Taddy stated: I set them keeping tabs on the Roseworthy possums, to get
rid of harry Butler ideas (yes, that long ago) and discover that
happy furry cuddly native animals were lethal hateful spitting
beasts with five razor blades on each hand and every one aimed at
you.

You had to teach people at uni level that possums are nasty SOB's????? OZ
is a very strange place. Everyone here knows that from childhood on....

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katysails wrote:
You had to teach people at uni level that possums are nasty SOB's????? OZ
is a very strange place. Everyone here knows that from childhood on....

I've known a few city boys who didn't know, wouldn't believe it when
told, and had to find out the hard way. Most recently a neighbor who
tried to pick up a "dead" possum he found on his porch (the thing had
come up there to eat his dog's food) and had to get stitches plus a
tetanus shot. If that's not scary enough, his insurance company refused
to pay for a rabies shot series and he shrugged it off...

DSK

Doug related: If that's not scary enough, his insurance company refused
to pay for a rabies shot series and he shrugged it off...

He didn't kill the thing and lop off its' head for the State to examine????I
don't go near a "dead" possum without a shovel in my hands.....

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katysails wrote:
He didn't kill the thing and lop off its' head for the State to examine????

Nope. he tried to pick it up, it tore the beejeezus out of him (lucky it
didn't get his neck), and he dropped it (of course) and it ran off into
the woods.

That was idiotic enough, but to shrug off the possibility of rabies is
moronic IMHO. It's been too long since "Old Yeller" was aired....

... I
don't go near a "dead" possum without a shovel in my hands.....

I keep a small stock .22 shorts for just such occasions (and of course,
a shovel). Nobody misses a 'possum except possibly the owls.

What's even funnier is the reaction of these suburban geniuses to the
presence (or even the mention) of snakes.

DSK

Nobody misses a 'possum except possibly the owls

Speaking of owls, my 10 y/o granddaughter just did a section in her science
class where they "investigated" the fewmets of owls to see what their dining
habits were....she thought it was neat until I suggested that the bones were
very much like Skipper the missing hamster.....
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Nobody misses a 'possum except possibly the owls

Speaking of owls, my 10 y/o granddaughter just did a section in her
science
class where they "investigated" the fewmets of owls to see what their
dining
habits were....she thought it was neat until I suggested that the bones
were
very much like Skipper the missing hamster.....

Oh, that is so cruel.
We had ducks as youngins, when they got big, Dad got rid of them one day,
Mom made fried chicken that night.
;o

Scotty Potty wrote...

"We had ducks as youngins, when they got big, Dad sent them to college cuz they
was smarter than me."

Scott Vernon wrote:
Oh, that is so cruel.
We had ducks as youngins, when they got big, Dad got rid of them one day,
Mom made fried chicken that night.
;o

Weren't you suspicious when the "fried chicken" had a bill & webbed feet?

DSK

katysails wrote:

Taddy stated: I set them keeping tabs on the Roseworthy possums, to get
rid of harry Butler ideas (yes, that long ago) and discover that
happy furry cuddly native animals were lethal hateful spitting
beasts with five razor blades on each hand and every one aimed at
you.

You had to teach people at uni level that possums are nasty SOB's????? OZ
is a very strange place. Everyone here knows that from childhood on....

A:Yes. B:Yes. C:At last, an area where the US education system
works well (?)

At the time, the top-rating show was Harry butler "In the Wild",
a softer, gentler and more intelligent forerunner of the
Crocodile Hunter. In each show, Harry B would shove his hand
into all sorts of horrible holes and pull out some bitey scratchy
sublethal or wholly lethal furry rodent or lizard or snake with
comments like "look at this little fella" and said lethal fella
would look appropriately cute as Harry B communed with it. Mind
you, being shoved in a freezer for a few minutes before being
placed under some rock before filming assisted in developing an
amenable personailty in the wildlife. The first-year students,
half fresh out of school, had a lot of unlearning to do.

(BTW if you visit Oz, just remember, before picking up a venomous
snake, large fanged monitor lizard,toothy water rat (mandatory
sailing content), slashing possum or piddling koala, check that
it's been in the freezer beforehand so that its true personality
shines through while you handle it)

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Taddy related:
(BTW if you visit Oz, just remember, before picking up a venomous
snake, large fanged monitor lizard,toothy water rat (mandatory
sailing content), slashing possum or piddling koala, check that
it's been in the freezer beforehand so that its true personality
shines through while you handle it)

That's ok...we don't refrigerate our skunks...or our porcupines...and you'd
be hard pressed to find a freezer big enough to stick a Michigan brown bear
in, let alone the argument that would ensue over the stuffing...the coyotes
are reclusive enough in Michigan that most never see one, but you do hear
them at night...i'm sure there's a fool out there that would think they're
cuddly...and then there's the Mississauga rattler who does like to hide in
the leaves and doesn't make a very large sound so you get bit about the same
time you hear the rattle....we just let idiots go out there and become more
projects for the Darwin Award people....
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