----- Original Message ----- From: "keith_w" Subject: Re: Peso: ~ King ~
>>> We Canadians have the mighty but rather slower beaver as our national >>> symbol. > >> We set out traps for them. They taste not bad. > > Depends. It allll depends... Funny beaver story.. My mother in law phoned me one day in a bit of a panic. Apparently, there was a beaver trying to attack her dogs, which fortunately were in chainlink mesh dog runs. I tld her that what she realy wanted to do was phone the Lumsden RCMP detachment and get an officer out with a shotgun to shoot the darned thing, since it was obviously rabid. Of course she had to know how I was making that sort of judgement from 30 miles away, so I asked her if she thought a beaver that didn't have rabies would be trying to attack her dogs. Point taken, and an officer was dispatched. They have the coolest way of dealing with rabid beavers. They use a 12 guage shotgun, loaded alternately with shot and slugs. The first round of buckshot is supposed to slow the animal down, and then the slug kills the thing. If they miss, then another round of buckshot and then another slug. Beavers can be pretty hard to kill, from what the RCMP boys say. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
