A thousand dollars for food per month? WOW!!
 

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On Tue, 10 May 2011 14:18:35 -0400, wrote:

Over on home.repair there is a recurring story about Towser the Wonder
cat who killed thousands of mice but the thing you have to take away
from the story is that there was never any shortage of mice for Towser
to kill.

There have been studies that show that the average outdoor house cat
will kill several thousand birds over its lifetime. They are natural
born, instinctive hunter/killers.

Our freaking cat just watched the mice in the house walk around. Lazy
******* couldn't be bothered to do his job indoors.

********************

You got mice in your house??
How nice!

A thousand dollars for food per month? WOW!!
 

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On Tue, 10 May 2011 10:23:53 -0700, wrote:

On Tue, 10 May 2011 11:46:19 -0400,
wrote:

wrote:
On Tue, 10 May 2011 06:49:43 -0400,
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wrote:
On Mon, 09 May 2011 19:10:53 -0700, wrote:

On Mon, 09 May 2011 19:29:33 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 09 May 2011 11:54:28 -0700, wrote:

On Mon, 09 May 2011 14:48:00 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 09 May 2011 13:56:55 -0400,
wrote:

John H wrote:
Note the fine print: "Giant Gas Rewards points will expire 30 days from date of issuance." So, all
Harry has to do is spend $1000 at Giant in 30 days, and within the same 30 days he can save $1 per
gallon on gas.

So, in order to get a $1.00 per gallon discount, you must spend $1000 to earn 1000 points.
Gee, what a math whiz...

Just to add to the fun:

Every week, I spend the following at Giant on our indoor pets:

Petfood $ 30
Clean Litter $ 52

That's $82 a week x 4 weeks = $328. That's 328 of 1000 points.

How many cats do you have?
I'm guessing he has two? I spend about 1/2 that on food. I buy the
litter in bulk and it lasts forever.
I was just curious. I have a 100 pound dog and he only eats about $15
a month in food, plus whatever he gets from our meat scraps. I spend
more on dog treats.
Every good deed gets a "cookie". The up side to that is he is getting
a lot more civilized. Not bad for a "3 time loser" at the pound.
You must buy the kibble in bulk?
He seems to do best on Costco "healthy weight" and that is about $18 a
40# bag. I have tried several other brands, including some real "foo
foo" stuff the vet is pushing. I watch the intake and output to decide
how he is doing. The ingredient list is pretty good too, I posted it
here a while ago.
My cats won't go near the food the vets sell, especially the Hill's
Prescription Diet, wet or dry.

Our outdoor friends, the foxes, raccoons, possums, et cetera, all go for
Purina Dog Chow, so we buy a couple of big bags of it for them each
month. We also give them leftovers. A stand of forest a few miles away
was just clearcut by a homebuilder/developer. That means a lot more
critters are now homeless, and we'll probably see a few of them, the
ones who aren't killed crossing the streets.
I am not a huge fan of feeding wild animals. It is creating an
unnatural environment that hurts them in the end. You will al;so find
that you end up with a lot more undesirable critters like rats.
Knock on plastic, we so far haven't even seen a mouse on the property.
My guess is that it has something to do with all the the predator birds
in the area, including hawks*, owls, crows, et cetera. You always see
them swooping down on nearby fields, and taking off with something juicy
in their beaks. I'm sure the foxes and maybe the possums and raccoons
also help keep down the rodent population.

* We have one for sure and possibly two nests of cooper's hawks in the
woods behind the back yard.

Mine is a mouser for sure... also gets the occasional snake, yuk, and
more than it's share of birds (bummer, but what can you do).
Keep the cat in the house. I have no problem with people enjoying
their pets but when they become exotic predators they become a
concern. The only small animals that can compete with cats are rats
and mice. They can kill everything else but these rodents can
reproduce faster than a cat can eat them. You end up with nothing but
rats and mice in the ecosystem. That is why the DEP kills cats in the
parks around here. They don't talk about it much tho. The also do not
talk about the wild hogs they kill.
Roadside Barbecue!
The park service has a contractor who traps out a lot of the hogs and
he comes and gets one if they shoot it. Evidently wild hog is a
delicacy in Europe. The French can't get enough of them.
The rangers carry a 12ga in their Gator with 00 buck in it.
Wow...and that was a wild-ass guess on my part.

Around here, if a deer is hit by a car, and it happens often, the deer
usually is picked up and put in the back of one of the next pickup
trucks that passes. If not, the vultures feed on it for a couple of
days. In the years we've lived here, our vehicles have been hit four
times by deer running across a road. One missed us by leaping over the
hood of the car.

