Re: GWL groundhogs, rats and city slickers

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Unlike some folks I know, I don't try to run over them

This reminds me of driving down country roads (as the passenger) on the 
north island of New Zealand with my host, who was from Wales.
Possums were common there (and not native, coming from Australia), and every 
time he saw one in or near the road he'd swerve and try to run it over. I 
was a bit shocked, but being the guest didn't say anything about this 
apparently local NZ custom.
  In NZ they don't have groundhogs...but they do have these Australian 
possums, and they are about as fond of them as you eastern folk here are of 
groundhogs. (Must mention too, that the possums down there are extremely 
cute & have very nice fur.)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <frielster@aol.com>
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Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 6:48 AM
Subject: Re: [GWL] GWL groundhogs, rats and city slickers

>
> While I can't quite agree with the poster who called groundhogs (a.k.a. 
> woodchucks) "cute" -- ever seen one really close-up? -- I will admit that 
> their lumpy running style is amusing. And I DO try to get along with them.
> Unlike some folks I know, I don't try to run over them, or go out of my 
> way to bother those that aren't bothering me. I'd have no problem 
> coexisting with my neighborhood whistle pigs were it not for their 
> pernicious habit of trying to get into my basement by digging large 
> burrows right next to the foundation of my house, which rests on a steep 
> slope and really doesn't need such undermining. So when a new specimen 
> turns up, out comes the trap and the .22. I'd share a tomato or two, but 
> not the house.
>
>
>
> Subject: Re: [GWL] GWL groundhogs, rats and city slickers
>
>
> Rodney King died last Sunday....and I do wonder, in this less than perfect
> orld, in a world where our houses now infringe on so much territory that
> sed to be wild habitat for skunks, coons, possums, and even those dreaded
> roundhogs, in our often exceptional but still less than perfect gardens,
> ouldn't we somehow (as a goal?) just all try to get along?
>
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