vesta, STFU.
Stop telling me what I don't know.
When I want your opinion on any subject, I'll rattle your cage and throw you a chunk of rotten meat.
You may be well versed in this subject but people die if they are city folk and think of bears or other wild life as friendly if you feed them.
We were camping in Arizona when the kids were 18 months to 9 years and we were in the desert. We pulled into a camp ground unlike anything we had ever seen before. Sand and rock as far as one could look. I believe it was called Papago Wells, just off RT. 10.
When I got out of the car I noticed on the ground a rock the size of my fist that looked like turquoise. As it was an hour or so before sundown and not 120 degrees out I showed the rock to my kids and while camp was being set up told the kids to run about and find me any that looked like my rock.
The kids ran about looking and after less then 15 minutes the camp site owner came out on the run to ask me if I wanted to kill my kids. He after I called the kids in told me just what was under those rocks and sand in the desert.
Darn, snakes , scorpions and some kind of lizards, all dangerous. How was I to know as I was just passing threw.
As sea coast Yankees I could not remember a time when I at their age could not run barefoot in the woods or forests as there was nothing at that time to harm people.
So these people come from the city's that have never seen a Moose or a Deer in rut nose to nose, bears they cannot resist feeding, they have the Disney conception of wild animals.
Didn't take long before after coming home 20 years later to find things had changed ALLOT at home. The rattlers had moved close to home, a stretch of highway going into the White Mountains had a large sign telling of danger ahead as there had been 200 deaths of motorists from accidents involving car collisions with Moose. Then the bear population had moved so close they were in our back yards. I have come to find, when working nights deer wandering about the streets in the middle of the road at just before dawn.
Not just the tourists but new comers from way out yonder, and us who have come home to retire need to be told that times have changed and expect to at some time or another to be faced down by a wild animal that if bitten by them have to get rabies shots.
Story in point.
A mother and 10 year old daughter were driving down the road and saw a baby kitten cold, wet and starving on the side of the road. the daughter jumped out of the car grabbed the kitten and put it under her coat to keep it warm and they brought it home. They warmed the kitty, fed it and a week later took it to the town vet. Again the little girl put it inside her coat for the trip.
When they got to see the Vet, Her eyes popped out, this child had been carrying about in her coat a baby Bob Cat. Now this family were not newbie to the area, 3-4 generation but had never seen a adult Bob Cat in all that time much less a baby.
Fisher Cats, horrid little beasts have moved south. These little beasts love cat meat and have been known to break into homes through screened in windows to get to pet cats. Little will stop these small bundle of terrors but it is easy to know when is within a mile or so of your home. They let out this scream that causes 50+ 911 calls to report a woman being tortured. One can never forget the sound they make.
Now on to my cage, 10x10 with a bed of goose down, a TV with cable and my PC hook up. Bath with toilet and shower, and a kitchenette with 300 jars of spice to cover the smell of rotten meat. 24/7 visiting hours with my pets, 30 minutes only with some family or friends every 2 weeks.
So come rattle my cage, all I will need is for you to go to the library every week to get me 4-5 books and a bunch of chocolate covered Cherry's.
