Eeew, no thanks. I guess we don't have them around here.
Critters and wildlife in your area - post your pics
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A melanistic fox?
LOL, you got me. I'm pretty sure black is one of the colors like silver, but you just don't see them nearly as much.
Here's a different black one that's getting some of the red bred back into it. She had 2 red kits that year.
Isn't she aDORable!!! Wow, so pretty!
It is cute, I'll give it that. And I have to just mention how amazing is Jan's photography. But look at that face. I see evil.
That critter belongs in a movie.
https://doberman-chat.com/threads/the-eeeck-thread.21628/#post-374011
And post #49 is where I posted that same *bristle* spider!!
You think? I see confidence. Attitude maybe. But she still makes me smile. Maybe I like confident women with attitude.
Thanks for the link - I forgot it was spelled like that.
She was actually telling me "try to make me get out of the yard" since I was trying to get her out of there because the dogs go so nuts.
We have bag worms everywhere down here. Some houses will have hundreds attached to the pillars. I tried pressure washing them off but it didn't work. I had to pull them off by hand.
We have lots of these here. This one is on the small side.
Ha.https://doberman-chat.com/threads/the-eeeck-thread.21628/#post-374011
And post #49 is where I posted that same *bristle* spider!!
You think? I see confidence. Attitude maybe. But she still makes me smile. Maybe I like confident women with attitude.
I think I like confident women without too much attitude. Aha! I see your post of the same type of spider! You got a much better shot. I want to look up on the web (you know, interweb) and see if I can find out what kind it is. It's still right there today in our veggie garden. Today it's munching on a large ant. Part of me really wants to kill it. I have policies with spiders. Too large and you gotta go. Too fast see ya'. And a jumping spider of any size?
That seems to have about 40 legs. So, not a centipede? I'm confused about centipedes and millipedes. Does one actually have a hundred legs? And certainly the other does not have 1000 legs. ?
It's a juvenile centipede, lots of little legs under him. I have seen them over 10-12" long. I encounter them and the scorpions almost daily in the yards. Also lots of spiders and webs. I hate walking face into a spider web. Gives me the willies.
Millipedes are much smaller in size. This is a millipede. They are a couple inches long. Centipedes are much larger and can have a reactive bite. One put my husband in the hospital from it's bite. His lymph node in his leg was the size of a small orange. It almost killed him. It was in the bed between the sheets. That's when we lived in the Virgin Islands.
Wow, from a centipede!? I didn't even know they bite! I'm sure we have them here in IL but I haven't seen one years!
Aha! I see your post of the same type of spider! You got a much better shot. I want to look up on the web (you know, interweb) and see if I can find out what kind it is. It's still right there today in our veggie garden. Today it's munching on a large ant. Part of me really wants to kill it. I have policies with spiders. Too large and you gotta go. Too fast see ya'. And a jumping spider of any size?
I really 'get' so much of that! LOL! And in the house, yea, I'm sorry, but you have to go. My house, not yours. But I've really gotten weird in my old age. Where I once was extremely afraid of them, I now can tolerate them a lot more. No, I'm not going to handle them, let them crawl on me or even get that close, but it used to be I would not even stay in the same room as them! When I was a kid and called Mom in to get a spider (Dad was usually at work) and she lost it somewhere, I was outta there! She would tell me, "He'll go home, don't worry."
I always told her, "This IS his home!!!!" 
Once, when I was first married I found a big spider in our basement. We lived about 2 miles from my parents house and so this little girl called her daddy to come get the big ole bad spider!!!!
Ya know what he told me? "Put your hip boots on and go get 'em!" 
Really, daddy!?? *sigh* I don't even remember what happened with it! I just remember the day daddy told me to 'grow up'. Well, in so many words, anyway. 
Anyway, when I see them outside, I'm usually cool with them. They have a job to do too.
And they are really more afraid of us than we are of them. I don't wanna see those humongous ones though! 
And don't make those damn webs at face level!!!
I'm so disappointed. I just took what I thought was a great video of the dogs going nuts at a fox sitting by the garage and when I hit record it didn't start, so when I hit stop recording it started and I got a bunch of sky and dogs with hackles raised. It just sat there and stared at us for about a minute, then meandered away.
And that brings me to this article in yesterday's paper.
Fox suspected in attack near Lake Harriet caught; woman grabbed jaws to free herself
Animal destroyed; jogger, bicyclist treated for rabies.
By Paul Walsh and Liz Sawyer Star Tribune
AUGUST 17, 2016 — 11:21PM
bitten.
Video (00:44): In May, foxes played near Lake Harriet
“I thought it was a little brown dog,” she said. “I couldn’t believe it.”
Bystanders rushed to Obmoin’s aid, poured water over the bleeding wound and called 911. She drove herself to Fairview Southdale Hospital, received a rabies shot and was sent home. Doctors told her they’d never heard of such a thing.
“I’m still wondering what attracted it to me and the man it bit this morning,” she said. Obmoin said she’d never seen a fox in the area before, and she’s now jumpy — she keeps checking under her car, and vows never to park by the wooded area again.
The attack on the jogger occurred about 5:15 a.m. Wednesday, officials said. Details about that encounter have yet to be released.
Residents who came to Obmoin’s aid told emergency responders that foxes are common in the area and that a woman in the neighborhood “may be feeding [and] allowing foxes to live under her deck,” the report noted.
Animal Control patrols are underway where the attack occurred, and its staff intends to investigate possible illegal feeding of foxes.
