Welcome to this country life. I'm your host Brent Reeves. From Coon hunting to

trot lining and just general country living, I want you to stay a while

as I share my stories and the country skills that will help you beat the system.

This country life is proudly presented as part of Meat Eater's Podcast Network,

bringing you the best outdoor podcast the Airways have to offer.

All right, friends, pull you up a chair or drop that tailgate.

I think I got a thing or two to teach you.

Messing with Critters

We are a curious species.

That curiosity fuels the desire to find out what's on the other side of the mountain,

the river, the ocean, and ultimately the also makes us wonder what do you reckon that

sleeping tiger will do if I poke him with this stick I said we were curious not smart. It's all about messing with critters this week

but first I'm going to tell you a story. Hurricane Katrina was a category 5 hurricane. The cost of lives and loss is still being felt today.

And I was in charge of a group of highly motivated individuals I had brought from the Union County

Sheriff's Office in Eldreda, Arkansas, on a mutual aid mission supporting Louisiana Sheriff's Association.

We were allocated to the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office initially, then after the initial chaos immediately following the storms, we moved across Lake Ponce train with the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office.

Slide L, Louisiana would be our home for a few weeks to come.

It was a desperate time for a lot of folks and us included.

The conditions were poor, stress and danger were high and shifts were long and unending.

But when it would eventually end, we all had homes and families to go home to. A lot of the local officers who we were serving

alongside, they weren't that fortunate. But our mission was clear we were front-side focused

on restoring order in a chaotic mess of lawlessness and devastation.

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