Not being a hunter, I have no idea how long a deer can sit dead on the
side of the road before the meat is considered spoiled.
Usually, the car hits the deer instead of the deer hitting the car.

Harry could never admit to being so flawed as to actually hit a deer;)
But he is so easy to pin down.. He has a pretty defined tell really, if
his fingers are moving in a definitive pattern around the keyboard of a
computer, he is lying...;)


As a point of fact, once, while driving south on a main road here, a
deer ran from the other side of the road and slammed into the back door,
driver's side and another time, on a country road, a deer ran into a
quarter panel. Thus, the deer hit the car. Two other times, deer ran
into the passenger side of the car. To date, I've not hit a deer head
on, but that doesn't mean I won't.

Your simple-minded view of the world is laughable.

A thousand dollars for food per month? WOW!!
 

I_am_Tosk wrote:
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On Tue, 10 May 2011 12:01:35 -0700, wrote:

On Tue, 10 May 2011 14:25:55 -0400, wrote:

Mine is a mouser for sure... also gets the occasional snake, yuk, and
more than it's share of birds (bummer, but what can you do).
Keep the cat in the house. I have no problem with people enjoying
their pets but when they become exotic predators they become a
concern. The only small animals that can compete with cats are rats
and mice. They can kill everything else but these rodents can
reproduce faster than a cat can eat them. You end up with nothing but
rats and mice in the ecosystem. That is why the DEP kills cats in the
parks around here. They don't talk about it much tho. The also do not
talk about the wild hogs they kill.
It's a mostly outdoor cat. I'm really not concerned about whatever
birds it can hunt down. I wouldn't call a cat an "exotic" predator.
Cats have been around a long time. I'm nowhere near a state park.
They are certainly "exotics" to anyone who studies wildlife. The
animals on this continent did not evolve to deal with them. They were
introduced by Europeans.
They really do not have any natural enemies here although a gator will
take one if he sees one and a bobcat will run one off it is in his
territory but that will probably not be a fight to the death.
For most cat owners, your biggest fear is probably another exotic, the
pit bull. (or some other big hunting dog)
Auggie Doggie used to chase cats away bit he never really attacked
one. I remember one day we had a cat in the yard and Auggie started
after him. The cat turned and put up his best threat display. Auggie
ran right over him and they ended up in a pile. They rolled around in
the dust for a few seconds until they both got their composure back.
The cat took off and Auggie chased him until they got off the
property, then Auggie came back, pretty happy with himself.

Ha, similar but funnier... Our old Pitbull cross took off out the back
door after a cat that was probably 50 yards down the back yard. The
"cross" in her was greyhound, she was a veeeeery fast dog, about 50
pounds. As she closed on the cat, who had not seen her yet, there was a
noise way down in the park behind the house. The cat stopped in the
middle of the yard and looked toward the sound. Now kitty was standing
broadside with head turned completely away and never ever saw the dog
who hit kitty full speed and they rolled into a ball, got up and Rudy
chased kitty off the property. I never laughed so hard in my life. Well,
maybe once... The very first time I heard of the concept of "Cow
Tipping" but that's another story.. And yes for you snopes guys, I know
cow tipping is a myth...



Too bad someone didn't shoot your ill-mannered dog or its equally
ill-mannered owner.

A thousand dollars for food per month? WOW!!
 

On 5/11/11 6:25 AM, Harryk wrote:
I_am_Tosk wrote:
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In articlegLOdnfUR790ZA1TQnZ2dnUVZ_g2dnZ2d@earthlink .com, payer3389
@mypacks.net says...
wrote:
On Tue, 10 May 2011 14:54:11 -0400,
wrote:

wrote:
On Tue, 10 May 2011 10:23:53 -0700, wrote:

On Tue, 10 May 2011 11:46:19 -0400,
wrote:

wrote:
On Tue, 10 May 2011 06:49:43 -0400,

wrote:

wrote:
On Mon, 09 May 2011 19:10:53 -0700, wrote:

On Mon, 09 May 2011 19:29:33 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 09 May 2011 11:54:28 -0700, wrote:

On Mon, 09 May 2011 14:48:00 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 09 May 2011 13:56:55 -0400,

wrote:

John H wrote:
Note the fine print: "Giant Gas Rewards points will
expire 30 days from date of issuance." So, all
Harry has to do is spend $1000 at Giant in 30 days,
and within the same 30 days he can save $1 per
gallon on gas.

