ID this horrible creature please!!!!

Hi Kecia. Welcome to the Northeast forum and to Dave's Garden. Glad to have you with us reading about Woody and company.

Welcome, Kecia! You will have a lot of fun here! Jump on in any time! Those of us in NH are very happy to have you join our numbers too!

Kecia - do you have the daylily named 'Kecia'?

Or one named 'Woody'?

Welcome Kecia - sometimes we even make sense. (I hate it when that happens.)

Welcome Kecia. Nice to have you on board. I just fell asleep in the middle of this post - I think I better go to bed or I'll be sleeping across the keyboard and sending even weirder messages than I usually do. Eleanor

Good night Eleanor! ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

well, I am glad my adventures with wildlife makes a good topic!!!!!

Welcome Kecia... your name sounds so much like mine... so interesting!!!! this is the BEST place to be... the most amazing people!!!

according to my sister is not the same one... this one is bigger... but who knows??? I can't be sure... have no DNA to make sure...!!!

well, since we are talking about wildlife - today I had to be a nurse for Cocoa... he broke a nail... for a male turtle he has the longest nails... so he broke one... how it happened I have no clue... so I talked to the expert and he told me to use New Skin... so I did... oh I can't believe now I even fix broken nails for turtles....

the 2 turtles are doing well... I am still letting them go outside for a few hours if the day is nice but they are going to be coming inside my bedroom soon... I actually miss them on my bedroom window!!!!

Good morning - I made it too bed!! I was really tired yesterday. I had to go get Colin about 3:15 and take care of him for a couple of hours till his his mother got home. I met my DH coming home from work and I turned around and had him drive me over to get him - I didn't think I could stay awake driving ( sleep apnea and medication side effect ) It is sometimes really bothersome but that is the first time I've fallen asleep at the computer!! I'm usually so excited posting on DG that I can stay awake - you guys must have been boring yesterday - I'm just kidding, you're never boring, especially Kassia's wildlife refuge!! I was working hard outside and I'm coming down with a cold so I was extra tired. Eleanor

Thanks to everyone for the warm welcomes´!

Kassia, yes our names´ sure do have the same sound...the "cia" in mine most likely is pronounced the same as your "ssia", sometimes that confuses some people as to how to say mine.

Great you patched up Cocoa, that Newskin stuff is handy , definitely!!...Years back I worked with a lot of Turtles, mostly land turtles & tortoises, we didn´t have new skin & once I had to give one stitches, he survived & one would never have known his foot was so damaged, but new skin would have made things lots easier!...I´ll remember that if my dogs ever break a nail right down so it bleeds, very handy!

Kassia - your turtles are very cute! Besides Cocoa (very fitting name from his coloration), what is the other one's name? I had never heard of New Skin.......from what you and Kecia say, it sounds like good stuff to have around! Will it grow hair for Victor???? LOL

How's your herd doing, Kass???

Eleanor - hope you get some rest....sounds like you could use some!

Kecia - this is the best place to be if you love gardening! Everyone is sooooo helpful and supportive. Currently, I am putting packets of seeds together for winter sowing. Last year sooo many people sent me seeds; this year it is my turn to pass the favour forward - so as soon as I have everything sorted out, I will post the info - and you can let me know if you want a seed "Care-package" Lol

He he he......Turtles & Seeds!!! lol

Thanks very much for the offer of Seeds!....I didn´t grow lots from Seed this year, except different Basils & a little Oregano, those I´m hoping to cheat & have indoors as well for a while as it gets colder.....but next year .....I´ll be ready to start planting more from seed.

Has anyone here ever tried drying Hybiscus seeds & growing them?......I have an out door variety as well as 6 Indoor wintering varieties & when I have tried to dry their little pod thingies after the flower pops off they never look like there is seed in there.

I still don't get the advantage of winter-sowing over starting seeds indoors or waiting until it's warm enough to sow in Spring. Will someone tell me why it's worth the effort??

Victor - wintersowing is easier....because nature takes over nicely. When flowers drop their seeds from their pods (because no one like me is harvesting them), they propagate naturally, so the wintersowing I do just places the seeds where I want them to grow instead of where they drop. There may be more complicated methods than what I'm describing, but I have found it to be the easiest way of all.....except, of course, you can only sow those seeds that are perennial for your zone.

Okay but that doesn't sound like the wintersowing I've been reading here which involves milk jugs, etc. I throw seeds where I want them to come up all the time. It's 'selective dispersal'. But I do that when the plant is ready to pop its seeds, not in Winter or early Spring.

Yeah, I have read the wintersowing instructions, but I don't do all of that. I just try to simulate nature and it works fine for me. I'm sure there are many who have great results with the mini-greenhouse approach too. Do you work yours into the ground and mulch at all? Maybe what I do isn't technically called wintersowing??? Maybe I just sow for wintering over.....distinction without a difference??? Too deep for me tonight. LOL

The female turtle (the bigger one ) is Nestle... yeah they are named after chocolate!!!!

I have lost one - she died - Cadbury... and Hershey and Lindt runned away ... very sad story... i will cry if I talk about it...

but I have 2 ... and yes, they live inside.... and they are in my bedroom window... they wake me up in the morning!!! and Nestle comes when I call her... she knows my voice!!!

New Skin is wonderful...http://newskinproducts.com/ - it's a liquid bandage! it's working well for Cocoa...

