Let's talk about wildlife

[Mudcat]

Wildlife meets civilization

 

[roguejuror]

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[CaliGirlNY]

But then sometimes there is shit like this:

While gorgeous, what's the point of a peacock? Do they fly? Are the predators? Do they provide food for predators? You never hear of anyone eating a peacock. (Insert joke here.)

 

[reno cool]

why do they have to provide food for predators? fok em. They probably scare em away with those things

 

[Mudcat]

I figger they must be like chickens - you got your peacock and your peahens - but I never heard of anyone eating a peacock egg.

Or a quarter peacock dinner.

 

[CaliGirlNY]

People eat quail eggs and ostrich eggs. Why don't we eat turkey eggs? Or goose eggs? Isn't an egg an egg?

 

[eggs]

Cali very inquisitive today.

 

[CaliGirlNY]

And then isn't fowl a fowl? What makes poultry different?

 

[Mudcat]

Swiss Chalet could do peacock. But then you'd have the whole long string of questions.

White meat or dark?

White roll or whole grain?

Fries or potato or rice?


White, white and fries, you fool! Now give me my fucking peacock!!!

 

[Mudcat]

Get in ma bellay!!

 

[roguejuror]

wow

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[CaliGirlNY]

See, not all all cats hate water.

 

[Mudcat]

 

[CaliGirlNY]

i found a bird with a broken wing today when walking my dog. I took my pup back inside and went back outside with a shoebox and a towel and was able to scoop up the poor thing. I got back to the door of my apartment building and realized that I had absolutely no idea what to do next. So I just stood there, with this dying pigeon in a box in my hands... and I thought.... I could break its neck to put it out of it's misery. So, I sat down and Googled how to help a dying pigeon with a broken wing.

Next thing you know, I'm in my apartment with my cat, my dog, and a dying pigeon waiting for a wild life rescue person to come take the pigeon away and either help it or kill it.

Obviously the cat and dog are flipping out... So I decided to go to the courtyard of our building and just hang out with the pigeon in the box until these people showed up. I took my ipad and my coffee and hung out by the pool with the shoe box open next to me and the bird took a nap.

I REALLY had to pee, so I ran in to the bathroom ( there's a pool cabana and bathroom). I think I was in there for about 2 minutes, max.

When I came back, the box was empty and the pigeon I had rescued was gone.

I looked all over, in the pool, in the pool drains, in the bushes. No bird, no where. I thought "okay, maybe he just ate some hippy's pot that they dropped and he wasn't injured, he was just stoned, and he flew away."

So I went back in to my apartment to go to work (and call the wildlife people and tell them to not come - that was awkward).

On my way to catch my Uber to work, I saw a HUGE hawk on the roof of my building... and he looked very pleased.

 

[Mudcat]

 

[roguejuror]

nice

 

[MrX]

Good job getting involved in your neighborhood food chain.

Too many people just sitting back and letting these things happen.

 

[CaliGirlNY]

Good job getting involved in your neighborhood food chain.

Too many people just sitting back and letting these things happen.

I like to help the animals in any way I can.

The homeless on the other hand, not so much. I watched a homeless man take a huge dump across the street from my apartment today. And I live in a really nice area. This is San Francisco tho.