So, in order to get a $1.00 per gallon discount, you
must spend $1000 to earn 1000 points.
Gee, what a math whiz...

Just to add to the fun:

Every week, I spend the following at Giant on our
indoor pets:

Petfood $ 30
Clean Litter $ 52

That's $82 a week x 4 weeks = $328. That's 328 of 1000
points.

How many cats do you have?
I'm guessing he has two? I spend about 1/2 that on food.
I buy the
litter in bulk and it lasts forever.
I was just curious. I have a 100 pound dog and he only
eats about $15
a month in food, plus whatever he gets from our meat
scraps. I spend
more on dog treats.
Every good deed gets a "cookie". The up side to that is he
is getting
a lot more civilized. Not bad for a "3 time loser" at the
pound.
You must buy the kibble in bulk?
He seems to do best on Costco "healthy weight" and that is
about $18 a
40# bag. I have tried several other brands, including some
real "foo
foo" stuff the vet is pushing. I watch the intake and output
to decide
how he is doing. The ingredient list is pretty good too, I
posted it
here a while ago.
My cats won't go near the food the vets sell, especially the
Hill's
Prescription Diet, wet or dry.

Our outdoor friends, the foxes, raccoons, possums, et cetera,
all go for
Purina Dog Chow, so we buy a couple of big bags of it for
them each
month. We also give them leftovers. A stand of forest a few
miles away
was just clearcut by a homebuilder/developer. That means a
lot more
critters are now homeless, and we'll probably see a few of
them, the
ones who aren't killed crossing the streets.
I am not a huge fan of feeding wild animals. It is creating an
unnatural environment that hurts them in the end. You will
al;so find
that you end up with a lot more undesirable critters like rats.
Knock on plastic, we so far haven't even seen a mouse on the
property.
My guess is that it has something to do with all the the
predator birds
in the area, including hawks*, owls, crows, et cetera. You
always see
them swooping down on nearby fields, and taking off with
something juicy
in their beaks. I'm sure the foxes and maybe the possums and
raccoons
also help keep down the rodent population.

* We have one for sure and possibly two nests of cooper's hawks
in the
woods behind the back yard.

Mine is a mouser for sure... also gets the occasional snake,
yuk, and
more than it's share of birds (bummer, but what can you do).
Keep the cat in the house. I have no problem with people enjoying
their pets but when they become exotic predators they become a
concern. The only small animals that can compete with cats are rats
and mice. They can kill everything else but these rodents can
reproduce faster than a cat can eat them. You end up with nothing
but
rats and mice in the ecosystem. That is why the DEP kills cats in
the
parks around here. They don't talk about it much tho. The also do
not
talk about the wild hogs they kill.
Roadside Barbecue!
The park service has a contractor who traps out a lot of the hogs and
he comes and gets one if they shoot it. Evidently wild hog is a
delicacy in Europe. The French can't get enough of them.
The rangers carry a 12ga in their Gator with 00 buck in it.
Wow...and that was a wild-ass guess on my part.

Around here, if a deer is hit by a car, and it happens often, the deer
usually is picked up and put in the back of one of the next pickup
trucks that passes. If not, the vultures feed on it for a couple of
days. In the years we've lived here, our vehicles have been hit four
times by deer running across a road. One missed us by leaping over the
hood of the car.

Not being a hunter, I have no idea how long a deer can sit dead on the
side of the road before the meat is considered spoiled.
Usually, the car hits the deer instead of the deer hitting the car.

Harry could never admit to being so flawed as to actually hit a deer;)
But he is so easy to pin down.. He has a pretty defined tell really, if
his fingers are moving in a definitive pattern around the keyboard of a
computer, he is lying...;)


As a point of fact, once, while driving south on a main road here, a
deer ran from the other side of the road and slammed into the back door,
driver's side and another time, on a country road, a deer ran into a
quarter panel. Thus, the deer hit the car. Two other times, deer ran
into the passenger side of the car. To date, I've not hit a deer head
on, but that doesn't mean I won't.

Your simple-minded view of the world is laughable.



This is amazing. Harry posts pictures of his deck posts, his back door,
his basement cabinets, his printer, his cats, them paving his street
(which he calls his driveway) and every other mundane aspect of his
life. Yet, he gets hit by a deer 4 times, has one jump over his car
(which was a popular video on YouTube) yet he never mentioned it when it
happened.

LOL, yeah right.

A thousand dollars for food per month? WOW!!
 

