Can you believe my pal Charlie has never seen a chipmunk, pals?? Poor Charlie...they're great for barking at. Since poor Charlie doesn't know what a chipmunk is, I'm gonna post some animals that we see around here all the time!
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| This here's a chipmunk. Momma thinks they're real cute, but boy do they destroy her garden! And nothing seems to get rid of them! |
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| This is a squirrel, Charlie. Do you have squirrels in Australia? They're kind of like a chipmunk, only bigger. Momma says they're "bolder" too, whatever that means. We had one try to break into our house once! | | | | |
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| This is a deer. The ones with the antlers are boy deer, and they're kind of mean if you get too close. The girl deer don't have the antlers, and they're a lot nicer. The babies are SUPER cute! We see lots of these around here. |
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| This is an elk. They're pretty close to a deer, only MUCH bigger. Momma says they're good eating, too. We don't see many around my neighborhood. You have to go into the mountains and forests to see them. |
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| This is a wild turkey. We see TONS of these guys, especially squished on the side of the road in the fall. They're noisy, too. |
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| This is a groundhog. We have a big fat one that lives in our backyard. Momma says he's so fat cause he eats her tomatoes. He makes her laugh, though, cause he tries to sneak in, sometimes even when she's standing right there! He waddles right past her, then runs when she shouts. Momma says he's not super smart, but she likes him. |
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| And this is Momma's arch nemesis, the wild rabbit. There's so many of them here! They drive Momma nuts cause they eat her green beans and her onions. Even fences don't keep them out! Momma says they're super smart, and they breed like...well, rabbits! |
I'd love to see some of the creatures that live around my pals' homes! Momma loves animals! I just wanna bark at them!
Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou Fizzy ... they are beautiful photos. Those chipmunks are supa cute. My Mum would make pets of them. She makes pets of everything. We've gotta go and pick up the Grankids from school now but we'll be back looking at these photos again.We'll show you some of our critters soon too. Mum's still fascinated about the wild turkey thing. Pretty scrawny looking, aye? Not like the ones we see on turkey farms.
ReplyDeleteYeah, wild turkeys aren't as meaty as ones you buy from the grocery store! And they travel in packs, so they're noisy and kinda stupid. You usually see more than 1 dead turkey on the side of the road BOL! Momma won't let me eat them, though...boooooo.
DeleteOur roos are like that ... not noisy but kinda stupid ... they run right out in front of cars .... heaps of dead ones on our roads. Bit bigger than a turkey so VERY dangerous if you hit one. My Mum's a big softy so I reckon she'd swerve and kill us if one ran out in front of her. She's been driving for a long, long, time and NEVER hit one. She's had lots of close calls but so far so good.
DeleteWOW! I think Momma would be freaked out if a kangaroo came jumping out in front of her car! She's only seen them at the zoo! Our deer run out into the roads, too. Momma hit a boy deer once. She only clipped him, but her car was banged up. He got up and ran away though, so she was ok with it cause she says she couldn't handle killing such a beautiful animal.
DeleteCrikey ... forgot the notify me AGAIN!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI's never seen some of dese either. But we's got other animals here - possums, armadillos, coyotes, raccoons, jackrabbits, hawks, owls, lizards, snakes, and other stuffs.
ReplyDeleteI've never seen an armadillo or a coyote or a lizard. We have owls and racoons, too, but we only hear them, we've never seen them!
Deletewe get foxes and coons; possums too...and way too many of those so called tree rats...the squirrels, Red ones which are quite small, and very feisty...don't mess with them, grey and black ones are here, too.
ReplyDeleteWild turkeys , yup! Fun to see the toms when they display their tails to the hens.
And we have lots of other fauna here too...but no armadillos, BOL!
I will bark, chase em all...but when there are moles making those awful tunnels, I try to dig them out...growlmy says I am worse than they are, BOL!
Woofs!
Oh yeah, we have moles, too! One of them dug a big hole in our yard a few years ago!
DeleteWe have the exact same animals here in New Mexico, but we don't have the Roo's, wallaby's and most of the exotic birds that Charlie has. Maybe we can have a foreign exchange program...
ReplyDeleteThat would be fun, Coco Rose ... Those moles have got me REAL interested.
DeleteCrikey Fizzy that groundhog looks supa cute. Mum saw that movie "Groundhog day" she didn't know they were for real though. Do people have them as pets?? Tell your Momma I could catch those pesky rabbits for her. I LOVE to chase rabbits.
ReplyDeleteNo Charlie, they don't make good pets. They eat too much lol. I caught a rabbit for Momma once, and can you believe she YELLED at me?! I thought she WANTED to get rid of the rabbits?!?!
DeleteCharlie, we got a whole Day, Feb. 2, that the groundhog comes outta his hole and lets us know if there's gonna be 6 more weeks of winter.
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an' I learned frum pals that they gots the groundhog day up in the Cananada too.
We shur du. Ebery Feb.2nd sum cwown named 'Wiarton Willy' sticks hims head outta da gwound an' da peeples hab a hooge pawty 'bout it. I hab compwained tu Queen Ewizabeff 'bout it, bud ebery time hur sez da same fing tu me,"Zaidie, this is a national matter which your Prime Minister Harper is more than qualified to attend to. Come to me with Commonwealth issues, if you please. Tea??" I always say,"No, fank yu, Queen Wizabeff. I onwy dwink scotch!!!" Den we waff an' waff, den hur Corgis come in and ask if I wanna pway Powo wif dem an' I say,"Okay" eben doe I weally du nod wike widin' horses an' den...
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