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Post by Pat on Dec 31, 2016 19:32:38 GMT -5
Oops! We have had a few porcupines.
I didn't know moles had star noses.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2016 19:35:57 GMT -5
Mammals? I just lost my Cuy "Lisa" that was free range for 4-5 years. Hobo the wonderdog of course. A bobcat ate my chickens a couple decades ago. Possums and coons use the walls as a highway. ETA Cuy ![](http://images.quebarato.com.pe/T440x/venta+de+cuyes+de+raza+mejorada+huamanga+ayacucho+peru__9DB7ED_1.jpg) Hobo the Wonderdog ![](https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3903/14440280935_f9864d67b6_k.jpg)
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Post by wannabee on Dec 31, 2016 19:45:01 GMT -5
I am way too urban for my liking for the past 16 years. So we get the usual assortment of critters for upstate NY burbs: skunks, woodchucks, muskrats, opossums, moles, squirrels, chipmunks, raccoons, and the occasional lost white tail deer. We saw one rat when some construction was going on across the way, but it did not survive being seen. Oh, and one mouse, but one of our cats quickly dispatched it.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2016 20:08:26 GMT -5
Do Jehovah's Witnesses count? Worse than the fruit rats they are! Hey Bob, Get you a big old python to drape over your shoulders, & wall sconces with black candles in them. When you see them coming to the door light the candles & grab the python before answering the door. Worked for me. Was never bothered by the Jehovah's Witnesses again. ![(freaked)](//storage.proboards.com/1258779/images/YmrWJeZhnPYbaUHcPpYN.gif) Naw, just answer the door naked. Saves on the rabbit bill. Just one time lasts forever. Just sayin'!
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Post by Jugglerguy on Dec 31, 2016 20:09:12 GMT -5
I am way too urban for my liking for the past 16 years. So we get the usual assortment of critters for upstate NY burbs: skunks, woodchucks, muskrats, opossums, moles, squirrels, chipmunks, raccoons, and the occasional lost white tail deer. We saw one rat when some construction was going on across the way, but it did not survive being seen. Oh, and one mouse, but one of our cats quickly dispatched it. You get muskrats in the suburbs? Aren't they more aquatic than that? I've only seen them in rivers around here, and I don't have a river in my yard. I have a ditch with water in it part of the year and even that doesn't get muskrats in it.
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Post by panamark on Dec 31, 2016 20:55:04 GMT -5
Okay, only mammals = whitetail and mule deer, moose, elk, mountain lion (next door), beaver, otters, muskrat, skunks, porcupines, assorted mice and vole species, pocket gopher, moles, fox squirrels, pine squirrels, mink, weasel, red fox, cottontail rabbit, flying squirrels, brown bats, raccoons, coyotes. That is about it. No bears or wolves yet, but it is just a matter of luck and timing. We feel blessed to live here for sure. Oh yeah, add humans and dogs and cats. That's quite a list, Mark. I've seen beaver on or close to our road, just not in the yard. Do you see anything interesting in Panama? In Panama we get some weirdos - along with the monkeys: the most unusual are coatimunde and agouti. Coati: ![](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/33/89/e1/3389e1ae3a4d684b1358424488544248.jpg) agouti (like a cross between a rabbit and a deer. I crouches like a rabbit, but then stands up and walks like a deer) ![](http://cdn2.arkive.org/media/8F/8F5DF550-BE36-4D5C-B18A-71BB7BC9BC0E/Presentation.Large/Central-American-agouti-side-profile.jpg) And we had a feral cat around, but we watched a boa constrictor get it. A terrific battle. My wife said "should we try to save the cat?" Which is hilarious as I don't have any experience in untangling cats from a boa.
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Post by Jugglerguy on Dec 31, 2016 21:08:27 GMT -5
Now that's interesting Mark. You should have started with the Panama animals. I've never even heard of either of those animals. What kind of monkeys do you have?
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Post by Sabre52 on Jan 1, 2017 0:17:47 GMT -5
Cooked agouti, gibnut right? Liza the gal who's kids sell the Rios had a pet Coati that would ride the horses around. Neat critter but into everything all the time. We get the occasional Mara here, honking big dog sized shorteared rabbit looking thing. Really weird looking booger...Mel
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2017 1:10:19 GMT -5
Cooked agouti, gibnut right? Liza the gal who's kids sell the Rios had a pet Coati that would ride the horses around. Neat critter but into everything all the time. We get the occasional Mara here, honking big dog sized shorteared rabbit looking thing. Really weird looking booger...Mel ![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Mara_in_captivity.jpg/220px-Mara_in_captivity.jpg) Feral mara? Bad ass!
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Post by parfive on Jan 1, 2017 1:20:30 GMT -5
Lookin’ out a window and through a screened-in porch. ![](http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a390/parfive/Deer_zps2tj7egyy.jpg) Last couple of years, these bastards stripped most of the shrubs bare, even started eating the hollies. Had a white skunk two summers ago, don’t know if it was an albino.