On 5/11/2011 7:58 AM, NOYB wrote:
On 5/11/11 6:25 AM, Harryk wrote:
I_am_Tosk wrote:
In ,
says...
In articlegLOdnfUR790ZA1TQnZ2dnUVZ_g2dnZ2d@earthlink .com, payer3389
@mypacks.net says...
wrote:
On Tue, 10 May 2011 14:54:11 -0400,
wrote:

wrote:
On Tue, 10 May 2011 10:23:53 -0700, wrote:

On Tue, 10 May 2011 11:46:19 -0400,
wrote:

wrote:
On Tue, 10 May 2011 06:49:43 -0400,

wrote:

wrote:
On Mon, 09 May 2011 19:10:53 -0700, wrote:

On Mon, 09 May 2011 19:29:33 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 09 May 2011 11:54:28 -0700,
wrote:

On Mon, 09 May 2011 14:48:00 -0400,
wrote:

On Mon, 09 May 2011 13:56:55 -0400,

wrote:

John H wrote:
Note the fine print: "Giant Gas Rewards points will
expire 30 days from date of issuance." So, all
Harry has to do is spend $1000 at Giant in 30 days,
and within the same 30 days he can save $1 per
gallon on gas.

So, in order to get a $1.00 per gallon discount, you
must spend $1000 to earn 1000 points.
Gee, what a math whiz...

Just to add to the fun:

Every week, I spend the following at Giant on our
indoor pets:

Petfood $ 30
Clean Litter $ 52

That's $82 a week x 4 weeks = $328. That's 328 of 1000
points.

How many cats do you have?
I'm guessing he has two? I spend about 1/2 that on food.
I buy the
litter in bulk and it lasts forever.
I was just curious. I have a 100 pound dog and he only
eats about $15
a month in food, plus whatever he gets from our meat
scraps. I spend
more on dog treats.
Every good deed gets a "cookie". The up side to that is he
is getting
a lot more civilized. Not bad for a "3 time loser" at the
pound.
You must buy the kibble in bulk?
He seems to do best on Costco "healthy weight" and that is
about $18 a
40# bag. I have tried several other brands, including some
real "foo
foo" stuff the vet is pushing. I watch the intake and output
to decide
how he is doing. The ingredient list is pretty good too, I
posted it
here a while ago.
My cats won't go near the food the vets sell, especially the
Hill's
Prescription Diet, wet or dry.

Our outdoor friends, the foxes, raccoons, possums, et cetera,
all go for
Purina Dog Chow, so we buy a couple of big bags of it for
them each
month. We also give them leftovers. A stand of forest a few
miles away
was just clearcut by a homebuilder/developer. That means a
lot more
critters are now homeless, and we'll probably see a few of
them, the
ones who aren't killed crossing the streets.
I am not a huge fan of feeding wild animals. It is creating an
unnatural environment that hurts them in the end. You will
al;so find
that you end up with a lot more undesirable critters like rats.
Knock on plastic, we so far haven't even seen a mouse on the
property.
My guess is that it has something to do with all the the
predator birds
in the area, including hawks*, owls, crows, et cetera. You
always see
them swooping down on nearby fields, and taking off with
something juicy
in their beaks. I'm sure the foxes and maybe the possums and
raccoons
also help keep down the rodent population.

* We have one for sure and possibly two nests of cooper's hawks
in the
woods behind the back yard.

Mine is a mouser for sure... also gets the occasional snake,
yuk, and
more than it's share of birds (bummer, but what can you do).
Keep the cat in the house. I have no problem with people enjoying
their pets but when they become exotic predators they become a
concern. The only small animals that can compete with cats are rats
and mice. They can kill everything else but these rodents can
reproduce faster than a cat can eat them. You end up with nothing
but
rats and mice in the ecosystem. That is why the DEP kills cats in
the
parks around here. They don't talk about it much tho. The also do
not
talk about the wild hogs they kill.
Roadside Barbecue!
The park service has a contractor who traps out a lot of the hogs and
he comes and gets one if they shoot it. Evidently wild hog is a
delicacy in Europe. The French can't get enough of them.
The rangers carry a 12ga in their Gator with 00 buck in it.
Wow...and that was a wild-ass guess on my part.

Around here, if a deer is hit by a car, and it happens often, the deer
usually is picked up and put in the back of one of the next pickup
trucks that passes. If not, the vultures feed on it for a couple of
days. In the years we've lived here, our vehicles have been hit four
times by deer running across a road. One missed us by leaping over the
hood of the car.

