Pretend Chat 2.14

[Yvonne G]

Josh is coming down to help Jeff, so the temp forecast is now up to 98.

Help Jeff do what? Unload the bags from the truck? Spread the stuff? cut down trees? pull weeds? Sit in front of a football game on TV?

 

[Yvonne G]

Hello

Sup?

 

[Yvonne G]

So I left messages around with several different exterminator companies and only one was able to help me catch opossums. The rest of them said they were not licensed to take care of wildlife. I thought there was only one possum, but the day before the guy came out I opened the shed door and saw two of them. I had the guy come out last week, he set traps in the shed where the possum was. I was told to give him a call when we caught the critters. I called him Thursday morning and left a message that both traps had a possum in them. Then I left another message Thursday evening, Friday morning and Friday evening. I called the main number of the exterminator company on Saturday to learn that they're not open on week-ends. These two juvenile possums were in traps in my hot shed - a metal building with the sun shining on it, for two days, with no water. It bothered me all day yesterday thinking about them and how inhumane this is. I couldn't let them sit there another day. So I loaded the traps up in my truck and took them up into the foothills and released them. What a waste of money. I could have done that myself and not involved an exterminator in the first place, but they were going to humanely euthanize them and it would save me a trip into the country (I don't like to go anyplace). So I caught two juveniles and I know that the one I saw on the roof was BIG, which these two are not. I've reset the traps and hopefully I can catch mama and take her to the country too.

I have to pull my shirt up over my nose whenever I want to get a tool from the shed because there's possum poop all over everything in there - on the shelves, on the tools, on the folded up shade cloth - everywhere!!! I'm going to have to buy some of those face masks and get that place cleaned out.

 

[tortdad]

So I left messages around with several different exterminator companies and only one was able to help me catch opossums. The rest of them said they were not licensed to take care of wildlife. I thought there was only one possum, but the day before the guy came out I opened the shed door and saw two of them. I had the guy come out last week, he set traps in the shed where the possum was. I was told to give him a call when we caught the critters. I called him Thursday morning and left a message that both traps had a possum in them. Then I left another message Thursday evening, Friday morning and Friday evening. I called the main number of the exterminator company on Saturday to learn that they're not open on week-ends. These two juvenile possums were in traps in my hot shed - a metal building with the sun shining on it, for two days, with no water. It bothered me all day yesterday thinking about them and how inhumane this is. I couldn't let them sit there another day. So I loaded the traps up in my truck and took them up into the foothills and released them. What a waste of money. I could have done that myself and not involved an exterminator in the first place, but they were going to humanely euthanize them and it would save me a trip into the country (I don't like to go anyplace). So I caught two juveniles and I know that the one I saw on the roof was BIG, which these two are not. I've reset the traps and hopefully I can catch mama and take her to the country too.

I have to pull my shirt up over my nose whenever I want to get a tool from the shed because there's possum poop all over everything in there - on the shelves, on the tools, on the folded up shade cloth - everywhere!!! I'm going to have to buy some of those face masks and get that place cleaned out.

Next time save yourself a trip and just off the little buggers...

Drop the trap is a large bin full of water

Then burn the shed down so you don't have to clean it, lol

 

[Yvonne G]

I like the shed-cleaning option, but I don't have the stomach for killing anything. I catch spiders in a kleenex and let them go outside.

 

[tortdad]

I like the shed-cleaning option, but I don't have the stomach for killing anything. I catch spiders in a kleenex and let them go outside.

Though a fox or owl in that shed.. they're the natural predator of the opossum and will do the dirty work for you.

 

[Yvonne G]

I have always wanted an owl box somewhere on my property. I know you were kidding, but I'm going to look into that.

 

[mike taylor]

Owls will eat your babies. You turning into Nick Yvonne? Sup? Hahahahaha

 

[Yvonne G]

Speaking of Nick. . .

 

[mike taylor]

He is growing up . He don't have time for us older folk anymore.

 

[mike taylor]

I miss Tiffany . I wonder what happened to her ? I know she was having a baby an her boyfriend was sick and he passed away . Then she never came back . I hope she is doing good . Her baby should be two years old now .

 

[Yvonne G]

Some of us didn't believe her stories.

 

[mike taylor]

I wouldn't know ,but why would someone lie about that ? I really enjoyed talking to her and Ashley. I wonder what happened to her .

 

[mike taylor]

On another note I rescued a Texas tortoise. I don't have the papers to keep her, so I turned her over to a rescue that did . Will not keep illegal animals here . But I did get an opportunity to work with one for a day until I got her in the right hands . She will be going back down south where she belongs . I love Texas and it's wildlife . There's no way I could keep such a beauty for myself . Some younger guys went down south to hunt pigs and found her . Took her home to Houston with them . Then called me to ask how to care for her . I gave them the link to parks and wildlife . They turned her over to me . So I could get her back to where she needs to be . Some times people don't think . That female is going to be back where she can make babies for our next generation of Texas tortoises . I let them know to never take one from the wild . Younger people just don't see the big picture.

 

[Jacqui]

Help Jeff do what? Unload the bags from the truck? Spread the stuff? cut down trees? pull weeds? Sit in front of a football game on TV?

I don't have a TV as such. We cut a few branches off a big tree, put stuff on the roof for a leak, tore down most of the garage roof on the side we aren't saving. Three loads to the dump.

We unloaded the truck last night.

 

[Jacqui]

Next time save yourself a trip and just off the little buggers...

Drop the trap is a large bin full of water

Then burn the shed down so you don't have to clean it, lol

 

[Jacqui]

So I left messages around with several different exterminator companies and only one was able to help me catch opossums. The rest of them said they were not licensed to take care of wildlife. I thought there was only one possum, but the day before the guy came out I opened the shed door and saw two of them. I had the guy come out last week, he set traps in the shed where the possum was. I was told to give him a call when we caught the critters. I called him Thursday morning and left a message that both traps had a possum in them. Then I left another message Thursday evening, Friday morning and Friday evening. I called the main number of the exterminator company on Saturday to learn that they're not open on week-ends. These two juvenile possums were in traps in my hot shed - a metal building with the sun shining on it, for two days, with no water. It bothered me all day yesterday thinking about them and how inhumane this is. I couldn't let them sit there another day. So I loaded the traps up in my truck and took them up into the foothills and released them. What a waste of money. I could have done that myself and not involved an exterminator in the first place, but they were going to humanely euthanize them and it would save me a trip into the country (I don't like to go anyplace). So I caught two juveniles and I know that the one I saw on the roof was BIG, which these two are not. I've reset the traps and hopefully I can catch mama and take her to the country too.

I have to pull my shirt up over my nose whenever I want to get a tool from the shed because there's possum poop all over everything in there - on the shelves, on the tools, on the folded up shade cloth - everywhere!!! I'm going to have to buy some of those face masks and get that place cleaned out.

Wouldn't that business now be able to face cruelty charges?

 

[Jacqui]

Owls will eat your babies. You turning into Nick Yvonne? Sup? Hahahahaha

And cats

 

[Yvonne G]

I don't have a TV as such. We cut a few branches off a big tree, put stuff on the roof for a leak, tore down most of the garage roof on the side we aren't saving. Three loads to the dump.

We unloaded the truck last night.

Nice to have help with those heavy jobs, huh?

 

[Yvonne G]

Wouldn't that business now be able to face cruelty charges?

Maybe, but I'm not the person to take them on. I'll just not pay them for a service they didn't provide.