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Animals as a gift of God
By: HOLLAND Date: December 20, 2015, 9:33 pm
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It is interesting how wild animals can sense if your yard is a
safe place for them or not. I have occasionally rabbits come
into the yard. I've never chased them but have only quietly
talked to them. I am struck by the short life expectancy of the
wild rabbits and how they must live in a state of careful
guardedness all of their lives.
It is a privilege of God, I think, that we have the rabbits,
squirrels, cats, birds and other animals around us as we do. It
is a time for thankfulness for the joys of life that we are
given. Do you have the experience of wild animals coming into
your yard or into your life?
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Re: Animals as a gift of God
By: Brad Date: December 20, 2015, 11:49 pm
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Yes, squirrels, birds, friendly swarms of bees, rabbits and
raccoons.
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Re: Animals as a gift of God
By: Kerry Date: December 21, 2015, 6:04 am
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I have never seen a rabbit in my yard. Odd in a way, isn't it?
But last night there was a rabbit out back of Dominos. I saw
the back door was open which means someone is taking a smoke
break out back. The usual practice is to flatten all the
boxes during the day and have the morning shift people take them
out to the dumpster -- for security reasons. But I saw
someone was taking a smoke break and decided I'd take out the
boxes that we had so there would be less for the people tomorrow
morning. The manager and assistant manager were there, and the
assistant manager told me to be quiet. I wondered what was
going on. He pointed -- and then I saw the rabbit when I got
closer to the door. The rabbit was just sitting there while
they were smoking; and they didn't want to disturb it and didn't
want me to.
I'm still working on attracting more butterflies to my yard.
None of the milkweed seeds I planted last spring seem to have
sprouted -- not sure why. This fall on my paper route I
collected a lot of pods to plant next spring. Milkweed is
almost a must for monarch butterflies; and as more fields are
ripped up with the wild areas around them that support milkweed,
the monarchs are struggling to exist.
I loved the little white butterfly that hung around my yard last
summer. Don't know why, but that one white butterfly I'd see
almost every day when I was out. It seemed to enjoy darting
from flower to flower. I enjoyed the bumblebees too; but I've
never met another bumblebee like the one that was my friend for
a year. I met it when it tried to come into my house and got
trapped between the screen door and the regular door. I
explained to this dear bee it couldn't come in the house since
there was nothing for it to eat in there. I opened the screen
door then and it left; but that one bee would frequently meet
me when I came home -- and it would fly around my head as if it
was dancing. The other bumblebees stayed behind the house in
the back yard -- just that one would meet me at the front door
like that. I loved it.
One day I had an atheist friend coming with me to my house; and
I told him about the bee. "Don't strike at it," i told him.
"It's a friendly bee and it almost always meets me when I come
home. It flies around my head to greet me; and if it flies
around you, it means it likes you too.' He said he didn't know
if he could do that because he hated bees. He was afraid he
might try to swat it. I told him he couldn't come to my house
if he didn't promise not to try to hurt the bee. He promised.
And sure enough, the dear bee was there to greet us; and my
friend didn't swat at him, and the bee flew around us both.
Ha, ha, the things that can happen to atheists. . . when
they're around me.
I had another conversation with that guy about rabbits. He
said one morning he went out front of his house to smoke and
there was a rabbit there -- and the rabbit just sat there, about
a foot away from him while he smoked. I said, "Were you in a
peaceful mood?" He said he was. I told him animals sometimes
will hang around closer to people if the people are in a
peaceful frame of mind.
Oh for Paradise when all the humans are at peace and the animals
can be too.
Sometimes birds chirp at me to get my attention. Sometimes
birds are just chirping, but sometimes they're also chirping at
you. I say hello back.
I sometimes talk to rabbits and other animals too when I see
them. I keep telling rabbits to stop running into the road and
then getting afraid they won't make it to the other side --
darting back and forth. It's dangerous, I tell them. They
think safety lies in getting "home" -- and wind up dead trying
to get to safety. Can they hear me? Can they learn? May
be. One night I was out driving and I saw two rabbits -- both
were thinking about running across the road but didn't even
start -- they didn't get onto the pavement. I talk to deer
the same way; and one night a deer that was thinking about
running in front of me just stood along the road and watched me
pass.
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Re: Animals as a gift of God
By: HOLLAND Date: December 22, 2015, 8:52 pm
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Wild animals in town can be such a joy! It is interesting that
the human voice can sometimes, seemingly sooth a wild animal in
its fear or guardedness. I wonder why that is?
Rabbits are so uncommon in my town that they are still quite a
novelty to me. I hope that they will become more common though
they will cause inevitable havoc to gardens.
