Posted on 12/07/2008 6:14:06 PM PST by MtnClimber
After letting their small dog out at 4 A.M. for a quick bathroom request, neighbors found their small dog had been attacked by a mountain lion or fox, but had escaped and managed to return to their back door. The dog required over 40 stitches but survived and no one could figure out how until a day or two later when the carcass of a fox was found a few hundred feet further back from the house. The fox had obviously been the meal of a mountain lion. The scenario then became clear. The fox had the dog until the mountain lion got the fox, which enabled the dog to get away. Lucky little dog.
Mountain lion ping. And where is our little dog fluffy?
I’m not buying it.
I say the little dog found the mountain lion with his fresh kill. He got hungry and kicked the mountain lion’s butt and chowed down on some fresh meat. THen went home after he got full and sleepy. And to get a little first aid too.
That’s always a worry in the back of my mind. We have a fenced yard and a small Jack Russell and a big lab-mix. They’re house dogs, but of course they still have to go outside. This time of year it’s always dark when we let them out at 6 am.
We can hear the coyotes howl in the night and I encountered a wolf in the yard three years ago. I’m always worried one of those buggers will be in the yard.
Clearly it's more like a mountain lion-eat-fox-eat-dog world.
I think a coyoye or a bobcat could easily kill a fox too. Or the dog could have gotten away and the fox came by. This is near where I live and I have seen so many predator mammals that it could be any permutation of who got who.
the little dog : muffin.
Ah, yes it was muffin! If you name your dog after a breakfast meal, it may become just that!
That little dog was very lucky. We had something similar happen several years ago. I had let the mom doberman and her pups out at night. She started raising heck and I called her back in. Her pups followed her back into the house. I failed to count heads until the next morning when I found one little boy was missing.
I went out to where she had been and found cougar (also known as mountain lions) tracks and a small bit of blood on the ground. I told my neighbor about it and within a week that damn cat was dead. Of course once the cat was gone, our deer population increased, but I’m doing the best I can to keep the devil deer population in check. ;>)
Turn on the lights and make a lot of noise before you let the pups out. That will scare any coyote off, and probably any wolf as well.
Bedlingtons always crack me up - they look so much like a lamb with that profile haircut.
When it arrived at the airport I thought they had sent the wrong breed of dog, lol. The Blue Bedlington is black at birth.
Close call for that little dog! I have a Yorkie and live in an area where everyone has acreage and few fences. [in the middle of the city!]
We have deer, raccoons and fox go through the yard at night so when I take him out I stay close by. Large owls have even been known to carry off small animals at night.
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