This Morning's Visitor

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This guy showed up in the front yard this morning, too bad we weren't faster with the camera, as these pics aren't as good as they could of been. But the first priority was getting the dog in the house. A deer showed up in the yard a few days ago and the dog chased it for 3/4 mile before she came home all proud of herself (6 month pup).

I am certain the deer that was in the yard the other day (Wednesday??) was not this one, it was a doe. There is no way I could miss antlers with that kind of promise.

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You are right. Get out of Scarborough. I left T.O. 15 years ago.
This morning while having a coffee I was watching a deer out the front window munching on my wife's flowers.
I am only 25 klms north , halfway to Barrie. I will never go back to the city.
 
I went from the great white TO scarborough. :) I love the north, but there are no jobs in my profession. Besides, I actually like T.O./Scarberia. It has problems but so does everywhere else. I would like to move North, but my drive to work is 20 minutes in heavy traffic. I'll take that over 1-2 hr communtes one way.

WOOT for Scarborough! :D
 
dumbdawg said:
I had 6 of the buggers in my backyard this morning :shotgun: too bad uncle milllar won't let me play
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Yea. f**k Miller! I hope he never sees my 22lr basement range;)

This spring after my garbage was ripped apart yet again i came to realize that these little buggers are ruining EVERYTHING around my house including my veggie and herb gardens! (The cooking kind of herbs)
I decided that enough is enough. I’m sure I’d get in trouble if I told you how the first one met his end (Let's say softball wasn't his sport) but I’m sure it was natural causes. It was acting strange and followed me around the back yard so I figured it was either drunk on fermented veggies or had rabies. It had to go right then and there.

Anyway I decided to trap the rest and move them far away and let em go. (the neighbors pool will be far enough me thinks)
So my first attempt they simply batted the cage over, the door slamming shut and the food falling out. So I decided to use a 10” screw bit to fit all the way through the cage and screw the cage to the deck with washers so they couldn’t move it. Easy
They just pawed the food outa the side of the cage not seeing the door was open and triggering the release.
So now I’m f**kin pissed so I screwed 2 boards to the bloody thing so the only visible cage parts were the top and the door. Now i got em fo shizzle right???

SOOOO This is what I woke up to






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So now the damn cage is screwed to the deck 10 times over and there's boards screwed to that as well!! I have a video of me letting it out with 5 garbage bags taped to me with holes cut out for eyes:D I somehow didn't get sprayed:confused:
So i f**kin gave up!! Now instead of putting food scraps in the garbage i just either flush em or leave em in a fancy bowl for em outside with some coolant to wash it down with.. Racoons like coolant right??:confused:
 
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riden said:
This guy showed up in the front yard this morning, too bad we weren't faster with the camera, as these pics aren't as good as they could of been. But the first priority was getting the dog in the house. A deer showed up in the yard a few days ago and the dog chased it for 3/4 mile before she came home all proud of herself (6 month pup).

I am certain the deer that was in the yard the other day (Wednesday??) was not this one, it was a doe. There is no way I could miss antlers with that kind of promise.

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Sorry RIDEN. This kinda went from a “beautiful nature in the back yard” thread to all of us in Scarborough #####ing about our nature in the back yard.
If that deer starts getting into your garbage I’d be glad to show ya how NOT to trap it;) :D
Cheers
Mike
 
"...I live in the city...." Mississauga has lots of deer. The Credit Valley is full of them. So many they pester the airport. Know a guy who hit one, well it hit him, at Mississauga Rd and Dundas.
You'll likely find the Rouge River valley is full of deer as well.
 
sunray said:
"...I live in the city...." Mississauga has lots of deer. The Credit Valley is full of them. So many they pester the airport. Know a guy who hit one, well it hit him, at Mississauga Rd and Dundas.
You'll likely find the Rouge River valley is full of deer as well.
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Actually I AM on the Rouge.:D We get em here a LOT too! They walk down the street at 5am. It's pretty neat. I also hike back there a lot and saw 2 freshly stripped deer carcasses from the yotes this winter too. It's amazing these things can live in the middle of a city. Up by the zoo they caught 2 guys bowing em last fall from makeshift tree stands.
 
Mike Oxbig said:
Sorry RIDEN. This kinda went from a “beautiful nature in the back yard” thread to all of us in Scarborough #####ing about our nature in the back yard.
If that deer starts getting into your garbage I’d be glad to show ya how NOT to trap it;) :D
Cheers
Mike
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Spent the day doing yardwork, came in sunburnt, found a beer, had a shower, found another beer, had a look at my thread:eek:

What the hell happened here???

I lifetime ago I lived in beaches (Woodbine Ave), I have had my share of run ins with the little bastards.
 
Cool pic Riden. Mike O, try getting the trap up off the ground (like on the railing of your deck if you have one). Coons will climb to get the bait, skunks will (most likely) not. I had one in my attic last year, I feel your pain.
 
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Nice little deer there, if you want a couple thousand more we can ship some down to you. They are known locally as 'Lanark Rats'.... and we have a 'rat' problem.
 
I live in North van, my previous residance on the Capilano River saw, cougar, bears, coyotes, deer, racoons, skunks and some sort of badger, not to mention rabbits, rats, owls, bats, squirrels.

My new place only gets bears & racoons with a few small rodents, although cougars have been sighted nearby and a wolvervirne was captured in North van last year. Hopefully we will see some Grizzlies in the next few years, we see how the bear huggers react then....
 
Mike Oxbig said:
Yea. f**k Miller! I hope he never sees my 22lr basement range;)

This spring after my garbage was ripped apart yet again i came to realize that these little buggers are ruining EVERYTHING around my house including my veggie and herb gardens! (The cooking kind of herbs)
I decided that enough is enough. I’m sure I’d get in trouble if I told you how the first one met his end (Let's say softball wasn't his sport) but I’m sure it was natural causes. It was acting strange and followed me around the back yard so I figured it was either drunk on fermented veggies or had rabies. It had to go right then and there.

Anyway I decided to trap the rest and move them far away and let em go. (the neighbors pool will be far enough me thinks)
So my first attempt they simply batted the cage over, the door slamming shut and the food falling out. So I decided to use a 10” screw bit to fit all the way through the cage and screw the cage to the deck with washers so they couldn’t move it. Easy
They just pawed the food outa the side of the cage not seeing the door was open and triggering the release.
So now I’m f**kin pissed so I screwed 2 boards to the bloody thing so the only visible cage parts were the top and the door. Now i got em fo shizzle right???

SOOOO This is what I woke up to






DSC05756.jpg

So now the damn cage is screwed to the deck 10 times over and there's boards screwed to that as well!! I have a video of me letting it out with 5 garbage bags taped to me with holes cut out for eyes:D I somehow didn't get sprayed:confused:
So i f**kin gave up!! Now instead of putting food scraps in the garbage i just either flush em or leave em in a fancy bowl for em outside with some coolant to wash it down with.. Racoons like coolant right??:confused:
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LOL
You got a damn good laugh outta me when I scrolled down a ways and seen the skunk and what you did before you tried letting it out aha. Man I could just picture it. Priceless.
Speaking of Skunks, I've got one that has been living here since I moved in this place. I smoked it off the head with a snowball off my back deck in the winter, and 3 nights ago he was ripping my garbage apart and I hit him good with a beer bottle off the back deck lol.
 
Man, you guys are lucky. Up here north of 60 we don't get much wildlife. All we have are our domestic animals.
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