Hmmmm.....

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 07/19/2020 at 18:51 • Filed to: None

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jminer > ttyymmnn 07/19/2020 at 18:58

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I have never seen a live armadillo - but they’ve slowly migrated further and further north into Missouri over the last 15 years ago. I know this both from the Department of Conservation but also from seeing them as roadkill.

Opossums are awesome though - they are monsters at eating ticks so they get free passage on my property.

Trash pandas though are another matter - they are no friends of mine and get no safe quarter .

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > ttyymmnn 07/19/2020 at 19:08

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*thinks about it*

hmmmm.... you know this would be a moot point if you didnt arm the idio ts right?

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 07/19/2020 at 19:12

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i should probably stop thinking now

some leaps happened there

eh......its being kinda fun tho

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > ttyymmnn 07/19/2020 at 19:39

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O’Possum?

ttyymmnn > jminer 07/19/2020 at 19:56

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I’m trying to figure out if it’s the possums or the raccoons that are eating ALL of my birdseed over night. 

CRider > ttyymmnn 07/19/2020 at 19:59

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It’s actually Matt Hardibird . Post-Jal opnik life has been rough for him.

Verdog ~ manual Bro, Bro - HellHawk Equipped > ttyymmnn 07/19/2020 at 20:02

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THE reason I do not have flower beds. I called them GrubHub, now I own a dead lawn and beds.

jminer > ttyymmnn 07/19/2020 at 20:04

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Probably the racoons, they’re brutal here raiding and destroying my suet cake holders, emptying feeders and hitting bird nests. We’ve lost 4 different known nests to them this year.

Possums are opportunistic but racoons are a very smart and mischievous critter that’ll come back over and over for regular food sources. They’ll regularly outsmart traps after an interaction or two.

I live- trap them here to try to keep the ones around in check but can only catch on or two before they figure out the traps and just eat the bait out of them.  They then get a couple months where I have to put the traps away before they’ll work again.

user314 > ttyymmnn 07/19/2020 at 20:31

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Tch, I wish I only had to worry about trash pandas .

TheRealBicycleBuck > ttyymmnn 07/19/2020 at 21:42

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When my mom bought our property, we had to clear out a bunch of the forest ourselves. After a long day of hacking a path through the woods on the first weekend we were out there, we were packing up the truck when I heard a noise in the woods across the street. It took a few minutes to figure out the source, but I got to see my first live armadillo up close. I decided that it would be cool to get really, really close. As I approached, the armadillo stopped rooting around in the leaves and looked up at me. I figured that I made it this far, I might as well try to touch it. I was reaching down when the armadillo engaged its defense mechanism and jumped straight up. My mom told me that I jumped at least as high as the armadillo. When we both hit the ground, the armadillo went one way and I went the other, both of us moving as fast as we could. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen my mom laughing so hard.

ttyymmnn > TheRealBicycleBuck 07/19/2020 at 22:30

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I had heard about how dillos jump when scared. I’ve also heard that most of the dillos you see dead by the road are killed when they get scared by the oncoming vehicle and jump up in front of the vehicle instead of simply getting driven over. 

TheRealBicycleBuck > ttyymmnn 07/19/2020 at 22:51

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Both are true. It’s one of the reasons you shouldn’t try to straddle an armadillo. 

oldmxer > ttyymmnn 07/21/2020 at 01:39

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i’ve always heard they carry a form of leprosy so i give them a wide berth