July 24, 2022

Martha Stewart kept peacocks and there were also 6 "large and aggressive" coyotes. "Let's Get It On," indeed.


This is a metaphor, but for what?

6 coyotes killed 6 peafowl, and there are still more peafowl chez Martha. 

Martha knows the Marvin Gaye anthem to sexuality pairs horribly with predation, but it's the video she has of the proud Blue Boy, who is no more.


IN THE COMMENTS: Wince quotes Martha's "RIP beautiful BlueBoy" and links to "Well, he made it. Blue Boy is dead":

49 comments:

Kevin said...

Well you can’t just drop the coyotes off a cliff.

They’ll be back at it the next day.

Dave Begley said...

Martha:

Buy a rifle and use it.

RideSpaceMountain said...

"Any tips for getting rid of 6 large and aggressive coyotes with expensive taste"

Well Martha, if Trump had been allowed to build the wall this problem could've been averted. It wouldn't have been cheap either, if that's what you're implying.

Wince said...

RIP beautiful BlueBoy.

"Well, he made it."

BlueBoy is dead.

Heartless Aztec said...

Day one: peacocks in your neighborhood are beautiful. Day two: peacocks cawing in the wee hours if the morning and throughout the day are disruptive. Day three: peacocks on top of you cars shitting on and scratching the paintwork are costly.
Day four: All peacocks must die.

n.n said...

A tale of illegal aliens who identify as fathers, boyfriends, perhaps, and women and girls raped... rape-raped in darkness, consumed in a climate that is neither cheerful nor gay... gaye.

RonF said...

Shoot them. They're vermin, not game animals, you van shoot them at any time as long as you are on your own land and no too close to someone else's residence.

Dave Begley said...

There are wild peacocks roaming Grand Island, Nebraska.

Gusty Winds said...

Martha Stewart asked, any solutions for getting rid of six large and aggressive coyotes who have expensive tastes…?

Yes Martha. You can hire Elisjsha Dicken from Seymour, Indiana to come shoot them. He’s a pretty good shot. Even at a distance. And much better at the job that the Uvalde Police.

It’ll piss off your rich liberal friends who also commit tax fraud and should be doing prison time. But it’ll only piss them off publicly. They like it when armed guards protect them and their property.

They just don't like it when its used on dangerous animals, violent criminals, and protecting children at schools.

Mary Beth said...

Blue Boy and White Boy, who named those poor birds?

John henry said...

"ain't nobody here but us peacocks"?

John LGBTQBNY Henry

Bruce Hayden said...

“Buy a rifle and use it.”

I was thinking handgun, but a rifle is probably better. An AR-15 would be great here - soft and flat shooting. Fast followup shots. Bullets aren’t too big or powerful. Probably wouldn’t want anything heavier. I have a nice 9 mm PCR that would work, but I would go with a 5.56/.223 AR-15.

We spend the other half the year in PHX, and have a nice big open space just south of us - that is the residence of a pack of 4 coyotes. I carry a 9 mm G19 when walking the dog there (if I get the dog out there before she shits, I don’t have to pick it up). Asked PHX PD about shooting the coyotes. Told me it was fine as long as it looks like I was protecting myself or my dog.

Just asking questions (Jaq) said...

If she kills the coy dogs, (coyotes are not large and don’t travel in packs, but grey wolf hybrids are and do) the neighbor who brought them around to kill the obnoxious pea fowl will just bring more. I would.

Eleanor said...

A bobcat shredded the laundry I had hung out to dry. At least the coyotes had a motivation that makes sense. My clothes looked like curtains do when a house cat decides there's something on the window she needs but can't reach.

Just asking questions (Jaq) said...

I have a rich, very liberal friend who hired a hunter to rid him of a pack of coy dogs, and come to think of it, the deer have gotten pretty thick around here and I haven’t heard any coy dogs yipping for a couple of summers. You see we need hunters to manage the deer population and those dastardly coy dogs kill too many deer! Personally, if I saw deer about as often as I see bear, that would be about right. If you want to let defenseless pets roam freely, I guess the only solution is to wipe out the predators and upset the balance around you.

n.n said...

Blue Boy and White Boy, who named those poor birds?

