Images from:
2pep.com
bildungblog.blogspot.com
davesblogcentral.com
davesblogcentral.com
icanhascheezburger.com
ninjasquirrels.tumblr.com
pictureplane.wordpress.com
pinterest.com
pixdaus.com
seodirectoryinfo.com
telegraph.co.uk
utterlycute.com
zooborns.com
That last dog’s expression reminds me of this:
https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/928306550107770887
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Turn on the sound.
Love the Chihuahua and snail. 🙂
Jethro, you saw that recently on an ONT, din’t ja.
Good morning, Claudia – Great images as always!
I love that ballistic (as distinct from aviating) duckling.
Claudia always delivers.
The baboon looks like another baboon just said: “Hey y’all watch iss”
Love them as usual, Claudia! Thank-you for all your work.
Made me laugh, which is always a good thing. Thanks!
Squirrel says: “Thanks for letting me build my nest in the side of your house!”
@Corona
What’s an ONT?
I found it while web surfing aimlessly after going to one of the links BFH linked to a few days ago.
Sorry.
I can’t but help think of all the Dems pretending they didn’t know that the election was fixed.
Beautiful, as always.
Thanks for a bright Sunday morning, Claudia!
Claudia, I was going to paypal you $100 but I gave it to Big Fur instead.
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That’s as it should be! Without Fur keeping this website going, I’d have no place to post my critters! – Claudia
ONT = Ace of Spades, Jethro. That bit was on the over night thread recently. So funny. And clever. Watched it again here.
Claudia, the pics are awesome! Thank you once again for starting my Sunday off with a smile.
Duckling
“Commin in hot! Commin in hot!”
These all made me chuckle, especially the third to last one…that poor kitty is in for a rude awakening! 😀 Thanks for another wonderful Sunday critter collection, Claudia!
Love the eagle and the owl! THX, CLAUDIA
Looks like the Fox will be dining on a fine fat game bird while the Escargot will be dining on Chihuahua puppy.
Kaching!
Tis the season, too. The warmth of the attic is quite appreciated by wild life these days. My traps are starting to disappear from storage and earn their keep the last few weeks.
– The Bugman
Uncle Al,
It’s SUNDAY morning! If we’re gonna start using high-falutin’ words here like ballistican an such, well, dang.
Thanks Claudia!
@Dadof4
How do you take care of lawn moles. I have a family of them that are ruining my lawn. I bought some traps and they dig right around them. I even put barriers on both sides to try to force them to go into the jaws of the trap. Nothing….
Jethro,
Watch “Caddyshack”.
Jethro, I have never been asked to take care of moles professionally.
While I have no tried & true solution of mine waiting in the following text, I do have advice on how I would get to an effective solution professionally.
If given a mole problem to deal with, knowing the life-cycle and feeding needs/habits of your enemies would be my first angle. So this is my advice for what first to do. Then, I would need to research effective products and techniques.
That really shouldn’t take more than a few hours at most to feel certain at proceeding with the job with a plan in mind.
The main thing about being pro is safety. Negatively affecting anything beyond the target pest is how that’s measured. This is why I have a problem with baiting for them. Although I have no experience with fighting them yet, I have watched the 100 lb dog that’s with me now – dig for moles all over the acreage he roamed out in the country with his first owner, my best friend. He would have to be prohibited from any area I was working for moles, no matter what the method.
Back then, I advised my friend against baiting the moles for the sake of that dog having a shot at ingesting it one way or another.
Bottom line: If it was given to me to accomplish, I would start with becoming familiar with my enemy. You waste less time getting to the effective stage of your knowledge. Then pick a plan and execute it without fault. Most fail here and don’t know why.
Then I would keep records of what I do and what happens. Trail cameras usually help me in this area a lot, not sure if they would help with moles. You learn what works when recording what they do while you’re gone, with a little more certainty.
I hope it helps to know I would be certain of being successful at it using the advice I gave you. It’s a common problem, but your situation may have physical qualities that may be able to be used in your plan. Soil conditions, drainage – or not, shallow or deep bedrock, etc. These things should be known – you may be able to incorporate some physical aspects into your plan. Use it against them if you can.
Below bottom line: At my friend’s place in the country, I was always looking for an opportunity to use a .22 on them, well really, pretty much to use the .22 on any largish pest problem out there. Just didn’t seem like moles presented any opportunity for that.
Sounds like an interesting and challenging problem. There’s always a solution.
Jethro-
I eliminated a gopher problem by pouring a little gasoline in each of the holes in the lawn.
I waited a few minutes to allow the fumes to permeate the complex. Then I ignited the gas at each hole with my trusty Zippo and stepped back to survey the results.
In a word, Spectacular!
Hope this helps.
Thanks guys. I’ll go with tannerite!
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=tannerite&&view=detail&mid=8F49F7F906D79FBFA5238F49F7F906D79FBFA523&FORM=VRDGAR
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@F4UCorsair:
Sorry, I didn’t mean to be troublesome this fine morning. On Sundays hereafter I’ll endeavor to eschew my habitual sesquipedalian vocabulary. (-:
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