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Karhunkoski
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by Karhunkoski » Mon May 13, 2013 5:46 pm
Oombongo wrote:Wild animals should not be fed. Mother nature usually takes care of it. Feeding them encourages them and they start giving a personal visit to your surroundings.
+1
Personal animal-feeding annoyances for me are:
1. "kind" people who feed other peoples cats (whilst you're trying to restrict their food intake because they're getting fat)
2. People who feed wild ducks with bread - it just makes them fat and slothly (hat-tip Boris), and more likely to be slow enough to fall victim to predators, e.g. foxes.
Political correctness is the belief that it's possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.
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AldenG
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by AldenG » Mon May 13, 2013 11:18 pm
Karhunkoski wrote:it just makes them fat and slothly (hat-tip Boris)
OK, well, Johnson can have your hat-tip for the sentiment, but I reserve mine for you, for coming up with "slothly."
The only problem will be the people who'll inevitably start misusing it as an adverb.
Now do slothly ducks hang around upside down from bridges and tree branches?
As he persisted, I was obliged to tootle him gently at first and then, seeing no improvement, to trumpet him vigorously with my horn.
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Rip
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by Rip » Wed May 15, 2013 9:06 am
AldenG wrote:
I can tell you from first-hand experience that they didn't use to be that way.
1970's? (I know your first hand experience here extends further than almost anybody else on the board)
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AldenG
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by AldenG » Wed May 15, 2013 5:03 pm
Rip wrote:AldenG wrote:
I can tell you from first-hand experience that they didn't use to be that way.
1970's? (I know your first hand experience here extends further than almost anybody else on the board)
No ei nyt sentään...
As he persisted, I was obliged to tootle him gently at first and then, seeing no improvement, to trumpet him vigorously with my horn.
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daveba
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by daveba » Thu May 16, 2013 12:21 am
Saw it in a national park in South Carolina. As if I was going to try doing that! At least the sign warned us that they were around,as we saw around 3-4 sunbathing just on the shore!
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Rip
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by Rip » Thu May 16, 2013 9:05 am
AldenG wrote:Rip wrote:AldenG wrote:
I can tell you from first-hand experience that they didn't use to be that way.
1970's? [...]
No ei nyt sentään...
In that case, my first encounter with Seurasaari squirrels was no later than beginning of 1980's, and they weren't then present in smaller numbers or less eager to get food.
