vgabndo - 11-16-2004 at 02:04 PM
There must have been something good to eat in the funky water in the wet end of Manuel's empty pila. Once in, they couldn't climb out. There were five
all together.
We've got 'em here too, but their steady diet of Koi is getting a bit expensive!
They look 'cute', but they can be on the 'mean' side, too.
Mexray - 11-16-2004 at 04:55 PM
I know what you mean about 'expensive' in the Koi department!
About 20 yrs ago when we lived on the outskirts of Livermore, here in No. Calif, I built a nice fish pond in our front court-yard. Not knowing any
better, I made one end only about 14 inches deep.
Later, on a trip to Singapore, I brought back about 50 small koi in a plastic bag filled with oxygen - to keep em' alive on the long trip back. They
thrived in our pond for a couple of years and of course got much bigger! Then one night we were 'hit' by a pack of Raccoons that had been casing our
yard. Our dogs didn't have access to the courtyard, so the 'coons' just dined on some fine imported Koi for several nights, till I noticed a definite
'thinning' of the 'school'...
I borrowed a large trap and caught several of those thieving coons and transported em' way back in the hills to the south of Livermore! They sure
didn't like being caged up! Fightin' and clawing all the way!
As I said, cute, but mean - and destructive to our pond fish population. We also had some 'free-range' Guinea pigs in our court yard, and those
damned coons dispatched every one of those cute little critters, during the great Livermore 'raccoon siege' at our casa!
David K - 11-16-2004 at 06:26 PM
Thanks Perry for sharing these photos again! They are just great!
elgatoloco - 11-16-2004 at 06:31 PM
vgabndo
Thanks for the photos. Hope we can get down that road again sometime soon!
Mexray
"...the great Livermore 'raccoon siege'..."
That story sounds like it would make a nice poem. T
There once was a pond full a koi......
Matt
vgabndo - 11-16-2004 at 08:42 PM
We'll be down that road for the month of Febrero. Hope to see you.