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Damn. A red tailed hawk seemingly crashed into the dirt around 10 feet away from me a few minutes ago. It seemed to be struggling for a second and my dog charged it. It took off and I realized the hawk was likely trying to grab a rat (I’ve seen them in that area).
Stupid dog stopped the hawk from doing its job.
It was cool to see how fast and hard that hawk came in though!
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(08-16-2025, 01:01 PM)username Wrote: Damn. A red tailed hawk seemingly crashed into the dirt around 10 feet away from me a few minutes ago. It seemed to be struggling for a second and my dog charged it. It took off and I realized the hawk was likely trying to grab a rat (I’ve seen them in that area).
Stupid dog stopped the hawk from doing its job.
It was cool to see how fast and hard that hawk came in though!
I stopped a hawk from eating a squirrel. Saw a hawk in the park one day on the way home from work. Hawk saw me looking at him and dropped the squirrel and flew away.
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A hawk dropped a squirrel on my driveway once and the poor thing was going into what looked like convulsions. I thought about taking a shovel and ending it, but I couldn’t do it. I ended up taking the damn thing to my vet to euthanize it. He did it for free, but I would have paid.
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(Yesterday, 01:56 PM)sally Wrote: A hawk dropped a squirrel on my driveway once and the poor thing was going into what looked like convulsions. I thought about taking a shovel and ending it, but I couldn’t do it. I ended up taking the damn thing to my vet to euthanize it. He did it for free, but I would have paid.
I wouldn’t be able to do it either. A neighbor once told me her guinea pig was dying so she sped it up with a bunch of melatonin? I don’t know if I’d trust melatonin but I could see od’ing a rodent with Xanax or something (challenge being getting it in them). The vet was the right call.
Next week a rodent company is coming out to reseal under our house (they found some gaps/signs that the rats might be starting to get in) and lay traps under the house and outside. I’d rather the hawk had taken off with one.
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I found a baby blue jay in my driveway once too, the nest was too high and I couldn’t reach it to put him back in. He was so stinking cute so I put him in a box and tied it to the tree and waited for his parents to come down and feed him which they did. The little bastard kept crawling out of the box though and falling to the ground with feral cats around. I must have put him back in it 20 times. I really wanted to keep him or her, but the last thing I need is a fucking blue jay flying around my house. I’m guessing he made it.
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There was a bird that fell out of the next and right in the path of the stairs at work so I went to pick it up and it fucking hopped under the shed. I felt like an idiot. That poor fucking bird, I don't know if it ever made it out of there.
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I've been watching frogs outside my window. There were 2, then I could only see 1 and now there is the original 1 and 2 small ones and one is brown. They are so cute.
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A gecko hangs out by the porch light and eats the bugs.
