Here kitty, kitty.

We don't know. Stupidity has no limits. Surf around on the internet a little and see for yourself.

Joan, what is that, a marmot or a weasel?

Sandra Sue Wrote:
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> Surely it's a joke. Surely?


I don't think so.......as they marked out the name and phone number of the person who found it......looks legit..

It is a POSSUM..........ugliest things.......we have one running around our neighborhood. They are nocturnal.

I didn't realize that other people than the person who made the sign would not know what it is. (I suppose they are not in other parts of the country, but I've seen them as far north as the Mason-Dixon line, both east and west of the Mississippi.

They have a rat-like tail and many, many teeth. Have you ever heard of playing dead? When one is caught, it will act like it is dead until it is safe to get away. I saw one that was "black phase". I told the game warden I'd seen only silvery ones before. He said he'd never seen the "white phase". They are the only marsupial in America. We think of marsupials as living in Australia (kangaroos, etc.). The opossum sometimes carries its babies on its tail, curled over its back. I've never seen this, but I have seen photographs of it. A hundred years ago or so, there was a song about a "'Possum in a 'Simmon Tree" (Opossum in a Persimmon Tree). An opossum will eat practically everything, which is one reason their meat isn't considered edible by us. I've heard of people, at least during the Depression, capturing them and feeding them until their stomachs had other than bad things, and then eating them. Like raccoons, they aren't especially afraid of humans. The raccoon will stare you down if it is eating your cat's food, but the possum will just shuttle off. We got some in the house one time (at different times). I was chasing a baby one down the hall trying to put something over it to trap it. There was a 1-1/2" gap under a door and it scooted under there. I was amazed that it could mash itself that much. I think they're cute.

My husband just got back and I showed him the picture. He mentioned that they carry rabies. That's something to note if one comes toward you.

Well, we have them here up north in Washington state..........ten years ago....you never saw one........now, they are all over the place..
Many are sleeping in middle of road.......I heard they also attack cats although the one in our neighborhood actually walks right by all the cats and doesn't take notice........cats do the same thing. He or she has walked within 4 feet of me across the driveway at night. Scares the CRAP out of me because at first, I think it is a neighborhood cat......I just think they are the ugliest creatures.

My piggy bank after I bought gas today...

Now that's animal abuse, Bugpost.

Here is video on YOUTUBE about the possum/cat.

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The bag of money I take to the gas station

Opossum:
It's pretty obviously a gag, but a very funny one.

Opossum? We call that "road kill" Get it fresh killed, bake her in the oven and you've supper in some circles around in the South.
They remind me of big Rats!!

We've learned to let our cats eat then take up the cat food or the racoons will eat every last bite. And while they are at it they will devour our garden.
They must have a very hightened sense of smell cause they seem to know when there is cat food out somewhere.
I used to buy 50lb of corn at a time for our deer / wild turkey around the house until I realized the racoon were eating the biggest part of the corn.

Raccoons are so cute! I had to stop feeding stray cats on the front porch, and move the food to the back porch, because a "fan-tailed pussycat with racing stripes" (skunk) came to dinner. I've probably told this story before, but my son ran out of the house at 2AM because he was in the volunteer fire department. I don't know who was more surprised, him or the skunk. Anyway, he had to clean his body with the stuff that mechanics use to clean their hands, and I washed his clothes in all the tomato products I had in the house. It worked.

Request was asked for goat pix --

This is one of my "boys"



This was a group of kids I was hand raising spring 2007 because already the drought and adversity was making it hard for their moms to raise them. We allowed no kids for 2008.

They're cute. What kind are they?

"Heinz", i.e. 57 varieties. They are more in the category of "meat goats" than show goats or dairy goats. I bought their parents/grandparents/great-grands because I liked their sweet, deer-like faces.

Great looking goats Flash.
I raised some horses for a while and a few mules. Once I got the hankerin for mules I quit the horses.
We always had cattle. I liked cattle too.

Yep we get the stripped fellar around here too. :-) I try to keep my distance if I think they are around.

We have about 4 large herd of deer in our immediate area. One evening last week I was on my way to the house and two nice 6 point bucks were running beside my car. There's no hunting allowed in our area so the deer multiply quickly. And that's OK by me. I love to see them in and around the house browsing. We can step out on the back porch and they are in our yard. They just look up and take a peek then go back to browsing.

The little ones are beautiful, Flash, like big floppy-eared dogs. I think that the same pic I have.

Deer are not welcome where I live. We have white-tailed deer, almost as far south as the NYC border. We've destroyed their habitat with overdevelopment, but they've gotten even by destroying shrubs and bulb plantings. Some people call them suburban rats. They also carry the ticks that cause Lyme Disease, which began in the NY-CT area. But when I watch them up close, they're so beautiful.

They are truly sweet and soft as little guys. As they change over to grass instead of milk their coats coarsen and they start sprouting their horns. As they are beginning to pop their horns they are especially happy to have you rub their heads or provide a hand for them to press their head into to help push the horns through the tissue. Sort of like human babies teething.

On occasion there are deer that come out of the Everglades, especially when there is either drought or flooding there. They generally don't make it up to my area because there is too much cleared and developed land between here and there with no wooded corridors. Indeed deer are beautiful, graceful animals to watch.

Deerare very beautiful and graceful. We have a few Elk wander in and out from time to time. The Elk were brought here several years ago and kept in a large fenced area. Now they free range.

We have an overabundance of deer in our area too sneakers but most folks around here tend to feed them like we do. Never have had a deer eat any trees or plants around in our yard. They can eat plenty in the woods and clearings.
I don't mind them browsing in our yard.

BENJAMIN'S 3 YR BIRTHDAY PARTY!!

OOpssssss..........almost forgot....Lacey now 6 weeks...can't forget the other grandchild:

It looks like Benjamin was having fun, Bugs.

Bugs, Great pics.

billienicolosi Wrote:
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> We have an overabundance of deer in our area too
> sneakers but most folks around here tend to feed
> them like we do. Never have had a deer eat any
> trees or plants around in our yard. They can eat
> plenty in the woods and clearings.


That's why they're eating in people's yards here. We've overdeveloped the county and destroyed too much of their native habitat. This is a suburb of NYC. The destruction of natural areas by developers gets worse by the year.

Ok, is this another one of your fixed pictures? I don't know what to believe any more. I used to think that all I had to worry about was urban legends. I read all the urban legend books. Does this show up on snopes.com, where my friends check all the political propaganda?

I am sure it is superimposed.........how could a frog live in the bag?? HA HA

Sandra Sue Wrote:
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> Ok, is this another one of your fixed pictures? I
> don't know what to believe any more. I used to
> think that all I had to worry about was urban
> legends. I read all the urban legend books. Does
> this show up on snopes.com, where my friends check
> all the political propaganda?


Never mind Snopes. Since the advent of Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro, photos are no longer what they seem. Photos are doctored in a positive way in every ad you see in magazines, and everyone does their own.

If the frog truly was in the bag, the bag was probably open anyway. Someone put it in there, whether in reality or virtually. Remember the mice in the Coke bottles? The fingers in the hamburgers? Those were supposed to be urban myths, until you knew someone who knew someone they happened to. So what are these? Internet hoaxes? What do they call them?

It's sad. Today's children will never know reality.