Unwelcome Pond Visitor removal advice.

[aigheadish]

Good find Jeff! Also, nuts it was under the boat! You'd think it'd ran off as soon as it heard y'all. I bet it does now.

I assume Jacobb is making gloves?

I'd also love to have ducks. I'd have to do some learning, because I think they can fly away!

[SwampDonkey]

Between the old fox that prowls here all night and possibly the odd coyote [but mostly not] a duck would never last long. Chickens don't stand much chance. A fox can go through a 4" hole and we have weasels which are deadly on chickens.



First year we moved in the weasels were here. He's under there eating chicken.    And I seen tippy [red fox] bury chicken in the garden. But she keeps the ground hogs out. Found her den behind here last spring, in a  ground hog hole.   

[Jeff]

It's getting real. He's shown too many cards. Ambush is inevitable.  Jacobb is going to get this guy and everyone he knows!!

[Jeff]

[thecfarm]

I've had ducks. muscovy. Most not very pretty, but very good Mothers.
But ducks do not like clean water.

[Tom K]

Well, the kid have any luck?

[WV Sawmiller]

   Sorry to say this but I'm rooting for the mink.  I know that's not politically correct but any furbearer who can get out and catch a frog in the snow deserves a chance.

   Surely you can spare a few frogs for the cause.

[GAB]

Sorry to say this but I'm rooting for the mink. I know that's not politically correct but any furbearer who can get out and catch a frog in the snow deserves a chance.

  Surely you can spare a few frogs for the cause.

Howard you are living too high off of the hog.  If you saw the mink eating you next meal I'm pretty sure your attitude would be different.
GAB

[YellowHammer]

That is so cool!  I didn't even think frogs could mobilate in the snow and water that cold! I figured they would be frozen nearly solid like I would be.  I guess those are "snow leopard" frogs.  

Send him down here and he can eat all my piranha bream he can handle.  I like him!   

[doc henderson]

@Jeff has @Wildflower named him yet?

better plan to make something from the hide and eat the meat if you dispatch him at this point.     

[WV Sawmiller]

  I'd suggest we start a poll of the members and see how many want to kill the mink and how many want him as the forum mascot but I suspect the Boss has the final say in the matter and it won't matter what the poll says.

  That brings up a thought - should we have a Forum Mascot and what is his name.

  I'd have to suggest a beaver of course. I'm not sure about the name yet.

  Okay, okay - I digress and this thread is supposed to be unwanted mink terrorizing upper Michigan.

[Jeff]

The good news about the Mink, is that there has been no sign that we can see the last week, but the snow was all gone. Im hoping the coyote that was sniffing his tracks dug him out

[doc henderson]

Did the Coyote look like this?

Riding With Dad 2024 OLV

true story

[Old Greenhorn]

@Jeff has @Wildflower named him yet?......

If she hasn't I bet Jeff has several names for him.

 Howard I vote against the beaver for mascot, they are vermin here and have killed a large number of nice White Oaks on the property I work. They are good for target practice.

 I think you should be our mascot.

[WV Sawmiller]

Tom,

  This mink vs Jeff battle reminds me of Mom vs beavers where I grew up.

    Beavers had built a dam across a wet weather stream and built about an acre pond there that eventually got all the way back to the big culvert under  US highway 29 (a 4 lane highway) there in N. Fla. She and you both share the same opinion of beavers.

    Mom would get out and find a nice red maple or bay tree and work for days cleaning the honeysuckle and briers around it till was finally clear and accessible only to come back and find a nice pencil shaped stump and top dragged halfway back to the pond.

    She tried to get my drunk/pothead cousin to shoot them but he never could hit one of them. Finally the highway department hired a trapper who came and trapped them before they had to set up a ferry operation between Pensacola and the Alabama line along highway 29.

  I'm sorry but I am too busy to be the forum mascot but am honored at the nomination and must respectfully and regrettably decline. I guess maybe if it makes you feel better we can use a porcupine as a mascot unless your genealogy research finds a more suitable relative for the job.

[Jeff]

Word in, the mink is still there today. We need snow up there to narrow the paths. 

[doc henderson]

I think I saw his eyelid move in the video.  Maybe name him Blinky or Winky!  the Mink.

[WV Sawmiller]

   I think we need to name the Mink Rocky because he takes on all comers and comes out on top.

[Resonator]

I say name him Minky Von Pelt.
And remember, a mink gotta be lucky every day. A fur trapper only gotta be lucky once.

[WV Sawmiller]

   Wasn't it in Jeremiah Johnson where they said a man/mink is judged by the nature of his enemies? What is this saying about Jeff and this mink?

   Come on Jeff - admit it. You really like and respect this mink and will be sad to see him gone.

[SwampDonkey]

Tippy (the fox) comes around once in awhile in the winter. You see her tracks along the edge of the tree line in the back yard. One day a week ago I think she was here during the day, instead of the night. I look out around the back yard for tracks every day. There was none this one morning and an hour later I seen her tracks everywhere. But never laid eye on her.

One time, this was probably 15 years ago now. I parked the RAV4 in the garage and left the door up. I was unloading groceries and a door on the car was open while I carried groceries in. Came out of the main house to the parked RAV for more bags and she was in there fishing for some fresh chicken breasts in the grocery bags. Like Dirty Harry would say, 'You've got to know your limitations.'

[Jeff]

I told Jacobb, if he traps a coyote, that has the mink in it, I want my frog back.

[Old Greenhorn]

Come on Jeff - admit it. You really like and respect this mink and will be sad to see him gone.

Howard, have you ever heard the expression "You have to read the room before you speak?"

[Jeff]

I wanted to be the fisher on my pond so it otter be a mink weaseling in I spose

[WV Sawmiller]

Ribbet, ribbet, ribbet, ri...Ouchh!