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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | I have five dogs. Four older ones, 3 years, 8 years, 9 years, and 10 years. Then the pup who is 10 weeks.
Of ALL the older dogs, it was the old lazy English Mastiff that came bounding through the woods on our walk today with this.....
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Location: Viola, IL | My boyfriend is jealous. Every time we go south he talks about wanting to see/kill/catch an armadillo. |
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | Moose did all three....just not in that order :) I have a neater photo but it may be inappropriate to post |
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Location: Is it Summer Yet? | Is he dead? Aren't their shells like rocks? |
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | He is now. He wasn't in this photo. Their shells are hard but they will apparently crack very easily in the jaws of a 130 pound mastiff :) |
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Location: Is it Summer Yet? | I have never seen one, not even in a zoo. They don't travel this far north. lol |
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | I think they are only from Colorado across to north carolina and south of that, but I'm not for certain on that. We are in MO |
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | We had them on our property and they dug holes and made a mess. We are completely fenced in and we try to keep the holes they dig under the fence filled in so I think we finally are rid of them. Now to get that **** skunk that snuck in. |
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | Nevertooold - 2014-02-18 8:19 PM We had them on our property and they dug holes and made a mess. We are completely fenced in and we try to keep the holes they dig under the fence filled in so I think we finally are rid of them. Now to get that **** skunk that snuck in.
I'm sorry but you can't borrow Moose for the skunk....unless you are really good at giving baths! |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | Anyone wanting to see an armadillo...I'll mail you a whole mess of them. |
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | Three 4 Luck - 2014-02-18 9:11 PM Anyone wanting to see an armadillo...I'll mail you a whole mess of them.
Mail them to the bleeding hearts on facebook who can't believe I let my dog kill one!!!! |
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | missroselee - 2014-02-18 7:25 PM Nevertooold - 2014-02-18 8:19 PM We had them on our property and they dug holes and made a mess. We are completely fenced in and we try to keep the holes they dig under the fence filled in so I think we finally are rid of them. Now to get that **** skunk that snuck in. I'm sorry but you can't borrow Moose for the skunk....unless you are really good at giving baths!
Our Cattle Dog is an Armadillo and skunk killing machine but I worry about Rabies so I take her out on a leash at night. I am good at bathing dogs and getting skunk smell out but I sure prefer not to. LOL |
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | Nevertooold - 2014-02-18 9:53 PM missroselee - 2014-02-18 7:25 PM Nevertooold - 2014-02-18 8:19 PM We had them on our property and they dug holes and made a mess. We are completely fenced in and we try to keep the holes they dig under the fence filled in so I think we finally are rid of them. Now to get that **** skunk that snuck in. I'm sorry but you can't borrow Moose for the skunk....unless you are really good at giving baths!
We don't let them mess with raccoons, possums, or birds if we can help it. |
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | missroselee - 2014-02-18 8:19 PM Three 4 Luck - 2014-02-18 9:11 PM Anyone wanting to see an armadillo...I'll mail you a whole mess of them. Mail them to the bleeding hearts on facebook who can't believe I let my dog kill one!!!!
Kind of like the people that don't like it when people kill the little feral piggies.
Knew someone in the outskirts of San Antonio that would boo hoo about it until they did $5,000. damage to his fancy landscape in one night..LOL |
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | Nevertooold - 2014-02-18 9:55 PM missroselee - 2014-02-18 8:19 PM Three 4 Luck - 2014-02-18 9:11 PM Anyone wanting to see an armadillo...I'll mail you a whole mess of them. Mail them to the bleeding hearts on facebook who can't believe I let my dog kill one!!!!
Knew someone in the outskirts of San Antonio that would boo hoo about it until they did $5,000. damage to his fancy landscape in one night..LOL
Exactly! That and the idea that I "let" my dog kill another animal....
Not only did I let her, I encouraged her :) |
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Location: hot, humid and dry...Gulf coast East of Houston.. | missroselee - 2014-02-18 8:58 PM Nevertooold - 2014-02-18 9:55 PM missroselee - 2014-02-18 8:19 PM Three 4 Luck - 2014-02-18 9:11 PM Anyone wanting to see an armadillo...I'll mail you a whole mess of them. Mail them to the bleeding hearts on facebook who can't believe I let my dog kill one!!!!
