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Matt Medium
Member since Apr 6, 2016
Recent Comments
Re: “Vermont Animal-Rights Activists Aim to Keep Pets Safe From Traps”
Lifelong Vermonter here. Time to stop trapping. I would give my eye-teeth to see a bobcat on my property, to know that there's a family of bobcats up there on the hill. To think that there are people causing these animals or any animals to die tortuously for the sake of their fur makes me WEEP. You say you have a right. What about my right to see wildlife?
And if Lynx just duck in from Canada once in a while, what are two doing in Southern Vermont?
I don't think we should make it impossible for off-grid people who actually walk-the-walk to survive off the land. But I can't see any positives about trapping.
Posted by
Matt Medium
on 12/23/2016 at 7:56 AM
Re: “Special Collections: The Nests of Baxter Doty”
I had a paper wasp start a small nest in my driver-side car door last year. Thinking of her best interests, I nipped it in the bud. But a day or two later, she had another one going in the same exact spot. I would drive around with this wasp sitting on her nest. Highway speeds no problem, although I imagined the wind would have been bothersome. This went on for weeks, slowly entering and exiting the car, parking the same way so the wasp could find her way back. (I think they use the sun to navigate.)Then one day my wife came home from a distant destination in tears--the wasp hadn't made it back to the car when she made her return trip and she had forgotten about the wasp. I told her the wasp was probably already starting a new nest wherever she was.
Posted by
Matt Medium
on 04/06/2016 at 8:07 AM
Re: “Vermont Animal-Rights Activists Aim to Keep Pets Safe From Traps”
My grandfather was a sexual abuser of children. So was my father. It's one of those things. It's part of growing up here in Vermont and not moving here from Connecticut.