Re: GWL groundhogs, rats and city slickers

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He claims they not only aimed their car at them...but they
> competed for how long they could make the slide marks on the pavement.

Not too surprising, but pretty disgusting nonetheless. I've got an "I brake 
for snakes" bumpersticker on my old truck, and I do. I am often appalled 
when I'm driving on highways in certain states (Oklahoma, Michigan, and 
Indiana quickly come to mind) at the hundreds of dead wild animals I see on 
those roads. I recently drove through a great deal of wild lands 
crisscrossing New Brunswick, Canada, and there they had wildlife fencing 
along both sides of the freeway for hundreds of miles, and next to no dead 
animals on the road.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sandie Parrott" <rsbirdy@comcast.net>
To: "'Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum'" 
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Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 12:52 PM
Subject: Re: [GWL] GWL groundhogs, rats and city slickers

> AND...this reminds me of a story a relative always repeats about snakes 
> down in the
> Georgia countryside. He claims they not only aimed their car at them...but 
> they
> competed for how long they could make the slide marks on the pavement. He 
> had a whole
> process of how to hit the brakes j-u-s-t right so you could make a really 
> l-o-n-g
> slippery slide. Imagine this story with a very thick Georgia accent...:)
>
> Sandie Parrott
>
>
> 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.)
>
>
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