Olympic Peninsula Fishing Reports

Pets mean that I have known

By

Thom Cantrall

Once again I find life and Hollywood to disagree. In every movie I've ever seen where the animals are actually allowed to appear as themselves in their characters real and not a Disney event where wild animals are portrayed as living in family groups with Papa Bear, Mama Bear Baby Bear and live in harmony with their neighbors rabbit and squirrel, the mean, if represented at all are clearly evident. Who could understand, but once the light Shere Kahn is absolutely nothing and wants nothing but harm to the little man "in" The Jungle Book "?

Even when animals are actually playing the role of animals, often with the help of plastic stand-ins, we are not allowed the honor of determining for ourselves the level of innate goodness contained therein . "Jaws," for example could not make an appearance without being set up with a cool rendition of a soul-tingling music. I know that a great white shark has a striking resemblance to the vicinity of any other great white shark even though the raven that one bears a resemblance to any exact flight in the world. But that not withstanding, we need to say that this creature was dangerous? Would the mere appearance of a large fin protruding from the water to tell us his intentions?

As someone who spent a large percentage of his life among the creatures of God, I can attest to anyone so inclined that no warnings such as those described above have been preceded by a meeting of the malicious nature in children from Mother Nature. Not once have I ever heard the tom-tom-tom-tum tum ... tum-tum-tum-Jaws led to the approach of any creature that wanted me sick!

In my single digits and an early double digit years that I spent more than seventy-five per cent of the daylight and a significant portion of time if not hours when daylight is not used in this venerable institution that has been the bane of my temper ... school ... anywhere but under one roof.

Much of that time have been invested in exploring every square foot of my uncle's ranch and surrounding area. Fences held no meaning for me at that time and place other than a necessary inconvenience to keep livestock confined to a predetermined area ... more or less, Given the form in which most of the fences of these pioneers have been preserved.

Many of them had been erected by the Spaniards, when General Mariano Vallejo had this vast northern California and had seen little in the way of maintenance since then. To say that most were old would have been liberal in the description ... In fact, most have been worse than that. Consequently, this range has been open about both cattle and sheep grazing these woods and heaths, and small boys who were, in truth, pint disciples companies Lewis and Clark, Kit Carson and Jedediah Smith . But I digress ...

The ranch is home to about four or five million of the Western Rattlesnake. Indeed, it seems that these rattlesnakes were the only things that grow in profusion on the ranch back woods. Now, maybe I exaggerated a bit, but suffice it to say they were frequent and they grew up together. I know that official documents say that this snake does not exceed five feet (1.52 meters) long, but I could have shown these experts more specimens exceeding this length considerably conservative. Probably the biggest I've ever seen personally one of my cousin Shirley killed under the clothesline just by the back door of the house. This snake measuring over six feet (2 meters) long without a head. This snake has a circumference of more than eight inches (1.