[Stag_Man]

"dirtbiker wrote:
I saw an actual, honest-to-goodness, DUmmie today.

Don't look directly at them, and don't agitate or excite them...(which is hard to do, since they agitate and excite very easily....)"

No no no! We are not cowards. You should have trapped him so that we could have one for display. I hear if you train them they do great tricks.

You were at Costco so you had the perfect bait to catch a DUmmie close at hand. Simple go to the food court, order a pizza, put it in your trunk and leave your trunk open. Then pick a spot to lie in wait. the pizza bait will attract the DUmmie in no time. After that all it takes is a shove and closing your trunk and you could have had your own pet DUmmie.

[dirtbiker]

Well, I have 4 problems with your plan....

1. I don't have a car.... I have a pickup and I have an SUV (which is the wife's, and I don't want to have to clean it out after hauling "livestock" in it....
2. If I do capture it, then I will be responsible for it's feeding, bathing, clothing, and taking it to the vet....
3. No Coscos where I live, only Walmarts, and DUmmies avoid them like the plague. If you see a DUmmie at Walmart, alert management, because he probably escaped from the basement "re-education camps".
4. It was "wysiwyg" that saw the DUmmie at Cosco, but your "DUmmie trap" does sound workable. I would modify it with a rope and pulley setup on the trunk lid so I could close the trunk while standing at a distance from the car....(preferably upwind)....

[wysiwyg]

...you could have had your own pet DUmmie.

LOL I suppose, but since I drive a dreaded SUV, I would've had to completely sanitize the interior after removing the DUmmie. Not to mention, I don't know if he's had his rabies shots...