Re: OT: FW: more texas wildlife

Zem..I have NO DOUBT that is true! You are something else. If everybody
were that kind to animals the world would be a better place.


Zemuly Sanders <zemuly@comcast.net> wrote:  Good Lord, that "crazy" rescue girl sounds a lot like me! You do know that 
until recently I had a huge possum living in a dog house in my back yard and 
baby raccoons hanging from my windows? 
zem
zone 7
West TN
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Theresa W" 
To: 
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 10:34 AM
Subject: [CHAT] OT: FW: more texas wildlife


>I just had to share this- and it is all true!!
>
> Theresa
>
>
> Subject: more texas wildlife
>
> Another night in the Austin suburbs... While I was on the phone with my
> former Pennsylvania neighbor (where wildlife was fairly common), something
> the size of a dog walked across my front steps and into the bushes. Upon
> inspection with my current neighbor, we discovered it was a porcupine. 
> Yes,
> a porcupine... in my bushes just outside my front door.
>
> After half a dozen calls to animal control folks not interested in 
> helping,
> an animal rescue staffer offered to pick him up if I could put him in a 
> box.
> A box? I called another neighbor for assistance and we literally chase
> this porcupine from house to house until Karl is able to coax him into the
> dog crate.
>
> When the animal rescue girl shows up, she does not have a crate for this
> wild animal home she is planning to take to her home. She asks us if it 
> is
> lactating. What? Mind you, it is now almost 9:30 and pitch dark. How are
> we supposed to tell if it is lactating exactly? So we get a huge computer
> box, coax this wild thing into the box and wildlife girl regales us with
> wildlife rescue stories. After I tell her about the mountain lion behind
> our fence in August and the possum we chased off of our deck, she tells us
> how great possums are as pets. My neighbor's child is fascinated and then
> this woman literally pulls a baby possum out of her bra. She told us it 
> is
> a warm, safe spot for the baby possum. Seriously? As we are getting 
> ready
> to put the box into the back of her pickup, she looks horrified and told 
> us
> that it has to ride up front with her. After she urges us to call and 
> check
> on the porcupine tomorrow (sure thing), the big
> gateway-box-carrying-a-porcupine and the crazy wildlife rescue girl ride
> away happily ever after.
>
> PS- I should add that Duane will be meeting the porcupine on this email as
> well, as he is in California this week.
> ___________________________________________________________
>
> [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/ms-tnef which had 
> a name of winmail.dat]
> I just had to share this- and it is all true!!
>
> Theresa
>
>
> Subject: more texas wildlife
>
> Another night in the Austin suburbs... While I was on the phone with my
> former Pennsylvania neighbor (where wildlife was fairly common), something
> the size of a dog walked across my front steps and into the bushes. Upon
> inspection with my current neighbor, we discovered it was a porcupine. 
> Yes,
> a porcupine... in my bushes just outside my front door.
>
> After half a dozen calls to animal control folks not interested in 
> helping,
> an animal rescue staffer offered to pick him up if I could put him in a 
> box.
> A box? I called another neighbor for assistance and we literally chase
> this porcupine from house to house until Karl is able to coax him into the
> dog crate.
>
> When the animal rescue girl shows up, she does not have a crate for this
> wild animal home she is planning to take to her home. She asks us if it 
> is
> lactating. What? Mind you, it is now almost 9:30 and pitch dark. How are
> we supposed to tell if it is lactating exactly? So we get a huge computer
> box, coax this wild thing into the box and wildlife girl regales us with
> wildlife rescue stories. After I tell her about the mountain lion behind
> our fence in August and the possum we chased off of our deck, she tells us
> how great possums are as pets. My neighbor's child is fascinated and then
> this woman literally pulls a baby possum out of her bra. She told us it 
> is
> a warm, safe spot for the baby possum. Seriously? As we are getting 
> ready
> to put the box into the back of her pickup, she looks horrified and told 
> us
> that it has to ride up front with her. After she urges us to call and 
> check
> on the porcupine tomorrow (sure thing), the big
> gateway-box-carrying-a-porcupine and the crazy wildlife rescue girl ride
> away happily ever after.
>
> PS- I should add that Duane will be meeting the porcupine on this email as
> well, as he is in California this week.
> ___________________________________________________________
>
> [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/octet-stream which 
> had a name of porcupine 0031.jpg]
>
> [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/octet-stream which 
> had a name of porcupine 0021.jpg]
>
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