Backyard Critters doing damage - Page 16

Patty in Wisc · 06-18-2010, 09:13 PM

Yesterday on World News, Dianne Sawyer said somewhere in AZ they will build a squirrel bridge costing 1.25 MILLION DOLLARS. She said "that's $5,000 a year per squirrel". She said too many squirrels were getting hit by cars at this crossing so they will build a bridge for them (choke choke). I thought I heard the story wrong but today she said the town in AZ decided to give the 1.25 mill $$$ back to the government & won't build the bridge. Our government really gave that much $$ to them for a frickin SQUIRREL BRIDGE???

Tony O · 06-18-2010, 10:01 PM

Once again Arizona gets it right.

bananimal · 06-19-2010, 09:20 AM

Think I'll petition the Port St Lucie city council for funding for a Bob Cat Causeway. One for every major roadway. These big cats really keep the critter population at bay on the Treasure Coast.

The local paper showed another one photographed in a residence backyard in Sebastian.

This shot makes me think of the commercial where the vision impaired lady calls the racoon inside to "snuggle with mama". Here, kitty, kitty, kitty.

Dan

Patty in Wisc · 06-19-2010, 09:45 AM

LOL Dan. Guess I'd rather have a coon than a bobcat hanging out here.
Ha ha ..."here kitty kitty kitty" LOL

bananimal · 06-19-2010, 12:04 PM

Patty,

The S Fla bobcats leave people alone -- generally. And they usually show themselves just at night. In the 5 years I'm here I saw a racoon only twice. Squirrels are practically nonexistent as well as possum. However, my trapping turned up rats, and I'm gonna keep an eye out for these guys.

Only heard of one incident of a bobcat attack. It bit a guy fixing his car in the driveway. It was daytime - and it was rabid.

Dan

sunfish · 07-17-2010, 01:22 PM

SoCal Butterflies: The Gulf Fritillary butterfly

Patty in Wisc · 07-17-2010, 01:36 PM

Looks like they're munching up your leaves there!
Thursday I got squirrel # 107 & today I gave a swim lesson to raccoon #25

bananimal · 07-17-2010, 07:47 PM

Nice going, Patty! I could use some swimming lessons. Never learned how/when to take a breath reliably when doing the Australian crawl all out, like I was taught as a kid.

But not from you!!! lol

Dan

island cassie · 07-18-2010, 09:18 PM

Fruit bats munching on the cashew apples, and rats eating the melons!! Can't put down poison there for the rats because of the cats and dogs we have, and can't stay out all night with a tennis raquet for the bats! Insect eating bats I don't mind but fruit bats are a pain in the a**! And they poop all over the paths to add insult to injury!

bananimal · 07-19-2010, 06:12 AM

Hey Cassie - Are your cashew apples of manageble size where tree netting is practical? Most likely they are the Jamaican Fruit-eating Bat, Murcielago Frutero. Being native to the carib and cent america I know they are all over Puerto Rico. Gonna contact some of my wife's many relatives and find out what works for them - if anything.

I see bug eating bats here in S Fla at twilight zipping around and they help keep the bugs down. So does the county spraying program. We have to run in the house when the chimney truck comes thru the area.

Dan

Patty in Wisc · 07-23-2010, 04:13 PM

raccoon #26 had a swim lesson.

Patty in Wisc · 07-27-2010, 05:18 PM

Coon #27 today

Abnshrek · 07-27-2010, 06:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Patty in Wisc

Coon #27 today

What are you going to do when you catch one up your Ice Cream.. Or better yet a Fuzzy raT? :^)

Patty in Wisc · 07-27-2010, 09:23 PM

My pellet gun is loaded & at the back door LOL

justjoan · 07-28-2010, 07:08 AM

Come for a visit to Minnesota Patty and bring that pellet gun, a tree rat got my first tomato that was 1 day out from picking and I found a nice big green one stashed in the top of the pot of my Siam Ruby. If the plants were in the ground or on the ground for that matter I would understand but they are climbing up on to the deck, (no stairs) which is a good 5 ft off the ground, BAH!!! I am so mad!

Patty in Wisc · 07-28-2010, 09:19 AM

I hate when they do that! I have 2 big but green ponderosa lemons & several baby kumquats they better leave alone! I'm finding some digging in some pots.

hammer · 07-28-2010, 09:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Patty in Wisc

I hate when they do that! I have 2 big but green ponderosa lemons & several baby kumquats they better leave alone! I'm finding some digging in some pots.

Last year they got my meyer lemon and my satsuma.

bananimal · 07-28-2010, 12:14 PM

My Lula Avocado has fruited for the first time this year and they better leave it be. About a dozen fruit are set. Also starting a variegated pink Eureka lemon in a pot to grow it out some before planting. They better leave that alone too.

Man --- it looks like I'd better get me a Kania trap. Have not seen any tree rats for a while in the backyard, but I know they're in the area.

Then there's the friggin ratz! Trapped 3 cotton rats this spring - they live in the undeveloped lots next door.

Patty in Wisc · 07-28-2010, 12:57 PM

I shot at one up in a tree above my back door other day. He squirmed & kicked & then fell out of tree so I know I hit him, but he ran off.
I gotta put a skirt around bottom of sunroom. I peeked under & saw the insulation & styrofoam nailed to bottom of joists are all ripped up. It's only about 18 inch crawlspace & I'm afraid of coming face to face with the coons that did it! Darn critters!

Abnshrek · 07-28-2010, 04:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Patty in Wisc

I gotta put a skirt around bottom of sunroom. I peeked under & saw the insulation & styrofoam nailed to bottom of joists are all ripped up. It's only about 18 inch crawlspace & I'm afraid of coming face to face with the coons that did it! Darn critters!

Oh come on Patty with all them swim lessons you give you must be used to close contact by now. :^) lol

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