The Great Outdoors

[ousdahl]

Get a fucking productive, motivating and real life?

Just a friendly reminder - this is the great outdoors thread.

[DeletedUser]

Nobody cares about your made up stories. Regardless of which thread. Or your friendly advice.

[DeletedUser]

Seems the varmints is smarter, more productive and more motivated than me.

This was funny.

[ousdahl]

‘Absolutely incredible’: Man rowing solo across Atlantic is surrounded by whales

Tom Waddington is on a quest to row across the Atlantic Ocean all by himself — but on Sunday, he found plenty of company at sea, when a pod of pilot whales thronged around him. They followed him for hours, growing from a few playful animals to hundreds of large creatures. At least one smacked into his small boat.

The whales popped their heads above the surface and seemed to play together — a gam of whales, gadding about — as Waddington, who is rowing some 2,000 miles from the Newfoundland coast to Penzance, in the United Kingdom, watched in amazement.

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good post! Thanks for sharing, Shirley. Bummed I didn't see it sooner.

[KUTradition]

Car carrying 5 people runs off road and into a hot geyser pool in Yellowstone

i mean…how?

[ousdahl]

finally outsmarted the varmints!

[ousdahl]

TIL human beings can see more shades of green than any other color.

Apparently some evolutionary advantage developed from being able to differentiate various foliage in the great outdoors thread

[pdub]

Our strawberry plant had it's best year since we've been here and i'm thinking our cat does a decent job keeping critters away for the daylight hours.

It's done producing but we got 50 plus strawberries.

Our is in a raised bed so that probably helps too.
I don't know how you'd keep critters from eating wild strawberries off the ground sans building some sort of cage/screen.

[TDub]

my to do list is ridiculous at the moment. But, I think this weekend I'll make some wax dirt, get that done and ready for winter.

I'm gonna try and hit the coyote trails hard this fall. I'm down 3 cats since may. My good mousers are gone, the ones left are the fat lazy cats that don't hunt. Welfare cats ha

[Shirley]

my to do list is ridiculous at the moment. But, I think this weekend I'll make some wax dirt, get that done and ready for winter.

I'm gonna try and hit the coyote trails hard this fall. I'm down 3 cats since may. My good mousers are gone, the ones left are the fat lazy cats that don't hunt. Welfare cats ha

Peat moss would be easier.

[TDub]

my to do list is ridiculous at the moment. But, I think this weekend I'll make some wax dirt, get that done and ready for winter.

I'm gonna try and hit the coyote trails hard this fall. I'm down 3 cats since may. My good mousers are gone, the ones left are the fat lazy cats that don't hunt. Welfare cats ha

Peat moss would be easier.

easier maybe...but moss doesn't bed very well. I also prefer using local dirt so the scents are right and everything looks and feels more natural. There's no peat moss around here so it feels out of place and can cause them to tread lightly around the trap instead of committing.

[pdub]

How do you go about getting some new mouser cats?
Is it a drop-in at the local shelter and kinda look one in the eye and test it's resolve?

[TDub]

How do you go about getting some new mouser cats?
Is it a drop-in at the local shelter and kinda look one in the eye and test it's resolve?

that's a good question. I got these because there is a Feral cat that came with the place when I moved in. He's a badass, he's been around for 10+ years as far as anyone knows, never comes inside, hunts and avoids the predators.

Anyway, his name is Ghost. he knocked up my female cat (who also happened to be a damn good hunter, by pure chance). Of the babies we kept 3, gave away 3. 2 of those were fantastic mousers. One is lazy, the uncle is also lazy. The mom disappeared first, then one of the mousers, then last weekend the other hunter disappeared. I thinknhe got chased off by his dad, they were not friends. But he hasn't returned and I assume he either ran off or succumbed to the local packs....or hawks or owls.


now I have 2 lazy fat asses. They're cool cats, but they aren't hunters.

[pdub]

I'd say craigslist but I don't think feral cats go on there that often.

[TDub]

I'm sure ill end up with more cats....they aren't hard to find

I actually don't like cats very much, but if you don't keep them inside and just let them do their thing, they sure are a useful animal to have on patrol out here

[ousdahl]

How do you go about getting some new mouser cats?
Is it a drop-in at the local shelter and kinda look one in the eye and test it's resolve?

maybe bring a laser pointer, or a feather-on-a-stick sort of cat toy, and see which ones will give chase

[Back2Lawrence]

Go to an ‘exotic’ pet store and buy a bunch of mice. Let them loose inside. If your cat brings em to ya, you are good to go. If not, ooops.

[pdub]

Our cat catches maybe 5 mice a week that we can see ( brings them to the front or back door ).

I just wish he wouldn’t also catch birds.

[jhawks99]

It's been cold and rainy here all summer. Plus my backyard does not get a lot of sun on the best days. My mater plants are looking anemic but I still have some fruit set. Might get a dozen or so tomatoes.

GD rabbits are eating my chile plants. They don't seem to like the tobasco plant, I may get a few of those.

[shindig]

I have a Ragdoll cat that's 2.5 and she is the biggest wimp. About the only thing she kills are crickets. I caught a mouse in my basement in a snap trap and I showed it to her and she ran off meowing...lol.

And I have a ton of rabbits in my neighborhood. They are always eating my grass/weeds in my front yard and have pretty much eliminated everything in one section. I gave up trying to chase them off. It's either rabbits, squirrels or chipmunks tearing up my grass.