Knew someone in the outskirts of San Antonio that would boo hoo about it until they did $5,000. damage to his fancy landscape in one night..LOL
Not only did I let her, I encouraged her :)
Well Heck Yea!!! |
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | shellyh1971 - 2014-02-18 10:01 PM missroselee - 2014-02-18 8:58 PM Nevertooold - 2014-02-18 9:55 PM missroselee - 2014-02-18 8:19 PM Three 4 Luck - 2014-02-18 9:11 PM Anyone wanting to see an armadillo...I'll mail you a whole mess of them. Mail them to the bleeding hearts on facebook who can't believe I let my dog kill one!!!!
Knew someone in the outskirts of San Antonio that would boo hoo about it until they did $5,000. damage to his fancy landscape in one night..LOL
Not only did I let her, I encouraged her :)
Should I share the other photo :):) |
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Location: In my own world | I live just a little farther north of you Tiff. Just across the MO river. They are not a regular occurrence here. I think I've seen 2 in my life. Mostly in the last 10 yrs. There are probably more than I care to know about. I hope they stay south. They are destructive. Right along with them little piggies!! |
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Location: on my horse | missroselee - 2014-02-18 8:15 PM
shellyh1971 - 2014-02-18 10:01 PM missroselee - 2014-02-18 8:58 PM Nevertooold - 2014-02-18 9:55 PM missroselee - 2014-02-18 8:19 PM Three 4 Luck - 2014-02-18 9:11 PM Anyone wanting to see an armadillo...I'll mail you a whole mess of them. Mail them to the bleeding hearts on facebook who can't believe I let my dog kill one!!!!
Knew someone in the outskirts of San Antonio that would boo hoo about it until they did $5,000. damage to his fancy landscape in one night..LOL
Not only did I let her, I encouraged her :)
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Location: west of East Texas | Armadillos might be at the top of my hit list. They got under my previous house so bad my foundation cracked. Their tunnels and holes made my pasture too dangerous to ride in. When we moved to this place they were EVERYWHERE. Thankfully, for about two years, we had a very proficient team of 'dillo dogs. The Jack Russell would go underground, flush the armadillo out. The Great Dane would be waiting. One chomp and the shell would crack in two and the varmint was dead. We would have to pick up the shells before we mowed. The population was wiped out pretty good fairly quick. |
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Location: The end of the Earth, SE AR | Your mastiff: What a Good Boy!
We took a walk in the woods on Sunday and our English Mastiff and 2 Boston Terrors chased armadillos the whole time but didn't manage to catch any. We kept having to call Ruger away from their holes as he was bound and determined to dig them out no matter how long it took. We need to go repeat the walk after a rain when their holes are filled with water. |
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Location: Gainesville, TX | Can we borrow your dog. The armadillos have really been digging up our pasture too. |
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Location: SE Louisiana | missroselee - 2014-02-18 7:04 PM
I think they are only from Colorado across to north carolina and south of that, but I'm not for certain on that. We are in MO
Those are actually fairly new in your/our area Missroselee. They started drifting in about 10 years ago. Before that you had to go to Arkansas or Oklahoma to see one. Just like the bears drifting up from Arkansas nowadays. There was a kid that shot a bear close to his barn down by Houston Mo. and when he called the game warden he got chewed out for calling in a prank phone call and the officer hung up on him.  |
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | komet. - 2014-02-19 2:12 PM missroselee - 2014-02-18 7:04 PM I think they are only from Colorado across to north carolina and south of that, but I'm not for certain on that. We are in MO Those are actually fairly new in your/our area Missroselee. They started drifting in about 10 years ago. Before that you had to go to Arkansas or Oklahoma to see one. Just like the bears drifting up from Arkansas nowadays. There was a kid that shot a bear close to his barn down by Houston Mo. and when he called the game warden he got chewed out for calling in a prank phone call and the officer hung up on him.
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Location: SE Louisiana | Murphy - 2014-02-19 1:25 PM
Wow, I had no idea armadillos were a problem! We don't have them in KY, and I've only seen them one time, in TX/OK when I was a child. I think one was roadkill.
Yeah.. we call them possum on the half-shell...
Why did the chicken cross the road?
