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Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 5:11 am
by Hammer
Well then Tymora bit the big one

Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 6:16 am
by Black Wolf
liberator wrote:It's obvious most of you have never been on a farm for any length of time.

If we didn't have a few "feral" cats around here, there be field mice everywhere and I mean everywhere. And there not feral, ferals don't like people at all and spit and hiss at you. Most of the cats that come around are like Barn Cats.

A Barn Cat is a common domestic that gets raised by it's mother away from regular human contact in a barn(duh!), the resulting animal is somewhat wild, usually not letting a human get within 5 feet of them, but they get most of their food from humans, usually in the form of table scraps. Their primary purpose is to keep the rodent population down in grain storage facilities.
As a matter of fact, I've lived the majority of my life on a semi rural block in a farming town. We have Farm cats as well, and they do help in controlling the rodent problem, but at the expense of severe damage to the local ecosystem. What I guess I failed to take into account was that America has (what I assume are native) Cats like the bobcats, cougars and lynxes. Australia doesn't. In fact, we haven't had large, native, stalking predators on the mainland for millions of years, with the exception of mainland Thylacines and Dingoes I guess, which exist in a very different predatory niche - as such, the introduction of Feral cats and foxes has decimated stocks of native/hopping mice, possums, and small marsupials (Woilies, Malas, mainland quokkas, numbats, Wallabies etc.). Feral cats are still a huge problem here. The difference is that North America has an ecology designed to handle cats (bobcats and the like), so the introduction of European domestic cats probably didn't have such an impact.

Night Hammer: You went out, drunk, with a Gun?

Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 6:22 am
by Hammer
haha, yeah we dont give much thought to hunting drunk out here. Do it all the time :? not sure why. I only had a .22 out there though if that makes a difference

Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 7:41 am
by liberator
A .22 is as lethal as anything else, as you demonstrated by the Tymora shot to the bobcat's head. You just have to shoot straighter or be luckier.

Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 2:51 pm
by Moonsword
Night Hammer, the Darwin Awards consider getting drunk willful intoxication. That's not a disqualification...

And yeah, that was a very lucky shot.

Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 5:39 am
by Hammer
I dont really think we were even on the level as some of those Darwin awards people

Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 9:09 am
by Petrarch
Probably already been said, but:

Cats = Small and quiet. Independant. Cheer you up when you're ill. Relaxing to sit and stroke em.
Dogs = Big and noisy. Big lumbering pieces of meat. Stupid. Can't be let out on their own. Need to be told where to s###. Set off land mines.

Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 1:54 pm
by Moonsword
No, not some... but yeah, some of them aren't that far off. A lot of the Darwin Awards is casual stupidity and just plain not thinking.

Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 11:24 pm
by Hippo
Petrarch of the VBB wrote:Set off land mines.


ROFL


WOW...

Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 11:32 pm
by Moonsword
I can see it happening...

Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 11:33 pm
by Moonsword
I can see it happening...

Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 12:05 am
by Hippo
Yes, but... Well... Bah... Thats just too funny to comment on...

Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 12:12 am
by Moonsword
I didn't even notice that. How the hell did that get double-posted past the spam walls?

Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 12:17 am
by Hippo
there's nothing to stop them... If you happen to refresh the screen where it says proscessing or whatever, or if you type something, and pressing space goes back a page, and then you click submit again, thast does it...

Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 12:30 am
by Sparhawk
Knight Hammer:

I love the avatar. Great movie.