Quote:The one thing I didn't expect to happen was to find the baby raccoons still in the box this morning, but that's what happened. They were scratching the sides of the box, trying to get out, obviously abandoned by the mother. I took them to town and dropped them off at the vet's office. I set them on the desk and told the assistant, "I'm not sure what you do with these things, but here you go."
Man! And they said I was crazy.
I hope you at least got some good medications from the vet, jack.
This is a tough topic. I have lived in the woods and made friends -- and sometimes fierce enemies -- with all manner of critters. It always touches you in a special way when the inadvertantly injured party is a helpless youngster. (I mean, it always touches you unless you're OmSig or cjhsa or similar ilk.)
Now I live in the city. Aside from birds, the only other wild critters I see on a regular basis are rats. Alley rats, big ones. The other night (Sunday) I accidentally stepped on one while striding along the sidewalk at my regular 30-inch step pace, 120 steps per minute. Broke its back, I think. It was squaling and rolling around amid the garbage. Bummer. I left it to the tender mercies of whatever other hungry predators might be about. Might've made a good meal for a crow or seagull.
Well, since we're sharing stories...once I accidentally stepped on a giant slug with my bare feet. It smushed all over my foot. Poor slug.
Andrew, Darling, cows only eat grass.
CalamityJane wrote:Andrew, Darling, cows only eat grass.
Yer right, CJ. Crows, however . . .
Sometimes, Merry, you have to speak very slowly to jane, but she will come around eventually.
I could have sworn that read "cow"
CalamityJane wrote:I could have sworn that read "cow"
It's ok, Jane.... it's ok.
If you hold them critters up to the computer, I'll sing to em, man.
I'll sing to em about a hound dog that couldn't catch no bunny rabbits.
That was one a my biggest hits, jack.
Banana slugs, near pets in my area of last residence.
http://meanderthal.typepad.com/dope/images/banana_slug.jpg
and....
geezlouise, how disappointing. Someone has tuned up the website of Sjaak's fine chocolates and eliminated the Banana Slug. How very stupid. We all understood them as a company with fine belgian chocolate and a sense of humor. Oh, well.
So it goes.
I'm not sure if that is the same kind of slug that I stepped on. It was a big gooey mess by the time I saw it.
there y'go.
Before upgrading apparently recently, Sjaak's made a fine chocolate slug thingy with delicate chocolate, and white chocolate. Oh, never mind. I gave them as christmas presents one year I lived there.. to Southern Californians.
oh, and banana slugs were mascots at UC Santa Cruz, if I remember right, and featured in the odd crime procedural.
I've only seen one, once, at our back door of the gallery in north north. We named him, as I remember. Something like 'sluggo'....
Last weekend we were driving on the freeway and this crow was eating a dead coon on the side of the road. Stupid crow flew right in front of us and WHAM! Big ol' dent in the hood. Now, if only that coon had been dispatched properly...
