“Prancing off unscathed”
Probably swam up from San Francisco.
Isn’t this the place that gives free needles to the junkies?
And they can’t find it in their hearts to give some free goldfish to a poor otter?
Filthy, stinking otter-haters.
Leave them, feed the otter!!!
Catching Koi for an otter isn’t hard unless the otter catches it with chopsticks.
“...koi are also difficult to capture...”
Not if you drop a 110v wire into the pond, to shock them into floating to the surface. they’re real easy to net, then.
But it’s the “Circle of Life”.
Hahaha! What a dilemma for the libs of the Pacific Northwest. Root for the wild, otter of their beloved nature or root for their beloved, sacred goldfish. This is a very funny story. (I’m with the otter.)
“koi are also difficult to capture”....
Not for an otter!
No, they aren't. Teeny treble hook like the ones used for salmon eggs in trout fishing... baited with a grape. Works great for grass carp, too.
And koi have lots of babies...when the pond is overstocked, the babies get eaten, but when the population is down they grow up and voila more koi.
Just catch the otter and bno problem.
We have had two koi dieoffs in our pond, but within a year we have plenty.
However, they might not be the expensive tricolor ones.
This hits me where it hurts.
We used to have an amazing rescue cat who nearly died as a kitten when they spayed her months too early. She recovered and became the strongest healthiest cat. She could catch anything, the most amazing hunter I’d ever seen.
Our beloved elderly neighbor lost his wife. To me she was a sick, stooped old woman, but after she passed he bought a statue of a lovely nymph because it reminded him of her, and build a koi pond and filled it with expensive koi. He brought us around to show us, and it was beautiful.
A couple days later (you know where this is headed), on our back porch was a gift from our hunter cat. A giant, beautiful, very dead, koi fish. Which I had to then find an equally expensive replacement for. And allow the neighbor to string a little electric shock fence around his pond.
*might like this one, too, ping*
Had a koi pond once, for about a day. After that, we had a frog pond.