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crono1224

Recently I have spotted multiple bunnies and baby bunnies around the house, and actually a few days ago there was one that was pretending to either be dead or invisible it would just 'sit' there for 20 minutes not moving or appearing to blink, but when i left it for a while i noticed it changed spots.

That leads me to today, when I am playing basketball out front with a friend when all of a sudden I see a hawk fly over head with a baby bunny in its talons, and I could hear the bunny squealing. It made me kinda depressed cause it was sad that the bunny was going to die, and even worst cause I could hear it as it was being carried off. Now I understand that it's nature and it's what happens but it is still saddening to me to actually witness it. Also most times I don't enjoy watching the videos of tigers/lions chasing and killing animals either.

But anyway was just wondering if anyone else had that kind of inconsequential thing happen that sullen their day.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Yep. We plowed up/tilled part of the back yard to plant vegetables and let it sit for a while (all Winter, basically). This was under an old clothesline, so come late spring we got out there to clean up the clothesline and scare up a bunny while we're walking though all the ground we tilled. I investigate the spot where it came from and pull up a plug of earth after which about half a dozen bunnies boil up out of the ground and take off in all different directions, causing my wife to start weeping about displacing the bunnies from their home, etc. Mind you, she was something like 6 months pregnant at the time.

Anyway, that was last year. This year we have a baby and we also make sure to use the clothesline enough that the ground under it is busy enough that they don't settle in.

--Patrick
 
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crono1224

I feel you, I am growing vegetables and herbs, and I know the bunnies / other animals are going to be feasting if proper precautions are not taken, even using that Topsy turvy tomato thing and hanging it 4+ feet in the air we ended up just having a deer come and eat. Which is mildly weird cause I live in suburbia.
 
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Deer love the suburbs. Lots of food and no one shooting at them.

I saw a kestrel carrying half a squirrel once.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

We live between a large cemetery/park and one of the biggest river thoroughfares in my part of the State. Lots of wildlife goes through here. There was a day that Kati was almost late for work because the deer wouldn't get out of the driveway...too busy eating blossoms off the flowering tree at the end of the driveway (when they aren't stripping the mulberry trees). We get red-tailed hawks in the dead tree outside the front of our house all the time (for the bunnies and other critters) and great blue herons go overhead daily. I've almost mowed up a garter snake or two. Moles, squirrels, and chipmunks galore. Even hear plenty of owls hooting late at night (mostly in Winter). All this and we're only 2 miles from the Detroit border. It's just the way things are around here.

--Patrick
 
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crono1224

PatrThom said:
We live between a large cemetery/park and one of the biggest river thoroughfares in my part of the State. Lots of wildlife goes through here. There was a day that Kati was almost late for work because the deer wouldn't get out of the driveway...too busy eating blossoms off the flowering tree at the end of the driveway (when they aren't stripping the mulberry trees). We get red-tailed hawks in the dead tree outside the front of our house all the time (for the bunnies and other critters) and great blue herons go overhead daily. I've almost mowed up a garter snake or two. Moles, squirrels, and chipmunks galore. Even hear plenty of owls hooting late at night (mostly in Winter). All this and we're only 2 miles from the Detroit border. It's just the way things are around here.

--Patrick
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Ah you must live close to me, I am only 20-30 mins outside of Detroit. Ya we have had a hawk flying around the last few days, but we have a mixm ash of animals, deer are semi common, not usually here, but there are some fairly wooded places around me where they are. My community college had deer semi frequently on the campus.

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Ya I figured, just strange to see such a large animal I guess.
 
Officer_Charon

Officer_Charon

Saw a dead kitten in the middle of the road whilst patrolling today. Poor thing couldn't have been more than 3 months old. I stopped and moved it to the side of the road, where at least it wouldn't been smashed by anyone.

That's what I hate about patrol - seeing the dead cats and dogs. The possums, squirrels, raccoons and armadillos: not so much. But kitties? I always cry over kitties.
 
sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

I guess I identify with the predator more than I do with the prey. I cheer a little inside when I see the local hawks with rodents in their talons. Even the cute, fluffy rodents.