To show the armadillo it could be done. |
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Location: Southeast Louisiana | missroselee - 2014-02-19 7:28 AM
Awesome picture!!! That right there is suitable for framing. I'm glad you shared. |
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Location: Dearing, GA | missroselee - 2014-02-19 7:28 AM
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Location: SE Louisiana | Just Let Me Run - 2014-02-19 2:56 PM
missroselee - 2014-02-19 7:28 AM
OMG her face is hilarious in this photo!
I was thinking the same thing..
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| We are over run with them. My dogs bring up something every day to show off: skunk, armadillo, or opossums. One night we had one digging next to the house so I yelled at my husband to grab the gun and shoot it before it destroys the yard and gets under the house. Well... he's from Colorado and this was the first year in Oklahoma for him and hadn't been around these kinds of critters. Anyways, I told him to step back a little because they will jump (if you have ever startled one and they can't run they'll hiss and jump straight up in the air, sometimes they'll do it when something is chasing them too, oh and they do it when you shoot them). He took one little bitty step back, im assuming because he thought I didn't know what I was talking about, the great white hunter he is... He shot that poor thing and it shoot back about 6ft in the air, husband and the pit bull took off around the house like they were being chased by a 20ft fire breathing dragon. That darn ferocious Pit of ours wouldn't even come around the corner to see if it was dead yet. Still the funny as hell to me! |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | FlyingJT - 2014-02-19 4:07 PM We are over run with them. My dogs bring up something every day to show off: skunk, armadillo, or opossums. One night we had one digging next to the house so I yelled at my husband to grab the gun and shoot it before it destroys the yard and gets under the house. Well... he's from Colorado and this was the first year in Oklahoma for him and hadn't been around these kinds of critters. Anyways, I told him to step back a little because they will jump (if you have ever startled one and they can't run they'll hiss and jump straight up in the air, sometimes they'll do it when something is chasing them too, oh and they do it when you shoot them). He took one little bitty step back, im assuming because he thought I didn't know what I was talking about, the great white hunter he is... He shot that poor thing and it shoot back about 6ft in the air, husband and the pit bull took off around the house like they were being chased by a 20ft fire breathing dragon. That darn ferocious Pit of ours wouldn't even come around the corner to see if it was dead yet. Still the funny as hell to me!
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| komet. - 2014-02-19 1:12 PM
missroselee - 2014-02-18 7:04 PM
I think they are only from Colorado across to north carolina and south of that, but I'm not for certain on that. We are in MO
Those are actually fairly new in your/our area Missroselee. They started drifting in about 10 years ago. Before that you had to go to Arkansas or Oklahoma to see one. Just like the bears drifting up from Arkansas nowadays. There was a kid that shot a bear close to his barn down by Houston Mo. and when he called the game warden he got chewed out for calling in a prank phone call and the officer hung up on him.
I'm a little more south and west of MRL, but still in Mo...I saw my first one dead on a Mo road in the summer of 1988 on HWY 174 just west of Republic. LOL! I remember the year because I had just moved home and I was so disbelieving of what I saw, that I turned around and went back for a closer look. They are a pestulance! |
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| Can someone educate me about armadillos?
What do they eat, are they aggressive? Can people keep them as pet?
I am from Alberta so we have wolves, bears, cougars, porcupine, and skunks to worry about.
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Location: The Saudia Arabia of Wind Energy, Western Oklahoma | We used to have a government contract to collect fresh dead ones so they could do a study on them to see if they were carrying leprosy. We got 25 bucks a piece for them. None of the Oklahoma armadillos showed signs of leprosy. Apparently in some areas they eat them. (Not Oklahoma) LOL I used to drive around early in the morning and collect fresh road kill. 25 bucks is 25 bucks. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | cheryl makofka - 2014-02-19 5:55 PM
Can someone educate me about armadillos?
What do they eat, are they aggressive? Can people keep them as pet?
I am from Alberta so we have wolves, bears, cougars, porcupine, and skunks to worry about.
I would also like to know the magical soap to eliminate the smell, we have one dog that likes to tango with a skunk yearly.