Not being a hunter, I have no idea how long a deer can sit dead on the
side of the road before the meat is considered spoiled.
Usually, the car hits the deer instead of the deer hitting the car.

Harry could never admit to being so flawed as to actually hit a deer;)
But he is so easy to pin down.. He has a pretty defined tell really, if
his fingers are moving in a definitive pattern around the keyboard of a
computer, he is lying...;)


As a point of fact, once, while driving south on a main road here, a
deer ran from the other side of the road and slammed into the back door,
driver's side and another time, on a country road, a deer ran into a
quarter panel. Thus, the deer hit the car. Two other times, deer ran
into the passenger side of the car. To date, I've not hit a deer head
on, but that doesn't mean I won't.

Your simple-minded view of the world is laughable.



This is amazing. Harry posts pictures of his deck posts, his back door,
his basement cabinets, his printer, his cats, them paving his street
(which he calls his driveway) and every other mundane aspect of his
life. Yet, he gets hit by a deer 4 times, has one jump over his car
(which was a popular video on YouTube) yet he never mentioned it when it
happened.

LOL, yeah right.

Most people in *real* deer country like Wisconsin, *never* in their
lifetime hit a single deer. But this guy hits four in a few years.

A thousand dollars for food per month? WOW!!
 

In article ,
says...

On 5/11/2011 7:58 AM, NOYB wrote:
On 5/11/11 6:25 AM, Harryk wrote:
I_am_Tosk wrote:
In ,
says...
In articlegLOdnfUR790ZA1TQnZ2dnUVZ_g2dnZ2d@earthlink .com, payer3389
@mypacks.net says...
wrote:
On Tue, 10 May 2011 14:54:11 -0400,
wrote:

wrote:
On Tue, 10 May 2011 10:23:53 -0700, wrote:

On Tue, 10 May 2011 11:46:19 -0400,
wrote:

wrote:
On Tue, 10 May 2011 06:49:43 -0400,

wrote:

wrote:
On Mon, 09 May 2011 19:10:53 -0700, wrote:

On Mon, 09 May 2011 19:29:33 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 09 May 2011 11:54:28 -0700,
wrote:

On Mon, 09 May 2011 14:48:00 -0400,
wrote:

On Mon, 09 May 2011 13:56:55 -0400,

wrote:

John H wrote:
Note the fine print: "Giant Gas Rewards points will
expire 30 days from date of issuance." So, all
Harry has to do is spend $1000 at Giant in 30 days,
and within the same 30 days he can save $1 per
gallon on gas.

So, in order to get a $1.00 per gallon discount, you
must spend $1000 to earn 1000 points.
Gee, what a math whiz...

Just to add to the fun:

Every week, I spend the following at Giant on our
indoor pets:

Petfood $ 30
Clean Litter $ 52

That's $82 a week x 4 weeks = $328. That's 328 of 1000
points.

How many cats do you have?
I'm guessing he has two? I spend about 1/2 that on food.
I buy the
litter in bulk and it lasts forever.
I was just curious. I have a 100 pound dog and he only
eats about $15
a month in food, plus whatever he gets from our meat
scraps. I spend
more on dog treats.
Every good deed gets a "cookie". The up side to that is he
is getting
a lot more civilized. Not bad for a "3 time loser" at the
pound.
You must buy the kibble in bulk?
He seems to do best on Costco "healthy weight" and that is
about $18 a
40# bag. I have tried several other brands, including some
real "foo
foo" stuff the vet is pushing. I watch the intake and output
to decide
how he is doing. The ingredient list is pretty good too, I
posted it
here a while ago.
My cats won't go near the food the vets sell, especially the
Hill's
Prescription Diet, wet or dry.

Our outdoor friends, the foxes, raccoons, possums, et cetera,
all go for
Purina Dog Chow, so we buy a couple of big bags of it for
them each
month. We also give them leftovers. A stand of forest a few
miles away
was just clearcut by a homebuilder/developer. That means a
lot more
critters are now homeless, and we'll probably see a few of
them, the
ones who aren't killed crossing the streets.
I am not a huge fan of feeding wild animals. It is creating an
unnatural environment that hurts them in the end. You will
al;so find
that you end up with a lot more undesirable critters like rats.
Knock on plastic, we so far haven't even seen a mouse on the
property.
My guess is that it has something to do with all the the
predator birds
in the area, including hawks*, owls, crows, et cetera. You
always see
them swooping down on nearby fields, and taking off with
something juicy
in their beaks. I'm sure the foxes and maybe the possums and
raccoons
also help keep down the rodent population.