I've seen deer in my hometown and in the most surprising places.
I assume that they wander into town in the dark and become lost
and confused when the daylight comes. They are hauntingly
beautiful. I hope to see them sometime this holiday season. I
will go down the river by car on a river route to see if I can
see any.
The birds seem to be an unknown world to me. I lament I've
never followed their ways more as I should have.
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Re: Animals as a gift of God
By: Brad Date: December 22, 2015, 11:46 pm
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[quote author=HOLLAND link=topic=1037.msg11438#msg11438
date=1450839160]
Wild animals in town can be such a joy! It is interesting that
the human voice can sometimes, seemingly sooth a wild animal in
its fear or guardedness. I wonder why that is?
Rabbits are so uncommon in my town that they are still quite a
novelty to me. I hope that they will become more common though
they will cause inevitable havoc to gardens.
I've seen deer in my hometown and in the most surprising places.
I assume that they wander into town in the dark and become lost
and confused when the daylight comes. They are hauntingly
beautiful. I hope to see them sometime this holiday season. I
will go down the river by car on a river route to see if I can
see any.
The birds seem to be an unknown world to me. I lament I've
never followed their ways more as I should have.
[/quote]
Setup a bird feeder and load it with black oil sunflower seeds,
and cracked corn. Sprinkle some cracked corn on the ground
around the feeder, for some birds are ground feeders. Get a
shepards hook and put some suet in a cage the size of the suet
cake, usually sold nearby the suet cakes. Hang the cage on the
shepards hook not far from the bird feeder. Get a small light
pair of binoculars and watch from a distance. Our bird feeder
and suet cake are about 15 feet away from our kitchen window,
so we can look out whenever we are at the kitchen table eating.
The birds, and squirrels will come.
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Re: Animals as a gift of God
By: Kerry Date: December 23, 2015, 12:14 am
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I don't expect them to come into town; but a pair of bald eagles
was spotted outside of town, along a creek. That surprised me!
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Carlisle resident Heather DeWire spotted a pair of bald eagles
Friday on the Conodoguinet Creek along Creek Road in Carlisle.
DeWire said the eagles left the creek and returned several
times.
“My dad had called me and he said to get over with my camera
because there were a pair of eagles sitting in the creek behind
his house," she said. "I was able to sit on the porch and take
some pictures. They flew away and came back twice. It looked
like they were eating some kind of dead animal in the creek.”
A once rare sight, bald eagles have experienced a comeback in
Pennsylvania. According to the Pennsylvania Game Commission, the
chances of seeing one of the birds in the wild are now greater
than they have been in Pennsylvania for the past 100 years
“It was very interesting—especially to see two at once,” Dewire
said.
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Re: Animals as a gift of God
By: Brad Date: December 23, 2015, 11:57 am
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A beautiful bird!
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Re: Animals as a gift of God
By: HOLLAND Date: December 30, 2015, 7:55 pm
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[quote author=Brad link=topic=1037.msg11443#msg11443
date=1450849581]
Setup a bird feeder and load it with black oil sunflower seeds,
and cracked corn. Sprinkle some cracked corn on the ground
around the feeder, for some birds are ground feeders. Get a
shepards hook and put some suet in a cage the size of the suet
cake, usually sold nearby the suet cakes. Hang the cage on the
shepards hook not far from the bird feeder. Get a small light
pair of binoculars and watch from a distance. Our bird feeder
and suet cake are about 15 feet away from our kitchen window,
so we can look out whenever we are at the kitchen table eating.
The birds, and squirrels will come.
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Thanks for the info, Brad. I will consider what you've said. I
do have some cunning squirrels around here so it may be a game
to keep the bird feeder from becoming a squirrel feeder!
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Re: Animals as a gift of God
By: HOLLAND Date: December 30, 2015, 8:06 pm
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Bald eagles, Kerry, winter along the Missouri River and I see
them occasionally soaring along the river hunting for trout and,
opportunistically, ducks and geese.
If you've ever looked into their eyes up close, they seem to
have a great wisdom and fierceness in them. It is said that the
eyes are the window to the soul and it seems so for all
wildlife, owls, fox and cats, especially. The ideas that
animals have souls fascinates me.
Given how house cats all are different, having so different
their personalities, and how they do live part of their lives,
when they go outside into the darkness, revert into a wildness
that we rarely see and understand, the eyes can have so many
clues as to who and what they are. I suspect that the eagles
and the other animals all have individual personalities and that
individual look coming out of their eyes are going to be
different as well.
The eyes of animals, their graceful beauty, their presence seems
so much as a gift, a gift of God, something more than an
esthetic appreciation of what they are!
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