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To: nasdaqian who wrote (55734)	9/14/2000 2:10:31 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 71178

SHame on you, theloof!!!!! Hanging your little kitties out as bait! I figure if my kitties get swooped on and eaten, they have earned it. I don't know how many dead birds I've had to clean up in the living room. A good Injun Chief headdress worth. I am Sleepless in Southlake this week-- we have new neighbors who have two killer pitbulls which they deny are pitbulls, but which sure LOOK like pitbulls- only bigger- one is about 90 pounds. Ammo says maybe they are Doberman pit mix and isn't that a nice thought? They are in a flimsy wooden pen with an electric cattle wire around the top. All the neighbors are calling each other- whisper, whisper. My latest call says the new people had "trouble" in their old neighborhood with their dogs getting out and fighting. I don't know what to do- really! I am scared that they will get out and attack ME! (Hell with the cats) There is no one home around here in the day to hear me screaming. Dan said, wow, we would have a great case against them. Wouldn't have to worry about college costs. No- just plastic surgery - or funeral expenses.

To: nasdaqian who wrote (55734)	9/15/2000 11:05:20 AM
From: Michael M	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I question the theory that there are "nice" birds. Some, due to size, weak arsenals or separation from anything they can bother "seem" nice enough. I have kept pheasants, doves, pigeons, chickens and Guinea fowl. The phrase "pecking order" didn't pop up out of nowhere. You get a bunch of doves together and some are way rude -- azzholes, actually. GF, I'm convinced are afraid of heights. I used to let all but the pheasants roam in summer. A few doves would fly off but mostly all would hang out near the house and roost in some old pear trees. Picking a perch that ruled out hawk "fly-bys" was a priority. Standing on porch one day, I saw a hawk hit a dove mid-air about 15 feet away. Sent the smaller bird tumbling to the ground. Dove managed to scurry under a car before the hawk could wheel around and collect the prize. Figured the dove was mortally wounded but when I finally moved the car, here was this really upset featherless thing in the drive. The doves were amazingly tolerant of humans (no sudden moves allowed, of course). Nuts about Ritz Crackers. Never lost a cat. Maybe they were just quick as a ..... M

To: nasdaqian who wrote (55734)	9/15/2000 11:36:41 AM
From: Michael M	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

PS on the bird of prey thing..... Was once alone on a high trail with the north face of the Eiger in MY face. A bluer-than-blue, sunnier-than-sunny, just-before-winter day. One of the most awesome days God or Al Gore ever made. At some point, I realized there was a bare whisper of a sound and a sound I had been hearing for a while. I looked in every direction and finally toward the sky. There, not more that a dozen or so feet above me was a VERY large bird. He'd been drifting there on the breeze for who knows how long. Maybe if I had been a little smaller or the bird a bit larger..... What a day that was. M