They turn into something else that spreads disease faaaaaaaaaaarrr more than Armadillos. :Smug:
Armadillo madness...
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They turn into something else that spreads disease faaaaaaaaaaarrr more than Armadillos. :Smug:
I agree they are on the same level. Only how do you have rats/mice in your home? If it is a shanty and they can get in, then again you are not ready for the country. Preventative measure are better than offence is my whole point.
If your house is full of rats, you need to kill them yes. But you are only going to get more because they got in in the first place. If you think shooting one animal is going to help stop them when you are in or near the country then you are pretty green. Because they are gong to keep coming and coming, and I just let them come and go. It is kinda fun if you just chill out a little and get less hysterical about the whole thing.
I saw Armadillo tracks last night, they tend to go in straight lines and follow the edge of a well kept lawn because they have poor eyesight. So where my lawn turns into scrubland, I get the little laser straight tracks.
Skinny Viking
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So you step on them or eat them before they turn into flies ... doesn't change the fact that maggots are not "dirty" :Smug:
PS - Fuck armadillos :Smug:
The Unavoidable
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Damn Christians!
J.DavisNJ
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OH NO!!!! HOLES!!! DANGER!!! LEPROSY!!! FAMILY IN DANGER!!!
I get them all the time, and this is not the case. It's an armadillo, not a friken werewolf.
Shooting an armadillo IMO is overkill. Shooting animals that are going about their day via natural instinct is pretty fucked up. It's not like they know what they are doing. If you live in the country, and animals can cause you problems, then you are not ready for the country. They dig holes? Man up, you are in the country.
Justifying killing animals in the name of protecting your property is BS.
I can understand hunting 100%, providing the kill is eaten. But the chest beating "defend land/family" is wearing a little thin with me.
Good luck with the rotting armadillo though. You know they take over a year to decompose because of their shells yeah? And that brings maggots and disease?
And I admit it, I love animals. And not just the cute ones. I'm not an activist, and I eat meat, I just can't get my head around why people would injure/kill animals and give themselves an excuse to do so. Just to make their own life slightly easier.
Maybe your house is built differently than James', but if the fuckers were just going about their business, not destroying the foundation of his home (probably an expensive nightmare to fix), then I'd say leave them be.
And I find it odd that leprosy doesn't freak you out. If it bites you, you are fucked, nooo?
Just seems like you glossed over my entire post.
It's not about "manning up," but about taking care of a pest that can damage your home.
James' reasons for doing what he do seem the furthest thing from "an excuse."
-Joe
J.DavisNJ
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Where do you live BTW?
Maybe Florida breeds some super-armadillos.
I can see it being a really bad zombie movie, but with flesh eating armored beasts.Joe
Skinny Viking
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lol... Carlos, you have too much free time buddy,
If you saw the schematic I was looking at right now, you'd look for any reason to avoid work too ... it damn near blew my eyeballs out! hahaha :zombie:
fyn.. you paint yourself here as some super-homeowner, wildlife defender, armadiilo expert, and holder of some moral high ground.
well, bullshit, plain and simple. due to neighbors, local laws, and the fact that kids and pets play in my yard, the best solution for us is to kill the armadillos. tough shit you don't like it. go right back to your soapbox and think to yourself about how superior your thoughts on the matter are to my actions... but keep it to yourself, heard enough of your bleeding heart BS on the subject, frankly.
or better yet, tell me where you live.. if it's within driving distance i'll capture them from now on and release them on your property.
you sound, despite your assertions, like you don't really have much experience with them at all. the FACT is that you likely don't have ants in your yard... good for you if you live somewhere that you can manage that.. but out here where i live, it's impossible to keep them out, and ants are one of the the armadillo's favorite snacks... and in case you haven't been reading (and it seems you have only been reading selectively) shooting them has been working out excellently for me... every time i shoot one it's weeks or months before another shows up. i like that plan... a lot.
further and finally, what is your problem with the concept of dead things several feet underground? do you really seriously think you can convince me or anyone else that this is a problem? are you stubborn or just thick?
well, bullshit, plain and simple. due to neighbors, local laws, and the fact that kids and pets play in my yard, the best solution for us is to kill the armadillos. tough shit you don't like it. go right back to your soapbox and think to yourself about how superior your thoughts on the matter are to my actions... but keep it to yourself, heard enough of your bleeding heart BS on the subject, frankly.
or better yet, tell me where you live.. if it's within driving distance i'll capture them from now on and release them on your property.
you sound, despite your assertions, like you don't really have much experience with them at all. the FACT is that you likely don't have ants in your yard... good for you if you live somewhere that you can manage that.. but out here where i live, it's impossible to keep them out, and ants are one of the the armadillo's favorite snacks... and in case you haven't been reading (and it seems you have only been reading selectively) shooting them has been working out excellently for me... every time i shoot one it's weeks or months before another shows up. i like that plan... a lot.
further and finally, what is your problem with the concept of dead things several feet underground? do you really seriously think you can convince me or anyone else that this is a problem? are you stubborn or just thick?
kaomao
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I was reading about the leprosy thing and read that they don't carry human leprosy, so why are there some people in texas (and other states) being infected with leprosy by those little fucker?
