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Gosh, that thing does look pretty sweet.
...and don't forget the whole spay and neuter thing. Around here if you adopt a cat from the pound it must be "fixed" (odd term for something that wasn't broken) before you can take it home, no options, do it or leave the cat at the pound where it will be destroyed after 30 days if no one else wants it. Not sure which is worse, cutting the tips off my fingers or the junk in my trunk. How about neither!Yeah, it's one of those things that sounds like a good idea. Until you find out that it's the equivalent of cutting off a person's fingers at the first joint, that is... Then? Uh, maybe not such a good idea,after all...
They are very shy and reclusive, but we had an alert last summer because small dogs were becoming snacks. They are not to be trifled with. When I lived in a more rural area, they got all our chickens and two peacocks.
We don’t have any livestock, just cars
but that’s a crappy situation. Is it open season for coyotes year round over there too? 
I'm pickin' up what you're layin' down, but spay/neuter is a separate matter altogether. Of course humans reap benefits from controlling the populations of cats & dogs... but so do cats & dogs. Their instincts tell them to reproduce, and without some form of regulation... they'll do it... and they'll do it as many times as they can until their biological cycles render them unable. A sound-minded person will recognize that 37 cats all living in one double-wide, is too many. Cats will not. 37 becomes 200 faster than you can imagine! Disease, famine, lack of resources, and even cannibalism will set in & wipe 'em out. The diseases will spread beyond the confines of the doublewide through insects, rodents, neighboring animals, and even humans. Now try to imagine that on a city, state, or nationwide scale! Having your pets "fixed" is a responsibility of the pet owners, to insure the health, safety, and futures of us all.
You take the NR's I'll take the R's, and split the HiWatts!
Well, come up with a better way to control the massive over-population of stray dogs and feral cats (without just killing them all right now) and the World will beat a path to your door. 'Cause it's a world-wide problem - especially feral cats in Australia, from what I hear.. And, before you say it, contraception has been tried - over and over and over - and it's been a dismal failure, everywhere and every time it's been tried. Sadly, spaying and neutering is the only thing that seems to actually work. An enormous, punitive tax on pet dogs and cats might work; good luck with that idea, though... Where I live, the only thing that even begins to keep the strays in check - aside from "snip & clip" - are the packs of coyotes who think that dogs - and especially cats - are simply delicious. You don't have to get very close to the edges of Vegas before stray cats just...vanish. And stray dogs - especially smaller stray dogs - aren't far behind. I don't particularly care for the gelding procedure, either, but I imagine it's preferable to being eaten alive by a pack of coyotes. Or, instead of a dog or cat, I suppose you could just get a goldfish...
All good points with which I agree.
Why did I know this was coming..
I'm sure you know that the usual method is bait, with chemical contraceptives in it... and like I said, it just doesn't work. Some years ago, it was even proposed to put the stuff in commercially canned dog and cat food. So that concerned animal lovers could leave it out for all the poor, stray animals, I suppose (Would have saved the authorities a lot of time and money, too)... The idea was dropped - quickly - when it was carefully pointed out that an alarmingly high percentage of canned pet food wasn't being eaten by pets...
I have never heard of a factory fretless Thunderbird. My fretless started out as a Pro IV, with the active circuit and frets the size of a mountain range. I liked neither the frets nor the electronics, but I got the bass with a "losing" bid on eBay. So, at least the price was right. Then I blew through more money than made any sense to anybody but me and had it de-fretted. It's got walnut veneers where the frets were, and sharpie over the dots now. So, it's more or less unlined. The electronics had to go, too, so it's got Lace Alumitone pickups in it now. There are a few fretless 'Birds around, but if there's one that's factory, it's probably some kind of one-off that somebody at the factory did. Kinda like Johnny Cash's Cadillac.
Not yet. She has a bead on a Thunderbird. And she's feral.
Humans get snipped in various ways. Same as spaying a cat, kinda.
That fretless did look cool. But those stress cracks in the heel of the neck were a bit of a red flag to me. I wonder if the bass had a neck or truss problem at some point and the fret board was removed and replaced with a fretless one. I've never seen a stock fretless bird before, not sure if they had that offering in 1990.
