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Office Critter
- Rick Westlake
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Re: Office Critter
Awww, he looks so cute and cuddly ...Phillip wrote:

And nothing whatsoever like the one in the Bugs Bunny cartoons....

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LOUIS B HOLUB
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Re: Office Critter
Yummy...sounds tasty...Bill at BOATS 4 SAIL wrote: If I catch it I'll stick a pencil up one end and deep fry it in hog lard like I do my twinkies (which taste just like eagle).
However, here's more advice from us "know-it-all" nutzos...be sure and give it an enema before inserting the pencil, and deep frying. Otherwise, Im certain it'll taste like Eagle sh!xt.
Why am I thinkin' about Rolaids ?
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LOUIS B HOLUB
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Re: Office Critter
Bill at BOATS 4 SAIL wrote:I've goggled every critter I could think of and it doesn't look like any of them.
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Bill at BOATS 4 SAIL
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Re: Office Critter
Since I lost my sense of smell, everything tastes pretty much the same, like eagle.
Except for skunk, which I can't smell but still tastes like skunk, fortunately.
Except for skunk, which I can't smell but still tastes like skunk, fortunately.
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Bill at BOATS 4 SAIL
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Re: Office Critter
I sharpened my pencil (4H) and was heating up some 10W40 drain oil (temporarily out of hog lard) and my neighbor across the road from my shop came over.
I told him about the critter and he said it might be an otter, as he had seen some near the creek which runs along both of our property.
So, I goggled otter and sure enough it's a young North American River Otter/Northern River Otter/Common Otter/Lontra Canadensis/office otter.
So, I'll catch it and take it back to its motter and fotter.
I told him about the critter and he said it might be an otter, as he had seen some near the creek which runs along both of our property.
So, I goggled otter and sure enough it's a young North American River Otter/Northern River Otter/Common Otter/Lontra Canadensis/office otter.
So, I'll catch it and take it back to its motter and fotter.
- kmclemore
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Re: Office Critter
Well, all I know is it otter not be in your office!Bill at BOATS 4 SAIL wrote:So, I goggled otter and sure enough it's a young North American River Otter/Northern River Otter/Common Otter/Lontra Canadensis/office otter.

(sorry... I can never weasel out of a good pun!)
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Kelly Hanson East
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waternwaves
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Re: Office Critter
They are a little better fried in beaver fat. I had a little problem with one of his brethren on my mac when I was keeping ENANDI at fishermans terminal in Seattle. I was living aboard a couple of nights a week in seattle, Seems the X transom well was a great place for him to store his crustacean and fresh fish platter. he would fill the well with fresh catch (which was unable to escape), along with the associated mud and seawead he grubbed up with them, then come back and eat them at his/her leisure. Only problem is.......they seem to enjoy cracking the shells on the fiberglass and steering bars. (which tends to wake me up when I am trying to sleep.)
I snuck out to survey the commotion, with my trusty cup of hot chocolate in hand, and sat in the cockpit awaiting the nocturnal gourmands return. I would drive him off, but multiple times during each successive evening he would return to enjoy the house place setting. (apparently he preferred the Macgregor fish and salad bowl platter).
I had his larger sea otter cousins come up into the yard at the last place. His favorite hidey holes were the culvert pipes below the yard, and the back of my truck that had the fishing tackle box. Seems like something in the tackle box (berkely power bait??) is a huge attraction to the critters. They are fun to watch slinking down the culvert or road, or chasing each other in the water. But they didn't belong in my driveway. (the herons and eagles don't like share their catches.)
good luck discourage them. Is there something that smells like fish (other than an old fisherman) in your office??
just kidding..........
I snuck out to survey the commotion, with my trusty cup of hot chocolate in hand, and sat in the cockpit awaiting the nocturnal gourmands return. I would drive him off, but multiple times during each successive evening he would return to enjoy the house place setting. (apparently he preferred the Macgregor fish and salad bowl platter).
I had his larger sea otter cousins come up into the yard at the last place. His favorite hidey holes were the culvert pipes below the yard, and the back of my truck that had the fishing tackle box. Seems like something in the tackle box (berkely power bait??) is a huge attraction to the critters. They are fun to watch slinking down the culvert or road, or chasing each other in the water. But they didn't belong in my driveway. (the herons and eagles don't like share their catches.)
good luck discourage them. Is there something that smells like fish (other than an old fisherman) in your office??
just kidding..........
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LOUIS B HOLUB
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Re: Office Critter
Bill -- anyway, at least we sure tried to help you in every way possible
Next time you have an issue, dont hesitate to call on a few of us Nutzo Mac Salts...we'll definately give great well thought out, sensible, scientific, ideas. But dont expect solutions, just ideas.
Next time you have an issue, dont hesitate to call on a few of us Nutzo Mac Salts...we'll definately give great well thought out, sensible, scientific, ideas. But dont expect solutions, just ideas.



