Turkeys, ducks, carp, geese, and foxes.

What happened to these tame wild animals? I have not seen any in years. Did Nugent get loose? "Kill it and Grill it"?
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You have to give head to get ahead!

The ducks, geese and carp are still there. Maybe not as abundantly as in the past. But they are there. This year we did have a turkey not a wild turkey (well the liquid version may have been lurking around somewhere). The turkey whose name i still have yet to hear the straight story on (supposedly the turkey has 2 names ) lived back at Pet Farm. As for foxes i've never heard of foxes being an on point animal. Maybe the cats overran them. I do know first hand that we have racoons and possums. I'd love to know the true hollywood story on the turkey at pet farm.

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Park Op Jen
2002 Park Op Office
2001 TL Swings and Swans/Monster Triangle
1999 TL Peanuts Playground / Kiddy Kingdom
1998 Kiddy Kingdom/ Bear Country/ Iron Dragon/ Disaster Transport
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I know they shot a monkey the summer of '79 that had the sense to run from jungle larrys' animal torture center! And I remember trying to call a bunch of turkeys behind the Inn in F-Town.
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Erie: The only great lake you can walk from end to end and only get oil on your shoes!

Yeah the turkeys and foxes were, um, relocated. Yeah, that's the ticket. They were relocated.

The only *unique* wild animal (as in, not a seagull or goose) I have ever seen at the Point was an opossum. I was walking up from the front gate toward Park Op before the park opened, and the possum was slinking along the games area by Kiddy Kingdom. Needless to say, it made me nervous, since I thought they were nocturnal and the ones who are out during the day might have rabies. It didn't do anything weird, though -- I think it was looking for food.

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~Lee~

Group Sales ATL '01
Group Sales TL '02
'03 -- TBA
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"The greatest leaders don't take credit for their actions; they don't have to."

Let me tell you, coming across a fox out near the Campground or Sandcastle at night was always a little creepy. You would look across the way and see two beedy eyes staring back at you.

Foxes as far as I care are the vermin they eat. I have a freind that traps and he on occasion will trap a red fox by the leg. John tells me thats the only animal that will growl at him and try to bite him before he hits over the head with a ball bat! They are mean little ****s.

I am sure that those innocuous turkeys were relocated into Kinzels' stewpot or some local farmers market. I hope the geese all simply died!

Those workers that they are going to ship up from down south will like possum, day say it makes a good stew if you keep the tail as as flavor enhancer for the stew!

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People starve in the desert because:FOOD DOES NOT GROW IN SAND!

Parkopjen, the turkey's name was Barrette Gobbles, but we called him Barrette for short. We named him after our sup Barrette. Let me tell you that ( bleeping) bird liked no one and no one but John liked him.

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Melissa
Magnum 00'
Pet Farm AATL 02'
Melslambs@hotmail.com
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*** This post was edited by killerseagual 12/6/2002 7:33:02 PM ***

Cool thanks. I think the best wild animal story from this year was the racoons in the kite eating tree slide. Every nite shortly after dark the slide would go down empty racoons. I have seen the bold possums too. One walked up the sidewalk at Swan Boats. I got rid of it quickly. I screamed at it. It was sneaking up behind a crew member. then we chased it around stockade later. He was an awfully bold possum.. which can be scary.

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Jen

02 Park Op Office 01 TL Monster Triangle/Swings and Swans 99 TL Peanuts Playground/Kiddy Kingdom 98 Kiddy Kingdom/Bear Country/Disaster Transport/Iron Dragon (Light Duty is not fun)

Some of us waited each night for the "down racoon" radio call.

I remember one night they actually showed up early and someone said "Don't they know they're early?"

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June 11th, 2001 - Gemini 100
VertiGo Rides - 82
Technical Services 2002
Fright Zone Screamster 2002

No one had more wild animal run in's then the kids that had to go out to field on my crew. Im still convinced there is a bear hiding out in the cave. The call i got one night from Barile saying he was surrounded by raccoons and needed help was great, i hiked out there, with a flashlight and a big stick, its worse than fear factor i tell ya!

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"Captain" Nate
Paddlewheel crew 2000
Paddlewheel ATL 2001
Thunder Canyon TL 2002

Racoons are not the cute furry little fuzzballs that they look like. You can shoot them with a full power air rifle and the pellets bounce off and their claws are absolutely the worst!

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People starve in the desert because:FOOD DOES NOT GROW IN SAND!

I remember the ducks. The gross carp. Some geese! Foxes??? I never heard anything about the foxes. And what about this monkey? Someone please explain the monkey. There were monkeys at Cedar Point??? I just know I hate Seagulls! Every freaking day I would be off to work in my nice black uniform shirt and splat they would poop on me. I think I was part of their morning routine. Oh and the cats! I loved the kittens! We used to feed them. Then Animal Control took them away. :(

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TGIFridays
Costumed Character
Screamster
Camp Snoopy Escort

While camping in Camper Village last August, my sister's schnauser ("Scruffy") got bit on the nose by a snake while walking the footpath around the penninsula. There was some blood, but the snake proved to be non poisenous.

Security and First Aid were both very interested in where this happened. It could have been a child that got bit. My sister and neice and newphew freaked out as it was!

MrScott

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"If we go any faster, she'll blow apart for sure!"

killerseagual said:
the turkey's name was Barrette Gobbles, but we called him Barrette for short. Let me tell you that (bleeping) bird liked no one and no one but John liked him.

That's too bad. Maybe Barrette Gobbles would have had more fans had he not been in such a *fowl* mood all the time...

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~Lee~

Group Sales ATL '01
Group Sales TL '02
'03 -- TBA
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"The greatest leaders don't take credit for their actions; they don't have to."

Don't forget about Deer. Back in '99 I saw two deer on point. I got lost back by the Breakwater Cafe and I saw two Deer back there.

And I'm not talking about the John Deere display, or the Gators they use to get around the park.
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magnumdan
magnum count: 2233
www.cpthrillology.com

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Lee said:

That's too bad. Maybe Barrette Gobbles would have had more fans had he not been in such a *fowl* mood all the time...

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Ha Ha very funny :-) But seriously that bird was a mean sucker, the first day we had that turkey he chased me out of the barn and I mean he was running after me. If anyone of us pet farm workers turn our back on that bird he would chase after us. It got to point that when we took the chicken out and let them back in, we had to use a broom just to make sure that that dumb bird would not attack us.

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Melissa
Magnum 00'
Pet Farm AATL 02'
Melslambs@hotmail.com

How about the time we had a woman threatening to go to Park Op and call Animal Control on us because we wouldn't do anything about a dying rabbit in our yard. Umm ok, 24 second interval or ride shuts down, and we're short staffed that day. Sure let me just run down there and rush this animal right to the vet.

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Brent Haley
Gemini Crew '02

Brent I remember that lady, she flipped out on me because there was nothing I could do, then she went crazy because I wouldnt let her go under the ride to get the rabbit herself. yikes. crazy people. We also had a raccoon grace us with his company, Fike, Chad and I chased it with trash cans until we could catch it. It was a good time, one I will remember for sure.

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Camp Snoopy ATL '00
Camp Snoopy TL '01
Gemini TL '02