Boy or girl is a given. Blue and White are low information attributes that identify them in a crowd.

gilbar said...

Dave Begley said...
There are wild peacocks roaming Grand Island, Nebraska.

according to the WSJ, there are Gangs of vicious peafowl, pooping all over the entire town!! And they've paid off the cops, who now do the peafowl's bidding
Peacocks Are at Large in a Nebraska Town, and the Law’s on Their Side

Leland said...

The peacocks are the invasive species. Coyotes are the indigenous species. Why is she trying to get rid of the native fauna to protect her imperial birds?

Left Bank of the Charles said...

In 1970s Iowa, coyotes were hunted with dogs, pickup trucks, and CB radios. The pickups would run on parallel gravel roads and radio the coyote’s last known position. If they had to shift the grid, they kicked up gravel speeding into the new position. Since the coyote hunters thought of themselves as performing a public service, they claimed a right of entry onto any farm if in pursuit. One time, my grandfather and I came over the hill on his Lower 80 and found several pickup trucks, a group of coyote hunters, and their dogs clustered around the pond. The coyote had taken refuge in the large drain pipe. The hunters ran a strand of barbed wire into the pipe, twisted it until the wire wrapped around the coyote, and pulled the coyote out with one hunter in position to shoot.

I don’t think that hunting technique would fly in Martha Stewart’s neighborhood.

Lurker21 said...

Martha, you get to play that card once and only once.

Your dogs killed your cat three or four months ago.

To lose one pet may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose seven looks like carelessness.

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

The wild peafowl were cool in the foothills of San Bernardino, where they roamed between the flood control ponds above Del Rosa over to Cal State University at the mouth of Devil’s Canyon. Somehow this herd coexists with the coyotes who also favor the foothill zone. Maybe because rabbits and house cats were so plentiful.

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

Maybe it's a sign that some shadowy foreign entity is about to gobble up the NBC peacock, a subsidiary of Comcast.

mezzrow said...

Team blue is counting casualties while team red is so powerful it could impregnate the world if left unchecked.

The fate of the world depends on the forbearance of team red. No wonder people are nervous.

William said...

Just as a suggestion, she could stop keeping peacocks as pets. Rottweilers aren't so ornamental, but they make nice pets....How much does having your own flock of peacocks enhance the experience of life?

Lyle said...

Get a gun Martha. Use it.

Yancey Ward said...

Blue Boy is defunct

How do you like your blue-eyed boy
Mister Death?

Bruce Hayden said...

“The peacocks are the invasive species. Coyotes are the indigenous species. Why is she trying to get rid of the native fauna to protect her imperial birds?”

Because coyotes historically were controlled by higher level predators, such as wolves, and they have mostly been killed off by us. When wolves were reintroduced into Yellowstone,there were a lot of predictions on what they would do to the elk, cattle, etc herds. But the species that they did the most dame to turned out to be coyotes - with their numbers reduced by roughly 1/2 from before the wolves were reintroduced. But, the wolves reintroduced weren’t really the indigenous ones - those were extinct. Rather they were Canadian Gray Wolves, that were a little bigger, and ran in bigger packs, than their no extinct American cousins. That all said, I would prefer coyotes to wolves. We have both in our county here, in MT, but maybe fewer coyotes since the wolves moved back in.

Lash LaRue said...

Some say roasted peacock is tasty.

Mary Beth said...

Somehow this herd coexists with the coyotes who also favor the foothill zone.

Wild birds don't have their wings clipped. The birds will go up into trees to wait out the coyotes. And yell at them. Loudly.

Christy said...

The Marvin Gaye music is perfect for the peacock's sexual display.

My family on the farm swears by donkeys for keeping coyotes in check. Somehow I suspect donkeys aren't elegant enough for Stewart.

I confess to a soft spot for coyotes, trickster gods in general although Loki, not so much.

Interested Bystander said...

Blogger Heartless Aztec said...
Day one: peacocks in your neighborhood are beautiful. Day two: peacocks cawing in the wee hours if the morning and throughout the day are disruptive. Day three: peacocks on top of you cars shitting on and scratching the paintwork are costly.
Day four: All peacocks must die.


