Bryson City, North Carolina
 

My springtime trip to the Old North State is officially
booked. Me and Kipper the hound will be fishing the waters
of Graham County, North Cackalacky from May 8-13. We'll
be staying he

http://www.rockcreekcabins.com/index.html

We're not the best of fishing partners, one of us is always
more interested in splashing around and being a nuisance
than in actual fishing (and Kipper can be a pain in the arse
too ;-), but I'd love to get filthy, stinkin' drunk with any
roffians who happen to be in the area.

If you plan to be around send me an email and I'll give you
my cell number. My cell phone doesn't usually work in the
mountains (and that's a feature not a bug ;-), but I stop
on the Skyway most days to check messages.

--
Ken Fortenberry

"Ken Fortenberry" wrote in message
.. .
My springtime trip to the Old North State is officially
booked. Me and Kipper the hound will be fishing the waters
of Graham County, North Cackalacky from May 8-13. We'll
be staying he

http://www.rockcreekcabins.com/index.html

We're not the best of fishing partners, one of us is always
more interested in splashing around and being a nuisance
than in actual fishing (and Kipper can be a pain in the arse
too ;-), but I'd love to get filthy, stinkin' drunk with any
roffians who happen to be in the area.

If you plan to be around send me an email and I'll give you
my cell number. My cell phone doesn't usually work in the
mountains (and that's a feature not a bug ;-), but I stop
on the Skyway most days to check messages.

--
Ken Fortenberry

Ken, as one whose plans for the next several months are in a state of
constantly flux (probability theory not withstanding) and as one who does,
in my humble opinion, excel in the manly art of getting filthy, stinking,
drunk, I'd love to join you but don't know if I can or not.

However, shouldn't you be a bit more careful about posting such to the 'net
.. . . you never know what creep might show up! (insert: wit, dry humor,
comradic comments, greetings and flicitations...)

john

"Ken Fortenberry" wrote

.. Me and Kipper the hound will be fishing the waters
of Graham County, North Cackalacky from May 8-13. We'll
be staying he

http://www.rockcreekcabins.com/index.html

nice looking digs.

We're not the best of fishing partners, one of us is always
more interested in splashing around and being a nuisance
than in actual fishing (and Kipper can be a pain in the arse
too ;-), but I'd love to get filthy, stinkin' drunk with any
roffians who happen to be in the area.

some combination of myself, renda macrae speight, james macdonald
roberts, k.k. fish, and dash riprock hedrick may be present early in that
time frame.

If you plan to be around send me an email and I'll give you
my cell number.

i can't get past your spam screens.

hope to work out a meeting.

wayno

asadi wrote:
"Ken Fortenberry" wrote:
My springtime trip to the Old North State is officially
booked. ...
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However, shouldn't you be a bit more careful about posting such to the 'net
. . . you never know what creep might show up! (insert: wit, dry humor,
comradic comments, greetings and flicitations...)

Hell, I don't care who shows up, I'd even hoist a glass with
dumbass, yuppie beer snobs. The only caution is that you
take the hound disclaimer at face value. Charlie Choc's sons
were targeting smallmouth one evening and Kipper waded right
into the middle of it effectively ending their fishing.

We're gonna do Slickrock, Snowbird, Santeetlah and some new
to us little streams that Jeffie mentioned one time. We have
to stay out of the Park, they don't allow dogs in the Park,
so that means no Hazel for us. So basically we're pretty
poor fishing companions willing to share a meal and/or a
drink or two at the end of the day.

Would be good to see your creepy little self again in any
case. ;-)

--
Ken Fortenberry

Ken Fortenberry wrote:


Hell, I don't care who shows up, I'd even hoist a glass with
dumbass, yuppie beer snobs. The only caution is that you
take the hound disclaimer at face value. Charlie Choc's sons
were targeting smallmouth one evening and Kipper waded right
into the middle of it effectively ending their fishing.

So ol' Kipper isn't well trained -- doesn't obey voice commands. What
are you going to do when goes after a raccoon on public land? Shoot him?

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

Wayne Harrison wrote:
"Ken Fortenberry" wrote:
... Graham County, North Cackalacky from May 8-13 ...

some combination of myself, renda macrae speight, james macdonald
roberts, k.k. fish, and dash riprock hedrick may be present early in that
time frame.

I was hoping for a somewhat smaller audience. No cameras please
when I wear the powder blue at your victory dinner.

If you plan to be around send me an email and I'll give you
my cell number.

i can't get past your spam screens.

hope to work out a meeting.

See your email.

--
Ken Fortenberry

rw wrote:
Ken Fortenberry wrote:
Hell, I don't care who shows up, I'd even hoist a glass with
dumbass, yuppie beer snobs. The only caution is that you
take the hound disclaimer at face value. Charlie Choc's sons
were targeting smallmouth one evening and Kipper waded right
into the middle of it effectively ending their fishing.

So ol' Kipper isn't well trained -- doesn't obey voice commands. What
are you going to do when goes after a raccoon on public land? Shoot him?

