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Topic: Ringtail cat
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Texannie
Member Posts: 14
From: Wimberley, TX
Registered: Mar 2008
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posted August 07, 2009 12:19 PM
 
We had a creature coming on the porch, and leaving gifts you wouldn't want to step on! One day I saw it, it looked like a big dark gray squirrel, but the tail looked like a cat's tail with rings on it. Was it a "ringtail cat"? We had several coyotes coming around, too, and have not seen the cattailed critter in awhile...hope they didn't get it.
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kayh
Member Posts: 71
From: Wimberley Texas USA
Registered: Feb 2009
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posted April 01, 2010 10:13 PM
Peabody304...I simply adore the wildlife we have around our home. I am "one of those people" who feed the deer, raccoons, birds and squirrel. I believe that being we have moved into their home, taking away alot of their food sources, we owe it to them to research and find out what they eat, and help them out. When we moved here just over a year ago, the deer we had were so sickly. Their fur falling out in clumps, thin, with huge TICKS on them. They were literally being killed by the ticks. I began fixing them fresh fruits/veggies and protein and mixing in a little bit of diced garlic. Within a week.....NOT A TICK to be found on any of the deer that visited our house. Now, they are beautiful and healthy and happy with energy and spirit!
I ADORE your photo's and hope you continue to entertain us with them. Wildlife is an awesome gift that no one should take for granted.
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starstruck
Member Posts: 588
From: Hays
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted April 02, 2010 06:51 AM
Oh good, more healthy deer. Next October all the hunters in Houston will know just where to go for the juicy fat ones.
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freewill
Member Posts: 211
From: Wimberley Area
Registered: Mar 2009
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posted April 02, 2010 08:26 AM
Kayh, Your premise is about as wrong as your actions. First of all, when you feed wild animals they are no longer wild, they are dependents or pets to satisfy one’s ego. The deer may look healthier but they are in fact overweight lazy forms of a once majestic animal. The deer you saw that were infested with ticks and other maladies were that way from overcrowding and poor (corn and scraps) diet. So called “deer Corn” you find in stores is meant to be fed to deer prior to hunting them so they put on weight in the form of fat. When they are harvested they are more tender therefore make better eating. The corn is like candy to the deer and causes them to form unnaturally large herds, which promotes disease and parasites. We (evil humans) did not rob them of habitat nor food since the deer population in Texas is at record levels. Lack of hunters and too many do-gooders like your self have created an open zoo for your own enjoyment at the peril of God’s creatures.
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