I don't get it.
I don't get it.
midget donkeys
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My dogs killed two possums and a small army of birds in my back yard last year. Its a pretty small yard too. They carried one of the possums through the dog door into my house and I almost stepped on it.
My smaller dog Gator is about 45 lbs and is a prey killing machine, which I encourge. He is also fearless and often brainless, but loyal and loves humans. The big dog Kate is about 65-70 lbs Belgian Sheperd mix and eats alot of the birds before I can even find the bodies. All I usually find is a bunch of feathers in the back yard and then her breath smells really bad for a few days.
I get a laugh out of all of you that are up in arms about killing varmits. City kids just don't understand. If a rodents in the way rednecks just kill them and don't think about it. My dad used to kill wood chucks with an axe and pitch fork, unless of course his old dog snapped their necks first. I didn't mess with dad much.
My smaller dog Gator is about 45 lbs and is a prey killing machine, which I encourge. He is also fearless and often brainless, but loyal and loves humans. The big dog Kate is about 65-70 lbs Belgian Sheperd mix and eats alot of the birds before I can even find the bodies. All I usually find is a bunch of feathers in the back yard and then her breath smells really bad for a few days.
I get a laugh out of all of you that are up in arms about killing varmits. City kids just don't understand. If a rodents in the way rednecks just kill them and don't think about it. My dad used to kill wood chucks with an axe and pitch fork, unless of course his old dog snapped their necks first. I didn't mess with dad much.
The Unavoidable
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If you really want to worry about your kids and animals in the garden, at least kill something more sinister like checking for brown recluses in outbuildings, wasp nests, poisonous snakes etc. Because that is the real danger. Inects in Florida can keep a motherfucker on your toes.
For peeps who haven't seen one, this is what/where he killed:
At least I hope you killed him and he didn't die slowly.
I am sure the photographer broke his ankle in the hole, died of leprosy and all his pets died directly after the shoot.
And for you to post you shot a wild animal, and not to expect people like me not being happy about it is ignorant. I'm not going to call you retarded for being that way, so you should not call me shit for not liking something which is an obvious delicate subject.
Mentioning bleeding hearts in this day and age is counter productive by the way. It is a general brush off that really tried to paste me an an effeminate Peta flag waver. And no one buys that argument anymore. The Bush administration abused that empty sound bite a long time ago.
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Skinny Viking
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and the fact that you eat meat... animals that have a horrible life and suffier right up until the day they are slaughtered... renders your words nothing more than empty sound-bites to me.
and yes, i finished him... yet another, in a string of details that you have mentioned well after i covered it already in one of my posts.....
and you know what... i can post pics/vids of people handling rattlesnakes, brown recluses, and any number of dangerous creatures and none of those people died either. if you're insinuating... and i think it's quite clear you are.. that simply being able to film an animal or handle and animal and not die makes them harmless for anyone and everyone, and that you should feel fine with them roaming in, and defecating on, your property, where your kids and pets play, because of that fact... well then, i will call you retarded for that.
g'day
Line666
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Uh, have you seen the sort of gap a rat or a mouse can get under? It doesn't need to be a lot for the little bastards to get in, my house looks perfectly hole free from the outside but that doesn't stop the rodents from getting in occassionally, and when they do they need to get taken out quick before they multiply and eat the fuck out of everything in your cupboards.
I can't actually believe this topic got suckered into a moral debate.
Also plenty of rat traps on the farm I live on because they will eat the crop.
and the fact that you eat meat... animals that have a horrible life up until the day they day... renders you works nothing more than empty sound-bites to me.
and yes, i finished him... yet another, in a string of details that you have mentioned well after i covered it already in one of my posts.....
and you know what... i can post pics of people handling rattlesnakes, brown recluses, and any number of dangerous animals and none of those people died either. if you're insinuating... and i think it's quite clear you are.. that simply being able to film an animal or handle and animal and not die makes them harmless for anyone and everyone, and that you should feel fine with them roaming and defecating on your property where your kids and pets play because of that fact... well then. i will call you retarded for that.
g'day
I don't eat just anywhere. I try to be an informed as I can for where I get my meat. But I am not militant about it.
Look dude, you were running around at 4 am shooting your gun in your backyard, then shooting your gun down a hole. And I am the retarded one?
How close are you to neighbors? Because if it is less than 2 miles, your neighbors are pissed and you are the pest.