Kipper has passed all 10 elements of the CGC (Canine Good Citizen)
test. It's just that in three tries he didn't pass all 10 on the
same day. He's trained well enough to suit me and if he catches a
coon I'll congratulate him and tell him what a good hound dog he is.

--
Ken Fortenberry

Ken Fortenberry wrote:

Kipper has passed all 10 elements of the CGC (Canine Good Citizen)
test. It's just that in three tries he didn't pass all 10 on the
same day. He's trained well enough to suit me and if he catches a
coon I'll congratulate him and tell him what a good hound dog he is.

Too bad there are no longer porcupines in North Carolina. The best I
could hope for is a skunk or a bear. I'll hope for a skunk. There's no
reason for poor Kipper to suffer too much, as long as you learn your lesson.

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

rw wrote:
Ken Fortenberry wrote:
Kipper has passed all 10 elements of the CGC (Canine Good Citizen)
test. It's just that in three tries he didn't pass all 10 on the
same day. He's trained well enough to suit me and if he catches a
coon I'll congratulate him and tell him what a good hound dog he is.

... The best I
could hope for is a skunk or a bear. I'll hope for a skunk. ...

Kipper is 70 pounds of Coon Hound - Husky mix, ... we think.
He's a shelter mutt rescued from the Champaign County Humane
Society as a 16 pound puppy.

Kipper has had both bear and skunk encounters. The bear made
off with Kipper's kibble but she ran away from Kipper not the
other way around. As for the skunk, Kipper figured out just
exactly when, in the dark of night, to get the hell out of
Dodge. The whole area smelled of skunk as Kipper came back
to the campfire wearing a ****-eating grin and smelling no
worse for the wear.

He has hybrid vigor. He's a real dog, not like those overbred,
half-senseless, dimwitted pure breeds you spend a ridiculous
fortune to have specially bred for lethargy and compliance.

--
Ken Fortenberry

Ken Fortenberry wrote:

He has hybrid vigor. He's a real dog, not like those overbred,
half-senseless, dimwitted pure breeds you spend a ridiculous
fortune to have specially bred for lethargy and compliance.

I currently have two mutts and two purebreds (a Golden and a Border
Collie), and I've owned quite a few dogs -- both mongrels and purebreds.
It's not so much the genetics of the dog that determines whether it
misbehaves (like running after game and disobeying voice commands),
although genetics makes a difference. It's the commitment and the
competence of the owner to train the dog properly.

I also have two very well fed cats that roam outdoors, and that to the
best of my knowledge don't kill birds, much less raccoons.

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

rw wrote:
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It's not so much the genetics of the dog that determines whether it
misbehaves (like running after game and disobeying voice commands),
although genetics makes a difference. It's the commitment and the
competence of the owner to train the dog properly.

He's trained as best I could train him, but you're right, whatever
shortcomings in his training are the result of my incompetence not
his. On the other hand, you try to train a coon hound *not* to
chase coons and let me know how that works out.

I also have two very well fed cats that roam outdoors, and that to the
best of my knowledge don't kill birds, much less raccoons.

Yeah, I had you figured for an irresponsible "cat person" all along.

--
Ken Fortenberry

Ken Fortenberry wrote:
rw wrote:

I also have two very well fed cats that roam outdoors, and that to the
best of my knowledge don't kill birds, much less raccoons.


Yeah, I had you figured for an irresponsible "cat person" all along.


The problem with cats killing birds is mainly with feral cats. They have
to kill birds to eat, and as far as I'm concerned feral domestic cats
should be exterminated. Well fed housecats usually won't bother, and if
they do they're pretty ineffective.

BTW, when my Golden Retriever, Arlo (an extremely obedient and well
trained dog) was a puppy, he found a baby squirrel in my yard that had
fallen from its nest. I found him carrying it around. It was slimy and
terrified, but otherwise none the worse for the experience. I put it in
a box and its mother came down from the trees and carried it off.

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

"rw" wrote in message
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Well fed housecats usually won't bother, and if they do they're pretty
ineffective.

You don't know much about domestic cats, do ya.

Domestic cats never loose there predatory instincts and will hunt regardless
of how well they are fed.

Mark

rw wrote in news:Y5j7e.5849$lP1.5570
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Well fed housecats usually won't bother, and if
they do they're pretty ineffective.


My friends extremely well fed housecat just killed his neighbors dog a few
months ago. It was a big dog, too.

Scott

Scott Seidman wrote:

My friends extremely well fed housecat just killed his neighbors dog a few
months ago. It was a big dog, too.

Tell your neighbor to keep him away from ol' Kipper.

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

....I would have to agree, just that a well fed domestic doesn't eat his
kill....

john

"bearsbuddy" wrote in message
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"rw" wrote in message
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Well fed housecats usually won't bother, and if they do they're pretty
ineffective.

You don't know much about domestic cats, do ya.

Domestic cats never loose there predatory instincts and will hunt
regardless
of how well they are fed.

Mark