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Mitzy's Mom
Alpha Feist
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| 07/04/2008 6:11 PM |
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I posted a while back about Mr. Bumbles the armadillo who lives back of our yard.
Well, I heard a lot of movement in the brush back there yesterday and went to look. 3 armadillos!!! BIG ones - bigger than my small dogs! I think they're excavating for armadillo condos back there....I just find these creatures so strange and odd. Kinda cute in the face but the shell thing is so weird. |
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Mary Beth, mom to the Lollipop Kids
Georgia Foster Mom
www.ratbonerescues.com; www.newrattitude.org |
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danbenau
Rat-A-Tat-Tat
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| 07/04/2008 6:55 PM |
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I knew it! The aliens are landing and are disguised as armadillos. Be careful, that really is a condo behind your house.  |
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His name is Hendryx! He's a rat terrier! OK! |
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Susan
Terrier Terror
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| 07/05/2008 2:51 AM |
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| The real problem is that armadillos like the company of other armadillos. I am afraid that your Mr. Bumbles has invited all his freinds over to live with him. Next thing that will happen is they will start having wild parties in the back yard and inviting all their freinds over and then (bacause of the behavior that goes on at wild parties) you will have a population explosion of armadillos. I hear they are very good eating though. |
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ANYTHING WORTH DOING IS WORTH OVERDOING Mom of eight, only three left at home! Pack leader to ten ratties: Maggie, Mysty, Berry, Simon, Ceecee and five puppies, Star,Sari, Bluebelle, Double stuf,and Snortie. As well as Ginger the Border Collie and a herd of turkeys! |
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Mitzy's Mom
Alpha Feist
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| 07/05/2008 6:12 AM |
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| No kidding - last night we saw at one baby armadillo!!! Very cute.... |
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Mary Beth, mom to the Lollipop Kids
Georgia Foster Mom
www.ratbonerescues.com; www.newrattitude.org |
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Mitzy's Mom
Alpha Feist
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| 07/05/2008 6:13 AM |
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| "at least one baby" (sorry - no edit button) |
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Mary Beth, mom to the Lollipop Kids
Georgia Foster Mom
www.ratbonerescues.com; www.newrattitude.org |
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MurphyDog
Ratastic
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| 07/05/2008 7:15 AM |
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Are you in Texas, Mary Beth? Armadillos are a semi-common siting around rual parts down here. More common is to see them dead on the side of the road. 
I think they are cool animals and they eat bugs and such, so having a family of them setup camp near your place is not a bad thing at all, as long as they keep to the woods anyway. Now if they start trying to get through the dog door, that might be a problem...
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Mitch and Murphy Hancock (the dog)
"I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts." - John Steinbeck |
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Mitzy's Mom
Alpha Feist
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| 07/05/2008 7:35 AM |
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No doggie door here - precisely because we'd have too many possums, raccoons, armadillos, etc. IN the house! LOL
We live in St. Marys, GA...south coastal area, very humid and sandy...not Texas but thanks for telling me what they eat Mitch. I was sort of wondering if I should be worried that they're out there but it sounds like a good thing they are! |
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Mary Beth, mom to the Lollipop Kids
Georgia Foster Mom
www.ratbonerescues.com; www.newrattitude.org |
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dtls224
Terrier Terror
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| 07/05/2008 3:39 PM |
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| Arround Mn where I live it is racoons, oppossum ans skunk..........have to be careful with the dogs..............wet dog and skunk perfume do not match!!!!!!!!! |
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tina224...live...laugh...love...and bark at the moon
He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion." ~Unknown |
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tauney4
Pack Leader
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| 07/05/2008 4:00 PM |
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| armidillos are common in missouri too, sad thing is that you see them dead on the road!!!!! |
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michelle
Bratty Ratty
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| 07/05/2008 5:19 PM |
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Posted By dtls224 on 07/05/2008 3:39 PM
Arround Mn where I live it is racoons, oppossum ans skunk..........have to be careful with the dogs..............wet dog and skunk perfume do not match!!!!!!!!!
I know what you mean. Sydney and Sonic was playing at my friends house with their JRT. When Sonic and Foster (her JRT) went after a skunk. Major work cleaning them up. The vet's off ice had some stuff that did work pretty well but we could still smell it every time then went swimming. And Sydney and Sonic love water so we had that smel for quite a while.
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michelle, mom to Sydney (JRT), Sonic (Rattie) and Proud mom to Army son, Jordan
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rattytatty
Training Moderator
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| 07/05/2008 5:22 PM |
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| I am not familiar with these creatures.... don't think we have them here. Could they be dangerous to the furkids? |
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~Nora~
Mom to Hoss, Lil'Bit, Buster & Bailey, CGC, NA, NAJ |
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Mitzy's Mom
Alpha Feist
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| 07/05/2008 5:53 PM |
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Actually, they can carry a form of leprosy!! So the dogs may not contact them (not that I would let them happen with any wild animal). I need to keep them away from the back fence though.
http://www.columbuspetguide.com/PGDangerAnimals.html |
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Mary Beth, mom to the Lollipop Kids
Georgia Foster Mom
www.ratbonerescues.com; www.newrattitude.org |
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kp_in_scott
Bratty Ratty
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| 07/05/2008 7:14 PM |
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| I don't know that much about armadillos other than 10-15 years ago, you rarely saw them in middle GA. Very common in FL. They are moving North! They are just as plentiful as Possums now. I heard someone once call Armadillos "Possum on a half-shell". No thanks, I don't wanna try 'em. |
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Kim, owned by one sweet Rattie and a house full of parrots |
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MurphyDog
Ratastic
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| 07/05/2008 9:22 PM |
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Posted By Mitzy's Mom on 07/05/2008 5:53 PM
Actually, they can carry a form of leprosy!! So the dogs may not contact them (not that I would let them happen with any wild animal). I need to keep them away from the back fence though.
http://www.columbuspetguide.com/PGDangerAnimals.html
Sigh... Yes, I read that just now, though it's only about 5% of the 9-banded armadillos that are affected, it's not worth the risk. Apparently, people who have extensively handled armadillos (those jerks who kill and stuff them to make a wine bottle holder out of the bodies, methinks) have actually contracted leprosy as well, so it's not only animals at risk. Keep away from them.
While leprosy is not a laughing matter at all, why don't leper's play hockey? Too many face-offs.
Sorry. Sorry. Something is really wrong with me... |
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Mitch and Murphy Hancock (the dog)
"I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts." - John Steinbeck |
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Mitzy's Mom
Alpha Feist
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| 07/06/2008 6:01 AM |
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| Mitch! LOL I also read (cdc or somewhere) that 95% of humans are naturally immune. But we and our dogs are staying away from the Bumbles Family! |
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Mary Beth, mom to the Lollipop Kids
Georgia Foster Mom
www.ratbonerescues.com; www.newrattitude.org |
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Philo
Ratastic
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| 07/06/2008 6:17 AM |
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| Give them a six-pack of Lone Star Beer and they'll feel like they are in Texas, maybe even get a urge to move the family there. |
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Cameo & Rattagan's Dad
Foster Dad to Zip (Zippy, Zipper) and Cricket
(aka Philo)
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