They eat bugs and grubs and dig holes to find them. They don't see well, and don't seem very smart, so I can't imagine having one as a pet. The ones around here are apparently raging alcoholics. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | ksjackofalltrades - 2014-02-19 7:46 PM
We used to have a government contract to collect fresh dead ones so they could do a study on them to see if they were carrying leprosy. We got 25 bucks a piece for them. None of the Oklahoma armadillos showed signs of leprosy. Apparently in some areas they eat them. (Not Oklahoma) LOL I used to drive around early in the morning and collect fresh road kill. 25 bucks is 25 bucks.
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| Three 4 Luck - 2014-02-19 8:39 PM
cheryl makofka - 2014-02-19 5:55 PM
Can someone educate me about armadillos?
What do they eat, are they aggressive? Can people keep them as pet?
I am from Alberta so we have wolves, bears, cougars, porcupine, and skunks to worry about.
I would also like to know the magical soap to eliminate the smell, we have one dog that likes to tango with a skunk yearly.
They eat bugs and grubs and dig holes to find them. They don't see well, and don't seem very smart, so I can't imagine having one as a pet. The ones around here are apparently raging alcoholics.
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | You don't want one as a pet. They are kind of like groundhogs, mean as a snake when provoked :) And yes, armadillos and humans are the only two creatures that can contract leprosy. So you definitely don't want one. |
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Location: That part of Texas | missroselee - 2014-02-19 8:51 PM You don't want one as a pet. They are kind of like groundhogs, mean as a snake when provoked :) And yes, armadillos and humans are the only two creatures that can contract leprosy. So you definitely don't want one.
The leprosy thing always gets me when I see one at the house and on our property. I think they also carry a few other diseases you definitely don't want.
This is an older picture but how our dogs handle those at the house who get too close -- they kill them and save them for eatin' later (hence the gravel on top):
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | Your dog looks as happy as mine was :) |
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Location: That part of Texas | missroselee - 2014-02-19 9:18 PM Your dog looks as happy as mine was :)
Oh, she was lol! She laid out there for two days guarding that thing in my driveway before I finally grabbed the grain scoop and hauled it to the trash myself. Only time I've ever had to sanitize the scoop with bleach but it was worth it just to have that "speed bump" gone for good.
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Location: SE Louisiana | bennie1 - 2014-02-19 4:44 PM
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missroselee - 2014-02-18 7:04 PM
I think they are only from Colorado across to north carolina and south of that, but I'm not for certain on that. We are in MO
Those are actually fairly new in your/our area Missroselee. They started drifting in about 10 years ago. Before that you had to go to Arkansas or Oklahoma to see one. Just like the bears drifting up from Arkansas nowadays. There was a kid that shot a bear close to his barn down by Houston Mo. and when he called the game warden he got chewed out for calling in a prank phone call and the officer hung up on him. I'm a little more south and west of MRL, but still in Mo...I saw my first one dead on a Mo road in the summer of 1988 on HWY 174 just west of Republic. LOL! I remember the year because I had just moved home and I was so disbelieving of what I saw, that I turned around and went back for a closer look. They are a pestulance!
I'm from Rolla and MRL is between us. We knew they were coming because the only TV we could get was from Springfield and they talked about them once in a while. I was hoping the freezing weather we always got would keep them south of us but they finally arrived. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Once I saw a road kill Armadillo on the side of the road and someone had stoped and but a LongStar long neck beer bottle on its little chest in its little arms making it look like it was drinking a cool one, lol..
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | bennie1 - 2014-02-20 2:09 PM It's amazing the difference 100 miles can make :). I'm always amazed at how much more winter Rolla gets than us.
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | Southtxponygirl - 2014-02-20 3:43 PM
Once I saw a road kill Armadillo on the side of the road and someone had stoped and but a LongStar long neck beer bottle on its little chest in its little arms making it look like it was drinking a cool one, lol..
We see that a lot here. Thus my hypothesis that alcoholism is common and probably contributes to the deaths of so many armadillos. |
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Location: SE Louisiana | missroselee - 2014-02-20 4:19 PM
bennie1 - 2014-02-20 2:09 PM It's amazing the difference 100 miles can make :). I'm always amazed at how much more winter Rolla gets than us.
I swear interstate 44 is an imaginary line for weather sometimes :)
This is so true!! In the winter they get snow north of 44 and ice south of it... Old RT.66/I44 has been the dividing line for a long time and spring storms track right along it from Tulsa to St. Louis.
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