He sounds like he'd be a hoot to meet someday.
He's a sweet dog, and we love them too. We had two old dogs, brother sister from the Humane Society, and after we lost the second after he was sick for months, but still pretty happy, planned on waiting a few months. Travel, hike without worrying if dogs were allowed, etc. We lasted two weeks, and got the beagle/pyr. Thought, OK, we'll add a second in a year or so. We got the min. schnauzer 3 months later...He sounds like he'd be a hoot to meet someday.
I Love dogs of all kinds. Just precious, precious animals. Dogs are the way people ought to be. Cats? Meh... cats are more the way people are.
I've never seen a red tailed hawk attack doves, but I think it's because our resident Cooper's Hawks are the ones that mostly do that. I feed birds and the ones that come to the feeder drop seed on the ground and the doves gather to eat that. There's regularly a Cooper's Hawk at the bottom of our yard and I'm sure he's just picking one out for supper. I don't like to see it - seen it once and don't want to again - but it's just what happens. I'll find the pile of feathers occasionally.
And I agree about coyotes. Small pets, cats especially, are definitely part of their food supply in this area, and it's sad when the owners post notices and I know there's no chance once they're missing for more than a day or so. I've warned several with cats who moved into our neighborhood - hope they listened, but we see cats on many walks at night and I never know who they belong to. Our dogs just want to play with them....
I'm actually pretty glad one of our young dogs is a beagle/Great Pyrenees mix and he's big enough - about 60lbs and the coyotes in my area are pretty small - to protect himself and our min. schnauzer. I actually think if the coyotes were around he'd smell them and run them off, or keep them at bay, with his barks etc. The Great Pyrenees livestock guarding dog genes definitely kick in and he gets alert and ready, with huge deep barks, when we cross that smell, unlike anything else - not other dogs, cats, raccoons, skunks, rabbits, etc. Just coyotes. It's a bit embarrassing when it's during our nightly walks but there's nothing I can do. We'll occasionally hear the coyotes yipping back at him, from a distance.... Of course that just sends him over the edge.
Very true. There's an open area about 100 yards behind my house, then another about 100 yards on the other side, and they hoot back and forth all the time, but from a distance......
Nope! I've seen only one dog that might be close, but he's much more "pyr" looking than ours, with a huge amount of thick hair. Here's the big boy on a hike with me and Dottie...
They are fantastic as attack dogs. If you don't mind the attempted murder charge by all means acquire a Golden-doodle.
Our bigger dog loves doodles....
There is only one documented case of a coyote killing a child in North America. It happened in Glendale California a suburban city near Los Angeles in 1981. The coyote most likely assumed the child to be a small animal. One other fatal coyote attack on a human occurred in Canada, a young woman hiking alone. Biologist theorized that the coyotes which attacked her were possibly a crossbreed group, which had previous human contact and were not afraid of people. Those were the only TWO fatal coyote attacks in all of the known North American history. Other attacks have occurred, but not fatal. You are many times more likely to be killed by domestic canines off leash than a coyote.
Can’t say I fully agree with your sentiment, especially when considering a child being hurt, but I understand the animal is a victim too.
Very true. There's an open area about 100 yards behind my house, then another about 100 yards on the other side, and they hoot back and forth all the time, but from a distance......
I'm what one might call an amateur "birder," spend lots of time outdoors, and I've seen 1000s of hawks of all kinds, and plenty of eagles, there are falcons around - rarer but still fairly common - but I can still at nearly 60yo almost count the owl sitings on my fingers and toes. Not quite, but close... I find them fascinating. The primary feathers are really neat to see - I've found several, more than I've seen actual owls.
Nope! I've seen only one dog that might be close, but he's much more "pyr" looking than ours, with a huge amount of thick hair. Here's the big boy on a hike with me and Dottie...
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I used to have a Royal Standard poodle from 1973 to 1978, when my mother was dating and then married to my stepfather. Golden Retrievers are notoriously ferocious. With their tails as well as their front end.Our bigger dog loves doodles....
What I don't really get is if you want that kind of dog, why not a.... poodle? I've never owned a poodle, but those I see are friendly enough, and I know they're very, very smart. Yeah, some are groomed to look ridiculous IMO, but most around here are in standard "dog" trim and I love the look.
No. I feel that children are not learning to cope, with being driven and taken everywhere. My older son, now 26, was one of the few that bicycled the three or so miles into town. He got that habit from a European teen tour and then from our encouragement.
Heaven forbid a wild animal does what it needs to survive. There are far too many 'pets' euthanized for lack of owners, I've got no issue with coyotes eating prey, they're predators.
Those are truly scary; they hit hard. The animal, overall, is very intimidating.
There's always one in the crowd.
Guess you're not a dog or cat owner..... For those of us who are, our 'pets' are not exactly items like cars that can be simply replaced if they're killed by a coyote.
I understand. I was just pointing out that in places where large numbers of animals are displaced, the developers and the politicians who let the developers destroy those
Yeah, I read a bumper sticker recently that said, "When you trash the earth, the earth will trash you." Same concept.
When you buy a pet you buy a tragedy. Almost certainly your pet will die before you. Is there a difference between the manners of death? As long as the coyotes don't do it in your view, I'd say there isn't.
I own both cats and dogs. And I've euthanized them as well as having them die violently. Imo, euthanizing is worse because you've had them longer. What euthanizing has to do with the threads is that pets die, and there is nothing pet owners can do to stop it...no reason to kill other animals to try to prevent it.
True enough - if you don't care about your pets, who cares how or when they die?
We all die, and there's nothing we can do to stop that. Our parents die. Does it matter if they're beaten to death while healthy, happy, living a good life, versus die of old age? If we don't witness the beating, I'd say no! Why do we even bother arresting murderers? So they speed the inevitable death ahead by a few months, years, decades - who should care? Dead is dead, amirite? Great points you're making!
