Armadillo Tribute Thread

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  • bitxbit
    bitxbit Posts: 1,465 Member
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    We were grilling chicken wings... City Girl asked what that was. I said "armadillo legs".
    Hehehe! Just saying, ...there was more to go around!! ;)
  • SomebodyWakeUpHIcks
    SomebodyWakeUpHIcks Posts: 3,836 Member
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    Amarillo eggs are great!
  • Chadxx
    Chadxx Posts: 1,199 Member
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    kitty_meow_meow_ wrote: »
    Chadxx wrote: »
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    This one looks like he's mad at you. Did you tell him that old "Orange you glad I didn't say banana joke"?

    I tried too but he had evidently heard it before.
  • BedsideTableKangaroo
    BedsideTableKangaroo Posts: 736 Member
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    i went to the armadillo once in austin. it's such a hole in the wall, filled with *kitten* music, i became infected with leprosy.
  • SomebodyWakeUpHIcks
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    BedsideTableKangaroo wrote: »
    i went to the armadillo once in austin. it's such a hole in the wall, filled with *kitten* music, i became infected with leprosy.

    Least you met your weight goal as a result
  • GreenGoddess22
    GreenGoddess22 Posts: 3,821 Member
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    I accidentally ran over one a few years ago. I saw him run back off to the side of the road so I drove back around to see if I could find him, but he was gone. I cried and cried because I sure didn't want him to die.
  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,492 Member
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    GreenGoddess22 wrote: »
    I accidentally ran over one a few years ago. I saw him run back off to the side of the road so I drove back around to see if I could find him, but he was gone. I cried and cried because I sure didn't want him to die.

    you're a kind soul

    I once hit a coyote on the freeway just outside of Las Cruces.

    I cried too.... after seeing the damage to the front end of my sled.
  • SomebodyWakeUpHIcks
    SomebodyWakeUpHIcks Posts: 3,836 Member
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    @MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »
    https://youtu.be/HhNGdnuFQYM

    thank you for your contribution. @abitoftrouble , his was better than yours
  • slimgirljo15
    slimgirljo15 Posts: 269,440 Member
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    Cute critters ya got ..we don't have an equivalent
  • klkarlen
    klkarlen Posts: 4,366 Member
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    cltucker0 wrote: »
    I dont think ive ever seen a live armadillo. They are always on the side of the road. :'(

    Or occasionally sunk to the bottom of the deep end of a pool. . . ask me how I know.

    I was so grossed out when my neighbor and I managed to get it out of my pool, it had some sort of weird growths on it's legs, so I called my pool guy to ask what I should do, he called the CDC because he had never had to deal with something like this. The solution was to super shock the pool water with chlorine.

    I did take a picture of the poor dead critter, but didn't save it.

    I agree that they are cute to watch, but for us horse people, they are a problem when they dig big burrows in our pastures.
  • SomebodyWakeUpHIcks
    SomebodyWakeUpHIcks Posts: 3,836 Member
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    Armadillos are also very heavy. For something about the size of a dachshund, they are very dense and heavy.
  • BedsideTableKangaroo
    BedsideTableKangaroo Posts: 736 Member
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    SomebodyWakeUpHIcks wrote: »
    Armadillos are also very heavy. For something about the size of a dachshund, they are very dense and heavy.

    they are very effective speed bumps.
  • browneyedgirl749
    browneyedgirl749 Posts: 4,984 Member
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    They remind me on non-prickly hedgehogs... from what I can tell in pictures. I've never seen an armadillo IRL.
  • klkarlen
    klkarlen Posts: 4,366 Member
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    SomebodyWakeUpHIcks wrote: »
    Armadillos are also very heavy. For something about the size of a dachshund, they are very dense and heavy.

    Which may be why it sunk to the bottom of my pool instead of floating?
  • klkarlen
    klkarlen Posts: 4,366 Member
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    abitoftrouble wrote: »
    klkarlen wrote: »
    SomebodyWakeUpHIcks wrote: »
    Armadillos are also very heavy. For something about the size of a dachshund, they are very dense and heavy.

    Which may be why it sunk to the bottom of my pool instead of floating?

    Gah this gives me the willies

    Trust me, it was much worse in real life. It was too heavy for me to extract alone, had to call a friend to home help.

    It did make me wonder if armadillos can swim or not.
  • SomebodyWakeUpHIcks
    SomebodyWakeUpHIcks Posts: 3,836 Member
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    @klkarlen wrote: »
    SomebodyWakeUpHIcks wrote: »
    Armadillos are also very heavy. For something about the size of a dachshund, they are very dense and heavy.

    Which may be why it sunk to the bottom of my pool instead of floating?

    Maybe its name was Natalie Wood.

  • SomebodyWakeUpHIcks
    SomebodyWakeUpHIcks Posts: 3,836 Member
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    Hope everyone dreams of armadillos tonight!!
  • gcibsthom
    gcibsthom Posts: 30,137 Member
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    I see them in my back yard periodically......interesting critters...kinda cute, in a non-fuzzy way...

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