Hanging with friendly wild animals and rescuing them from danger. Raccoons, turtles, ducks, snakes, spiders, scorpions, catfish and many, many others. Fascinating wild animals are always sitting in the road and I take advantage of the opportunity to admire them and then escort them out of harms way.
PECOS HANK T SHIRTS & MUGS
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Crowded big city life can sometimes be overwhelming so when I found this ornate box turtle trying to commit suicide on the interstate I decided to take her into the country in hopes to rekindle her flare for life. After an afternoon of animal watching, Our little box turtle went charging into her new wilderness life with a belly full of pineapple.
Our next wild animal friendship was made in a trash can rescue. After a raccoon outsmarted some park rangers by sneaking into a trash bin, he couldn't get out. We rescued the raccoon and he ran into the woods with a belly full of yummies.
TIGER SALAMANDER POISON
A fat tiger salamander practically passed out on the highway after gorging himself on insects and frogs brought by recent rains. If you handle a tiger salamander, don't make the same mistake I did and rub your eyes. Rinse your hands afterward and you'll spare yourself a lot of pain. Tiger salamanders have a slimy poison the can secrete when feeling threatened. I've handled hundreds of tiger salamanders and only once did one defend itself in this manner against me. After rubbing my ears, a strong burning followed. After flushing my eyes with cold water, the pain finally subsided after about 5 hours. No harm to my vision occurred.
GEESE AND CATFISH
Everyone loves cereal and Canadian geese are no exception. When the catfish caught wind we were having oatmeal squares, they came and crashed the party. I'm starting to hypothesize that it was oatmeal squares that jump started evolution by enticing fish to crawl up on land.
TURKEY FAMILY STORY:
One Colorado evening I parked on the side of the road to take photos of peculiar turkey family. Usually wild Turkeys BOLT at the sight of people but this Tom, his 3 hens and dozen chicks kept hanging around in the road starring at me... They seemed confused and I was worried for their safety. There was a tall game fence running the length of the road and I eventually realized, I was blocking the one entrance through it. After I moved my car, the family bolted through the gate I was parked in front of... and vanished into the wilderness.
SWEET SNAKES
After a lifetime of chatting with wild snakes I've learned how to sweet talk them outa defensive biting... most of em anyway. Only once in a blue moon do I come across one that's immune to my charms. In this video is Central Plains milk snake, Trans-Pecos rat snake, blotched water snakes and a couple western diamondback rattlesnakes.
CREEPY BUGS / CREEPY ANIMALS
I've always thought it was strange... that the animals deemed the creepiest are often the most friendly and tolerable to being handled. Try handling a wild furry bunny rabbit or a cute wild raccoon like I'm handling this wild tarantula and giant desert hairy scorpion. You people that are afraid of spiders, scorpions snakes and what not don't know the sweetness you're missing.
ANIMAL RELATED FATALITIES IN USA
I suppose it makes complete logical sense that some people have a terrible fear of something that has the potential to kill them, Right?
I mean Check out how many Americans die each year from...
scorpions - less than 1
snakes less than 6
spiders less than 7
Cows less than 21
Dogs less than 30
or Cars & Motorcycles - more than 35,000
Better keep an eye on your car to make sure your neighbor isn't chopping it up with his shovel. Even though it's extremely unlikely that you'll die in the USA from snake envenomation, you should never handle them unless you're a pro.
4 окт 2024
