Harry,
Your NPD is showing. You would rather ignore the experts advice for your
own personal pleasure. To heck with the health and welfare of the wildlife.


"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Doug Kanter wrote:

Well, I don't think the half hour visit in the front yard of nine wild
turkeys presents any health concern, Doug.

I'll need data on that "think" of yours, Harry. You're defending a
practice you enjoy. I simply gave you information that scientists
discovered to be valid.


I see Smithers still has his nose up my butt. Is anyone keeping track of
how many posts a day of his mention me or are directed towards me? You'd
think he'd be frustrated by the lack of response.

In this case, he happens to be correct.


What practice? Nine wild turkeys landed in my front yard for a half hour
while on their way to...somewhere. I hadn't seen them before, and I doubt
I'll see them again. As I stated, I've never seen wild turkeys before on
my property, or in our adjacent woods, and I stalk the woods regularly in
search of critters to photograph.

It matters not to me what Smithers says, because whatever he says, he's a
flaming ass and one of the reasons why this newsgroup is in the sorry
shape it is in.

Are you referring to my habit of putting food out for passing critters?

I live within the boundaries of a tiny rural town, Doug, and the raising
of critters and crops is a common practice. Within two miles of my front
door are at least a dozen working farms where horses, cattle, goats,
chickens, turkeys, llamas ahd who knows what else are raised for profit
and for hobbies. The biggest event hereabouts is the annual agricultural
exhibit and show. My house is bordered by heavy, large wooded areas on
three sides, and in those woods I have seen foxes, raccons, possum, four
varieties of deer, bats, all manner of birds, and a dozen other critters.
Some of these varieties have been walking across my little farmette for
hundreds of years. I see no harm in putting out corn for the deer and
whoever else needs a meal, and my wife likes to feed the finches,
cardinals and doves. The four-legged critters don't congregate in my yard,
but they do walk through it on their way to wherever they are going.

We enjoy the sightings and in fact the presence of the animals is one of
the reasons why we bought this property. Country living, as it were.

I highly recommend a wonderful book written some years ago by the
conservative columnist James J. Kilpatrick. The book is
The Foxes' Union and Other Stretchers, Tall Tales and Discursive
Reminiscences of Happy Years in Scrabble, Virginia

It is a wonderful book about country living by a conservative who really
can write.