Any people who truly care about wildlife would leave animals in the wild alone, Hairfield said. “You’re doing them a disservice” by feeding them, she said.
Clara Domisch, who owns Clarabel antique store in southwest Minneapolis, shot video in May of several foxes playing on a lawn outside a home on that same side of the lake.
Domisch said she has seen them often in that area and has “never been concerned” that they would come after her. “I’m surprised that someone has been bitten,” she said.
Animal Control said it can’t be sure that the captured fox, described by Hairfield as a year-old female weighing under 10 pounds, is responsible for either or both attacks.
“We can never 100 percent guarantee it is,” Hairfield said. “That’s why [the] parties in this matter are being treated for rabies [with a series vaccination shots] just to be on the safe side.”
Dr. Caitlin Eccles-Radtke, an infectious disease physician at Hennepin County Medical Center, said the vaccinations involve single shots in the arm starting on the day of exposure and then on the third, seventh and 14th days following the encounter. Before that series is an injection to help the immune system.
With bites from domesticated animals, such as dogs and cats, health providers can monitor the animal for signs of rabies and then decide after about 10 days whether to go ahead with the shots.
But in cases of wild animals, “we regard them as rabid” and go ahead with the vaccinations.
Incidents in Minneapolis of mammals having rabies are rare, and it’s unusual for a fox to venture so close to a human, Hairfield said.
“This one was very aggressive,” Hairfield said. “This one came out and attacked, unprovoked, two people; one was jogging down the road and the other was taking a bicycle off a car.”
CARLOS GONZALEZ, STAR TRIBUNE
Bite marks on the leg of Susan Obmoin of Eagan were she was bitten by a fox near Lake Harriet.
Original source and video: Fox suspected in attack near Lake Harriet caught; woman grabbed jaws to free herself
Fox suspected in attack near Lake Harriet caught; woman grabbed jaws to free herself
Animal destroyed; jogger, bicyclist treated for rabies.
By Paul Walsh and Liz Sawyer Star Tribune
AUGUST 17, 2016 — 11:21PM
bitten.
Video (00:44): In May, foxes played near Lake Harriet
“I thought it was a little brown dog,” she said. “I couldn’t believe it.”
Bystanders rushed to Obmoin’s aid, poured water over the bleeding wound and called 911. She drove herself to Fairview Southdale Hospital, received a rabies shot and was sent home. Doctors told her they’d never heard of such a thing.
“I’m still wondering what attracted it to me and the man it bit this morning,” she said. Obmoin said she’d never seen a fox in the area before, and she’s now jumpy — she keeps checking under her car, and vows never to park by the wooded area again.
The attack on the jogger occurred about 5:15 a.m. Wednesday, officials said. Details about that encounter have yet to be released.
Residents who came to Obmoin’s aid told emergency responders that foxes are common in the area and that a woman in the neighborhood “may be feeding [and] allowing foxes to live under her deck,” the report noted.
Animal Control patrols are underway where the attack occurred, and its staff intends to investigate possible illegal feeding of foxes.
Any people who truly care about wildlife would leave animals in the wild alone, Hairfield said. “You’re doing them a disservice” by feeding them, she said.
Clara Domisch, who owns Clarabel antique store in southwest Minneapolis, shot video in May of several foxes playing on a lawn outside a home on that same side of the lake.
Domisch said she has seen them often in that area and has “never been concerned” that they would come after her. “I’m surprised that someone has been bitten,” she said.
Animal Control said it can’t be sure that the captured fox, described by Hairfield as a year-old female weighing under 10 pounds, is responsible for either or both attacks.
“We can never 100 percent guarantee it is,” Hairfield said. “That’s why [the] parties in this matter are being treated for rabies [with a series vaccination shots] just to be on the safe side.”
Dr. Caitlin Eccles-Radtke, an infectious disease physician at Hennepin County Medical Center, said the vaccinations involve single shots in the arm starting on the day of exposure and then on the third, seventh and 14th days following the encounter. Before that series is an injection to help the immune system.
With bites from domesticated animals, such as dogs and cats, health providers can monitor the animal for signs of rabies and then decide after about 10 days whether to go ahead with the shots.
But in cases of wild animals, “we regard them as rabid” and go ahead with the vaccinations.
Incidents in Minneapolis of mammals having rabies are rare, and it’s unusual for a fox to venture so close to a human, Hairfield said.
“This one was very aggressive,” Hairfield said. “This one came out and attacked, unprovoked, two people; one was jogging down the road and the other was taking a bicycle off a car.”
CARLOS GONZALEZ, STAR TRIBUNE
Bite marks on the leg of Susan Obmoin of Eagan were she was bitten by a fox near Lake Harriet.
Original source and video: Fox suspected in attack near Lake Harriet caught; woman grabbed jaws to free herself
Wow, that's scary! I would really worry about rabies since it attacked her unprovoked. The only fox I've ever seen around here was running away from me.....and I was in my car. He was definitely intimated by me, running away and taking a look over his shoulder once in a while.
Yes, if they are outside and not in a place that could be problematic for us I certainly don't feel it's my place to kill them for no reason. This one, however, has its web between our house and a garden box. So not only is it blocking a walkway, but I don't know if it crawls up into our siding and thus sort of has a home in our house. Then you've got to wonder about if it is going to reproduce and perhaps cause even a small infestation in our house.Anyway, when I see them outside, I'm usually cool with them. They have a job to do too.
So I may have to off the thing tomorrow.
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