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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / September 2005What is it with the wildlife today?
Out on bike this morning. Firstly to CTC meet then into Dereham to do a spot of shopping, pop into post office, bank, that sort of thing. Anyhow, on the way to Tittleshall first thing, I round a corner and there's a couple of rabbits, half-a-dozen pheasants and a deer on the road. They saw me and scattered. A few corners further on and there's a few chickens and a couple of cats sat in the road. Again, they see me a scatter. On the way back from Tittleshall to Dereham, I round a corner and there's a group of rabbits, more pheasants and a stoat in the road. Again they see me and scatter. Is the Beeb doing auditions for a remake of "The Animals of Farthing Wood" or something??? Cheers, helen s Kewl! But what's a stoat...?! PatM > Kewl! But what's a stoat...?! > > PatM See http://www.wildkids.org.uk/teens/woodland/mammals1.htm Stoats are stoatly different to weasels :-) Cheers, helen s And weasels are weasily recognised :) >And weasels are weasily recognised :) An otter thing entirely. :P Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com Ahhh...looks rather like a ferrit. PatM > Ahhh...looks rather like a ferrit. > > PatM Much, much smaller than a ferret. Cheers, helen s >Out on bike this morning. Firstly to CTC meet then into Dereham to do a spot >of shopping, pop into post office, bank, that sort of thing. Anyhow, on the [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > >Cheers, helen s They were just on their way home from work. ;) When I was staying in Dorking, there was a lovely park called the Nower that I used to run in in the morning. I always used to run into this gang of rabbits in a circle. I always thought it was some kind of rabbit cult. ;) Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com >> Out on bike this morning. Firstly to CTC meet then into Dereham to >> do a spot of shopping, pop into post office, bank, that sort of [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > in in the morning. I always used to run into this gang of rabbits in > a circle. I always thought it was some kind of rabbit cult. ;) Druish Rappits? >>> Out on bike this morning. Firstly to CTC meet then into Dereham to >>> do a spot of shopping, pop into post office, bank, that sort of [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > Druish Rappits? Silly me - can't type (or can't spell, one of the two). That should have read: Druish Rabbits >> Druish Rappits? > > Silly me - can't type (or can't spell, one of the two). That should have > read: > > Druish Rabbits If you'd written 'wabbits' I'd have thought you were related to Elmer Fudd ;-) Cheers, helen s >>> Druish Rappits? >> [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Cheers, helen s I *used* to be able to do a spot-on immitation of Elmer. Years ago when I was working for one of the local retail stores (Target), it was a less than a week before Easter, and I was sent on a quest to round up stuffed bunnies from other areas in the store to fill some shelves near the front checkout. Off I went with a cart to some of the less busy areas of the stores. I was kind of humming to myself as I rounded a corner, and there was a child (older than a toddler, not old enough to be in grade school) sitting in a cart, watching me the way children do, while Mom had her back turned looking at a product. I put an index finger to my pursed lips and said in my very bestest Elmer voice "Shhhhhh...be vewwy vewwy qwiet.... I'm huntin' wabbits!" as I proceeded to take half the bunnies off a display. The child giggled. The mom also heard me and started giggling. >>>> Druish Rappits? >>> [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] >wabbits!" as I proceeded to take half the bunnies off a display. The child >giggled. The mom also heard me and started giggling. Anyone else remember Robin Williams's Elmer Fudd singing Bruce Springsteen? "We're widing in my caw, I tuwn on the wadio, I puw you cwoser, You say No. You say you don't wike it, But I know you'we a wiar, 'Cause when we kiss- Oo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o--o-o-o-- Fiwe!" Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com > Out on bike this morning. Firstly to CTC meet then into Dereham to do a > spot of shopping, pop into post office, bank, that sort of thing. Anyhow, [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > scatter. Is the Beeb doing auditions for a remake of "The Animals of > Farthing Wood" or something??? One of the benefits of living in the country instead of a town. Tweed They just wanted to brighten up your day. :-)  SignatureShirley http://community.webshots.com/user/shirleycatuk > Out on bike this morning. Firstly to CTC meet then into Dereham to > do a spot of shopping, pop into post office, bank, that sort of [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Cheers, helen s > Out on bike this morning. Firstly to CTC meet then into Dereham to do > a spot of shopping, pop into post office, bank, that sort of thing. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Cheers, helen s Be afraid, be very afraid. They are plotting something and they scatter when you spot them! Seriously, animals are often sensitive to upcoming natural events. I realize you don't have hurricanes but could there be something in the area they are particularly sensitive to right about now? Jill > and there's a group of rabbits, more pheasants and a stoat in the road. What's a stoat? SignatureVictor M. Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM) Send your spam here: uce@ftc.gov Email me here: pistorLITTER@BOXaustin.rr.com >> and there's a group of rabbits, more pheasants and a stoat in the road. > >What's a stoat? Like a weasel, but bigger. Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com > Out on bike this morning. Firstly to CTC meet then into Dereham to do a > spot of shopping, pop into post office, bank, that sort of thing. Anyhow, [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Cheers, helen s We've got quite a bit of wildlife in our backyard too. Squirrels, birds, Possums, Badgers, Skunks, Raccoons, Cats, Rabbits galore, fish, etc. The real characters are the Cardinals. They sit on the deck chairs outside the patio door and sing for their supper. Mrs. Cheapie even climbs the bricks by the door and peaks in the door to get your attention. She also hovers in front of the glass door to get our attention. Mr. Cheapie hangs off the eaves trough outside the back windows or hops along the window ledge to get our attention. The smaller birds (sparrows mostly) soon learned to follow the Cardinals around and imitate their behaviour. This was amusing when there was three or four sparrows, but today was like a scene from a Hitchcock movie. We hadn't fed the birds all day, so when I looked out the patio door there were about 50 Sparrows on the patio table, two Cardinals on the deck chairs, two Blue Jays in the Spruce tree and a large number of Sparrows in the Spruce tree too. At least it gives the neighbours something to talk about. :) > We've got quite a bit of wildlife in our backyard too. Squirrels, birds, > Possums, Badgers, Skunks, Raccoons, Cats, Rabbits galore, fish, etc. Let's see, we have squirrels, dozens of species of birds, possums, skunks, racoons, cats, fish, toads and lots of insects. No badgers (thank goodness) and no rabbits (lucky for the rabbits, because the feral cat who hunts in our garden has earned his nickname: "Chubby"). > The real characters are the Cardinals. They sit on the deck chairs outside We get lots of those and we love them. So do the cats, watching them hanging out at the feeders. I love watching the blue jays come and get one peanut at a time and fly off to eat it in privacy. :) > too. At least it gives the neighbours something to talk about. :) :) Sounds like the squirrels at my in-laws' in Houston. The darned things start screaming if they don't get fed in time! One even bit my MIL one day when she was particularly late and a bit slow... :) Speaking of badgers: http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/ SignatureVictor M. Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM) Send your spam here: uce@ftc.gov Email me here: pistorLITTER@BOXaustin.rr.com >> We've got quite a bit of wildlife in our backyard too. Squirrels, One of "my" squirrels: http://community.webshots.com/photo/84843739/84843739dEjtQa Jill >>> We've got quite a bit of wildlife in our backyard too. Squirrels, > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Jill It obviously likes sunbathing. Cute picture. MLB >>>> We've got quite a bit of wildlife in our backyard too. Squirrels, >> [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > It obviously likes sunbathing. Cute picture. MLB Sometimes the bluejays will come down and demand their share of the cracked corn and peanuts from the squirrel feeder but I haven't seen a battle between them, yet, and hope not to. Jill > http://community.webshots.com/photo/84843739/84843739dEjtQa Awww... what a cutie! SignatureVictor M. Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM) Send your spam here: uce@ftc.gov Email me here: pistorLITTER@BOXaustin.rr.com >>> We've got quite a bit of wildlife in our backyard too. Squirrels, > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Jill LOL! That's how Vino used to lie on the bannister in our living room. Pic is somewhere in the album, I've posted it here before. Anyway, he can't do that now anymore because our new leather couch is too tall in the back and it's actually level with the bannister. So there's nowhere for him to dangle his legs. Instead he's sitting perpendicular now, with his butt on the back of the couch and his front paws dangling over the bannister. No matter how you arrange the furniture around here, he always finds a way to pose cutely on it! -- Britta "There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast." -- Unknown Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album >> We've got quite a bit of wildlife in our backyard too. Squirrels, birds, >> Possums, Badgers, Skunks, Raccoons, Cats, Rabbits galore, fish, etc. [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] >Speaking of badgers: >http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/ NOoooOOOOOOOooooooooOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Not again!!!!!!!!!! Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com >Speaking of badgers: >http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/ NOoooOOOOOOOooooooooOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Not again!!!!!!!!!! Theresa ======================================= Oy Vay! Scary! Suz Is > the Beeb doing auditions for a remake of "The Animals of Farthing Wood" or > something??? Then there's the wildlife around here--driving through the forest, I round a turn and suddenly there's a moose galloping beside me in the other lane ;) --Fil |
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