OT - Armadillo in Kansas

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David from Kansas

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• Sep 30, 2010

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We have been seeing more and more of those critters here in central Kansas. Couple of days ago I travelled to Great Bend on K-156 and saw two road kills within a half mile of each other. I had something in my barn and open shed so some real serious digging about a year ago and suspect it was an armadillo but couldn't confirm that. They seem to be moving north at a steady pace.

 

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Devon Hubbard

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• Sep 30, 2010

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Nine full days of subfreezing temperature is supposed to annihilate them. I hate the nasty things.

 

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Nancy Howell

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• Sep 30, 2010

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Never touch one. They can carry leprosy.

 

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Billy Shafer

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• Sep 30, 2010

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Watch out for the ones carrying Lone Star Beer. They are from Texas and get cranky at times.

 

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PopinJohn

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• Sep 30, 2010

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The newspaper for Corning Arkansas carried a story last year about a lady who devised a trap and caught 171 armadillos during the summer. I agree with Nancy, I've heard they carry leprosy which is a loathsome disease.

 

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Fergienewbee

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• Sep 30, 2010

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David;

Where do you live? I have a friend who lives in Larned.

Larry

 

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Kruse

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• Sep 30, 2010

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I have no doubt they are moving north.
HOWEVER, I have a trucker buddy who, after drinking a few beers, admits to having picked up a few roadkills while he was in Texas and then deposits them along the highways up north as a joke.
I never said that he was all there in the head.

 

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railhead

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• Sep 30, 2010

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S of Wichita here on state line...the old heads say they never even believed these things existed back in the day, now they are common here. I have heard that the fire ants down south have pushed their migration northward. I guess that the fireants kill any ground dwelling animal. Hopefully it is too cold here in the winters for fireants but I have heard they are as far North as Tulsa and OKC now.

 

RBnSC

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• Sep 30, 2010

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They arrived here in the south eastern part of SC a few years ago. I have never seen a live one but the buzzards sure like them side the road.They will clean one in a couple of hours. What would you use for bait to trap them?
Ron

 

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Mike (WA)

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• Sep 30, 2010

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As a kid growing up in western Washington, the only opossums I had seen were in books. Now they're everywhere. Talked to an old timer farmer, and he said he saw his first one in 1965.

Things do migrate. We also now have "scrub jay" birds- first one I ever saw was in a tree screaming at me when I went to my first day on a new job in 1989. I took it as a bad sign, and I wasn't wrong.

 

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Spook

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• Sep 30, 2010

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I never saw possums as a kid, now they are real common. Sometimes they have their tails frozen off here in Michigan.

 

Ultradog MN

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Twin Cities

• Sep 30, 2010

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Got my chuckle for the day reading this thread.
Thanks.
Kruse, I like your friend. I think I'll import a few pythons and alligators as road kill in the inner city where I live. That'll have the university types and the ahhh inner city folk flapping their jaws for weeks.
Never seen a possum living or dead untill about 2 years ago my neighbor caught one in his squirrel trap across the street. Had a chance to look it over real good while it was in the trap.
I didn't like it much at all and felt no remorse when I heard he'd chucked it into the rainbarrel like he does the squirrels.
I've heard the armadildos can be bad.

 

tn terry t

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• Sep 30, 2010

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they movin east also in the past year ive seen ten or so killed on the road here in middle tn

 

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Eric Rylander

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• Sep 30, 2010

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Here is one in my backyard a month ago-
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old

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Camdenton Missouri

• Sep 30, 2010

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Common here in Missouri any more. I kill all of them that I see since they love to dig and make a mess of lawns and fields

 

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James Howell

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• Sep 30, 2010

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You've got that right!

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This one was meaner than my ex-mother-in-law.

Favors her a lot to.

 

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David from Kansas

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• Sep 30, 2010

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Center of Kansas. Address is Geneseo, Rice County, but we live across the county line north in Ellsworth County. About 50 miles NW of Hutchinson, 35 miles NE of Great Bend. Larned is about 20 or so miles west of Great Bend.

 

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greenbeanman in Kansas

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• Sep 30, 2010

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Reno County has quite a lot of them especially in the SW corner of the county.

A couple of years ago I stopped to move a dead one off of the highway and found that though dead there was no appearance of it having been hit.

What I wouldn't have given for a nail gun to fasten it to a utility pole as if climbing it. A nail through each foot would have done it up right.

A fellow at Pratt has been doing research on them for years and I believe eventually plans to publish a book.

He is doing serious research and gets books to study that are written in Latin.

Expect someone in the Pratt area would know the man. Dr. ??? Drives an old green pickup and collects windmills. Think he farms, with his PHD in ???

 

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ncpapaul

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• Oct 1, 2010

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When I was growing up in Mississippi (the delta) in the 50s and 60s we never saw any.........now they tear up the yard every night and I moved "north" to northern Mississippi.......they are .22 long rifle practice targets here. Paul