Texas Rat Snakes are nonvenomous but very aggressive. At nearly 4 feet long, this guy was big enough to do real damage to little feet and legs, yet just small enough to find several convenient ways into our unfinished house in search of fragrant gerbils, so we decided to knock him off the side of [...]

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We have had a swallows’ nest in the gable over our back door. They raise used to raise a couple of broods of young every year and do did a beautiful job at keeping the mosquitoes under control. They even killed off the wasps that tried to establish a colony there. See [...]

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Posted by: Deanna

Take a good look at this picture, what do you see?
I see, to quote Rudyard Kipling, a “man cub” , with big brown eyes, and long eyelashes like his Dad, an adorable buzz cut, a precious button nose complete with complementary dried boogers, and enormously  fat cheeks. Overall it’s a face no person [...]

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