Rabid fox in the road

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Out tonight for my dinner 6PM I work nights, two SUV's stopped in the road, I pull up next as I will make left at the light, a fox was in the road blocking the Tahoe with its back arched like a halloween cat decoration, head up and teeth showing, headlights or horn did nothing to make it move, I think driver was on phone with 911.

Wildlife removed several rabid foxes in the area of the building we rent space in Raleigh last week and returned to trap all the feral cats to put them down as precaution.

Edit: I can't carry at the office, off campus NCSU pays the rent and will not leave it in the car,
I'm not going to shoot inside the city limits, let the pros take care of it. "This guy just shot a fox on Chapanoke Rd.":eek:
 
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Some folks. Awhile back I was on may way to work and see a couple of cars on the shoulder with the hazards on. It was really early and not much traffic. I see a lady walking around on the phone in front of the cars. I slow way down and drop pass window and stop beside the lady. What I saw shocked me to the core. There was a woman sitting on the shoulder holding a grown ass and I mean grown ass 40lb bobcat in her lap rocking it. It was stunned and was raspy breathing and bleeding from the nose and the mouth kinda shaking its head side to side. Standing lady said sitting lady seen a truck hit the cat and it did'nt stop so she stopped to help the poor kitty and standing lady was trying to get help for it but animal control had refused and she was contacting wildlife. I told them if that cat came to it was going to be a pretty bad situation and said that they looked to have this situation fully under control so I was going on to work.
 
Oneofsix said:
Depending on the area, I probably would have just offed it.
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Gawd be sure there's no-one around to see you do that.
*911 what's your emergency?*
Um yeah we were helping get a fox out of the road and this guy came up and shot it.

There's lots of creeks and ponds and such where I live, so it becomes common to come across a snappin turtle in the road. Same deal. People standing around looking at it, and the usual poke-it-with-a-stick trying to get it out of the road. The stick never works, snappin turtles are the ultimate in stand your ground and now he's really pissed. They will stay there daring you to reach down.
I've grabbed them by the tail, but then you smell like turtle piss so I usually grab my shovel and scoop em up and get them out of the road. Even then the spectators.."don't hurt him!"
I am the poster child for being a marshmallow around animals, but even I can't muster a whole lot of sympathy for a snappin turtle.
I suppose it's a good thing that most folks care about animals and don't wanna see any harm come to them. It's be a lot worse the other way around.
 
I was once stuck in traffic in The Containment Area due to a gaggle of Canada geese slowly waddling their pilgrimage across five lanes of traffic.

All stop, in all directions.

Then two cars ahead of me I watched a young woman exit her vehicle in an orderly fashion...
with a leashed Border Collie, heading in the direction of the gaggle.

Those geese caught sight of that dog and un-assed the area lickity split.

The best part was seeing the other drivers applaud from behind the wheels of their vehicles.
Hilarious.
 
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Years ago I worked for a company that had space on the 4th floor of the Europa Center in Chapel Hill. My office looked out over a very pretty pond in front of the property. The problem with said pond was that a bunch of resident Canada Geese took up residence there. You can imagine what the grass around the pond started to look like. It was ripped up by the roots, liquefied an sprayed back on the dirt. No longer a pretty place.....

So they hired a goose removal specialist. They "remove" the geese by using a trained dog to harass them into leaving. Pretty sure they use Border Collies as their instinct is to herd them and the geese's instinct is to not be herded.

That collie and that young lady may have had training......
 
rantingredneck said:
Pretty sure they use Border Collies as their instinct is to herd them and the geese's instinct is to not be herded.

That collie and that young lady may have had training......
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A friend of mine was head of facilities maintenance for the sprawling Wyeth/Pfizer/whoever-they-are-now pharmaceutical campus in Sanford. That's exactly how they took care of the freeloading waterfowl.
 
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I think my curiosity would have forced me to stick around to see what happened to the woman if the bobcat did wake up. I grew up near the Great Smoky Mountains NP and have seen quite a few people do very stupid things around roadside bears. Stupidity can sometimes be painful. I am fortunate I never saw anyone get mauled.
 
fieldgrade said:
I was once stuck in traffic in The Containment Area due to a gaggle of Canada geese slowly waddling their pilgrimage across five lanes of traffic.

All stop, in all directions.

Then two cars ahead of me I watched a young women exit her vehicle in an orderly fashion...
with a leashed Border Collie, heading in the direction of the gaggle.

Those geese caught sight of that dog and un-assed the area lickity split.

The best part was seeing the other drivers applaud from behind the wheels of their vehicles.
Hilarious.
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That is daily by the Wakemed and Lowe’s in Apex. My kids are always horrified when I pass all the asshats and slwoly push the geese out of the way with my bumper. Those feathered fools move when the car gets close enough. I’ll probably be on the news someday for Goose assault.
 
chiefjason said:
Look up Foxy Red Clouser. Great little fly. Not sure if I have a tail around or not, used to. Cut one up and sent it out a while back too.
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Ok now who's the first guy to think of this.
"I think I'll get me some hair off a fox butt and see if I can't catch me a fish."
 
fieldgrade said:
I was once stuck in traffic in The Containment Area due to a gaggle of Canada geese slowly waddling their pilgrimage across five lanes of traffic.

All stop, in all directions.

Then two cars ahead of me I watched a young woman exit her vehicle in an orderly fashion...
with a leashed Border Collie, heading in the direction of the gaggle.

Those geese caught sight of that dog and un-assed the area lickity split.

The best part was seeing the other drivers applaud from behind the wheels of their vehicles.
Hilarious.
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I saw something similar in Fayetteville near a school one day after going to the range. I assume they were geese, and everybody stopped while two batches of them went across the road! It was priceless. Made my day seeing them waddling along, minding their business, while traffic was at a standstill!
 
Our office has a drainage pond in the back done up to look nice. The geese love it. Every so often, I see cars stopped to let the geese cross the road. F that. Those grouchy mf’ers can fly. I push them out of the way and just slow down a little. I was elated to see that one had been smashed flatter than a pancake by what must have been a very wide wheel a while back. The others have a newfound respect for motor vehicles these days.
 
Geese are just pigs with wings! We used to PT on the parade field at Ft Meade. Geese had assulted it daily, eating all the grass and leaving the remains! Hard to do push-ups and sit-ups in goose crap!!!! I’ve hated those things every since!
 
Hammer21b said:
Geese are just pigs with wings! We used to PT on the parade field at Ft Meade. Geese had assulted it daily, eating all the grass and leaving the remains! Hard to do push-ups and sit-ups in goose crap!!!! I’ve hated those things every since!
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There should be no creel limit on Geese. They are a nuisance pest. And could be a fine food source. Waste of resources. Choot ‘em.
 
If it was legal, our office balcony would make a fine elevated position to take all the geese out from our drainage pond with a suppressed .22. You could head shot 'em all easily because they are so brazen.
 
Our goose removal contractor had collies that wore little life vests because of safety theater. I think their name was Goose Busters.

We stop for geese on the road because it is "career limiting" to be seen harassing the geese (unless you are a collie with a life vest on).
 
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