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Old 05-07-2010, 08:51 PM   #31
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But but but, a freaked out rabbit that size, can/will fuck you up. This guy has a hotline, and works for free, so why wouldn't a Vet use him to knock a bunny down, so they can get a needle in it?
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Old 05-08-2010, 05:43 AM   #32
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Around here if you stepped back to take that picture of the petrified rabbit, a hawk would snatch it.
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Old 05-08-2010, 04:23 PM   #33
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Link to Monty Python and the Holy Grail Rabbit scene on youtube
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Old 05-08-2010, 05:04 PM   #34
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But but but, a freaked out rabbit that size, can/will fuck you up.
Can't fuck up a 3oz stoat though. Bad-ass little mf'ers...

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Old 05-08-2010, 05:17 PM   #35
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Y'know I had heard the word stoat before but never knew what animal referred to.

Those guys looked like weasels.

According to the dictionary, stoat = ermine = weasel.

Now maybe that's an oversimplification of the dictionary and ermine/stoat is a member of the weasel family.

Or it could be a British thing like lorry/truck and torch/flashlight.

Still I heave heard of ermine in terms of furs that royalty used to wear (maybe still do). I guess "Her majesty was resplendent in her weasel robe" probably sounds a lot better with 'ermine'.
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Old 05-08-2010, 05:36 PM   #36
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tha'ss no ordinary stoat.


Look a' tha boooones!
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Old 05-08-2010, 07:35 PM   #37
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I think Ermine is the winter coat of the stoat -white fur ...or something like that. Much rarer because the bastards hide more in the winter.
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Old 05-08-2010, 09:42 PM   #38
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I actually witnessed a stoat chasing a rabbit in the Adirondacks once. The stoat and rabbit passed by me three times, they were several feet apart. They went back and forth each time the stoat was closer to the rabbit.

At the last pass, the stoat was about 25 feet from me and noticed me sitting there. He stopped and turned and came toward me! (Probably thinking he'd hit paydirt) When he was about 8 feet away I pointed my finger at him and in my most authoritative voice I shouted "Knock it off!" He stopped and resumed chasing the rabbit.

One of my most weird animal encounters.
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Old 05-08-2010, 09:49 PM   #39
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A few years ago we took a friend of ours from this area, knee deep in deer, rabbits, squirrels, etc... up to the adirondaks. He described it as "a fucking petting zoo" because of the animal encounters. A chipmunk nibbled his toe...
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Old 05-08-2010, 09:55 PM   #40
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When he was about 8 feet away I pointed my finger at him and in my most authoritative voice I shouted "Knock it off!" He stopped and resumed chasing the rabbit.

One of my most weird animal encounters.
I had a similar run in with a racoon. I found myself alone in our campsite, and a coon came trotting in....and eyed me up....

FUCK OFF! i said. and fuck off it did.
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Old 05-08-2010, 10:19 PM   #41
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Despite all it's prowess, my cat dragged a stoat home one day. That cat was an ass kicker.
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Old 05-08-2010, 10:20 PM   #42
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P.S. Didn't eat it though.
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Old 05-08-2010, 10:36 PM   #43
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Our cats in the UK once brought a live city pigeon -the big fat ones the size of a roast chicken- through the cat flap. It went under a bed and crapped everywhere. Also a live squirrel. And many that were dead and disected by the time we found them. they never ate the kidneys but always licked them clean.

Piece de resistance was a few days before our wedding we woke up to black shreds everywhere. My (black) wedding dress was hung on the back of the door. We're both short-sighted, couldn't see it well.... Never was a person so relieved to get out of bed and step in blackbird remains.
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Old 05-08-2010, 10:40 PM   #44
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My friend and I saw two robins chasing a squirrel as we walked the other day. By the time I got my camera out, the tide had turned and the squirrel was after the robins....

(yes, I have discovered the "auto-enhance" since our discussions in the Treasure hunt threads! -what a weird function that is -I'm sure the grass wasn't that color...)
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Old 05-08-2010, 10:41 PM   #45
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I guess I shoulda cropped too
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