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Re: Look what has been scaring me for weeks - photos
5/6/2009 6:01:23 PM

Amanda,

He looks kind of cute.

We don't get these in the UK either. Can't help much.

According to Kathleen they like vegetables. Perhaps you could build a shed and put fresh veg in there every day with some lovely fresh water and a nice little bed and see if you can find him/her a friend and give it a name, something cute.

Hold on:

Your solution is better I think, good luck.

Roger

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Amanda Martin-Shaver

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Re: Look what has been scaring me for weeks - photos
5/6/2009 11:04:54 PM
Hello Roger,

He has found himself a nice dry warm place and made his bed
- right under our house.  He has good access to water, the
horse and Llama's trough just under the laundry window and
under the porch - keeps a lot of the sun off the water so I
do not have a big problem with algae.  I think he was coming
away from the water when I saw him.

I have no idea what he is finding to eat, I am still feeding the
animals as the grass has not really come in yet and still a lot
of bare spots in their pasture and lots of docks coming through.
I do not have a vege garden in and not planning on one maybe
just put some tomatoes plants in the tractor tyre like I did last
year, which yeilded a good crop.

Amanda
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Re: Look what has been scaring me for weeks - photos
5/7/2009 2:11:37 PM
Hello Dearest Amanda

I must say that must have been pretty scary and I can think of only one other thing that is scarier than that :



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Amanda Martin-Shaver

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Re: Look what has been scaring me for weeks - photos
5/8/2009 8:11:12 AM
Hello Nick,

*lol* I can always rely upon you to come with good humour
and your graphics to lighten our day...

I have not heard or seen anything of this woodchuck/ground
hog lately.

But then again I have Koda home with me now, he was traveling with James and I had Minnie Mae.  James drove back to the depot for a couple of hours yesterday so we changed over dogs.  Minnie Mae loves going on the bigrig and really missed James, and Koda missed being with me and having the space to lay fully stretched out.  Our pets have chosen us whom they prefer to be with or maybe what they consider home to be.

Amanda
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Re: Look what has been scaring me for weeks - photos
5/8/2009 9:36:47 AM

Unwelcome Guests

Bang, crash, scratching, clawing
what in the world? is that sound of gnawing?
there is an animal under the house!
and by the bumping on the floor boards
he is much much bigger than any mouse!

This terrible sound of scampering heard
somersaulting, skittering, it's absurd
bumping, thumping right under my feet
which has me on the edge of my seat
then I hear it around the kitchen sink!

At times I hear it in the walls
has me running for the broom
beating the wall then the floors
I stamp my feet as I walk the room
get out and away you are doomed!

This has been going on for weeks,
which often has me quite freaked,
possum, raccoon, badger, feral cat?
I don't know, but please just scat
there is nothing here for you to eat

This never happens when James is home
same with the mouse, in the lounge he roams
I see a glimpse of him out the corner of my eye
I need a barn cat to cause his demise
our dogs are useless, I guess it is no surprise

I was looking out the bathroom window
to see where the horses were grazing
and there in front of me was this animal gazing
I rushed to the office to retrieve my camera
and took two photos through the window pane

It is a groundhog or Woodchuck in some States
looks a little like a beaver without a flat tail and big teeth
they eat your shrubs, grass and your garden greens
they live in a burrow, but he chose under our house
they dig holes and horses a leg, they can break

Just like the rabbits that we see plenty of
and with Koda contributing to digging big holes
our pasture will be like a wasteland, bare in spots
now that I know what is causing the grass to dry out
Unwelcome guests be gone, scat, shoo, or you'll be shot,

Amanda Martin-Shaver ©
6 May 2009



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