I passed a Harley today ....

[TriumPhil]

I think we have outdone ourselves with off-topic digression and was looking for a darting squirrel to post and found this instead:
Explains a lot of lost dogs

No way you can pin the rap on me, bruddah! For once I'se be the innocent, burdened party and I can confidently point to your quoted post above and say that you painted the bullseye squarely and smack dab between your own angry eyes.

He!!, man, I'm as much to blame for this thread's departure as I am for this, the gayest, macho-facho music video of the modern era...

 

[Ishrub]

No way you can pin the rap on me, bruddah! For once I'se be the innocent, burdened party and I can confidently point to your quoted post above and say that you painted the bullseye squarely and smack dab between your own angry eyes.

He!!, man, I'm as much to blame for this thread's departure as I am for this, the gayest, macho-facho music video of the modern era...

You can Flick me the Bird but your excuse don't fly just like your vid above!

But this one below did and was the squirrel that got this old dog lost!

Crackin' good tale, Paul.

I'm still wiping away my tears from laughing so hard!

In fact, you have won the musical accompaniment to the Flying Fickle Finger of Fate Award...

 

[Nat67]

You can Flick me the Bird but your excuse don't fly just like your vid above!

But this one below did and was the squirrel that got this old dog lost!

 

[jepler]

I have raised a couple of birds from fledgling , namely a carrion crow and a magpie . Both were rooted out by my dog . The crow altho released when adult would return to my window and tap on the glass and then walk in bold as brass and ask for food . Sometimes whilst in the garden , he would return after days of absence and land on my shoulder or sit on my arm . I called him Joe !
The magpie lived up to his name and altho a bit more aloof would make a bee line for anything shiny , he was comical . Eventually both failed to return , I'm guessing their tameness was their downfall , probably succumbing to a farmers shotgun ?
What we do have in abundance is starlings .
They roost in the winter months in small patches of cover on the moor . People come from miles to watch the mermerations Just before sundown , often consisting of many thousands of birds . Truly a sight to behold !
Totally understand

Yes dear Joe was a character for sure . He changed my whole ethos . Before him , living in rural Devon crows , magpie and all corvids are a pest to be shot on sight and in my younger days I did . After him , my thinking was very different . The thought of both of them being shot hurt me and I have never pointed a gun barrel at them since ! In fact , nowadays I have lost the appeal of shooting any animal . Even the occasional deer makes me feel guilty for days and I used to hunt foxes when their fur fetched money but never again . My respect for all wildlife has grown with my own maturity I guess ? But my distaste for killing for sport came mainly after the foot and mouth epidemic in 2001 .
Local deer stalkers and marksmen were hired by the government to , in an organised fashion wipe out just about every sheep , cow and cloven hooved animal in the south west of England particulary . We were paid handsomely to annihilate farms complete stock with high powered rifles in the fields they stood . Then diggers would load the corpses into pits on site and they were burned . It went on for weeks with the smoke hanging low . It was apocalyptic !

Totally understand that, thankfully foot and mouth didn't affect us although over the hundred years we had the farm it took cattle from farms around us and we were always spared. I gave away all my rifles and shotguns 15 years ago as I starting getting soft. Mind, saying that I could have happily shot the car driver that jumped the red light on a roundabout and took me off.

 

[Nat67]

Totally understand that, thankfully foot and mouth didn't affect us although over the hundred years we had the farm it took cattle from farms around us and we were always spared. I gave away all my rifles and shotguns 15 years ago as I starting getting soft. Mind, saying that I could have happily shot the car driver that jumped the red light on a roundabout and took me off.

Definitely ! I would much rather shoot idiots .
I still enjoy shooting the very occasional deer or the odd boar when they come thru but the older I get the more often I think no , they deserve their life as much as I do . Rather do long range target and clay pigeons instead !

 

[Steel]

Must be just the way I was raised, but I have no qualms about killing an animal to eat.

 

[EasTexRIII]

Must be just the way I was raised, but I have no qualms about killing an animal to eat.

Not at all. I wouldn't kill one for nothing, but for eating......OH YEA!

 

[Nat67]

Must be just the way I was raised, but I have no qualms about killing an animal to eat.

As I said , the odd deer or boar but no more driven pheasants or foxes . I must have murdered hundreds . Would rather watch them nowadays !

 

[Nat67]

And this one time...................... I passed all these Harley's on my bicyclette............................

that things older than you !

 

[Kevin frazier]

Paul you’re pretty **** fast on that bicycle