7/24/22, 8:36 AM


They like to get on your roof and pick at the shingles, doing a lot of expensive damage.

A friend was having peacock trouble so he trapped them and drove them 25 miles away and turned them loose at a golf course. I'm sure the folks living around the course appreciated the howling and roof pecking. Same friend and I were pouring a concrete driveway one day and after the third time the peacocks walked across the wet concrete I saw fire in his eyes. He grabbed his 12 gauge and blasted a couple. The rest scattered quickly.

Wilbur said...

Just leave some ACME products in the woods where the coyotes can find them.

Joe Smith said...

I read somewhere that she is quite the weed connoisseur these days.

If true, leave out some delicious weed brownies, wait for them to get seriously stoned, then put them in a bag and drop them in a river...

madAsHell said...

I remember back when “Blue Boy” was just a gay porn magazine

Achilles said...

The best thing to do with coyotes is shoot them. If they are anywhere near your home they will eventually kill your pets including dogs.

Animals have a range of domesticatability. Wolves are wild, but have the capability over time to domesticate.

Coyotes completely lack this gene and will never domesticate.

farmgirl said...

https://vtdigger.org/press_release/vermont-wildlife-advocates-celebrate-a-big-win/

VT- so many firsts…

AndrewV said...

"The best thing to do with coyotes is shoot them. If they are anywhere near your home they will eventually kill your pets including dogs."

If a coyote gets on my friends' property his wife's Saint Bernards will kill them by grabbing them on each end and pull them apart like a tug toy.

Iman said...

I don’t put blame on the coyotes. If I had peacocks in my neighborhood, I’d do my best to make certain that’d be a short lived situation. Goddam noisy nuisance.

bobby said...

I think I've killed 30 or so in the last year when I go farm visiting.

5.56 works perfect.

Iman said...

“Blue Boy and White Boy, who named those poor birds?”

I’ll hazard a guess: Snoop Doggie Dogstuff.

Bob said...

I'm reminded that gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson used to raise peacocks on his Colorado ranch, and had an encounter with a gray fox that was preying on the peacocks. Thompson caught the fox in a live trap, sprayed him with glue and a mix of peacock feathers/feces, then released the fox from the cage; it promptly attacked one of the peacocks, which caused Thompson to blast it with a shotgun. When Thompson shared the story in his newspaper column it cause much anger among the animal rights community, and Thompson was confronted by his editor over the column. Thompson claimed it was an allegory for the Reagan administration, with the fox being a metaphor for Attorney General Edwin Meese.

PigHelmet said...

The responses to this post are fire.

Ann Althouse said...

I'm noticing the Canada geese that used to infest the Mendota lakeshore are gone. Any idea what happened?

Just asking questions (Jaq) said...

I like that Vermont has passed a law against wasting wildlife even if it’s a bummer for people who get their kicks out of it.

Rusty said...

Probably found some place better to hang out. They'll be back. It will be interesting to see next years numbers because of such a poor planting season this year. I'm seeing farmers plowing immature corn under. Geese in the midwest rely on corn.

JAORE said...

She did not mention the darkest peacock.... black boy.

HoodlumDoodlum said...

Did you know Gainsborough's The Blue Boy became a symbol for homosexuals?

In 1974, former TV Guide advertising manager Don N. Embinder (a.k.a. Don Westbrook) published the first issue of Blueboy Magazine, an upscale, gay bi-monthly magazine with nude photography, slick advertisements, and articles by writers such as Christopher Isherwood and Randy Shilts. Rescuing Gainsborough's Blue Boy from sissiness, Embrinder introduced him as the embodiment of the recently liberated gay man. The premier issue featured a bright blue cover with a photograph of a young man dressed up as Gainsborough's boy in blue from the waist up

Wikipedia surprises again!

John Clifford said...

I have a simple, effective solution for Martha's coyote problem. Invite me and my little friend (as per Scarface) over as a houseguest for a week or so and there'll be no more coyotes.

Tina Trent said...

Less time in the kitchen and pool doping up with Snoop Dog and more time watching her pets would help. Peacocks are a nuisance anyway, especially while mating. Donkeys will protect them if she can't get off the edibles.