Don’t go in the tall grass....
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Thanks, yeah that was super painful, only dog I've ever had that didn't live at least a decade (incl. 2 other Labs that lived 13 & 15 years respectively). We got home too late and then also to the vet after finding her. She was still hanging on, but just barely and the anti-venom couldn't act fast enough.
Luckily this really doesn't happen too often, but you hear of it from time to time -- if you have dogs actually most snakes will tend to move on to safer places to hang out, but encounters now and then are going to happen. We sprinkle sulfur powder around the perimeter of the house/wall during the dry season, but actually I've heard the best defense is geese! They don't s*it from anything or anyone.
I can't believe I forgot to mention these guys!
We also have a breeding population of leucistic squirrels here in the Swamp! They're very cryptic, however. We see them on a halfway regular basis, but it is quite rare that they allow us to get close enough to get a picture.
We also have a breeding population of leucistic squirrels here in the Swamp! They're very cryptic, however. We see them on a halfway regular basis, but it is quite rare that they allow us to get close enough to get a picture.
Wow, never knew of those before -- at least from afar it reminds me of the mischievous little ermine common in Alaska.
I remember way back when I was 11 or 12 years old and I found a praying mantis egg case in a local field on my street in the fall, brought it home and kept it in my bedroom. Come warmer weather I put in in my bedroom window and waited to see what would happen. Came home from school and my mom was more than distraught to find hundreds of newly hatched baby mantids all over my bedroom!
I carefully collected them all and released them outdoors in the flower beds and the field where I found them.
I too remember all the time I spent in the Cleveland Metroparks growing up and I truly treasure those times and the amount of wildlife I saw. I think it's important for children to have some type of connection with nature and the environment to get an appreciation that will hopefully last for their lifetime.
I carefully collected them all and released them outdoors in the flower beds and the field where I found them.
I too remember all the time I spent in the Cleveland Metroparks growing up and I truly treasure those times and the amount of wildlife I saw. I think it's important for children to have some type of connection with nature and the environment to get an appreciation that will hopefully last for their lifetime.
I bet you catch one of those and sell them to vincent you can get another acre or 5
Awesome Dloks, you're raising your girl right it seems, Dora the Explorer-style 
And besides Praying Mantis those big green beetles are for sure one insect I could never kill. That said I did do a Billy Jack-style womp to the face of a cockroach yesterday.
And besides Praying Mantis those big green beetles are for sure one insect I could never kill. That said I did do a Billy Jack-style womp to the face of a cockroach yesterday.
You should see her gut and cut her own fish for baitAwesome Dloks, you're raising your girl right it seems, Dora the Explorer-style