When I saw a Red-Tailed Hawk perching on my back porch for days at a time, I decided my Kitteh would remain an indoor Kitteh...
 
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Wasabi Poptart

A good friend's grandmom died yesterday. Never met the lady, but it made me think of my own grandmom and how awful it was to lose her.
 
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crono1224 said:
Recently I have spotted multiple bunnies and baby bunnies around the house, and actually a few days ago there was one that was pretending to either be dead or invisible it would just 'sit' there for 20 minutes not moving or appearing to blink, but when i left it for a while i noticed it changed spots.

That leads me to today, when I am playing basketball out front with a friend when all of a sudden I see a hawk fly over head with a baby bunny in its talons, and I could hear the bunny squealing. It made me kinda depressed cause it was sad that the bunny was going to die, and even worst cause I could hear it as it was being carried off. Now I understand that it's nature and it's what happens but it is still saddening to me to actually witness it. Also most times I don't enjoy watching the videos of tigers/lions chasing and killing animals either.

But anyway was just wondering if anyone else had that kind of inconsequential thing happen that sullen their day.
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sixpackshaker said:
I guess I identify with the predator more than I do with the prey. I cheer a little inside when I see the local hawks with rodents in their talons. Even the cute, fluffy rodents.

When I saw a Red-Tailed Hawk perching on my back porch for days at a time, I decided my Kitteh would remain an indoor Kitteh...
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Cajungal

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sixpackshaker said:
I guess I identify with the predator more than I do with the prey. I cheer a little inside when I see the local hawks with rodents in their talons. Even the cute, fluffy rodents.

When I saw a Red-Tailed Hawk perching on my back porch for days at a time, I decided my Kitteh would remain an indoor Kitteh...
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Yeah, I felt bad reading this because crono was all sad, but I was just thinking, "Goddamn, that is awesome!" I love nature shows.

This actually happened to a friend's stepbrother. He was 4, and they bought him a little bunny. They live out in the country, and the SECOND they let it out of the cage, a hawk swooped down and flew off with "Mister Carrots."
 
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Chazwozel

Cajungal;400482][QUOTE=sixpackshaker said:
I guess I identify with the predator more than I do with the prey. I cheer a little inside when I see the local hawks with rodents in their talons. Even the cute, fluffy rodents.

When I saw a Red-Tailed Hawk perching on my back porch for days at a time, I decided my Kitteh would remain an indoor Kitteh...
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Yeah, I felt bad reading this because crono was all sad, but I was just thinking, "Goddamn, that is awesome!" I love nature shows.

This actually happened to a friend's stepbrother. He was 4, and they bought him a little bunny. They live out in the country, and the SECOND they let it out of the cage, a hawk swooped down and flew off with "Mister Carrots."[/QUOTE]


HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA!
 
Gusto

Gusto

One morning I was standing in a bus shelter waiting to go to school, just after sunrise. A squirrel came out of a nearby bush towards the shelter, stopped dead in his tracks, and stared at me. I stared back at it. After a few seconds of this, a hawk swooped down and carried it off, maybe 5 feet away from me. The hawk then made it's screeching call and I imagined it saying "Thanks brother!" and I laughed.
 
sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

Cajungal said:
This actually happened to a friend's stepbrother. He was 4, and they bought him a little bunny. They live out in the country, and the SECOND they let it out of the cage, a hawk swooped down and flew off with "Mister Carrots."
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I am holding back a major laugh after reading that. I am just picturing the perfect comedic timing of opening the hutch... SWOOP!
 
Cajungal

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Yeah, it was pretty great. Poor little dude ran after em for a while shouting, "Come back, Mister Carrots!" It was kind of sad, but in a funny way. I mean, he got another rabbit, anyway.
 
Hylian

Hylian

I feel bad saying this but I can't help but think that it would be awesome to see a hawk carrying a bunny off.
 
