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**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 87570 06-24-2012 08:04 AM

Sorry to hear that about your cat. It might still return.

My cat's name is Possum. When we got him his little white face reminded me of a possum we once had in our garage. He's a very loving kitty.

**Bad Rat**

LoP Guest Wrote:

Sorry to hear that about your cat. It might still return.

My cat's name is Possum. When we got him his little white face reminded me of a possum we once had in our garage. He's a very loving kitty.

Thanks for the kind words and the hope! I am dealing with a computer glitch that keeps closing the tab and opening a new session with my home page at random. Almost certainly not a virus, but a a Microsoft setting gone haywire, probably a well-intentioned thing trying to protect me from viruses, that other users have experienced, and that Microsoft help seems to have no clue as to how to fix. It is taking me several tries just to get something posted, so if I take a while to reply to things...

It usually goes away after I've been online for an hour or so.

S977

**Bad Rat**

LoP Guest Wrote:

too bad possums cant get much of a perhiprel vision which turns into walk at .2 mph across the cement in front of your car thats doing 40.

Poor things just get hungry and are out looking for roadkill. One of the reasons I regularly feed them on my back porch. I mentioned to my boss how I once touched one of them, and he said yes, he had. I said what, with a 12 gauge? Yup, he said; it had gone up a tree.

Stupid rednecks... S977

**JollyRoger**

Bad Rat Wrote:

LoP Guest Wrote:
I have a few opossums that get into my cats food too!!! I would like to relocate them to another place. Got room for about 10 more???

Ha Ha! Actually, the dry food is specifically put out for the 'possums! My cat won't touch it. I'm weird like that. I will befriend and feed any wild critter that cares to come to my back porch, front yard, backyard, whatever. I probably have at least three 'possums that come, as far as I can judge from the personalities!

The one in the pic is the tame one. I can even touch him before he splits, if I want to. Yes, I gave him a little scritch once!

Do you have varmits and/or pest birds or other unwanted alien life forms in your barn, field or garden? I use high powered pellet rifles and some traps to eliminate pests.

I live in the Gig Harbor area and have an itchy trigger finger and spare time on my hands on the weekends.

FEE: $5.00/carcass. Mole bomb sets = $3.00/mole bomb. Discounts for large flocks of pest birds such as Starlings, Crows, etc.

Setting bird deterents, depends of cost of deterent and time involved for installation. Negotiable. (Basically, $25.00/hr. plus cost of deterent.)

Email me with your name and phone number and we will talk.

DAVE's DEAD VARMIT

PEST ANIMALS I DEAL WITH:

Squirls
Rats
Opossum
Moles
Groundhogs
Skunks
Birds
Bats
etc.
Basically anything not on the game list, I can take out with a pellet rifle on YOUR property if they are seen as pest animals or vermin. Anything on the game list MUST be shot with a .25 cal round or higher. But I only use pellet rifles so if you have nuicence animals that are on the WA State Game List, then you will need to call a pest trapper that deals with those kinds of animals. I usually don't deal with them. Just animals that i can shoot with a pellet gun or eliminate with various small to large pest control traps.

**Bad Rat** · (This post was last modified: 06-25-2012 02:29 PM by Bad Rat.)

JollyRoger Wrote:

Bad Rat Wrote:
LoP Guest Wrote:
I have a few opossums that get into my cats food too!!! I would like to relocate them to another place. Got room for about 10 more???

Ha Ha! Actually, the dry food is specifically put out for the 'possums! My cat won't touch it. I'm weird like that. I will befriend and feed any wild critter that cares to come to my back porch, front yard, backyard, whatever. I probably have at least three 'possums that come, as far as I can judge from the personalities!

The one in the pic is the tame one. I can even touch him before he splits, if I want to. Yes, I gave him a little scritch once!

Do you have varmits and/or pest birds or other unwanted alien life forms in your barn, field or garden? I use high powered pellet rifles and some traps to eliminate pests.

I live in the Gig Harbor area and have an itchy trigger finger and spare time on my hands on the weekends.

FEE: $5.00/carcass. Mole bomb sets = $3.00/mole bomb. Discounts for large flocks of pest birds such as Starlings, Crows, etc.

Setting bird deterents, depends of cost of deterent and time involved for installation. Negotiable. (Basically, $25.00/hr. plus cost of deterent.)

Email me with your name and phone number and we will talk.

DAVE's DEAD VARMIT

PEST ANIMALS I DEAL WITH:

Squirls
Rats
Opossum
Moles
Groundhogs
Skunks
Birds
Bats
etc.
Basically anything not on the game list, I can take out with a pellet rifle on YOUR property if they are seen as pest animals or vermin. Anything on the game list MUST be shot with a .25 cal round or higher. But I only use pellet rifles so if you have nuicence animals that are on the WA State Game List, then you will need to call a pest trapper that deals with those kinds of animals. I usually don't deal with them. Just animals that i can shoot with a pellet gun or eliminate with various small to large pest control traps.

Thanks, but I will not be requiring your services. It would have to be rabid or actually destroying my property, and that isn't happening. The varmints are my friends right now (see rest of thread).

If I did ever have to kill anything, I could do it myself. I'm almost a dead shot with a .22 or a pellet gun, but would only use one as a last resort. Feeding my 'possums is one of the highlights of my life, and it will keep them away from the road, or from other people who aren't as kind to the little ones as I am. chuckle

**Bad Rat**

http://s814.photobucket.com/albums/zz62/...ure096.mp4

My brother must have taken this short video while he was here. I had no idea my little Coolpix digital camera could do a video with audio, until I found it in my pictures file. Cute! This is of course the cat that disappeared a week ago and is presumed to be deceased.

RIP.

