hand2mouthmining
spending too much on rocks
Purveyors of California Gem Rock
Member since September 2011
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Post by hand2mouthmining on Sept 8, 2012 1:32:11 GMT -5
On our last trip to our Davis Creek obsidian pit, we hired some new mine security guards. They're happy to live there 24 hours a day, and work for peanuts!  Well, they actually prefer the zucchini bread that Al's Mom made ... MMMmmm, spicy!  We tried to move them into more modern housing, but they preferred their old, rotten stump. There's no accounting for taste, eh? :cheesy: Seeya! Kris & Al Hand-2-Mouth Mining |
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Post by rockrookie on Sept 8, 2012 5:35:51 GMT -5
 mmmm zucchini bread !! i love mine with cream cheese. |
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Post by Bikerrandy on Sept 8, 2012 19:13:29 GMT -5
Cute little guys! ;D
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Post by frane on Sept 9, 2012 9:02:17 GMT -5
They look happy at work!
Fran
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Post by FrogAndBearCreations on Sept 10, 2012 13:35:43 GMT -5
Cute but watch it around the rodent population in California as they can and do carry plague from the fleas
its a problem right now and has sickened or killed people this year
all you need it to do is get a flea or mosquito bite that has bitten a plague infested critter to get it
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Member since January 1970
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2012 14:06:43 GMT -5
I have always wanted a pet chipmunk. Sadly, Kalifornia says we can not keep one alive. We can kill them under the authority of a hunting license. As a non-game animal they have do not even have to be "recovered" and removed from the field. There is no limit and a 365 day/yr season.
Heaven forbid if some dastardly person (or me!) tried to put one in an enclosure and enjoy it alive; that would be committing a crime.
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Post by FrogAndBearCreations on Sept 10, 2012 14:16:25 GMT -5
I think their reasoning is that they breed so readily and have population over growth (kinda like people) that they become/can become a pest
I don't like the unlimited wholesale killing of any species as then you threaten the keystone preditors and that is a bigger problem than a few chipmunks/squirrels/rabbits
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fwfranklen (Mike)
spending too much on rocks
Rock-ON--Have you kissed your rock today?
Member since August 2012
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Post by fwfranklen (Mike) on Sept 10, 2012 14:31:12 GMT -5
Part of the reasoning behind not keeping native species as pets is that people become so good at raising them they get loose or people just start letting them loose in to the wild. Not a good idea. Here in Oregon you can not own or sell any native species. The only bird (except game foul) that you can kill is non-native species. That limits it down to starlings and eourapean house sparrows. So all little boys that get there first be be gun be warned. LOL
When I had my pet store I let the local kids bring in pond turtles for trade for gold fish. I'd keep the turtles in a in store pond and after a while would release them back into the wild. Well I got into trouble with the state. No more turtle, no more blue gills, perch can I keep in the store. I also purchased ball pythons from africa, well when the state found out they made me stop. Unless I got a permit which I did then the permit expired and there was not more to be issued...unless I paid for a special permit.
O well such is life
Mike
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