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Ichinisan

Ichinisan

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First time I've seen one in-person, so I took a picture. Looks like it belongs in a water habitat...because it's wet and it came out when it was raining (then got hit by a car).

Other than precipitation, there's no water nearby. Poor little fella.
 
kage69

kage69

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Them's one of the varmints that done sank my front field and drive way!

Standard beaver treatment of pumping a few loads into it solved the problem though.

lol, I'm kinda amused by this too, are beaver just really scarce down south? Ain't no platypus in these parts!
 
Ichinisan

Ichinisan

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kage69 said:
Them's one of the varmints that done sank my front field and drive way!

Standard beaver treatment of pumping a few loads into it solved the problem though.

lol, I'm kinda amused by this too, are beaver just really scarce down south? Ain't no platypus in these parts!
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I'm certain they're in GA, but they would stick to waterways and try to avoid people. I don't know what this one was doing in the middle of town.

Probably looking for cats to prey upon.
 
kage69

kage69

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Ichinisan said:
I'm certain they're in GA, but they would stick to waterways and try to avoid people. I don't know what this one was doing in the middle of town.

Probably looking for cats to prey upon.
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My mind reels at the notion of a pussy eating beaver.
 
Atomic Playboy

Atomic Playboy

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When I was growing up, my brother rescued a beaver that had somehow made it's way into the heart of downtown Portland. He made a special pen for it out of an old bathtub, some 2x4s and chickenwire. Two things about beavers most people don't know. First, they stink. A lot. Just a pungeant moldy, oily aroma that seems to permeate the air around them in a way that doesn't seem possible. It's like someone sprayed Pine-Sol on a wet dog. Second, they are loud as shit. Not in terms of vocal grunts or anything, but they will take that giant tail and slap it into ANYTHING. When that beaver was slapping her tail against the bathtub, it sounded like a gunshot. You could hear it half a mile away. In the middle of a city. That's a loud-ass noise to have to deal with every single night.

And they're mean fuckers too. That little bitch chased my ass around the backyard. Granted, I was only like 5 or 6, so I was a much more viable target than the various adults around, but it was simultaneously terrifying and humiliating to get chased around my own backyard by an overgrown rat. Looking back on it, it was probably hilarious... but at the time, all I could think was "to hell with this, I'm going to drop kick that thing into space," at which point it would start running towards me and I would flip out and run inside.

So, yeah, fuck beavers.
 
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