How to raise Backyard Chickens: Re: [CHICKENS-101] Re: Challenge a fox

To be totally, completely anti-gun is just irrational. To choose not to exercise your Second Amendment rights is your choice and I can respect that, but to be against me choosing to exercise my Constitutionally protected rights is just wrong and goes totally against what this country stands for. A gun is just an object, or more specifically, a tool. Any object (or tool) can be used for good or for bad and it is only the user who can determine that. On our farm, a .22 rifle is an invaluable tool. Just this week, it was used to eliminate one of the groundhogs that keeps digging holes on our barn bank. I eliminated an egg-sucking 'possum from one of the coops a week or so before. The rabbits and groundhogs that decimated our garden in June were taken care of with that tool.
Mark

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From: "Janet Texas" <janetex.drycreek@gmail.com>
To: CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2011 1:25:08 AM
Subject: Re: [CHICKENS-101] Re: Challenge a fox

I am a totally, completely anti-gun person.

A few years ago I had 4 hens about 10 weeks old killed by a fox. Two were gone, one was dead, one was fatally wounded and died about a week later. A few night later, I hear a the chickens squawking - about 2 o'clock in the morning in the rain (of course) I grab my robe, run outside and there is a fox standing looking into one of the chicken coops. I screamed, I ran at him - he ran a bit away and just turned around and sat there and looked right at me. I went ballistic, I couldn't even find a freaking rock to throw at him, finally I just threw my flashlight at him.

Bottom line - as I was standing there in my impotent face off with this fox, I thought to myself - If I had a gun buddy you'd be dead.

The first time in my life I've ever wished I had a gun. This fox be-deviled us for a couple of years. She/he hasn't been around for a while now. Knock-wood. And no - I didn't get gun.

Janet - Healdsburg CA

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