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<p>[QUOTE="Alegandron, post: 4564150, member: 51347"]Lol, sorry to burst bubbles! I know [USER=107940]@JulesUK[/USER] wants to get goats, but I did not mean to burst his bubble either.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mine is from personal experiences with raising, or living around lotsa different animals. (Farming or in the wilderness.) LOL, I find that a lot of these “cool” or “cute” critters are a lot more work, or dedication, or pain in the butt. Since my kids loved to have or capture a lot of animals (snapping turtles, wild rabbits, sugar gliders, squirrels, crows, owls, as well as normal pets of all kinds), we got a snoot full of wild animal silliness! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Kinda had some fun when we lived in the North Woods of WI. Our house backed up to 100 acres of woods... had a lot of deer migrate through our yard each nite, but my neighbor had a couple taken down by a pack of wolfs in his front yard, TWICE! Blood EVERYWHERE! And we had a black bear mess up my bbq grill on our deck as she was getting to the drippings catcher.</p><p><br /></p><p>We had barn owls in our barns growing up, but they are pretty small. I did have a buddy with his father catch a great horned owl because it had a broken wing. Those are pretty big, and can take the end of your finger off it you aren’t careful when feeding it! It was cool feeding it raw meat!</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/upload_2020-5-2_13-0-35-png.1110572/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Athens (Attica), </b></p><p><b>454-404 BC, </b></p><p><b>silver hemidrachm, 16mm, 2.08g</b></p><p><b>Obverse:</b> Helmeted head of Athena w/ frontal eye r., wearing disc earring and pearl necklace</p><p><b>Reverse:</b> Owl w/ wings closed, standing facing between olive branches, Greek 'A-TH-E' (counterclockwise)</p><p><b>Reference:</b> Krol 12; HGC 4, 1641; Cop 70; SG 2528</p><p><b>Comment:</b> A classical "Athenian owl" hemidrachm from the golden age of Athens - characteristic for the fully facing reverse owl. Appropriately, attributes of the eponymous city's great patron-goddess claim the whole coin. From an Italian collection, formed in the early 1990[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Alegandron, post: 4564150, member: 51347"]Lol, sorry to burst bubbles! I know [USER=107940]@JulesUK[/USER] wants to get goats, but I did not mean to burst his bubble either. Mine is from personal experiences with raising, or living around lotsa different animals. (Farming or in the wilderness.) LOL, I find that a lot of these “cool” or “cute” critters are a lot more work, or dedication, or pain in the butt. Since my kids loved to have or capture a lot of animals (snapping turtles, wild rabbits, sugar gliders, squirrels, crows, owls, as well as normal pets of all kinds), we got a snoot full of wild animal silliness! :) Kinda had some fun when we lived in the North Woods of WI. Our house backed up to 100 acres of woods... had a lot of deer migrate through our yard each nite, but my neighbor had a couple taken down by a pack of wolfs in his front yard, TWICE! Blood EVERYWHERE! And we had a black bear mess up my bbq grill on our deck as she was getting to the drippings catcher. We had barn owls in our barns growing up, but they are pretty small. I did have a buddy with his father catch a great horned owl because it had a broken wing. Those are pretty big, and can take the end of your finger off it you aren’t careful when feeding it! It was cool feeding it raw meat! [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/upload_2020-5-2_13-0-35-png.1110572/[/IMG] [B]Athens (Attica), [/B] [B]454-404 BC, [/B] [B]silver hemidrachm, 16mm, 2.08g[/B] [B]Obverse:[/B] Helmeted head of Athena w/ frontal eye r., wearing disc earring and pearl necklace [B]Reverse:[/B] Owl w/ wings closed, standing facing between olive branches, Greek 'A-TH-E' (counterclockwise) [B]Reference:[/B] Krol 12; HGC 4, 1641; Cop 70; SG 2528 [B]Comment:[/B] A classical "Athenian owl" hemidrachm from the golden age of Athens - characteristic for the fully facing reverse owl. Appropriately, attributes of the eponymous city's great patron-goddess claim the whole coin. From an Italian collection, formed in the early 1990[/QUOTE]
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