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Betty
08-30-2006, 07:04 AM
If you've ever been to camp, you've probably been on a snipe hunt... a search for the ever elusive creature that no camper can locate while the counselers sit back and giggle about their charges being sent on a wild goose chase in a dark.

Snipes are imaginary creatures? Right? Right?

Then I read this article: http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=1277782006

It discusses a guy who died while trying to get a rare egg out of a nest...

It goes on to say:

He had a series of convictions for activities prohibited under the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act. These included taking golden eagles' eggs from near Inverness, attempting to do the same near Perth and of possessing snipe eggs in Lerwick.

Back the train up - Snipe eggs?!? WTF? Apparently not. Snipes aren't imaginary at all. Learned something new!
Alex
08-30-2006, 08:15 AM
A snipe (http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/Infocenter/i2300id.html) is a type of bird.

But the animal of the nature supposedly hunted on snipe hunts is fictional.

Jackalopes are also real.

http://www.site.uottawa.ca/%7Eszpak/pub/nas/jackalope.jpg
Snowflake
08-30-2006, 06:30 PM
A snipe (http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/Infocenter/i2300id.html) is a type of bird.

But the animal of the nature supposedly hunted on snipe hunts is fictional.

Jackalopes are also real.

http://www.site.uottawa.ca/%7Eszpak/pub/nas/jackalope.jpg

Yeah, there is one that lives in NA's backyard
CoasterMatt
08-30-2006, 06:44 PM
There's also the bassalope...
Mousey Girl
08-30-2006, 07:52 PM
Or my favorite, the jack-a-bass-a-lope
Tramspotter
08-30-2006, 11:18 PM
Go out and ask the campers next to us for a left handed smoke shifter and oh I could also use some sky hooks if they don't have any go to the next camp.
RStar
08-31-2006, 06:50 AM
I snipe on eBay, does that count?
Not Afraid
08-31-2006, 09:12 AM
Yeah, there is one that lives in NA's backyard

I've always wanted one! Actually, last night we had a baby opossum running around our backyard. The cats were entertained. They're sort of cute when they're small. Not as cute as a Jack-a-lope though.
Capt Jack
08-31-2006, 10:30 AM
not to mention the ever popular, albeit rarely seen felinus gigantus
http://bohicagaming.com/images/owned/angry_kitty.jpg
RStar
08-31-2006, 12:55 PM
not to mention the ever popular, albeit rarely seen felinus gigantus
http://bohicagaming.com/images/owned/angry_kitty.jpg
:eek: :eek:
Ghoulish Delight
08-31-2006, 01:06 PM
Wow...this is like the day an adult saw Snuffalupagus.
Mousey Girl
08-31-2006, 02:09 PM
Wow...this is like the day an adult saw Snuffalupagus.

As a little kid, watching Sesame Street, that always bugged me. I mean, if only kids could see him hwo did my mom know he was there?
Matterhorn Fan
08-31-2006, 02:50 PM
I've always wanted one! Actually, last night we had a baby opossum running around our backyard. The cats were entertained. They're sort of cute when they're small. Not as cute as a Jack-a-lope though.Keep your cats inside. We had baby possums falling out of a tree once; where the babies are, the mother follows. And those things can be MEAN. Seriously. Cats could become a late-night snack.

Luckily our dogs only got into the occasional late-night standoff.
Capt Jack
08-31-2006, 03:02 PM
yah. adult opossums are not to be trifled with. just plain mean with a mouth full o nasty razor sharp teeth.

that and they smell really foul
Matterhorn Fan
08-31-2006, 03:08 PM
And they HISS. Loudly.
Capt Jack
08-31-2006, 03:15 PM
And they HISS. Loudly.

ooh......aint that freaky?

my dog...who pretty much will chase ANYTHING she happens to catch in her yard stumbled across one cutting through our yard one night late.

one loud hiss like steam escaping from a pipe.....no barking, no nothing, she was just pointing and looking at me as if to say 'do something! I aint touchin it!'

we decided to go have a snack instead. :blush:
Matterhorn Fan
08-31-2006, 03:26 PM
Our dogs barked back. My parents had to get them into the house where they couldn't see the yard and wait for them to go away.
RStar
08-31-2006, 05:06 PM
I saw an opossum today. In the street. Dead as a doornail. As sad as it was, I still had to laugh. His hind legs were streight up in the air and his arms out to the sides and it reminded me of William Shatner's part in Over The Hedge. If half his head wasn't gone I'd wonder if he was realy dead....
Alex
08-31-2006, 06:12 PM
Generally you don't have to worry about cats and possums. A possum won't attack unless it is cornered and your average cat will have more than enough sense to not go after one.

Dogs and possums are the real problem since dogs are the stupid. Growing up ours would always corner them and be just smart enough to not actually attack. We just shoot the possum (they killed our chickens to get at the eggs).

My dog had a really good possums story involving the trunk of a car, a pissed of possum, a big wrench, and an absolute refusal to die.
BarTopDancer
08-31-2006, 07:19 PM
not to mention the ever popular, albeit rarely seen felinus gigantus
http://bohicagaming.com/images/owned/angry_kitty.jpg


KITTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Wow...this is like the day an adult saw Snuffalupagus.

As a little kid, watching Sesame Street, that always bugged me. I mean, if only kids could see him hwo did my mom know he was there?

I never thought of that. Maybe if adults saw him as a kid then they could see him as an adult? How else could I still see him?
RStar
09-01-2006, 09:27 PM
Buy, I knew everything grew bigger in Nebraska, but corn fed kitties! Whew!