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Chazwozel

Cajungal said:
Yeah, it was pretty great. Poor little dude ran after em for a while shouting, "Come back, Mister Carrots!" It was kind of sad, but in a funny way. I mean, he got another rabbit, anyway.
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COME BACK MISTOW CAWWETTS! COME BACK!
 
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LordRavage

My dad and I are in the car driving through Brooklyn. We dont get much of the wild life here in the big city. We slowly turned a corner and there was a flock of pigeons in the street. My dad honks the horn and most of the pigeons scatter. One of these pigeons stayed on the street and kinda wandered around. My dad kept honking the horn so it would fly away as we crept closer with the car. The damn bird simply would not fly or get out of the way. We had to keep moving forward because there were cars behind us. We lost sight of the pigeon as we continued forward and then the car bounced up a little a moment later on the left front wheel.

We both looked at each other and said at the same time.."AAAhhhhh mmmmmaaaaannnnn."

We gave the damn bird a million chances to walk/fly away. We felt bad at first..but now we laugh about it. Some great force in the universe really wanted that pigeon dead.
 
Shakey

Shakey

I used to think the bald eagle was a majestic bird that would swoop down with speed and grace, grab it's prey with it's powerful claws, and crush the life out of it. That is until I started seeing a lot more of them around here. Now, every day I go to work, I get to see them pecking at the dead deer on the side of the road like a common crow. Not the most inspiring image of our national bird.
 
Necronic

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Guess I am just a heartless monster but we would sit on our back porch and watch our cat hunt rabbits in the field. Nature is being driven out of our society and culture incredibly fast, so to be honest I find it reassuring to see stuff like that happen in the city, it means that there is still an ecosystem.
 
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LordRavage

Necronic said:
Guess I am just a heartless monster but we would sit on our back porch and watch our cat hunt rabbits in the field. Nature is being driven out of our society and culture incredibly fast, so to be honest I find it reassuring to see stuff like that happen in the city, it means that there is still an ecosystem.
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I think its less on the heartless and more on the understanding of nature. I love when my cat brings me cute dead mice. She gets extra treats for that.
 
Azurephoenix

Azurephoenix

My parents live outside the city limits and have a number of bird feeders and bird houses and such to encourage the little guys to come and nest in the yard. One neighbor also has a stupid cat that they adopted (I think it was feral) that routinely kills as many birds as it can. It doesn't eat them, it doesn't collect them, it just kills them and leaves their bodies where they fall. One year it killed all the parents of all three bird houses (two sets of swallows and one bluebird family) and all the babies died of starvation. @#$%ing cat!

The only good thing is that a few years ago... that cat got in a fight with the weasel that's been living in the back yard and got the shit bitten out of it. Holy crap that weasel was pissed! Cat doesn't come back now...
 
Calleja

Calleja

Oh man... I wouldn't laugh if I saw it in person cause I'd be like "aw man, that poor kid's bunny!" but reading it is making me laugh my ass off.
 
Cajungal

Cajungal

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Calleja said:
Oh man... I wouldn't laugh if I saw it in person cause I'd be like "aw man, that poor kid's bunny!" but reading it is making me laugh my ass off.
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He actually didn't cry. I think they convinced him that the hawk wanted to make friends.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Officer_Charon said:
Saw a dead kitten in the middle of the road whilst patrolling today. Poor thing couldn't have been more than 3 months old. I stopped and moved it to the side of the road, where at least it wouldn't been smashed by anyone. That's what I hate about patrol - seeing the dead cats and dogs. The possums, squirrels, raccoons and armadillos: not so much. But kitties? I always cry over kitties.
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On my way to work last week I passed by a female mallard wandering around the freeway. Around it were peppered the squashed bodies of her mate and probably 4 or 5 ducklings who had all tried to cross but got hung up at the concrete barrier in the center. Shuddered a bit while my brain helpfully reenacted how it had probably all played out, but I still managed to miss her.

Cajungal said:
This actually happened to a friend's stepbrother. He was 4, and they bought him a little bunny. They live out in the country, and the SECOND they let it out of the cage, a hawk swooped down and flew off with "Mister Carrots."
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--Patrick
 
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