* We have one for sure and possibly two nests of cooper's hawks
in the
woods behind the back yard.

Mine is a mouser for sure... also gets the occasional snake,
yuk, and
more than it's share of birds (bummer, but what can you do).
Keep the cat in the house. I have no problem with people enjoying
their pets but when they become exotic predators they become a
concern. The only small animals that can compete with cats are rats
and mice. They can kill everything else but these rodents can
reproduce faster than a cat can eat them. You end up with nothing
but
rats and mice in the ecosystem. That is why the DEP kills cats in
the
parks around here. They don't talk about it much tho. The also do
not
talk about the wild hogs they kill.
Roadside Barbecue!
The park service has a contractor who traps out a lot of the hogs and
he comes and gets one if they shoot it. Evidently wild hog is a
delicacy in Europe. The French can't get enough of them.
The rangers carry a 12ga in their Gator with 00 buck in it.
Wow...and that was a wild-ass guess on my part.

Around here, if a deer is hit by a car, and it happens often, the deer
usually is picked up and put in the back of one of the next pickup
trucks that passes. If not, the vultures feed on it for a couple of
days. In the years we've lived here, our vehicles have been hit four
times by deer running across a road. One missed us by leaping over the
hood of the car.

Not being a hunter, I have no idea how long a deer can sit dead on the
side of the road before the meat is considered spoiled.
Usually, the car hits the deer instead of the deer hitting the car.

Harry could never admit to being so flawed as to actually hit a deer;)
But he is so easy to pin down.. He has a pretty defined tell really, if
his fingers are moving in a definitive pattern around the keyboard of a
computer, he is lying...;)


As a point of fact, once, while driving south on a main road here, a
deer ran from the other side of the road and slammed into the back door,
driver's side and another time, on a country road, a deer ran into a
quarter panel. Thus, the deer hit the car. Two other times, deer ran
into the passenger side of the car. To date, I've not hit a deer head
on, but that doesn't mean I won't.

Your simple-minded view of the world is laughable.



This is amazing. Harry posts pictures of his deck posts, his back door,
his basement cabinets, his printer, his cats, them paving his street
(which he calls his driveway) and every other mundane aspect of his
life. Yet, he gets hit by a deer 4 times, has one jump over his car
(which was a popular video on YouTube) yet he never mentioned it when it
happened.

LOL, yeah right.

Most people in *real* deer country like Wisconsin, *never* in their
lifetime hit a single deer. But this guy hits four in a few years.

No he didn't...

--
Team Rowdy Mouse, Banned from the Mall for life!

A thousand dollars for food per month? WOW!!
 

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On Tue, 10 May 2011 10:23:53 -0700, wrote:

On Tue, 10 May 2011 11:46:19 -0400, Harryk

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On Tue, 10 May 2011 06:49:43 -0400,

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On Mon, 09 May 2011 19:10:53 -0700,
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On Mon, 09 May 2011 19:29:33 -0400,
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On Mon, 09 May 2011 11:54:28 -0700,
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On Mon, 09 May 2011 14:48:00 -0400,
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John H wrote:
Note the fine print: "Giant Gas Rewards points will
expire 30 days from date of issuance." So, all
Harry has to do is spend $1000 at Giant in 30 days,
and within the same 30 days he can save $1 per
gallon on gas.

So, in order to get a $1.00 per gallon discount, you
must spend $1000 to earn 1000 points.
Gee, what a math whiz...

Just to add to the fun:

Every week, I spend the following at Giant on our
indoor pets:

Petfood $ 30
Clean Litter $ 52

That's $82 a week x 4 weeks = $328. That's 328 of
1000 points.

How many cats do you have?
I'm guessing he has two? I spend about 1/2 that on
food. I buy the
litter in bulk and it lasts forever.
I was just curious. I have a 100 pound dog and he only
eats about $15
a month in food, plus whatever he gets from our meat
scraps. I spend
more on dog treats.
Every good deed gets a "cookie". The up side to that is
he is getting
a lot more civilized. Not bad for a "3 time loser" at
the pound.
You must buy the kibble in bulk?
He seems to do best on Costco "healthy weight" and that is
about $18 a
40# bag. I have tried several other brands, including some
real "foo
foo" stuff the vet is pushing. I watch the intake and
output to decide
how he is doing. The ingredient list is pretty good too, I
posted it
here a while ago.
My cats won't go near the food the vets sell, especially
the Hill's
Prescription Diet, wet or dry.

