Posted on 09/20/2008 8:52:04 PM PDT by familyop
If someone has a male pit that isn't neutered -- unless there is some obviously good reason for it -- you can lay odds that, that person's trailer smells like Barack Obama's airplane.
come think uv it, you is might be rite. we likes ar ATVs an settin' dem traps fer does wild hawgs--dems da best! pops gots to yuse fo o' five uv da yunguns ta hawl da hawgs 'causin' his nees is bad an' 'e can't walk nun. its ruf ta walk win ya way 580 pownds...
...well done! Actually, I’m not so citified and was pretty big for a while. ...almost killed me, and I’m out in the middle of nowhere, off of the grid. Some people do try to fit stereotypes, though. It’s a style thing.
I hear that Dixie brand slugs are good for those larger wild hogs, BTW. ;-)
Actually, we live on the "country" side of Houston--only about 25 miles out, but it feels small-town country, and I like it. My husband (who weighs a mere 160# at age 52) does go out in the woods and hunt deer with his bow. And he helps the the owner of the golf course in our neighborhood by trapping hogs (a pistol works fine under those conditions). He finally caught so many, he even ran out of people to give them to, so he stopped trapping last Spring. I imagine the golf course is being over-run again, and he's fixin' to resume setting those traps. I'm getting tired of buying meat at the store. ;)
Side note back to the pit bulls :) We have a very dangerous chihuahua/Jack Russell mix puppy --he's a whopping 11 pounds. He's not a "barker", but he loves to run with the kids. Not too long ago, I had a neighbor riding by on a kid's bike, and my dog went running after her. She yelled some threatening stuff to me, which I didn't appreciate. I got in my car to find her and thought I'd talk peaceably with her. I found her and she went off on how she called the constable the day before because my dog chased her. I started to giggle, and that enraged her. She said the constable said he'd take the dog if she had to call again (??). I finally figured out what her issues were when she yelled at me, "I've got two Pit Bulls, and I don't let them out..." From that statement, I realized she'd received prejudice over her dogs, and decided she hated small dogs who were "innocent" to the public's scrutiny, thus would she never let a little dog go unleashed. I apologized, and just headed on home. She's new to the area. "dem ferner's bringun' meeniss ta ar peesibul land..." There's not much you can do with people like that except avoid them if at all possible.
Or maybe Granny should be armed and know how to shoot, whether there are dogs around or not.
Not to disparage the LEOs, but they’re perforce minutes away when seconds count.
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