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6 months ago ::
Dec 08, 2011 - 12:33AM
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One of my nieces when she was three climbed up onto the kitchen counter and reached the top shelf of fhe cupboard and pulled out her dad's handgun which supposedly was "out of reach.' Luckily an adult entered the room just then. The handgun was destroyed the next day by her dad.
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6 months ago ::
Dec 07, 2011 - 11:45PM
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...We were not inattentive parents.
There was nothing my mother could have hid in our house that I could not find. She tried. I was more interested in making things than drinking things. I guess that's how I survived.
Dave - Just a Man in the Mountains.
I am a Humanist. I believe in a rational philosophy of life, informed by science, inspired by art, and motivated by a desire to do good for its own sake and not by an expectation of a reward or fear of punishment in an afterlife.
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6 months ago ::
Dec 07, 2011 - 11:25PM
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Our oldest child, our son never missed a trick. I stored our aspirin on the highest shelf in an old fashioned kitchen where I had to get on the counter to reach and store them. Lil eagle-eye-finkle managed to get out of his crib at 18 mos or so, climb up the shelves and eat some early one morning. Off to the pediatrician for ipecac. He also split his head open on a playground while I was watching before he was two. Some of his later escapades still curl my hair and would make it gray if I didn't have a hairdresser who does good highlites. We were not inattentive parents.
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6 months ago ::
Dec 07, 2011 - 9:16PM
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This is a tough issue as far as I'm concerned. Rats are nasty critters which can carry diseases. I am not talking the pet variety, but outdoor in the wild rats. ...
I use poisons around my ranch. The rodenticides are in bait stations where larger racoons etc cannot get at them. Neither can the neighbors dogs or my llamas. I've been using this stuff on my ranch for 11 years and 10 years on a friends ranch without one accidental poisoning. As for other animals eating the poisoned rodents; doesn't happen. The animal feels sick, instinctively goes into it's burrow and dies there where scavengers cannot find it.
I might have figured out a way to do away with the poisons though; I'm in the process of building some kestrel boxes and an owl box. If I can provide better habitat and housing for the natural predators, I can cut way back, and maybe eliminate, the poison.
Dave - Just a Man in the Mountains.
I am a Humanist. I believe in a rational philosophy of life, informed by science, inspired by art, and motivated by a desire to do good for its own sake and not by an expectation of a reward or fear of punishment in an afterlife.
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6 months ago ::
Dec 07, 2011 - 9:08PM
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....Relying on people to always to the smart thing as regards protecting themselves and their families is naive. People are imperfect. As much as practicable, children should not pay the price for their parents' imperfections.
That's all I'm trying to say. You do what you can but you can't always claim the parents were "bad" if their kid does something wrong. These laws/regulations and such do help and those wishing to do away with them care only about money, not people. As long as a mega corp can make a profit why should they care if a few hundred kids a year die?
Dave - Just a Man in the Mountains.
I am a Humanist. I believe in a rational philosophy of life, informed by science, inspired by art, and motivated by a desire to do good for its own sake and not by an expectation of a reward or fear of punishment in an afterlife.
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6 months ago ::
Dec 07, 2011 - 5:53PM
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Oh Christian Girl, I know we generally bump heads, but I do want to say Congratulations on your coming baby. I wish you, the baby and your family a wonderful, happy, healthy life. :)
GC--me too! And I hope you're having an easy pregnancy.
Me too, GC. Congratulations.
"The genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with current problems and current needs." -- Justice William Brennan: Speech to the Text and Teaching Symposium at Georgetown University,(October 12, 1985)
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6 months ago ::
Dec 07, 2011 - 5:10PM
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Best wishes, GC, from me, too.
No need to thank me lest the thread turn into a series of dittoes from you.
:-)
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6 months ago ::
Dec 07, 2011 - 4:19PM
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True. I avoid medicines as much as I possibly can. The only prescription I'm taking right now is for prenatal vitamins.
Congratulations on expecting a baby! I being texted today as a friend's daughter-in-law is in labor and currently dilated up to six.
Beliefnet Community Moderator ~ Peace Love Stardove It is no longer good enough to cry peace, we must act peace, live peace, and live in peace. -Shenandoah proverb 
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6 months ago ::
Dec 07, 2011 - 4:14PM
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This is a tough issue as far as I'm concerned. Rats are nasty critters which can carry diseases. I am not talking the pet variety, but outdoor in the wild rats. Back when we had dogs we kept their food under the carport and rats decided to nest in my Miata and eat what ever they could under the hood while we were away on a trip. Needless to say I began putting the blocks of poison under my car, so the dogs couldn't get to it, but hopeful the rats would. Now that we no longer have any dogs I don't see rats on our property, but we are surrounded by land which is not maintained and the cows don't eat down all the weeds. The rats are now running around on that land. I see the creepy critter running away sometimes. I also believe parents must take precautions to keep children away from not only poisons, but all kinds of dangerous chemicals found in the home. As a toddler I drank lighter fluid and would have died, if not for a carpenter who was building on a house next store to my parents' home. Thanks Mom! At least she had the good sense to carry my limb blue body next store and the man saved my life. I am told I climbed up onto the counter to get to the lighter fluid. It is terrible that other wildlife might be affected by having poisons outside, and I believe one has to use wise judgement when using poisons.
Beliefnet Community Moderator ~ Peace Love Stardove It is no longer good enough to cry peace, we must act peace, live peace, and live in peace. -Shenandoah proverb
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6 months ago ::
Dec 07, 2011 - 3:36PM
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Oh Christian Girl, I know we generally bump heads, but I do want to say Congratulations on your coming baby. I wish you, the baby and your family a wonderful, happy, healthy life. :)
Thank you very much. :-)
"No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible." George Chakiris
“For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.” Stuart Chase
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