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[bigfella]

Fred

They are fantastic, where do you get them from. Really funny photos.

Regards David

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one for David

Fred

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I get them sent to me and have a file of them Ive been colecting for years

Fred

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another

Fred

[bigfella]

Fred

Once again, really funny. Keep them coming I haven't laughed so much in a long time. Do you have a stash of these or do you just find them on the net?

Regards David

ADDED: You answered my question before I asked it.

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one or two more

Fred

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fred

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 bigfella
Ill find some more tomorrow or better still ill e-mail them to you as I may not be to popular posting to many cat jokes

Fred

[bigfella]

Fred

Thanks that will be great.

Regards David

[Robert Davies]

Useful for one of those forum exchanges

[Bartapuss]

They've also got bodies like the Tardis, they're bigger on the inside!! 

[sheerline]

Hi bigfella, just read your response re the toad thing. I forgot you were in Australia and suffer from the cane toad plaque so I take back what I said as far as your toad infestation is concerned. I did see a programme on tv showing the type of toad you have and so I agree with you and they should be stamped out (no pun intended)
Cheers. Chris

[bigfella]

Hi Chris

I know it sounds cruel but when we were kids we used to go out Toad hunting, take a cricket bat or golf club and whack them on the head with it. These creatures are more deadly than Red Back Spiders. Some people go out and sprinkle salt on the toads this causes them to dehydrate as they drink via reverse osmosis through there skin. They end up like petrified wood. Of coarse the greenies don't like that and say we must kill them humanely by catching them and putting them in the freezer, no thanks not in amongst my fish fingers and frozen peas

Regards David

[sheerline]

 Bigfella,on the tv programme I saw, they were all crossing the road in droves, the car drivers were encouraged to run em over and.... uuugh!, I won't go into detail.
Sorry fellas didn't mean to hijack the cat thead... love the pics, keep em comin!

[bigfella]

There is a bloke who has made Millions by stuffing the Toad skins and posing them with things like cans of beer and selling to tourists

[Bartapuss]

Moggies also known as Roof Rabbits

[kendalboatsman]

There are at least two sides to every question.

I am an animal loverand like to encourage wild life. I have a nice big pond in my garden, with fish, frogs, newts and toads. The odd squirrel pops in now and again. We try to discourage the ducks from nesting here, but lots of other wild birds do.

Why would I want to introduce a mindless predator that will kill anything that moves just for fun?

Rick

Hi Rick,

I was never a cat lover until I met SWMBO 6 years ago, "Love me love my cat" was the quote when we first met. That was Robinson who died of old age last year, we now have a cat each (as well as Penny our Lurcher). In 6 years none of our cats have attacked any wildlife though Robinson was fascinated with spiders not that he ever killed one.

Clive :)

[grasshopper]

Unless you've kept them inside and watched them 24/7 your statement may be incorrect -

All animal behaviour is based on instinct, that instinct is only modified by humans,  animals like cats  (and your lurcher) are killers - that's what they are designed to do. If you let them out of the house, they will do what they're designed for - either for food or just the fun of it.

Just because you've never seen them do it, doesn't mean they haven't.

[Peter Fitness]

Hi sheerline,
I'm with bigfella on this one, as I live only an hour or so south of him, and cane toads are an absolute curse here too. Cricket bats, golf clubs, shovels, in fact almost any sort of a blunt (or even sharp) object will do, and cars are lethal to them. As was mentioned, salt is effective, but a spray of neat Dettol results in almost instant death. BTW bigfella, as I'm sure you're aware, Queenslanders are called cane toads in the Rugby League world, and have been known to be defeated by cockroaches; not this year though!!
Peter.

[bigfella]

Hi sheerline,
I'm with bigfella on this one, as I live only an hour or so south of him, and cane toads are an absolute curse here too. Cricket bats, golf clubs, shovels, in fact almost any sort of a blunt (or even sharp) object will do, and cars are lethal to them. As was mentioned, salt is effective, but a spray of neat Dettol results in almost instant death. BTW bigfella, as I'm sure you're aware, Queenslanders are called cane toads in the Rugby League world, and have been known to be defeated by cockroaches; not this year though!!
Peter.

Hi Peter

I did not know about Dettol, I will have to give that a go. In regards to the cockroaches they may have survived the iceage but I think they have had their day in Rugby League

Regards David

[sheerline]

Hello chaps downunder, given the nature of your problem I have to say I am with you both on this cane toad thing. Although I usually adopt the 'live and let live' attidude to most creatures I will go after something when it becomes a real threat and a pest. We live in the country and at one time we had more than our fair share of rats due to a smallholding farming activity nearby (gone now thank goodness) and we took to shooting them in the end. I drew the line on em when one got into our loft, we figured out where it was coming in and it was climbing a cable which ran up the side of the house. As it would do this in the middle of the night we were unable to catch it in the act so I figured out a cunning plan to get it.
I wrapped two pieces of silver foil around the cable, spaced so the rat would straddle them as it climbed up. I dug out an old security lamp with an infra red detector fitted, removed the bulb and hooked the lamp terminals up to each of the pieces of foil. Having stategically placed the infra red detector adjacent to the foil wrappings around the cable, I plugged the thing in and left it. Sure enough, the following night there was a loud crack accompanied by a slight fluctuation in the house lighting. I never found the rat but if it survived, it certainly never returned and we have been rat free ever since.
Whilst I don't like being cruel to animals, this seemed the only way to deal with the problem because if the rat died, that would solve it immediately but even if it survived, being very smart and astute creatures, it would certainly think twice before climbing that cable again!
Perhaps there is a method for dealing with your cane toads here. I assume they are nicely conductive, in the electrical sense, and if you could find something that only cane toads like, you may be able to rig smething up and blast the little beggers. The biggest problem is in creating something selective.. which only kills the toads and nothing else but I guess you've got better brains than mine out there who have already looked at this problem.
Good luck chaps, don't get tennis elbow with all that bat swinging!
Best regards..... Chris

[bigfella]

Hi Chris

You should of got yourself some of those "evil killing pussy cats" that would have sorted out the rats.

Regards David

[sheerline]

Hi David... My dog 'Sparky, sadly now gone, used to kill the rats and sad to say, a cat on these premesis wouldn't have survived his attentions either as he hated cats with a passion and would even hunt them down. We had to be very careful of him because he even learned the word 'cat' and would get very excited at the mere mention of it. His only problem was he couldn't stay out at night waiting for the 'loft rat' so thats why I turned to the techological solution. In any case, the technology didn't need feeding, didn't dig up my wife's plants and certainly left no foul smelling exhaust debris in the middle of the lawn!
During this 'rat phase', I did begin shooting them and although many people abhor these creatures, I grew to respect them for their intellegence and tenacity. The shootings were necessary but I found the process quite distasteful as I am a but of a softy with animals. In the process however, I did  learn a great deal about these creatures and found them truly adaptable, real survivors and Very Very smart!
Regards.... Chris

[bigfella]

Hi Chris

We used to have a dog a bit like that when we were kids only he used to line up the cat so he could mount her. He was a randy dog he used to disappear for a couple of days when there was a dog on heat and come back with a smile on his face.

Regards David

[sheerline]

Your post made me laugh out loud at the thought of a dog having a go at a cat that way...  I'm still grinning when I think of it. It makes you wonder a bit about the cat though and I am trying to imagine the kind of expression which the cats' face would have during or after the event... ::) I bet someone here has a picture that would fit the bill.