• pimento64
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    22 hours ago

    They are cute, but they’re just bloodthisty toddler-sized hobos. They prey on small dogs and cats or fight them for territory, they eat chickens, they destroy fucking everything, and they can carry and spread rabies. They will rip up plants, tear siding off your house, pull up paving stones, and even break windows. Just imagine a hostile drifter on your property trying to fuck it up as hard as possible out of spite for you, and that’s about right.

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      22 hours ago

      Man when my first kid was little those fuckers would get into our trash all the time. You know how much fun it is cleaning ripped-up dirty diapers off your front yard?

      Anyway I whipped up some pepper spray and poured it all over the can. They never came back. Worked a lot better than shooting them with bb guns.

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        18 hours ago

        Yuk, i would find the diapers disgusting even before they’re in the trash :-) They couldn’t reach our trash, so that would not be a problem. Also between our current situation of population (they live here? at all? WOW!) and yours are many decades. So i might enjoy the way towards your situation :)

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          18 hours ago

          They’re fun as long as they’re not out to get you. I love the little anarchists but please stay out of my shit thanks ;D

          Generally, you won’t encounter them much unless you’re near available food at night. If they do start showing up, film em, they’re entertaining.

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            18 hours ago

            I guess it would take a looong time before they’d ever show up here at my doorstep. I live in a city, not rural. But i fucking would film them, i have surveillance cameras all around anyway :)

            And yeah i probably wouldn’t love them fucking my trash up, but i also couldn’t be mad at them. It’s our fault they’re here, i can’t judge or hate them for that.

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      18 hours ago

      They couldn’t enter here, would’ve got to climb some pretty high walls first :) But i get your point. So it’s like living in a very bad neighborhood just that the invaders and house-fuckers are fucking cute. Yet we drive 2h regularly to pet them in a tiny spot where they live. So it’s nowhere near your situation. Up to discovering that spot we didn’t even think they’d live here at all.

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      19 hours ago

      We don’t put ‘siding’ on our houses so that’ll be fine, not looking forward to rabies tho :(

      We do have foxes with rabies already, and wild boars plowing up lawns and flower beds