Kassia - you are so good with animals. Instead of New Skin my PA told me to use super glue (doesn't sting) on the cracks on my fingers. It works great - doesn't sting and it is not bulky like a bandaid and it makes it easier for playing the piano. My skin is very dry and I can remember in the winter I would have all of my fingers bandaged and trying to play the piano was a little difficult.
I was going to try winter sowing but now that I have my growing lights and shelves I'm going to use them and start seeds in the late winter or spring. Eleanor

never heard of super glue for cuts!!!!! I have seen used for brain surgery (I am serious!!!) I will try... and yes, New Skin stings a bit!!!

There is a skin glue that the Plastic Surgeons use. I don't remember the name. I'm sure you could ask the pharmacist

Ok, time for my 2 cents, any of you PETA people out there, don't hate me...Kassia, get a 22, and shoot....lol. Sorry, the Beaverus notailus, that you have in your yard, I would have gone to drastic measures beyond repute...and would be keeping Agway and their gopher bombs in business for a season or two.
Victor, I don't call it "wintersowing" but every fall, I decorate my front with gourds and pumpkins, and a few of those icky wacky weedy ever color changing bushy stinky mums(not opinionated at all about them here), and what I do, since my compost heap is in the back of my yard, I kick the rotting pumpkins or gords down between my hedrow and my compost pile...and guess what I get everyear for my Soccer prowise? Yep, more gourds, and pumpkins...LOTS...they are like weeds.
In the wintersowing thread do they mention what happens if you are a newbie, and you put all of this years left over tomatos into the compost pile...if any of you have done this, you know...if any of you haven't...let's jut say the best tomato production EVER in my life occured. My mother makes sauce with the tomatos I harves, she was able to make 4gallons of sauce from yellow pear tomatos...that was 4 gallons!
That is my 2cents...lol.

4 gallons and 2 cents. That's a penny a gallon - great price Hem!!

I can't get tomatos to grow in my compost pile - just pumpkins and potatoes. The tomatos reseed themselves every year in the dirt mountain in the front yard, though. And then there is this one grape tomato plant that grows out by the asparagus bed with the best tomatos ever.

so...lol...is that considered wintersowing?

I don't know - it doesn't involve and empty milk jugs . . .

Lol, I love this thread. We've had moles, skunks, bobcats, rabbits, turtles, hawks and the irrepressible squirrels in our yard, not to mention the occasional neighborhood cats.

Hi everyone!!! I am still in sunny CA!!!!! oh it's great out here! I forgot to ask my family about the other woodchuck!!!! but as soon as I get home next week I shall post an update!!!

here is one of my frequent visitors... i call him my supervisor - he sits and watches me garden. i think he used to belong to somebody, he lets me get pretty close. His girlfriend is another story.
(taken about a month ago.)

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here she is (in super zoom from my kitchen window):

quite the magical little creature of the night, she is.

Oh amethystsm, she's a beauty. She looks like a cross of Maine Coon and American Tabby.

Beautiful cats Amy. Love that second one.

i am hoping to trap them and take them to a vet. It seems that there are some who work with feral cats, and do a low-cost spay/neuter/release program. i think it involves traps much like what you used for your woodchuck relocation program.
i think my supervisor may be rehabilitatable (a "stray" or abandoned) - he seems a little dependent. Herself i'm not so sure of, but even if she's meant to be wild, i'd prefer knowing she's healthy and not making more wild kittens...
We've got them used to coming for food between 5 and 7 every night.

amy
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(cell phone pic)

Humane Society would probably treat them and possibly put them up for adoption.

AHHH the woodchuck!!! We put up a six foot fence and even added 1" chicken wire along the bottom(dug down about 8" and tucked into the ground to prevent digging access) Still my tomatoes would have bites taken out, melons, zucchini, ect. The only thing this fat creature wouldn't touch was the Swiss Chard!! We just couldn't figure how he was getting in until one afternoon I went into the garden and we met!! Let me tell you he was the fattest woodchuck I have ever seen(guess veggies can make you fat!!lol) Let me tell you that chubby fella could run! He shot up over the chicken wire(almost 2 1/2 feet up) and went right through the cattle fence! I just stood there with my jaw dropped! I couldn't believe he made it through the fence(a few more melons and I don't think he would have made it!!)
Well, a couple weeks later we had a rather large coyote hanging around and guess who he got ahold of! My father was standing on the back deck when the coyote trotted across the field where he grabbed the woodchuck. Then he turned and looked at my dad for a couple of seconds then he trotted off! He's 83 and said he's never seen anything like it! My aunt next door was also having a problem with the woodchucks and shortly after this she said her garden was finally free from damage. He must have stayed and cleaned house!! Wish he came a little earlier in the season.

DH caught an oppossum this morning. Just a little one - in the trap we use for squirrels. He relocated the oppossum to a huge park with lots of forest - and had a dickens of a time getting the little guy out of the trap. It was soooo passive - unlike the squirrels which bolt out as soon as they can.

Oh for heavens sake!

They were here long before any of us. We are the only predators left in many areas cause we hate coyotes, wolves, bobcats, etc. and trap and poison and kill them any way we can.We won't allow hunting in our urban areas so the deer move in and they love our tender plants.

Live trap the groundhogs and take them away from habitatation (thats human habitation). Nature will take care of him, probably make a meal for a predator.

Lifes a bugger and we have it easiest!

Relocating a wild animal in MA illigal. Prefer the woodchuck bomb myself.There is plenty of open land in the area, just keep them away from our garden.

It's illegal here too but I'm not paying some guy money every time I get one to haul it away. That's just ridiculous. I take mine a few miles away and release.

Let them go after people that drive with cell phones strapped to their heads, those morons are far more dangerous.

I lived in an older suburb and the town had an animal controle person.
If you could trap it they would come and take it away.
I lost a whole row of begonias before I saw him run under my studio in the back of the yard.