Vic Smith wrote:
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:09:43 -0400, wrote:
I don't think you can blame this on Obama any more than you have to
blame GHW Bush for the $150 million they spent for tunnels under
Alligator Alley to save the non-existent Florida Panther.
I saw a video on the news recently - within the last week - that
showed a Florida panther in somebody's back yard.
That's what they said it was, anyway. You see that?
--Vic
That backyard probably was the cat's backyard before it was tractored
out and developed.
Healthy wild animals typically avoid close encounters with humans. We
have critters crossing through our yard just as they did before we moved
here. They walk from one woods to another. We leave water and sometimes
food out for them at the edge of the woods. Just once some baby raccoons
came up close to the house.
In fact, our youngest cat, Cal, actually lived among a family of
raccoons when he was a really small kitten. I have no explanation for
it, other than he is a Maine coon cat, but of course that's really no
explanation. Once we saw him, I started putting out a plate for food for
him, and in a few days, was able to catch him in a cage trap baited with
a can of sardines. He was only a few months old then. Took him up to the
vet for an exam (no feline leukemia) and shots, and the second I got him
home he became a wonderful little housecat with absolutely no desire to
go outside.
This is Cal, shortly after we brought him indoors:
http://s21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...urrent=002.jpg