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Cecil, where are your dog's front paws in that picture?

The dog reminds me of one of the animals from Animal Farm.

I needed a pair of extra legs for a dog I was mounting so i cut them off.

I did know a taxidermist that would yank out particular hair strands from his cat to make repairs on mounts or tie flies. For some reason his cat was very skittish and ran away a lot.

Seriously the legs are probably pushed up against the building or curved under. This dog is incredibly flexible and could be the dog world equivalent of a contortionist.

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The pigeon roosts for the night and poops here but is gone the rest of the day. I think someone trained him to do that.

A pellet gun can solve that problem rather easily...

I know but my dad has become attached it. He's even cleaning up the mess! Says he may build a little hutch for it.

The bird has disappeared for the last two days. Perhaps it finally found it's way or the local hawk that patrols this area found an easy meal. No feathers or carcass on the property that I can see though.

We've had a female cardinal for the past two months that sits on our hot tub lid and then flies into the window of a guest bedroom all day long. She begins around daylight and the whacking sound of her head against the glass works as a nice, though unwelcome, alarm clock. We can't figure out what the heck she is doing, but literally she has been at this behavior for two months. The hot tub lid is covered in bird poop and the window is completely smudged up from her ministrations. We can't figure out if she thinks there's something inside that we stole from her or if she sees something that she thinks she needs or what. She may have a date with a pellet gun decoy if it persists much longer.

She may think her reflection is another female cardinal and is trying to chase it away.

Great insight, Scott! Never really thought about that angle. I still think I can help her chase that other one away if that's the deal . . .

Scott has it right... Cardinals are very territorial and she is protecting her territory from the "other" cardinal. If you go to a store that specializes in bird feeding or look online, they make stickies that you can attach to windows that look like hawks or other things to help keep cardinals and other dumb birds from beating themselves to death on your windows and waking you up at the crack of dawn each morning. You can also use the stickies to keep birds from flying into your windows because they don't realize they are there.

CJ those stickers sound like a good idea, I have Chickadees banging the big windows at the cabin all the time, usually their stunned and fly away after a few minutes.

That's really interesting stuff, Travis. Thanks.

My buddy in Wi. had to put stickers on the windows in one bedroom of their vacation home. The bedroom is on one corner of the house, and it has windows on both walls near the corner. Twice he's walked in the house and thought someone broke in by breaking the bedroom window to access the inside of the house. Both times he's found a dead grouse in the bedroom. He thinks the grouse are looking thru both windows and to them it looks like a hole thru some trees.

The grouse are near the peak of their population cycle now, and so far he hasn't had to replace a window this year.

Wow! I knew grouse were pretty tough, but not THAT tough!