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Post by agatemaggot on Jan 1, 2017 1:37:08 GMT -5
We have several stray cats that the wife feeds nightly on the front steps, 2 families of Racoon that eat there also, a couple possums and one Skunk and ground squirrel. We had a mole at one time this summer but it was only temporary, he was , (putting it politely), evicted !
We enjoy the night time visits but the morning show is the best. There is a Red tailed Hawk that perches in the neighbors tree and picks off the starlings that show up to clean up any spilled cat food. I just wish he would use the neighbors roof to pick the feathers off before he eats em !
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Post by jamesp on Jan 1, 2017 5:51:10 GMT -5
Rhodesian Ridgebacks and birds. Occasional nervous squirrel and chipmunk. The dogs just don't share the yard.
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Post by wannabee on Jan 1, 2017 8:14:27 GMT -5
I am way too urban for my liking for the past 16 years. So we get the usual assortment of critters for upstate NY burbs: skunks, woodchucks, muskrats, opossums, moles, squirrels, chipmunks, raccoons, and the occasional lost white tail deer. We saw one rat when some construction was going on across the way, but it did not survive being seen. Oh, and one mouse, but one of our cats quickly dispatched it. You get muskrats in the suburbs? Aren't they more aquatic than that? I've only seen them in rivers around here, and I don't have a river in my yard. I have a ditch with water in it part of the year and even that doesn't get muskrats in it. Yep. There are some marshes about 1/4 mile from our house so we'll see them wandering around at night.
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Post by panamark on Jan 1, 2017 9:08:50 GMT -5
Okay, only mammals = whitetail and mule deer, moose, elk, mountain lion (next door), beaver, otters, muskrat, skunks, porcupines, assorted mice and vole species, pocket gopher, moles, fox squirrels, pine squirrels, mink, weasel, red fox, cottontail rabbit, flying squirrels, brown bats, raccoons, coyotes. That is about it. No bears or wolves yet, but it is just a matter of luck and timing. We feel blessed to live here for sure. Oh yeah, add humans and dogs and cats. That's quite a list, Mark. I've seen beaver on or close to our road, just not in the yard. Do you see anything interesting in Panama? I should add that one of the cutest mammals we have had in our yard in Panama is a baby sloth. The adults are weird looking, but the babies are adorable. One was orphaned and we rescued it. ![](http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh44/shotgun_tycoon/misc/Baby2520sloth2520with2520monkey_zps8xhaut0p.jpg) ![](http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh44/shotgun_tycoon/misc/baby%20sloth%20a_zpsspooh1ke.jpg) PS: the orange monkey is not endemic. We have the Black Howler Monkeys here. About the size of a small watermelon, but their loud roaring voice would make you think they are the size of a gorilla
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Post by kk on Jan 1, 2017 9:30:24 GMT -5
Occasional stray cat dares to defy our dogs. Rat from time to time. And Water-buffalo comes and goes mostly in winter-months when food in the fields is scarce.
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Post by Jugglerguy on Jan 1, 2017 9:44:48 GMT -5
That is cute, panamark. Did you raise it or take to a place that does that? kk, are you in China?
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Post by snuffy on Jan 1, 2017 9:55:29 GMT -5
Rhodesian Ridgebacks and birds. Occasional nervous squirrel and chipmunk. The dogs just don't share the yard. I guess all Ridgebacks the same? Buddy will chase anything in the yard with intent to catch and kill. Rabbits,rats,squirrels,and cats have been his targets.He loves to follow the baby calves in the pasture,not to harm them,but for what they produce! snuffy
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Post by panamark on Jan 1, 2017 10:04:02 GMT -5
That is cute, panamark. Did you raise it or take to a place that does that? We took it to the local Smithsonian Research Station. They know a lot on care, etc. Unfortunately they could not save it. It seems it did not have enough time with its mother to acquire the antibodies, etc from the milk. Sad, it sure was adorable.
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Post by rockjunquie on Jan 1, 2017 10:18:15 GMT -5
That is cute, panamark . Did you raise it or take to a place that does that? We took it to the local Smithsonian Research Station. They know a lot on care, etc. Unfortunately they could not save it. It seems it did not have enough time with its mother to acquire the antibodies, etc from the milk. Sad, it sure was adorable. Awwwww ![:(](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/sad.png) Well, at least you tried.
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Post by jamesp on Jan 1, 2017 10:19:49 GMT -5
Rhodesian Ridgebacks and birds. Occasional nervous squirrel and chipmunk. The dogs just don't share the yard. I guess all Ridgebacks the same? Buddy will chase anything in the yard with intent to catch and kill. Rabbits,rats,squirrels,and cats have been his targets.He loves to follow the baby calves in the pasture,not to harm them,but for what they produce! snuffy Sounds like a RR snuffy. Mine would lick a stranger to death though.
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