**Sunny**

So sorry about your kitty Tissue

Here's a

**Bad Rat**

Sunny Wrote:

So sorry about your kitty

Here's a

**Balls Deep** · (This post was last modified: 06-26-2012 06:39 PM by Balls Deep.)

Nice post!

Rats make great pets. I have had 3 so far, two hooded and one semi-hairless (named Reggie, Reggie II and Rat). I have even go as far as getting surgery for my first rat since he had a huge abdominal tumor at the age of one and he lived for another year afterwards. It only cost me $60 since i worked at that vet hospital. I prefer the males better as they are more laid back and have never bitten me. They all like to chill out and snuggle on my shoulder.

The best food for rats in my opinion is the large rat food pellets that you can buy in bulk (per scoop), fruits, veggies, and a bottle cap full of bear once in a while (they all loved beer!) I also recommend a large wheel for the cage (not a glass terrarium) for exercise for la long life.

Sorry to hear about kitty...

**Bad Rat**

Balls Deep Wrote:

Nice post!

Rats make great pets. I have had 3 so far, two hooded and one semi-hairless (named Reggie, Reggie II and Rat). I have even go as far as getting surgery for my first rat since he had a huge abdominal tumor at the age of one and he lived for another year afterwards. It only cost me $60 since i worked at that vet hospital. I prefer the males better as they are more laid back and have never bitten me. They all like to chill out and snuggle on my shoulder.

The best food for rats in my opinion is the large rat food pellets that you can buy in bulk (per scoop), fruits, veggies, and a bottle cap full of bear once in a while (they all loved beer!) I also recommend a large wheel for the cage (not a glass terrarium) for exercise for la long life.

Sorry to hear about kitty...

You sound like you know what you're doing! I've had at least a dozen rats at some time or another. Present one is lazy; I leave the cage door open for hours, and he just chills in there, until I bring in some food to eat in front of the computer. Males are definitely more laid-back.

They also love beer for sure...

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**Bad Rat** · (This post was last modified: 06-28-2012 01:00 PM by Bad Rat.)

http://christianpipesmokers.net/modules....017#722017

That is a link to a song I wrote 20 years ago in grad school, one of seven songs to words by Tolkien. Thought I would scan it in and post it on my pipe forum and here, as a tribute to my recently departed cat, and to cats everywhere.

I consider my music to be public domain, but Tolkien is not, though I doubt seriously anyone would be sued for performing it.

This song would be a b*tch to perform, however. Not for amateurs!

If you click the link, you will have to scroll up...

**Bad Rat**

Two birds flew in my house tonight when I opened the door to put food out for the 'possum, and I had to chase them around to catch them and get them back outside. It was first one, then when I put it out, its mate flew in, and I had to repeat the process! Here are the best two pictures. Silly things!

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**Bad Rat** · (This post was last modified: 07-23-2012 10:46 AM by Bad Rat.)

Just now, I gave my rat Yoda a fairly rare, perhaps once-a-week treat of cream, with even some raw sugar sprinkled on top (I can't stand the refined white stuff, and only use it for making pizza dough or muffins and such).

One of my favorite rat sounds (besides "bruxing," or grinding of teeth, which in rats usually means contentment) is the sound of sugar granules happily being crunched!

Happy, happy rat, when he gets his rare treat of heavy cream and sugar, but I don't do this often. It's just too easy with these creatures to get a fat rat, and you really don't want that. Yoda already is a bit pudgy, though couldn't exactly be called fat yet.

(Might as well add another pet rat fact here, since I opened up the thread again. Though bruxing usually means contentment; a happy and relaxed rat, if the bruxing sound is a bit more urgent or heavy-sounding, it can mean agitation. Rat people with years of experience such as myself can easily learn to tell the difference.)

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**Oh Bother :P**

Bad Rat Wrote:

Finally figured out how to hook my camera (I'm new to this technology) up to the computer. What prompted this was finally getting a picture of my cat staring down one of the opossums I feed! Not the best photo, but gives an idea.

Also, a few pics of my rat. A couple look like I flicked the bird at him and he bit me, but those are all just love nips!

Just thought I'd share some cute with the night owls!

Awww your ratus looks just like the one I care for over the school holidays while the family it belongs to holiday. They call her apricot, she is fading as she gets older, she's not as ginger as she used to be.
Ratusus are great pets I cant understand why they have always had so much trouble getting it cared for in the past.

**Bad Rat** · (This post was last modified: 07-24-2012 06:19 AM by Bad Rat.)

Oh Bother :P Wrote:

Awww your ratus looks just like the one I care for over the school holidays while the family it belongs to holiday. They call her apricot, she is fading as she gets older, she's not as ginger as she used to be.
Ratusus are great pets I cant understand why they have always had so much trouble getting it cared for in the past.

Didn't even notice I got another reply in this, my "cute" thread, until now. Latest project (since I lost my cat) was to wash and dry her catbed (that she never really used, but it had been outside since Christmas) and put it on top of Yoda's cage (the door stays open whenever I'm in the computer room, which is obviously a lot) and set up a board halfway up the outside of the cage so he can get up there. So, now he has a roomy cage, a soft bed on top of the cage, a box beside the cage, a table that all sits on, and a board running from that table to my desk, so he can come see me whenever he likes (usually when I am eating, for some strange reason).

I try to keep his living area interesting and not just one cage he stays in all the time, because he is starting to develop that mid-life male rat laziness and pudginess, but what I really need to do is put him on the floor in the living room sometimes and let him really run around. He's a sweetie; not so much of a cuddle-rat as some I've had, and skittish; scared of things like the rustling of a potato-chip bag, but we are good friends all the same!

(Oh yeah; I knew I saw you in my NDE thread!)