THE THREAD!!!

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Apparently, if they can't get out, they start burrowing through walls...

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and then they could come out somewhere IN the house!

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i am guessing that would not be good. [:-]

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In other wildlife news: remember the picture of the bobcat in my backyard?

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i posted it here a few weeks back, i guess...

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Anyway, some so-and-so apparently shot and killed the bobcat!

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My wife was VERY upset about it! [:(] [:@] 

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Most of the other people who heard about it were also pretty upset...

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i suppose it it were after a pet or something, it might be justified/excusable...

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But the story i got was something like "Oh look at that big bobcat... where's my shootin' iron?"

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Other NON-wildlife news: my mother turned 80 today!

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Dad is still going strong - he will be 86 in September (hopefully... let's not jinx things!)

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He still bowls... a lot...

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He almost had a fatal bowling accident the other day, though! [X(]

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His team was bowling, and one of this teammates bowled, but somehow his ball got (i guess) stuck in some machinery or something... 

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Anyhow, in some bizarre way, the guy's bowling ball came back through the ball return of the adjacent lane...

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and when it did, it was FIRED from the ball return and went flying through the air...

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and, it was fired directly at my father's head...

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and he was talking to some people - with his back to the ball return!! [X(]

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Fortunately, the people he was talking to noticed the large object speeding at my father's head, and advised him to "DUCK"!!!