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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Catching lizards, petting them and letting them go. Bwana Lizard Hunter, bringing them back alive.
For old Texans, if you caught horny toads (now endangered due to fire ants (perhaps)), and gently petted them, they'd wiggle thier tail like a puppy...
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Really? I never knew that about horny toads! We would just hold little tiny lizards against the sidewalk by their tails until they snappled loose from the tail and escaped.
I wish fire ants were endangered. Do you remember me telling y'all last fall about finding the squirrel tearing apart the fire ant bed beside our sidewalk? Big huge ant mound, nothing would kill it, not poison, not even pouring gas on it and setting it on fire. Anyhow, we were leaving for work, and there it was: A squirrel trying to bury a pecan in the mound. It would dig ferociously for a minute, then go rolling in a conniption fit to get them all off, then go back and dig some more. Completely destroyed that unkillable mound. But now there is another one about 3 feet (a metre to y'all who don't use regular measuring) away, just as big as the previous mound. No squirrels have attacked it yet. I need to bait it with a pecan or something.