem right now with Wolves.Hunting them has been banned in and around Algonquin Park for sometime now.The gov't has spent scads of $$ on these "experts" who advise them of the #'s,health,range etc,etc.Things started to go wrong just recently when the gov't finally noticed how much they bin payin out in livestock damages(course they wouldnt listen to the people who've bin screamin)They started to finally ask questions..& private folks got involved.Guess what?We now find that the #'s are WAY more than these "experts" bin claiming...& the range is far wider than they bin sayin..& they're HEALTHIER than they bin sayin(cause they bin gettin prime livestock!!) Well- the spam is hittin the fan now..Just shows ya-NO dept of ANY gov't can be trusted with MONEY, COMPETANCE,AUTHORITY,or even GOODWILL. Hoadie ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: Tony
Date Posted: June 03 2009 at 8:06pm
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I recon they must have moved over here Shamu. Word has it some idiot is planning to re introduce wolves back into the UK! Great!!! The tourists will be "Oooooooooo look at the doggies lets give em a feed!" or " You sit with the doggies junior I'll take your photo!". Farmers will lose livestock and then some tourist will get attacked and all hell will break loose. We haven't the space to accomodate predators. Scotland is wide open moorland with towns and villages scattered around intersperced with farmland it would be a disaster waiting to happen.
------------- Rottie (PitBulls dad.) “If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons Born free taxed to death!!! |
Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: June 03 2009 at 9:18pm
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I saw a news article here in the US the other day where there was a plan to introduce beaver into Scotland somewhere????
WTF? Beavers, they were never native to the UK.
The big topic was the change beavers make to the environment by damming fast flowing, shallow streams.
Maybe the "grand plan" is to have the wolves predate the beavers
------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: Tony
Date Posted: June 03 2009 at 9:47pm
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We got enough flooding without them damming rivers. Wolves, Bears and bloody immigrants what next? FOR SALE LARGE ISLAND WITH TEMPARATE CLIMATE MANAGED BY THIEVING ASSHOLES NEEDS PLENTY OF TLC. APPLY TO BRUSSELS EU GOVERNMENT. ------------- Rottie (PitBulls dad.) “If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons Born free taxed to death!!! |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: June 03 2009 at 10:15pm
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BEAVERS!!??(& we aint talkin the "fun" ones!) You talk about Pandoras Box!! Install those critters & you'll have a whole peck O' trouble mate!
Wont be long they'll be livin in every park in blighty-not to mention-ya wont have a tree left standing!(Look what happened when Canada gave England a FEW Canada geese!!!(lol) As fer the "Grand Plan"-the only thing I could think of is,your Ministry responsible for Wildlife is embarking on a make-work project!! Hoadie ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: airforcediver
Date Posted: June 04 2009 at 4:58am
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I heard there having big problems now with the wolves in the park becoming alot like our bears are here, there into peoples campgrounds and don't seem to be bothered by the humans, so its only a matter of time until lil billy or lil suzy gets carried off as a snack.
AFD ------------- If all else fails call in a MOAB and call it a day |
Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: June 04 2009 at 5:14am
Don't forget the joys of "Giardiasis (beaver fever). ".
There is nothing like it in the UK as of now. Introduce beavers & there will be. ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: airforcediver
Date Posted: June 04 2009 at 1:33pm
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MMMMM everyone needs a good case of beaver fever to clean out there plumbing tho
------------- If all else fails call in a MOAB and call it a day |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: June 04 2009 at 2:27pm
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Methinks that there may be a reason why God settled certain species in certain areas...
I think they're actin like the little kid pokin the fire on this one. Ya just KNOW he's gonna get burned! Hoadie ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: Smokey
Date Posted: June 13 2009 at 1:50am
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A "bear" of a problem:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090613/ap_on_re_us/us_bear_encounters - http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090613/ap_on_re_us/us_bear_encounters
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Posted By: Harry mac
Date Posted: July 10 2009 at 10:40pm
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[[/QUOTE]
Don't forget the joys of "Giardiasis (beaver fever). ".
There is nothing like it in the UK as of now. Introduce beavers & there will be. [/QUOTE]
Is this disease communicable to other species, and what does it do? ------------- The South of England has only 2 good features. The M1 and the A1. Both roads will take you direct to Yorkshire! |
Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: July 11 2009 at 1:28am
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Yep it's a parasite carried commonly by beavers & humans are affected by it.
Not exclusive to Beavers, but they are a very common carrier here in the U.S.
Link with the gruesome details.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giardiasis - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giardiasis ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |