tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post7364881436393670381..comments2024-03-29T05:01:52.320-05:00Comments on Althouse: "Trapping [the beavers] might have gone unnoticed if not for retired Madison police detective Sara Petzold."Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-83095466049289348362017-04-11T16:19:20.628-05:002017-04-11T16:19:20.628-05:00@boplankers The internet is amazing. I looked up...@boplankers The internet is amazing. I looked up Warner Park. It WAS built on a wetland. Looks like the only answer is too fill the whole damn thing in. Are you ready for that?khesanh0802https://www.blogger.com/profile/11792377924992548208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-61657450948392322072017-04-11T16:12:35.822-05:002017-04-11T16:12:35.822-05:00@bobplankers You are correct that I know nothing ...@bobplankers You are correct that I know nothing about Warner Park. From the sounds of things, though, Warner Park would not be built today because it was clearly built on a wetland. Although I was serious about the educational opportunity I guess I was a little facetious about the liberals in Madison being soft hearted when a problem was not in their backyard, but real pricks when it came to defending their home turf.khesanh0802https://www.blogger.com/profile/11792377924992548208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-9733102783851399032017-04-11T10:11:54.802-05:002017-04-11T10:11:54.802-05:00I guess, in addition to being a rapist, because my...I guess, in addition to being a rapist, because my girlfriend and I liked to have sex while high, I am a serial killer for setting mousetraps!tim in vermonthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06547980465313241972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-70029353631859200492017-04-11T08:04:14.822-05:002017-04-11T08:04:14.822-05:00Our two dogs played with a San Juan river beaver f...Our two dogs played with a San Juan river beaver for about 20 minutes, after which they were soaked, exhausted and had gashes on their faces like they'd been hit with a chisel.Fernandinandehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11253225431705407699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-28897895933103965382017-04-11T07:30:30.132-05:002017-04-11T07:30:30.132-05:00" A busy beavers are hardly pests. "
Ci..." A busy beavers are hardly pests. "<br /><br />City boy, ain't cha?JAOREhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11819907966430540035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-24616112499897639542017-04-11T07:18:17.329-05:002017-04-11T07:18:17.329-05:00"Killing animals is not a hobby; it's a c..."Killing animals is not a hobby; it's a crime."<br /><br />Ask me how I know that this sweeping declaration somehow excludes unborn humans. Go ahead. Ask me.TrespassersW https://www.blogger.com/profile/03388679190741686543noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-32901285787771977252017-04-11T07:01:41.796-05:002017-04-11T07:01:41.796-05:00A couple of years ago I was in combat with a beave...A couple of years ago I was in combat with a beaver who wanted to block up the culvert at the end of my drive. He'd build his wall, if testing down. My kids liked the damn thing, every once in a while we'd see him waddling across the lane. So when I was out of town for a week, that beaver had free reign to build and build. I had to borrow a tractor to clear that mess and my driveway has never recovered. The beaver got hit by a car later that summer. Not mine.Lost My Cookieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15286131055122678810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-90033924211115609912017-04-11T06:56:46.935-05:002017-04-11T06:56:46.935-05:00"they were all eaten very soon"
But the...<i>"they were all eaten very soon"</i><br /><br />But they were killed by beautiful, natural processes, not cold horrid criminal technological ones. So it's okay!Paco Wovéhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00053886112561036768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-16016238246171229202017-04-11T05:12:08.598-05:002017-04-11T05:12:08.598-05:00Trumpit asserted: "Killing animals is not a h...Trumpit asserted: "Killing animals is not a hobby; it's a crime."<br /><br />Boy Trumpit, I wish you could have seen those 8 coyotes run down that fawn in my pasture last summer. You could have issued a murder warrant to the offending coyotes. <br /><br />To say you are ignorant of nature is an understatement.Humperdinkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08765464624483404218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-12089624574923837772017-04-11T00:24:40.162-05:002017-04-11T00:24:40.162-05:00Killing animals is not a hobby; it's a crime.
...<i> Killing animals is not a hobby; it's a crime.</i><br /><br />Get back to me when you start arresting lions, or sharks or chimps.<br /><br />Why are humans the only animal that isn't allowed to kill other animals?<br /><br />(Be careful here...you reason might be used to show why humans have rights and animals don't)Gahriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16795449308207016641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-5127931574670874862017-04-11T00:22:50.782-05:002017-04-11T00:22:50.782-05:00Everyone knows that humans are by far the most des...<i> Everyone knows that humans are by far the most destructive species</i><br /><br />Really? Show me a nature park or natural preserve created by any other animal. <br /><br />Show me another species that spends ANY time or resources on preserving the environment. <br /><br />Show me an animal that can ever imagine rights, let alone respect them.<br /><br />Change is not destruction. Extinction is natural. Climate change is natural. Humans are natural. While you evidently celebrate beaver dams, I bet you condemn human ones.Gahriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16795449308207016641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-34361493613104345002017-04-11T00:11:43.137-05:002017-04-11T00:11:43.137-05:00"Beavers are incredibly destructive." E..."Beavers are incredibly destructive." Everyone knows that humans are by far the most destructive species. Any animal people want to get rid of is called a pest. A busy beavers are hardly pests. Termites are pests. Annoying people are pests. I hate trappers and hunters. I would outlaw the practice. Killing animals is not a hobby; it's a crime.Trumpithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02252672877713167746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-16331013532179099272017-04-10T23:52:25.918-05:002017-04-10T23:52:25.918-05:00Hey, its time for the government to get invovled i...Hey, its time for the government to get invovled in relocating vermin for the benefit of the White Man. If Andrew Jackson can do five years of The Trail of Tears to get Indians out of the Southland, then Madison should be capable of tenderly trapping the beavers for an 18-wheel, all-expense-paid, Pig Pen ride to the Rocky Mountain National Park.gadflyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06219461694806089345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-29773120940010828032017-04-10T21:50:28.930-05:002017-04-10T21:50:28.930-05:00I'm reminded of an incidence in the SF area in...I'm reminded of an incidence in the SF area in the 1980s when deer were overgrazing Angel Island in SF Bay. The original plan was just to shoot the (non-native) deer, but the outcry over killing Bambi's mom was too great.<br /><br />So at great expense, they were trapped, then transported to the California mountains and released. Of course, they had no experience evading predators, so they were all eaten very soon.Ed Bohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02197354096779753301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-9796131457661899492017-04-10T21:22:03.386-05:002017-04-10T21:22:03.386-05:00It must be uncomfortable when the natural world co...It must be uncomfortable when the natural world conflicts with the iPhone natural world.<br /><br />The natural inclination must be to ban the uncomfortable things in the natural world...naturally.Browndoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09531556749827894771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-72557414298195785712017-04-10T21:05:24.635-05:002017-04-10T21:05:24.635-05:00Sheared beaver is so soft...a 70 pound beaver woul...Sheared beaver is so soft...a 70 pound beaver would make a hat, muff and mitten lining. The town I lived in in Mississippi had a beaver problem so they introduced alligator thinking that adults could survive winter but they would not reproduce. They could and then you'd get typical results. Beaver would thrive, make new habitat then gators would come, beavers get eaten, leave, make new habitat and gators followed. So if there is climate change and 400 years from now, alligators in Madisontoxdochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04931169033573714665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-86536025076338554492017-04-10T20:45:17.471-05:002017-04-10T20:45:17.471-05:00We have a special license at our historic site (Pe...We have a special license at our historic site (Pennsbury Manor) which allows us to collect various road-kill and on site animals. We have beaver, fox, skunk, coyote, etc. It's interesting to see how people react to treated skins. Some 'oooh and aaah' and others are repelled. Pennsylvania (well William Penn) was at one time required to present 2 beaver pelts to King Charles II as a quit-rent to the colony, along with other trifles. I haven't been able to convince the present PA government to send me to London to present Her Majesty with some of our road-kill and twigs.Karen Gallehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16738383481903812452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-2707265208140905262017-04-10T20:35:08.375-05:002017-04-10T20:35:08.375-05:00FullMoon,
"They have some VERy Large women th...FullMoon,<br />"They have some VERy Large women there"<br /><br />Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [Reading from his grandfathers' notebook] "As the minuteness of the parts formed a great hindrance to my speed, I resolved therefore to make a being of a gigantic stature." <br /><br />[pause] <br /><br />Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Of course. That would simplify everything. <br /><br />Inga: In other vords: his veins, his feet, his hands, his organs vould all have to be increased in size. <br /><br />Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Exactly. <br /><br />Inga: He vould have an enormous schwanzstucker. <br /><br />Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: That goes without saying. <br /><br />Inga: Voof. <br /><br />Igor: He's going to be very popular. <br />exhelodrvr1https://www.blogger.com/profile/15874052265934108903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-82775134065775203952017-04-10T20:21:34.829-05:002017-04-10T20:21:34.829-05:00As a fellow Madison resident I ask that the city s...As a fellow Madison resident I ask that the city send her the bill for the trees they have to replant, as well as for fixing the flooding in basements. Beavers are incredibly destructive.<br /><br />I hope the commenter from MN who knows nothing of the topology or history of Warner Park also lets mice, rats, chipmunks, and voles return their house to its natural state. Or do we discriminate based on size? Bob Plankers -- lonesysadmin.nethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06715288979635721319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-75485812745882590622017-04-10T20:04:34.892-05:002017-04-10T20:04:34.892-05:00In Soviet Madison, beaver trap you.In Soviet Madison, beaver trap you.Meadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00117933390338651739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-83834116035286634922017-04-10T19:57:54.569-05:002017-04-10T19:57:54.569-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.FullMoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07541560904252155570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-78349905529676821862017-04-10T19:55:57.364-05:002017-04-10T19:55:57.364-05:00"the harsh light of empathy."
Oh, Altho..."the harsh light of empathy."<br /><br />Oh, Althouse, I am jealous. Wish I had thought of that one.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17424384180201600935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-20526526333195389262017-04-10T19:49:31.422-05:002017-04-10T19:49:31.422-05:00Tom Bodett has a very funny routine about a SJW ty...Tom Bodett has a very funny routine about a SJW type in Alaska who was protesting leg hold traps and set up an exhibit at the local fair.<br /><br />The trouble was all the guys who were crowding around her exhibit trying to buy traps that she had on display.Michael Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18127450762129879267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-52685502994248779342017-04-10T19:45:09.879-05:002017-04-10T19:45:09.879-05:00"People who keep a pet are not "animal l...<i>"People who keep a pet are not "animal lovers," for example, any more than a person who keeps another person is a "people lover."</i><br /><br />Where's Laslo ?<br /><br />Hurry up. We need you.Michael Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18127450762129879267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-48937153541679150882017-04-10T19:36:03.692-05:002017-04-10T19:36:03.692-05:00I also realize there are times when "somethin...I also realize there are times when "something must be done", but I would rather see us work at adapting. Brook trout and wood ducks love beaver ponds.khesanh0802https://www.blogger.com/profile/11792377924992548208noreply@blogger.com