THAT’S SOOO CUTEEEE 
overnight it to me 
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If you lived close I’d catch you a dozen😁.
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There’s always something in the canal. Today it’s the threatened American crocodile, it was between 8-10 feet long
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Thats awesome! I’ve only seen a croc in the wild twice. Once on Little Gasparilla Island while doing hurricane work and once off of Card Sound in the keys.
Alligators are a dime a dozen, but crocodiles are something special.
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I feel the same way, this is my first time seeing one in the wild. Better seeing it now than when snorkeling!
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Very common invasive green iguana, but it’s at the perfect stage in its life when they are the most beautiful
Aren’t phone cameras amazing these days?
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Brings back memories of Boca Grande and eating at South Beach Bar & Grille and seeing the iguanas running around the parking lot.
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my cousin has a 80 acre farm outside lebanon , mo. she managed to coax some local feral chickens, that were living in her woods, to roost in a chicken coop her and her husband put in those woods. they are mostly a mid sized chicken. gray in color dark skin, legs and wattles and all but 2 of 28 lay blue/ green eggs. the roosters rarely crow and even the hens don’t vocalize much. once the birds got used to roosting there her husband added a 12’’ hole and a landing platform 6’ off the ground so the door could be kept closed all the time and the birds can come and go without threat of predators. when we hunted her farm 9 yrs ago we would see them out scratching in the fields, but they were very skittish. they would fly over to my cousin when she called them to feed them some scraps or scatch. very cool.
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Not an animal, but I wanted to share as I thought it was really neat. I was out walking my woods (planting some Carolina allspice seeds), and found a bottle that someone littered who knows how long ago.
Over the years, it’s become it’s own little terrarium! I’ve picked up plenty of trash bottles before, but there’s always just muck water in them. This one was laying just right so that water would drain out.
I’ve no idea how long it’s been there. The bottle has 18-79 on the bottom, unsure if that’s significant. 2018 or 1979 maybe?
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I would drive there for babies if they have any extras. Chickens take 21 days to hatch. I would gladly pay them.
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I found a milk bottle like that last week on the edge of a creek deep in a wilderness area! It was just full of muck, but the dairy that made it hasn’t existed for 40 years. It’s weathered in places like sea glass.
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Was digging in the back of my yard and found this mostly buried. The Rheingold Chug-A-Mug was made in the 1960s. I cleaned it up and use it occasionally.
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i don’t have her number anymore and her mom , my aunt, passed 2 years ago so i don’t know how i would get it. its Carrol and Edward Edge. they are about 5 mi. outside of Lebanon so not even sure of the correct address. if your good at researching online you may be able to find their address and number. they had a bunch of half grown chicks running around when i was there but that was 9 yrs. ago.
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i tried to set off the trap it was on but ended it donking it on the head a few times. I feel bad… it’s hand is crushed but i grabbed the trap and let it go out across the road. It just stood there looking at me when i left. I don’t have the heart to kill it. If the traps can’t get them, i won’t do it.
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Better to put it out of its suffering imho. But it’s understandable not wanting to. Not easy using violence on an animal if you aren’t used to it.
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I can’t 
i can’t even eat balut eggs and i used to love them as a child.
Felt something watching me… turned around and it was a little brown thing with stripes!
I scared it off by accident and my dogs barked. It hid. I found it a few times and went back inside to get it some food
it also likes to drink from one of my plant saucers that get filled with rain water. It took some food and ran. Now i feel bad about my mouse traps…
I wonder if word got out yesterday that i let that little fella go.
The deer really came up to my front door to eat my roses… and nibble on everything on the way here too…
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you might regret feeding that chipmunk. if they get in your shed or God forbid your house they can do a lot of damage. i had 1 living under my shed last spring that pulled off 30 marble sized apples just because he could. luckily that tree needed thinning anyway but i dont allow them to stay for long.
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I feel for you and appreciate the sentiment. I was not of the heart 
to be lethal to bunnies or rats. Until they started to severely kill (eat off) everything I just spent the last 2 months rooting and grafting. Literally 100s of hours of work gone in a couple nights.
Also, to use gene Hackman’s wife as an example, I don’t need my garden or yard to be a Petrie dish of plague (wild rodents carry just about all them) to experiment on the food I grow for my kids. Yikes. This sentiment focus alone allows me to do the deed. 
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Eating balut seems harder.