BS: Tortoise defends its garden against cats

Subject: BS: Tortoise defends its garden against cats
From: Little Hawk
Date: 15 May 07 - 11:20 PM

Watch this video! A smallish tortoise drives trespassing cats from its garden with the slow and steady approach, doggedly and persistently hounding them until they vacate the area. Darned funny to watch. This is one determined tortoise.

Turtle versus feline!

Subject: RE: BS: Tortoise defends its garden against cats
From: Little Hawk
Date: 15 May 07 - 11:25 PM

By gosh, this is even better! A rabbit trees a snake! I kid you not. You must see it to believe it.

Rabbit drives much larger snake up a tree!

Subject: RE: BS: Tortoise defends its garden against cats
From: Ron Davies
Date: 15 May 07 - 11:39 PM

Those were pretty impressive, all right. What do you think the rabbit was on? Almost looked like a cartoon.

Subject: RE: BS: Tortoise defends its garden against cats
From: Ebbie
Date: 15 May 07 - 11:42 PM

Rabbits are not as docile as many people think- I knew one that frequently fought an arnery rooster- and always won. It would end with the rooster squawking and running and jumping to get away, with the rabbit right behind it, its mouth full of feathers.

The turtle and cats one is very funny- the the yellow cat, especially, acts as though it just can't believe it.

Subject: RE: BS: Tortoise defends its garden against cats
From: Lepus Rex
Date: 15 May 07 - 11:53 PM

That's right. We're bad-ass.

---Lepus Rex

Subject: RE: BS: Tortoise defends its garden against cats
From: Ebbie
Date: 16 May 07 - 12:08 AM

You wish. :)

Subject: RE: BS: Tortoise defends its garden against cats
From: Peace
Date: 16 May 07 - 12:11 AM

***Content warning***

To quote Meatloaf, two outta three ain't bad.

Subject: RE: BS: Tortoise defends its garden against cats
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 16 May 07 - 05:17 AM

Peace, that last one is, strictly speaking, wrong. It's not a killer bite, it's a killer squeeze and the rabbit was put there deliberately in order to be the snake's food, rather than a chance encounter as the previous rabbit on snake action was.

The tortoise on cat action was pretty funny, but not surprising... those tortoises are like armour plated pies that bite back!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Tortoise defends its garden against cats
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 16 May 07 - 05:36 AM

my friend had a tortoise that hated white socks. If you took off your shoes and you had white socks on it'd hurtle across the room to nip your toes...

Black socks were fine, just white ones..

Subject: RE: BS: Tortoise defends its garden against cats
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 16 May 07 - 07:15 AM

Maybe there should be a warning link to the 'organising your sock drawer' thread.

Subject: RE: BS: Tortoise defends its garden against cats
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 16 May 07 - 12:35 PM

Don't wear tortoishell coloured socks or your foot might be more than attacked!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Tortoise defends its garden against cats
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 17 May 07 - 05:19 AM

So THAT'S what happened to the meat pie I left in the garden...

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Tortoise defends its garden against cats
From: Charley Noble
Date: 17 May 07 - 09:37 PM

Little Hawk-

I don't think that the tortise actually moves like any tortise I've ever seen. Could it really be a radio-controled robot? It's certainly well designed. The cats look and act real but that tortise is downright weird. But maybe it's on drugs!

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Tortoise defends its garden against cats
From: Little Hawk
Date: 18 May 07 - 01:02 AM

That is definitely a real tortoise, Charley. It moves exactly like the ones I've seen. There is no way that it is a robot or anything but a real tortoise.

Subject: RE: BS: Tortoise defends its garden against cats
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 20 May 07 - 06:12 PM

Here's a kitten attacking a very tolerant husky.

Subject: RE: BS: Tortoise defends its garden against cats
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 20 May 07 - 06:49 PM

I didn't like the ones about the snake killing the rabbits - I wish I hadn't watched them, I don't know why I did.