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Manbird
Location: La Villa Toscana Gender:
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Oct 18, 2011 - 3:57pm |
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ScottN wrote: Beez wrote:Squirrels are tasty. Maybe Manbird will discuss the merits of squirrels as prey in the food chain. I think they have more predators to fear out in your woods than here in the city. It was a squirrel that bit my hawk's toe in half and cost me 2500 in vet bills with more surgery forthcoming.
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oldviolin
Location: esse quam videri Gender:
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Oct 18, 2011 - 3:53pm |
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DaveInSaoMiguel
Location: No longer in a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA Gender:
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Oct 18, 2011 - 3:38pm |
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katzendogs wrote: You should have gifted it to me.
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lily34
Location: GTFO Gender:
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Oct 18, 2011 - 3:35pm |
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Alexandra wrote:It really ties the room together, doesn't it?
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katzendogs
Location: Pasadena ,Texas Gender:
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Oct 18, 2011 - 3:13pm |
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DaveInVA wrote: I hope you get to keep your rugs. I'll likely end up losing the house anyways and I would have been better off just keeping everything instead of liquidating it all and giving the money to the bank, I really hated to part with my 1951 Rolls Royce Silver Dawn I'd owned for more than 22 years and sold it for 1/3 what it should have been worth....
You should have gifted it to me.
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Alexandra
Location: PNW Gender:
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Oct 18, 2011 - 2:50pm |
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Beez wrote: Nice rug!
It really ties the room together, doesn't it?
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RASPUTIN
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Oct 18, 2011 - 2:39pm |
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DaveInVA wrote: That and the other 12 or so antique rugs(some back to 1890's) and all my antiques and furniture and antique car all went last Feb during my estate sale auction to raise money to pay off a balloon payment so I wouldn't loose the house because the bank wouldn't refinance because of me going on disability/ I now have no furniture or antiques at all and sleep on a mattress on the floor. I should have just let the damn bank take the house and kept my stuff...
Yeah, but then you wouldn't have had any place to put your stuff. It's only stuff. The nice thing about stuff is you can always get more of it. Congrats on saving the house!
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ScottN
Location: Half inch above the K/T boundary Gender:
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Oct 18, 2011 - 2:31pm |
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Beez wrote:Squirrels are tasty.
Maybe Manbird will discuss the merits of squirrels as prey in the food chain. I think they have more predators to fear out in your woods than here in the city.
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DaveInSaoMiguel
Location: No longer in a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA Gender:
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Oct 18, 2011 - 2:16pm |
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Beez wrote:That sucks....sorry to mention it. I'm a rug person. I've sold just about everything I own, except for my rugs. I fear they will be next. I hope you get to keep your rugs. I'll likely end up losing the house anyways and I would have been better off just keeping everything instead of liquidating it all and giving the money to the bank, I really hated to part with my 1951 Rolls Royce Silver Dawn I'd owned for more than 22 years and sold it for 1/3 what it should have been worth....
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Beez
Location: Lookout Mountain, Alabama Gender:
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Oct 18, 2011 - 1:59pm |
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DaveInVA wrote: That and the other 12 or so antique rugs(some back to 1890's) and all my antiques and furniture and antique car all went last Feb during my estate sale auction to raise money to pay off a balloon payment so I wouldn't loose the house because the bank wouldn't refinance because of me going on disability/ I now have no furniture or antiques at all and sleep on a mattress on the floor. I should have just let the damn bank take the house and kept my stuff...
That sucks....sorry to mention it. I'm a rug person. I've sold just about everything I own, except for my rugs. I fear they will be next.
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DaveInSaoMiguel
Location: No longer in a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA Gender:
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Oct 18, 2011 - 1:56pm |
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Beez wrote: Nice rug!
That and the other 12 or so antique rugs(some back to 1890's) and all my antiques and furniture and antique car all went last Feb during my estate sale auction to raise money to pay off a balloon payment so I wouldn't loose the house because the bank wouldn't refinance because of me going on disability/ I now have no furniture or antiques at all and sleep on a mattress on the floor. I should have just let the damn bank take the house and kept my stuff...
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Beez
Location: Lookout Mountain, Alabama Gender:
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Oct 18, 2011 - 1:50pm |
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DaveInVA wrote:My yard was totally squirrel free after a couple of months of Baldrick the master squirrel catcher living there. He chased them right up the trees and basically was up in the trees all day...I miss that guy. He was a totally feral cat when I got him. Nice rug!
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DaveInSaoMiguel
Location: No longer in a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA Gender:
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Oct 18, 2011 - 10:53am |
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My yard was totally squirrel free after a couple of months of Baldrick the master squirrel catcher living there. He chased them right up the trees and basically was up in the trees all day...I miss that guy. He was a totally feral cat when I got him.
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bokey
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Oct 18, 2011 - 10:43am |
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miamizsun wrote:squirrels = rats w/furry tails they're gnawing the hell out of my hacienda like "agile vertical beavers" eating the wood it may be fun for them but not so much for me looking for a harmless squirrel repellant preferably an inexpensive liquid that i can spray
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sirdroseph
Location: Not here, I tell you wat Gender:
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Oct 18, 2011 - 10:43am |
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Beez wrote:I live in the country....tons of trees, but I only have one that is brave enough to come around the house. It's like a game to him, I think. Taunt the dogs! We have 4 dogs, 3 cats, 3 geese, 2 ducks, about 20 guineas and about 30 various chickens and roosters in our yard. Ain't no squirrel coming down from the trees around here!
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Beez
Location: Lookout Mountain, Alabama Gender:
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Oct 18, 2011 - 10:33am |
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ScottN wrote: Beez wrote: We call them yard rats.... Yeah, they are just rats with a fuzzy tails around here too. Plus, they are seemingly over-populated in our neighborhood . No bird feeder is safe. I live in the country....tons of trees, but I only have one that is brave enough to come around the house. It's like a game to him, I think. Taunt the dogs!
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ScottN
Location: Half inch above the K/T boundary Gender:
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Oct 18, 2011 - 10:22am |
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Beez wrote: We call them yard rats.... Yeah, they are just rats with a fuzzy tails around here too. Plus, they are seemingly over-populated in our neighborhood . No bird feeder is safe.
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Antigone
Location: A house, in a Virginian Valley Gender:
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Oct 18, 2011 - 9:51am |
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miamizsun wrote:squirrels = rats w/furry tails
they're gnawing the hell out of my hacienda
like "agile vertical beavers" eating the wood
it may be fun for them
but not so much for me
looking for a harmless squirrel repellant
preferably an inexpensive liquid that i can spray
Ropel spray.
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Beez
Location: Lookout Mountain, Alabama Gender:
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Oct 18, 2011 - 9:27am |
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ScottFromWyoming wrote:I can't remember how it started (has something to do with Chester, I'm sure) but we've been calling squirrels "tree bunnies" lately. We call them yard rats....
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ScottFromWyoming
Location: Powell Gender:
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Oct 18, 2011 - 9:26am |
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meower wrote:
cause theres no trees in the prairie. that's why it's a dog. I can't remember how it started (has something to do with Chester, I'm sure) but we've been calling squirrels "tree bunnies" lately.
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