Our outdoor friends, the foxes, raccoons, possums, et
cetera, all go for
Purina Dog Chow, so we buy a couple of big bags of it for
them each
month. We also give them leftovers. A stand of forest a few
miles away
was just clearcut by a homebuilder/developer. That means a
lot more
critters are now homeless, and we'll probably see a few of
them, the
ones who aren't killed crossing the streets.

I am not a huge fan of feeding wild animals. It is creating
an
unnatural environment that hurts them in the end. You will
al;so find
that you end up with a lot more undesirable critters like
rats.


Knock on plastic, we so far haven't even seen a mouse on the
property.
My guess is that it has something to do with all the the
predator birds
in the area, including hawks*, owls, crows, et cetera. You
always see
them swooping down on nearby fields, and taking off with
something juicy
in their beaks. I'm sure the foxes and maybe the possums and
raccoons
also help keep down the rodent population.

* We have one for sure and possibly two nests of cooper's
hawks in the
woods behind the back yard.


Mine is a mouser for sure... also gets the occasional snake,
yuk, and
more than it's share of birds (bummer, but what can you do).

Keep the cat in the house. I have no problem with people enjoying
their pets but when they become exotic predators they become a
concern. The only small animals that can compete with cats are
rats
and mice. They can kill everything else but these rodents can
reproduce faster than a cat can eat them. You end up with
nothing but
rats and mice in the ecosystem. That is why the DEP kills cats
in the
parks around here. They don't talk about it much tho. The also
do not
talk about the wild hogs they kill.

It's a mostly outdoor cat. I'm really not concerned about whatever
birds it can hunt down. I wouldn't call a cat an "exotic"
predator.
Cats have been around a long time. I'm nowhere near a state park.


Doesn't matter if you are around a state park or not. Feral cats
and
cats that act like feral cats are a huge concern.

A coyote or snake will take care of that cat sooner or later if it
doesn't become a pavement pancake first. That plume character is an
irresponsible pet owner. Maybe Krause will talk some sense to him.

Harry isn't any more responsible, hell, he thinks it's just dandy to
feed human leftovers to wild animals!

A thousand dollars for food per month? WOW!!
 

In article , princecraft51
@gmail.com says...

"BAR" wrote in message . ..

In article ,
says...

On Tue, 10 May 2011 14:18:35 -0400, wrote:

Over on home.repair there is a recurring story about Towser the Wonder
cat who killed thousands of mice but the thing you have to take away
from the story is that there was never any shortage of mice for Towser
to kill.

There have been studies that show that the average outdoor house cat
will kill several thousand birds over its lifetime. They are natural
born, instinctive hunter/killers.

Our freaking cat just watched the mice in the house walk around. Lazy
******* couldn't be bothered to do his job indoors.

********************

You got mice in your house??
How nice!

I'm sure you do, too, especially in all that garbage strewn about.

A thousand dollars for food per month? WOW!!
 

In article , princecraft51
@gmail.com says...

"L G" wrote in message
...

True North wrote:


***********************

Speaking of wildlife...today I had to scrape a small egg off my
sidewalk..... with a carcass of a tiny dead bird inside....
Must have fallen out of a nearby tree in our high winds.

Did you cry?

*****************

Cry for this, BirdBrain!

All right, I wondered when the stupidest of Don's posting habits would
appear!

A thousand dollars for food per month? WOW!!
 

In article , says...

On 5/11/11 6:25 AM, Harryk wrote:
I_am_Tosk wrote:
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In articlegLOdnfUR790ZA1TQnZ2dnUVZ_g2dnZ2d@earthlink .com, payer3389
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On Tue, 10 May 2011 14:54:11 -0400,
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On Tue, 10 May 2011 10:23:53 -0700, wrote:

On Tue, 10 May 2011 11:46:19 -0400,
wrote:

wrote:
On Tue, 10 May 2011 06:49:43 -0400,

wrote:

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On Mon, 09 May 2011 19:10:53 -0700, wrote:

On Mon, 09 May 2011 19:29:33 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 09 May 2011 11:54:28 -0700, wrote:

On Mon, 09 May 2011 14:48:00 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 09 May 2011 13:56:55 -0400,

wrote:

John H wrote:
Note the fine print: "Giant Gas Rewards points will
expire 30 days from date of issuance." So, all
Harry has to do is spend $1000 at Giant in 30 days,
and within the same 30 days he can save $1 per
gallon on gas.

So, in order to get a $1.00 per gallon discount, you
must spend $1000 to earn 1000 points.
Gee, what a math whiz...

