Thursday, June 11, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
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Fox kit hangout, Home Farm, Red Rock, East Chatham NY, June 11, 2009
Raising street smart kits
If you want street smart kits raise them on the street. A family of red foxes has been doing just that for several years now, a couple hundred feet down Clark Road from the house. This young guy has gotten to the point where he will alertly stand his ground as a car passes. Their den is at the base of an old tree a few feet off the road to the right. This kit and his sibling across the road are sitting above an old dry culvert where he can take refuge in an emergency.
Night camp
On my property off Less Traveled Road - The Home Place, Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- I used to camp in a few locations on what little I had left of the family farm
- In the driveway by the house
- Across the road where the barn once stood
- On the 20 acre piece off Less Traveled Road
- Now, with the kind support of the friends who now own the place, I camp across the road where the barn once stood.
- Verizon cell phone service - Terrible, barely usable with an amplifier
- Verizon EVDO service - Terrible, barely usable with an amplifier
- Find other references to Home Place
- List the nights I've camped here
- Check the weather here
Messing Up Their Results
... Jack Panksepp found that laboratory-reared rats who've never seen or smelled a cat stop playing the instant you put a tuft of cat hair in their play space. Since frightened animals don't play, that's a good indication that those rats are afraid. ... This experience got Dr Panksepp to thinking about how many research laboratories might be messing up their results due to researchers' coming to work smelling like their pet cats.