The Conservative Cave
The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: vesta111 on December 24, 2012, 08:10:30 AM
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We have this family, man and prego wife spending Xmas under our deck. I noticed them last ThanksGiving and pitafull pair they were. Scrawny and not really healthy looking.
Occasionally the cats or puppy would alert me they were on the back deck looking in through the sliding windows.
The 1/10 th Liberal part of me told me I should put out some food for them. Hubby's Conservative side said, do not feed them they will keep coming back.
Very sad, this new family were starving, how could I not help them. I went out and bought a 5 pound of unsalted peanuts in the shell and put a few ounces out on a table I moved under the sliders. At first it was the cats and puppy that spent hours waiting for the two to come and get some dinner. Now we humans sit and watch as they our guests have in just 4 weeks + gained so much weight I wonder how they will be able to fit inside their Den they built when they were slim and trim.
So far it seems that the more food we put out the more they eat and the fatter they get. They no longer exercise looking for food else where just come to my table.
Lots of behavior here that tweaks the mind. If I forget to put out their daily rations the Male I believe will guard the empty dishes by twirling his tail like a windmill to threaten other males and females to protect his what we hopes will become his next meal. Went from small and meek to a warrior extraordinaire.
Hubby's take on this is I am killing our guests, they are not storing the food for the winter months, they are eating it all up as they get it. What happens when they forget how to forage on their own ??
SO I somehow began to think of the LVL and his problems, he and "wife"? seem to have the same problems.
He and wife are just like the family under my deck, eat up or spend any thing they get and expect the same day after day. When the bowl is empty they throw any number of hissie fits waiting for it to be refilled.
When their baby's are born for my guests they will not be taught to hunt and forgage, they will be brought to MY table to survive. What happens to their kids when the parents die, how will they survive with no training on survival without me if I move.
Much can be a learning experience for both humans watching the natural survivors. I like Wolves but I am not about to slaughter a cow every 2 months and drag it to their feeding grounds, they survive by their own wits, if I interfear Within a few generations the Wolf will depend on that cow for food. No reason for Momma Wolf to teach her cubs to hunt. No reason for the Pack to bother to hunt together for the common good. The successful society of the wolf will fall apart in 5 years.
We are taring the society apart by our not expecting everyone to pull their own weight. True we are living longer today but take a walk in an old grave yard and note the long dead that made it to into their 90's with no modern medicine. The very poor that had no inside plumbing or air conditioning or heat but by a wood stove or fireplace that one had to chop the wood for.
Hubby is right, I need to quit killing this family of squirrels by feeding them for our own Amusement and feeling good about it.
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Squirrel can make a tasty meal.(http://www.conservativecave.com/Smileys/default/drool.gif) Problem solved.
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May as well knit little booties for the rats in the cellar.
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May as well knit little booties for the rats in the cellar.
I believe my taxes pay for the street rats to have shoes as the parents need their drugs first.
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I thought you were talking about humans living under your deck.
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I thought you were talking about humans living under your deck.
So did I. Nadin, I mean Vestanumbers can be confusing at times.
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So did I. Nadin, I mean Vestanumbers can be confusing at times.
I never learn. Every time I read her posts, I go crosseyed.
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Another one I missed.
I gotta come down here at least once a day.
Anyway, Happy Birthday!