Just to add to the fun:

Every week, I spend the following at Giant on our
indoor pets:

Petfood $ 30
Clean Litter $ 52

That's $82 a week x 4 weeks = $328. That's 328 of 1000
points.

How many cats do you have?
I'm guessing he has two? I spend about 1/2 that on food.
I buy the
litter in bulk and it lasts forever.
I was just curious. I have a 100 pound dog and he only
eats about $15
a month in food, plus whatever he gets from our meat
scraps. I spend
more on dog treats.
Every good deed gets a "cookie". The up side to that is he
is getting
a lot more civilized. Not bad for a "3 time loser" at the
pound.
You must buy the kibble in bulk?
He seems to do best on Costco "healthy weight" and that is
about $18 a
40# bag. I have tried several other brands, including some
real "foo
foo" stuff the vet is pushing. I watch the intake and output
to decide
how he is doing. The ingredient list is pretty good too, I
posted it
here a while ago.
My cats won't go near the food the vets sell, especially the
Hill's
Prescription Diet, wet or dry.

Our outdoor friends, the foxes, raccoons, possums, et cetera,
all go for
Purina Dog Chow, so we buy a couple of big bags of it for
them each
month. We also give them leftovers. A stand of forest a few
miles away
was just clearcut by a homebuilder/developer. That means a
lot more
critters are now homeless, and we'll probably see a few of
them, the
ones who aren't killed crossing the streets.
I am not a huge fan of feeding wild animals. It is creating an
unnatural environment that hurts them in the end. You will
al;so find
that you end up with a lot more undesirable critters like rats.
Knock on plastic, we so far haven't even seen a mouse on the
property.
My guess is that it has something to do with all the the
predator birds
in the area, including hawks*, owls, crows, et cetera. You
always see
them swooping down on nearby fields, and taking off with
something juicy
in their beaks. I'm sure the foxes and maybe the possums and
raccoons
also help keep down the rodent population.

* We have one for sure and possibly two nests of cooper's hawks
in the
woods behind the back yard.

Mine is a mouser for sure... also gets the occasional snake,
yuk, and
more than it's share of birds (bummer, but what can you do).
Keep the cat in the house. I have no problem with people enjoying
their pets but when they become exotic predators they become a
concern. The only small animals that can compete with cats are rats
and mice. They can kill everything else but these rodents can
reproduce faster than a cat can eat them. You end up with nothing
but
rats and mice in the ecosystem. That is why the DEP kills cats in
the
parks around here. They don't talk about it much tho. The also do
not
talk about the wild hogs they kill.
Roadside Barbecue!
The park service has a contractor who traps out a lot of the hogs and
he comes and gets one if they shoot it. Evidently wild hog is a
delicacy in Europe. The French can't get enough of them.
The rangers carry a 12ga in their Gator with 00 buck in it.
Wow...and that was a wild-ass guess on my part.

Around here, if a deer is hit by a car, and it happens often, the deer
usually is picked up and put in the back of one of the next pickup
trucks that passes. If not, the vultures feed on it for a couple of
days. In the years we've lived here, our vehicles have been hit four
times by deer running across a road. One missed us by leaping over the
hood of the car.

Not being a hunter, I have no idea how long a deer can sit dead on the
side of the road before the meat is considered spoiled.
Usually, the car hits the deer instead of the deer hitting the car.

Harry could never admit to being so flawed as to actually hit a deer;)
But he is so easy to pin down.. He has a pretty defined tell really, if
his fingers are moving in a definitive pattern around the keyboard of a
computer, he is lying...;)


As a point of fact, once, while driving south on a main road here, a
deer ran from the other side of the road and slammed into the back door,
driver's side and another time, on a country road, a deer ran into a
quarter panel. Thus, the deer hit the car. Two other times, deer ran
into the passenger side of the car. To date, I've not hit a deer head
on, but that doesn't mean I won't.

Your simple-minded view of the world is laughable.



This is amazing. Harry posts pictures of his deck posts, his back door,
his basement cabinets, his printer, his cats, them paving his street
(which he calls his driveway) and every other mundane aspect of his
life. Yet, he gets hit by a deer 4 times, has one jump over his car
(which was a popular video on YouTube) yet he never mentioned it when it
happened.

LOL, yeah right.

I've lived in very heavily populated deer country all of my life. I've
hit several deer, and have never had one hit my car. I've never known
anyone else to have one hit their car. They are too agile for that.
Harry is lying, as always.