Haole Girl
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Tue Jul-13-10 12:16 AM
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It's not a Chupacabra. It's a hairless DOG!!! |
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Tue Jul-13-10 12:19 AM
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Tue Jul-13-10 12:22 AM
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2. This year there was a bad run of mange among the local foxes |
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Caused by malnutrition. The foxes have been too successful and there was an overpopulation. Three of last year's kits were in bad shape so we called a local rescue group and managed to trap one of them. The case of mange was so bad the little girl fox was almost completely bald. It looked like a small version of the "chupacabra" examples they keep showing in these stupid stories. Bald, "elepahnt skin" hunched over with pain or cold, just a miserable looking creature.
Poor little fox - she was getting better, got an opportunistic infection that they could not control and they lost her. Either the other two have moved on or they succumbed to their infections - I have not seen them or the parents for a month or two.
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Tue Jul-13-10 09:48 AM
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3. how sad. You did your best...as did the rescuers. |
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Wed Jul-14-10 02:01 AM
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5. Yes - they kept the little fox for over two months |
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The problem is that we have a great habitat - but it is getting to be isolated. So the animals do well here, over breed and our farm cannot support the offspring.
We now have an over population of deer. I will for the first time in the 30+ years we've owned the place allow a hunter to take a doe or two this fall. We have too many and they are getting far too at ease around people. Rather than see them suffer, we''l reduce the herd.
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Tue Jul-13-10 10:23 AM
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4. Count up the number of stupid people in the world. |
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That's how many times you'll have to hear this stupid story...
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Wed Jul-14-10 08:12 AM
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6. Mange is going through the wolves in the area, and MAN are they ugly! |
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