Capture: Cats Love Cameras
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Islander, in reply to
on the back above the tail especially
Hey, that's my cat secret!
Even semi-wild beggars relax with it.
Even cushioned domesticated boss female cats!
And Jos-
go you a pukeko any time! Love 'em! -
Nora Leggs, in reply to
Ah my! What a beautiful pic of a beautiful bird!
I find it much easier if the birds aren't moving.....
this one used to be perched on top of the elephant at Auckland War Memorial museum. Both stuffed. -
Nora Leggs, in reply to
Hey, that’s my cat secret!
Reckon there are no secrets with cats : )
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Ready to sew
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Jos,
A very subtle cat!
Here's a treat, mouse bottoms
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
That vegetable mammal Arisarum proboscideum, the mouse arum!
Lovely shot Jos, a joy to see. -
Lilith __, in reply to
mouse bottoms
Crikey! Had to dispose of half a dead rat this morning, and this takes me right back!
It's always the back half, too... -
Islander, in reply to
Here’s a treat, mouse bottoms
Before Joe’s response, I did wonder what terrible engorger has sucked over the tops-
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
It’s always the back half, too…
At least it was dead!
Graphic stuff follows - squeamish avert gaze....I think they like the goodies in the front half - brain and heart and all that. We had one cat who would always leave a neat little pile of entrails. Finally found out he was doing it by gnawing off the head, picking the carcass up by the 'mouse tail) and tipping out the guts before eating the good bits.
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Hebe, in reply to
My cats always seem to either leave a whole but battered mousie with the signs that show it has been played to death and left as a present for the humans. Or they devour everything bar the tail. The few that eat tails too have always seemed to vomit them up, probably due to indigestibility.
I read once that a mouse, right down to the dirt on its paws, was nutritionally a complete feline meal. -
Nora Leggs, in reply to
I read once that a mouse, right down to the dirt on its paws, was nutritionally a complete feline meal.
And gourmet too!
Maybe my cat regurgitates little lizards because they are so much like mousie talis?
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Hebe, in reply to
Eats lizards? Crunchy I guess. My first cat, the sainted Sit Fishious, used to bring in lizards and leave them under my flatmate's bedhead to dessicate. He didn't like the man.
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
Crikey! Had to dispose of half a dead rat this morning,
See, that right there, ...... phobias..... the gore.... ill ... movin' on...
and then this bugger, who is gorging the discarded barley from a large home brew. At least he is not gorging the trees although Totara is not his friend. I think I need a gun. Trap you say? Shrap he says. -
Hebe, in reply to
Aposhum?
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
Aposhum?
Aye, bang bang! but silently because the lady down the road is South African and has flashbacks when she hears a gun so people tread carefully for her but, a silencer .... My sissyness is going to outway my care for this one type of animal and he is destroying some of our trees. Actually I have seen 2 arguing over the pile (huge pile) of barley. These guys are turning large. Shame we missed the comp at the local pub for the biggest possum. We would have won, hands down, if I had a gun.I suspect I will have to have a dinner party and invite guests with guns to alleviate my problem. T'other half finds it difficult to kill anything so he's no good.
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
the lady down the road is South African and has flashbacks when she hears a gun
You'll be a hero if you can pull that off discreetly. Poor little buggers didn't ask to be brought here of course, but even in their native land their distinctive heavy breathing antics have convinced a few nervous souls that there's a resident pervert in their ceiling.
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Islander, in reply to
...get a good .22 with a silencer(or guests with same!). Lady-down-the-road will hear nothing. Laser-sight is a plus (I use it round here when shooting possums) as it is dead-accurate...
Possums, bless their dear little dame-ednaish souls, are phuquing destructive little beasts and should be destroyed where-ever encountered***
I know it's not their fault for being here!
But we cant wreak deserved havoc on the &^%$@@!**! who introduced them to our archipelago- -
Islander, in reply to
heir distinctive heavy breathing antics have convinced a few nervous souls that there’s a resident pervert in their ceiling.
Actually Joe - given their natural inclination to enter into small dark spaces, it's more their scrabbling & shitting & weird chuckling that alert us here....I'm sorry but then we lure them out with tasty poison.
Rats dead in the roof are one matter- possums completely bloody & decaying &maggotstrewn - another
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
You’ll be a hero if you can pull that off discreetly.
I hear the odd shot and dogs but I know its for wild boar or possum. The skreech is enough to send shivers from me the mortal. The damage to a few of our trees is evident and the local conversation is often about possum and their trouble so a gun will be inevitable once I retire. I don’t mind the trap and last supper rights etc but although we caught one ages ago, they prefer my lemon (what’s left of) tree and I just gotta harden up to deal with it. Also I (for the first time) have gained an interest in these pesky gun things. It can’t be harder than a game of pool eh? Aim and shoot. :)
So I got the pool cues so a .22 with silencer could be right up my alley. Thanks Islander.And besides, my star gazing is being interrupted, they are that bloody confident.
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
they prefer my lemon (what’s left of) tree and I just gotta harden up to deal with it.
They're crazy for the peel - I've seen lemons still on the tree, tidily stripped of their outer yellow layer.
Appreciate what you & Islander have to do. It was a bit of a shock the first time my former gentle city dwelling friend casually paused the DVD to fetch his .22 at the sound of Mr Possum's nocturnal retchings. A mildly grim reminder that all that gorse that's given way to resurgent forest in recent decades didn't happen all by itself.
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Hebe, in reply to
...get a good .22 with a silencer(or guests with same!). Lady-down-the-road will hear nothing. Laser-sight is a plus (I use it round here when shooting possums) as it is dead-accurate...
Possums, bless their dear little dame-ednaish souls, are phuquing destructive little beasts and should be destroyed where-ever encountered***Possums is nasty little fiends; their claws slash like cut-throat razors. Sit Fishious had to have a 30cm slash in his belly stitched up after one garked him while he was going about cat business in the Wellington green belt. The opossums would streak up the power poles and hang from the top letting off hideous screams, then swing over to the roof and clatter around all night making a noise like like drunken drag queens.
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
They’re crazy for the peel
They are crazy ,period! That is how we trapped the last one. (tree was down to just a stick) And that gorse, what's a woman in an organic area, (thanks leedle bees for my mask) to do? Tbh we don't have much in the bush, just on the outskirts and I have eliminated some of that with perseverance. I said to a friend recently, that I wanted to berid the gorse along the track, his comment, "yeah you and 3/4 of a million other people.".... Maybe a well trained goat, but covenant on hooved animals....
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Hebe, in reply to
- I've seen lemons still on the tree, tidily stripped of their outer yellow layer
I never knew that!
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
then swing over to the roof and clatter around all night making a noise like like drunken drag queens.
At least with the drag queens I get to laugh. these bastards make me jump. :). Our bush is soo quiet except for that pesky possum. Really does ruin my stargazing. They have to go :)
The photo above, check out the claw marks on our old Totara.
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
I never knew that!
They skin avocados too but they leave you the skin.
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