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I'm frequently amazed by the kinds of bizarre (but in a twisted way, still reasonable) leaps of logic that my dad comes up with from time to time. But even by his standards, this one's a doozy.
Our house has recently become home to a new family of groundhogs who've dug a burrow in a secluded corner of the house, digging right up against the foundation. We've had that happen once or twice before, but previously always in reach of the garden hose, so flooding them out was easiest. This time, he came up with a more -- well, "subtle" isn't the right word... maybe indirect? -- approach.
His original thinking was how animals often mark their territory, and other animals will stay away from predators' marked territories. So he had the novel idea of marking the territory near the groundhogs' new burrow to see if that'll convince them to find a new home out in the woods where they won't be disturbing our house's foundation.
Bizarre, I know!
I'll let you know how it turns out.
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Well, probably not on the foundation itself; I imagine he was targeting the trees and various items surrounding the house instead. And as far as I know, he only tried it once, and just recently.
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If a mole bit your anus, how could you possibly explain it to the paramedics?
You risked embarassment of legendary proportions.
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"Well officer... you see... I was out in the back yard, and I started to get hot. So I took my pants off you see... And then I realized that my keys were in the pants so I bent down..."
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