Posted on 03/15/2018 2:42:47 AM PDT by blueplum
What about the truck mounted vacuum that was used to suck prairie dogs out of their burrows?
What I need is a drone that understands the binary language of moisture evaporators.
I’ve got a rescued feist, a rattie/beagle mix. She’s become a good house dog but goes into maniacal hunting mode whenever she’s outside. Pure killer.
Now, if you already have a generator, what would be the cost of an exhaust hose re-director as an accessory?
Mexican Drones doing the work that
American Drones just refuse to do.
I think there are YouTube vids showing that exact thing. If you own a cat, scooping a few turds and burying them in the tunnel entrance seems to encourage them to set up housekeeping elsewhere.
If you ain’t been up to see Graygarden, you should go. Whole place is run by robots.
Tomato worm zapper
Oddly, my Rat Terriers name is Rebel, and like your pup, when he is in hunt mode he loses any sense discipline. I can’t call him back. He’s had several vicious fights with coons. He got punched full of holes on one occasion.
Never had any coons around here. She did go after a possum and flopped on the ground playing dead. Dog was very confused over that.
Rabbits are the worst. She’ll take off and like yours won’t respond to me. Then she goes into the thickets after them and comes out of her harness. Lost three of them so far.
Her nemesis are squirrels and chipmunks. She’ll tree the squirrels. She swallowed a chipmunk whole. By the time I got to her just the tail was sticking out of her mouth.
Add a few more freckles to the white parts and this is a good likeness of my pup.
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Rat Terriers have very little hair and are subject to discomfort in cold Midwest winters, so, I never thought I would dress a dog, but we put sweaters and coats on him when he goes outside in winter. He has lost or torn apart at least a dozen of them, while chasing various varmints through thickets, brush, and brush piles. We have spent a small fortune trying to keep him warm in winter. It’s crazy.
The possum thing, we have lots of them. He grabs them, shakes them and then they put on the dead act. He losses interest and never makes the kill and so, they live to play possum another day.
My first dog was a rat terrier. My parents got him when I about five. He was kept outside in a pen with a doghouse and seemed to do fine in the southeastern Pennsylvania winters. A few years later, we move to a 45 acre farm a couple of miles away. Larger pen, same doghouse. We went to Europe in the summer of 1959 and when we returned, there was sad news. My dog had been stung badly by wasps that nested in his doghouse and the man my father hired to watch the farm had to put him down with a twelve gauge.
I’m sure he was cold and miserable through the winter. They have to shiver constantly to maintain their body temperature. Sorry you lost him, but a little Benadryl given orally and he would have been fine. Mine has been punched full of holes by a coon and he healed on his own. Puncture wounds don’t require sutures to heal. I did boost him for rabies and distemper, both of which are carried by coons. Rat Terriers were the most popular breed from the 1930s through the 50s when rodents were problematic on every farm. Ours spend most of his time in the laundry room, which is heated, and sometimes in the house. I hope you have a dog now—there is no more loyal friend and many would take a bullet for you.
We are dogless now. Our Shepweiler died several years ago after 16 years of wonderful companionship. After my wife goes to bed, I stay up watching TV downstairs where I fall asleep in my chair. He is sometimes in my dreams during that sleep time before I go upstairs to bed. Sometimes I think I catch a glimpse of him out of the corner of my eye sitting on his favorite leather chair facing the TV with his front paws on the leather Ottoman. I always re-position that Ottoman against the chair when it is not being used. Sometimes when one of us is in the house alone and downstairs, there are sounds of movement on the kitchen floor above just like he made when he was alive.
Around here gophers are active 24/7/365. The trap I settled on is the Victor black box. Find a run, put it in unset - see from which direction the gopher fills it in - turn it around, set it. But the darn feral cats are smart to my activity and the sound of the trap snapping, and they keep running off with the trap by the tailend of the gopher inside. Y’d think they’d bring it back for a refill at least. We butt to an undeveloped area so there’s no shortage of replacements for the gophers. I don’t use poisons because we have hawks that try to help out.
WE lost our dog about 5 years ago in a vehicle accident and we had several discussions about another, but not a puppy. I made the decision in a month to get a Rat Terrier puppy, 9 weeks he was, and raising that puppy became the focus of our lives—me, my wife, and youngest son. It was the best move we ever made. My wife and son were opposed, but, once we got that puppy, that attitude changed completely in less than a week. Think about it.
Won’t do it. I still work 5 days a week and the wife frequently travels on photo shoots so a dog would be alone a lot of the time. We have no one local we’d trust with access to our property so it would not be fair to the dog. Plus it would cost me a couple of grand to replace the worn out fencing around our back yard.
I agree. I thought you were retired. Our dog goes everywhere with us and only on rare occasions is he left alone for a few hours. The cat is also a good bud of his. I thought you must be about my age since your were in Nam.
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