So, I have this dead armadillo....

[TLSnell1981]

Remember, what goes up, must come down.

 

[ez]

we have a lot of armadillos where I live and Ive seen dead ones in the road but never on my property, although I have seen whole families of them in my yard. The leprosy aspect kinda freak me out, be careful!!

 

[mnrose]

Ya know, I was just thinking, as I logged in for the first time today, about something my old boss (from Hondo, Texas) used to say "some things are like a dead armadillo. You know you shouldn't look, and yet you can't help yourself." And, then, there was your thread title.

 

[cabanafrau]

we have a lot of armadillos where I live and Ive seen dead ones in the road but never on my property, although I have seen whole families of them in my yard. The leprosy aspect kinda freak me out, be careful!!

You know, I think I'm going to contact the Vistor's Bureau or something and suggest they incorporate the fact we don't have armadillos here in the PURE Michigan campaigns. I'm so not a critter gal and would absolutely lose it if that showed up in my yard.

 

[Gumbo4x4]

You're not worried about the possibility of leprosy?

http://www.cdc.gov/leprosy/exposure/armadillos.html
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/21/health/florida-leprosy-cases-armadillos-irpt/

I rinsed the shovel in bleach LOL

 

[Jaya]

Armadillo - "Possum on the Half-Shell".

You haven't lived until you've had a dead possum in your attic during a Florida summer. I got the job of removing it. I will remember that smell til my dying day.

 

[NotUrsula]

So THAT's where it went! Should have known ... sooner or later, nearly everyone here eventually moves to the suburbs.

(Seriously, we've got one around somewhere. I had to work really late one night a few weeks ago, and walked in from the alley at about 11 pm to find one happily leaving giant gashes in my yard whilst looking for cicadas -- of which I unfortunately have a ridiculous number.) I was too tired to deal with it at the time. If I see it again I'll call Vector Control, but it appears to have moved on.)

 

[Miskey]

I wish I would find a dead armadillo in my yard, because that live little *&%^#$)% is really during a number on my yard

 

[Ponygirl]

They are highly destructive and ugly as sin. I am in awe of the fact that you could lob one of those heavy suckers up in a tree. I have had to perform carcass removal of one and after about 50 feet that shovel felt like it weighed 50 pounds!

 

[mom2rtk]

I was shocked at the number of dead armadillos we saw on the highway when we drove from Rolla to St. Louis. It was just crazy. I started counting but had to give up. Not worth the effort.

 

[cabanafrau]

This thing is two pages long and nobody has nominated it for thread title of the week? I bet it takes the prize by a longshot.

 

[Gumbo4x4]

I was shocked at the number of dead armadillos we saw on the highway when we drove from Rolla to St. Louis. It was just crazy. I started counting but had to give up. Not worth the effort.

I remember about 20 years ago when we first started seeing them along I-44 around Lebanon. Within a couple years, it went from one here or there to several per mile LOL.

 

[tennvalgirl]

We have them in Alabama now

 

[barkley]

just be thankful that an armadillo is light weight enuf to be able to give the old heave ho to. try dealing with a full grown deer (and no near by woods to speak of).

we woke up one morning to find one dead on the side of the house (not a mark on it-honestly looked like it had just died and tipped over). called every agency and group known to man to find out what to do with it. none would come on private property so we were told to "just take it to the closest county road and just dump it, then call us for pick-up" um, NO-the closest county road to us is over 2 miles away and where 2 separate school districts have their bus stops-I did not want busloads of small children coming home to the sight and smell of dead bambi so I called around and finally found an animal rendering plant that we could take it to and pay a fee to dispose of it.

"just dump it" really??? I'm sure the homeowner whose property that county road butted up to would have loved us to pieces for taking that suggestion.

 

[bcla]

just be thankful that an armadillo is light weight enuf to be able to give the old heave ho to. try dealing with a full grown deer (and no near by woods to speak of).

we woke up one morning to find one dead on the side of the house (not a mark on it-honestly looked like it had just died and tipped over). called every agency and group known to man to find out what to do with it. none would come on private property so we were told to "just take it to the closest county road and just dump it, then call us for pick-up" um, NO-the closest county road to us is over 2 miles away and where 2 separate school districts have their bus stops-I did not want busloads of small children coming home to the sight and smell of dead bambi so I called around and finally found an animal rendering plant that we could take it to and pay a fee to dispose of it.

"just dump it" really??? I'm sure the homeowner whose property that county road butted up to would have loved us to pieces for taking that suggestion.

My mom had that happen at her place. I don't recall what finally happened, but the county animal services wouldn't come to pick it up if it wasn't out on the street or sidewalk. The city said it could do nothing. I think she ended up paying someone to haul it off to the county, which had a dead animal dumpster.

 

[Gumbo4x4]

Had a dead deer to dispose of many years back. Someone hit it & it flopped into my yard and died. Drug that one WAY behind the house. Coyotes cleaned it up in a few days. Left nothing but a couple tufts of hair.

 

[lustergirl]

Gumbo: as long as you didn't marry the thing and let it physically or mentally abuse and not want to leave, then you are good to go.

(clue: another thread going on right now).

 

[Goofy_Disney_Dad]

Had a dead deer to dispose of many years back. Someone hit it & it flopped into my yard and died. Drug that one WAY behind the house. Coyotes cleaned it up in a few days. Left nothing but a couple tufts of hair.

Did they sing praises to Scar in between bites?

 

[Goofy_Disney_Dad]

Gumbo: as long as you didn't marry the thing and let it physically or mentally abuse and not want to leave, then you are good to go.

(clue: another thread going on right now).

Is "armadillo" what we're calling it now?

 

[mamacatnv]

Huh, when I moved to Texas the locals told me that you are supposed to just put a beer bottle between the stiff paws of a dead armadillo and leave it where it is
Heave ho, is news to me