One point to illustrate something.

[blacknblue]

I guess I am just an old fogey and always will be. I am in love with my 12 gauge pump and forever will I swear by it.

[Mitchell]

Well Im not exactly talkin bout my Bolt action 30-06 here. But rather my Win 94 30-30, or even my 22Mag. Both guns I can draw up quicker, both are shorter, are a few lbs lighter, an I wont cry for weeks If I have to use them for a club to beat an animal off of me.

12 guage pump is fine an dandy to. As long as its a Rem 870 ofcourse.

[CX]

I'm a little scared of fox getting my cat. One almost got my cat this summer, and she would've had them if dad hadn't been just stepping outside that morning to go feed him. Fortunately there was enough time for him to reach in and grab the .22, and the Fox was focused enough on cat that she didn't notice. Cat was completely oblivious for some reason, which is odd because he's spooked by the littlest things.

[Reanok]

Where I live we have to worry about badgers killing our pets. About 10 years ago our neighborhood cats started disappearing or being badly injured. My neighbors cat was killed by a badger. They found a number of cats that had been killed by the badger animal control killed it. My Grandma's cats were also at that time being hunted by a badger late at night she opened her window let her cats in barely in the nick of time the she closed the window and badger tried to come in through the window & my grandma's dog was going crazy. All the Dogs in the neighborhood were upset about the badger. We also have problems with Skunks wandering the neighborhoods too.

[blacknblue]

12 guage pump is fine an dandy to. As long as its a Rem 870 ofcourse.

Of course. What else?

[CX]

Badgers are pretty nasty animals. I'd never want one of those to get a hold of me, that's for sure.

[Elessar]

We have foxes around here occasionally, and moles, but nothing more surly than that. My neighbors told us a story (we didn't notice) about my cat chasing off a fox out of our back yard. He was up at like 3 am takin a piss and their bathroom window (what you'd be looking out of as you're standing there) happens to look right into our back yard, where he saw my cat and a fox like prowling 10 yards apart, my cat on our patio, the fox in our yard, like tracing each others steps in a semi-circle until they got to the opposite side of the yard, hissing and growling at each other, until the fox ran off.

I don't care if I got an illegal discharge violation or somethin in city limits, my cat's pretty old... if I saw a fox goin after him, I'd put a couple of .45 JHPs in that guy.

[evcake]

When all is said and done, pets are family.

[Linda]

Right! Pets ARE family. And my parrot is probably going to outlive me. My husband and I are writing wills and the parrot is going to be in it - who gets custody and all that.

[blacknblue]

I don't care if I got an illegal discharge violation or somethin in city limits, my cat's pretty old... if I saw a fox goin after him, I'd put a couple of .45 JHPs in that guy.

Get yourself a paintball gun for just such emergencies.

[TSara]

Simi OT....

But my dad (who lives in Florida and is a work- a holic so it's not like this will ever happen) said he wants to get a bee bee gun and gun down the pesky squirrels (His words not mine).

Apparently the squirrels have taken to eating the key limes/citrus off the trees.....and my parents are sick of it.


My dad is so not a hunter....so the mental image I had of him sitting in a lawn chair on the side yard picking off the squirrels had me in stitches.