You'll never guess...

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Originally Posted by srozell

Rectic on a leash.

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You know, the sad thing is they actually make snake leashes. There was a thread on it oh so long ago..

Hey Judy, what side of Tucson do you live on? Just curious...my aunt and uncle live off Tanque Verde, right at the base of Mt. Lemon...=)

We almost always see something interesting in "their" bit of desert around the house when we go over for Xmas...

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Originally Posted by cassandra

Hey Judy, what side of Tucson do you live on? Just curious...my aunt and uncle live off Tanque Verde, right at the base of Mt. Lemon...=)

We almost always see something interesting in "their" bit of desert around the house when we go over for Xmas...

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I'm right over there on that side of town. I cycle on Tanque Verde from time to time and just live a couple miles from the eastern end of that street. Mt. Lemmon is practically in our back yard. It's gorgeous!

I have yet to see a mountain lion in Minnesota where I live, but about a half hour drive where my grandparents live in the country my uncle went outside in the early hours of the morning because the dogs were barking so bad. There was a huge mountain lion that started to growl at him and not back down to shouting, my uncle had luckily taken his revolver outside with him (black bear are coming in to the area also) and he shot near it to scare it, it ran off into the woods. Come to find out it was a huge male that had been slaughtering the whitetail deer in the area, but had become a nuisance when it came too close to homes, so the DNR put it down. Last I've heard there have been sightings of more.

Most of the people around here don't mind them killing off deer, we all know they help to keep down the numbers of our overpopulated deer, but when they start to come in to farms and small towns its too late for them.

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Originally Posted by Shelby

You know, the sad thing is they actually make snake leashes. There was a thread on it oh so long ago..

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Snake leashes???!!! Oh must have one of those ... however did they reckon they'd stay on? :disbelief

Well reading these posts makes me kinda glad I live in the UK - I'll stick to the wildlife channels :D

http://www.snakewalker.com/index.html

Nope I haven't seen a mountian lion in my yard yet. I'm too busy chasing off the western diamondbacks:D

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Originally Posted by JLC

I'm right over there on that side of town. I cycle on Tanque Verde from time to time and just live a couple miles from the eastern end of that street. Mt. Lemmon is practically in our back yard. It's gorgeous!

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Jeez, if you live on that side of town and you are a cyclist, you might know my aunt and uncle, who are amateur racing cyclists...Barb and Ted Frohling on East Summertrail, around the corner from Aqua Caliente? =)

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Originally Posted by cassandra

Jeez, if you live on that side of town and you are a cyclist, you might know my aunt and uncle, who are amateur racing cyclists...Barb and Ted Frohling on East Summertrail, around the corner from Aqua Caliente? =)

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I'm very new to cycling and ride with a somewhat small group. However, I'll bet Barb and Ted blew past me somewhere along the way in the El Tour de Tucson this past November! LOL

Thanks for the link, April - now I've seen it all - but amazingly remain unconvinced :D Anyone tried one?