|
Post by countrygal on Apr 18, 2008 9:36:14 GMT -5
Ok....just googled "Cougar in Broadalbin" and these pictures are a hoax. I didn't check snopes.com, but I guess they are on there. The pictures have been around awhile I guess.
Still, there are cougars up north. And moose, and rattle snakes. Watin on the poisonous spiders to make it up here next!!! We do have the Recluse Spider, but at least we don't see it very often.
|
|
|
Post by thelma on Apr 18, 2008 10:10:00 GMT -5
I still wouldn't take any chances. Where ever these pictures were taken, it was snowing outside! That is close enough for me.
|
|
|
Post by Clipper on Apr 18, 2008 11:23:26 GMT -5
Thelma, is Kato the cat that was misbehaving a few weeks ago? He needs a home where someone will simply leave him to himself, and not mess with him, haha. We had a cat when the kids were young, that simply ate, slept and layed up on the back of the sofa, or in a window. We had a second cat that was friendly and able to be loved and petted, but the feral tiger was simply a decoration and a contributor to the litter box. He finally ran away, and we didn't miss him, haha. Not ALL cats belong in the house. Some are outdoor, independent, and happier as free roaming souls. They get hit by cars and killed by animals, but that is the fate that they are probably much happier with, than living in "captivity". I feel badly for the people next door to us. They HAD three beautiful cats. Two have been killed by cars in the last two weeks. We live in a semi rural area. There is a cow pasture across the street, and a brushy area along a creek. The cats constantly go there to hunt field mice. The odds have been against them the last couple of weeks. They have lived next door for 3 or 4 years and now 2 of the 3 have been killed in short period of time. One of the ones killed was the one that I always let the dog chase up a tree when it sat trying to snag one of our expensive fish out of our garden pond. People that don't care for pets should not have pets. These were not feral cats, they were house cats. Long haired beautiful, purebred cats. They were out of their element in dealing with cars and the road. The first one that got killed, I went and told the owner. He put it in a plastic bag and I don't know what he did with it. This one has lain in the field next to the road for two days now, and I guess I will take a shovel over and pick it up, and bury it where it lies, there in the field, if they don't care enough to retrieve it and bury it.
|
|
|
Post by Disgusted-Daily on Apr 18, 2008 14:30:33 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by rrogers40 on Apr 18, 2008 15:37:16 GMT -5
Well to you to todd . Taking away all our fun.
|
|
|
Post by rrogers40 on Apr 18, 2008 15:38:04 GMT -5
Either way thats a cool looking cat.
|
|
|
Post by thelma on Apr 18, 2008 16:54:43 GMT -5
Clipper - another subject you and I are going to disagree on. Cats that are kept indoors live longer, are more content, and disease free from all the diseases, fleas, etc. that they are exposed to when they go outside.
Ask any good Vet and they will tell you - cats do NOT belong outside.
"Kato" is the feral cat and he is like a bad penny - always shows up when he is hungry, or it is raining. He comes home just before nightfall to sleep inside and eat his evening meal.
Every time I see a dead cat lying by the side of the road, I get very upset because that same cat could have been kept inside and still be alive.
|
|
|
Post by Clipper on Apr 18, 2008 19:09:36 GMT -5
I know how you feel thelma. I feel badly anytime I see any pet laying next the the road dead. I guess we will disagree. I love dogs, but have never had the same feelings for felines. I tolerated them when my ex had them and when the kids had them years ago. The one that kept messing with our expensive Koi's in the pond could have met a much worse fate than a fast moving car, had he caught one of our fish, haha. Probably would have taken it's place in "critter heaven" next to Dave's barnswallows. Having expensive fish is a risk sometimes. I have a friend near here in virginia, that looked out his window one morning and watched a big tall blue heron standing tall in his pond, snacking on $50-$100 Koi out of his pond. Haha. He now has a protected species, protected by a couple of feet of dirt in his back yard. NOTHING is going to dig it up, haha.
|
|
|
Post by denise on Apr 18, 2008 22:21:04 GMT -5
I get sick when I see someone's pet dead on the side of the road, or worse in the middle of the road.
When I got my black cat, Jet, as a kitten I made the decision to keep her inside. I just couldn't stand the stress of wondering when or if she'd come back home. A year after I got Jet, I took in a kitten who by all rights should have been feral having spent the first four months of his life outside. His name is Squeak (he doesn't meow), and never goes near a door as if it is a vortex that will suck him back outside. Great cat, not feral. All he wants to do is eat and sleep.
I have never regretted the decision to keep my cats inside. I want them to live long, fat, happy lives!!
Mew
|
|
|
Post by bobbbiez on Apr 19, 2008 2:06:34 GMT -5
I wouldn't believe to many reports or hold it as gospel that cougars/mountain lions/pumas don't exist near the Adirondacks because while camping in a Blue Mountain campgrounds in the 80's we were approached late one night by an Conservation Officer and State Trooper to be alerted that a cougar was roaming the camp grounds and the tracks were there to prove it. Avid hunters here in Constable throughout the years have sighted cougars on their hunting trips near the Canadian border.
|
|
|
Post by bobbbiez on Apr 19, 2008 2:17:43 GMT -5
Countrygal, recluse spiders do exist in our area. I was working at Faxton Hospital quite a few years ago when they brought in a man who was part of a search team searching a deserted building in Marcy looking for a doctor who had supposedly disappeared. The man was bit by a brown recluse and almost lost his hand before they figured out what he had been bittened by. The incident was even reported in the newspaper. It still amazes me when I hear the "ones in the know" say they don't exist here. It's too bad someone didn't inform the brown recluse of that fact.
|
|
|
Post by countrygal on Apr 19, 2008 12:33:57 GMT -5
We saw one last summer in an old trunk we dug out of a barn. Needless to say.....we tipped the trunk over in a field and whacked it until it came out. Nobody was gonna touch it!! Their bite is very nasty!
|
|
|
Post by Disgusted-Daily on Apr 19, 2008 12:36:31 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by bobbbiez on Apr 19, 2008 14:37:52 GMT -5
Yeah Todd, those that write about them forgot to inform the brown recluse what they're suppose to be doing and where to live. Guess we can say that about the cougars and other animals to. Hope they're all reading the same material written about them to. ;D
|
|
|
Post by Clipper on Apr 19, 2008 16:11:30 GMT -5
;D I brought my pet Brown Recluse with me when I came home for Christmas. It was a real bitch finding long johns with 8 legs! He survived though, and is happily back here in tennessee.
They are very easy to train. When I first found mine, I told the little bugger that if he even thought about biting me, I would squash the little bastard! He listened! He hasn't bitten me yet!
It is fun to take him walking when it rains. You wouldn't believe how fast one can do the back stroke with 8 legs to kick!
Hey, just holler if ya'll want one. I can send ya one when "spidey" and his darlin have another litter! Just remember that these are not "feral" spiders, and they have to stay inside in cold weather.
|
|