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   "Jim D"  wrote in message news:2018121911323220414-Not@ThisAddresscom...   
      
   > he's young, year and a half. there's a lot he hasn't learned about.   
      
   They're usually pretty good at learning to cope.   
      
   > maybe.   
      
   I've known plenty of kitties who look for attention anywhere they might find   
   it, positive attention that is ;)   
      
   > same here, I like warm.   
      
   I like Hot! Anything that doesn't burn isn't too hot for me, of course with   
   Very LOW humidity!   
      
   > cold here lately.  that's how it goes.   
      
   It's highs in the upper 30s F around here, even a 50F forcast in the next   
   few days, then highs in the lower 30sF.   
      
   > Yes, big birds. Nighttime birds tho.  Lots of trees around, and hills for   
   > it to hang in in the daytime.   
      
   They are very powerful predators.   
      
   > Or cats. Or possums.  Or mice .  Or moles.  Or, dare I mention, young   
   > racoons :-)   
      
   Maybe even full grown raccoons, if they can kill them, and they're sudden,   
   swift, and strong, and raccoons will eat their young and eggs so I'm sure   
   the owls will prey on them, particularly since like the raccoons, the owls   
   are also nocturnal.   
      
   > Finding a severed possum head on the deck is still creepy, tho.   
      
   They sometimes remove the limbs too.   
      
   > Farmers around here shoot the Blue Herons.  Didn't use to, but now that   
   > they are " protected " you can't risk one building a nest on you your   
   > property. Or so I've been told. I like the herons.  There is nearly always   
   > one across the field from us, standing in the river ( creek )  waiting to   
   > eat a fish.  I don't farm, so they don't bother me.   
      
   Sort of like if a heron builds a nest, you can't make use of the land for   
   the risk of disturbing it?   
      
   > Band girl's had an eagle hanging around her farm last year.  So those are   
   > around also.   
      
   We've got plenty of hawks around here.   
      
   > I'm too close the city. Only a mile out, but it's a mile of farmland.   
      
   Kind of an illusion, to be in the 'country' and yet still be too close to   
   the SCUM.   
      
   > We've seen all sorts of criminal things over the years.  Dead bodies   
   > dumped is a common thing. For some reason, murdered bodies turn up on the   
   > road, or in the little creeks.  City criminals got to get rid of them   
   > somewhere, I guess.   
      
   Chicago's suburbs, or rather, what was to become suburbs, were body dumping   
   grounds in the early gangster era, the 1920s.   
      
   > It's not really.  Again, too close the city. so drug deals all the time,   
   > all around. Hell, there's probably a dealer parked along the road in the   
   > in the field south of me right now. One of my neighbors is some sort of a   
   > runner. He delivers drugs, a middleman.   
      
   Nothing like Violating the Ninth Amendment to really mess things up!   
      
   > Guy at the end of my road grows pot and sells it. That attracts a   
   > noticable stream of pimped out vehicles up our road just past dusk every   
   > now and then.  No way cars like that are on a dead end road just for the   
   > drive.   
      
   The weed is probably the kind that's not  Deliberately Genetically   
   Engineered to stink to high heaven, so naturally, business is doing well.   
   Who needs Establishment 'pot'?   
      
   > Hadn't heard that, but it sounds true to me.   
      
   The Scum will go as far as the range of their gas tanks will let them.   
      
   > It is.  This is a PC free forum, remember :-)   
      
   JimD   
      
   Only problem is that 'pendulum' swing Tactic, it drives a manipulative   
   system that actually depends on the Energy Generated from the swinging from   
   one extreme to the other, back and forth, ad infinitum. Stopping it is the   
   only way to fix the problem.   
      
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