Posted on 06/14/2004 8:01:11 PM PDT by LaDivaLoca
ROFLOL!!
Thank you!! :o)
I still have last year's HB wish that I printed out up on my bulletin board! Just think, a year ago today you were calling from Iraq to wish me HB and Dad Happy Father's Day!!!
It's gonna be great -- going to go out and run errands, see doc, out to dinner -- should be fun!!
(oh - and ILY2!!)
Howdy Ms. Feather!! DOing great! You are lookn' right smart in your outfit there!! :o)
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Hi there, wind!
Thank you Ms. Feather!! Morning glories!! :o)
Thx..Excellent! :))
By KATIE PESZNECKER
Anchorage Daily News
(Published: June 14, 2004)
A sow grizzly bear killed a moose calf in a Willow man's back yard, then was shot and killed by the homeowner as it closed in on the man's dog and the dead calf's mother.
The resident, Kenneth Turner, then heard gunshots. Turns out his next-door neighbor had a black bear and three cubs on his back porch, said Greg Wilkinson, spokesman for the Alaska State Troopers.
The chaotic multispecies showdown early Friday left the grizzly's two cubs orphaned. They're at the Alaska Zoo, leaving the zoo with four cubs and a total of 10 bears, more than anyone can remember having at once, said Thomas "Smitty" Smith, a zookeeper.
The new arrivals are clearly traumatized, Smith said. When allowed in the same space, they violently fought and had to be separated again, he said.
"They were taking all their stress out on each other," Smith said. "I'm sure they don't know what just happened, but they know Mom is gone. Whether their little minds are saying 'My mom was just killed' -- I don't think so. What they do know is she's no longer with them, and they're lost right now."
The ordeal began early Friday at Turner's home on a wooded lot in a subdivision at the end of Haigon Shores Road. His house is 75 yards from Jean Lake.
Sometime around 2 a.m., a mother moose and calf walked onto Turner's property. Then the hungry grizzly showed up with her two cubs and everything got crazy.
"She gets in between the cow and the calf," Wilkinson said. "The calf runs up right next to this man's house. And the bear runs up and kills the calf right next to this guy's porch."
Turner's dog, a black Labrador mix, was outside and barking furiously. Turner came out of the house and tried to scare the bear off but the sow immediately charged him, Wilkinson said.
Turner, 31, darted for the house and tried to get his dog to follow but it wouldn't come, Wilkinson said.
"Then the grizzly starts chasing the dog," the troopers spokesman continued. "The mother moose comes over to see how the calf is doing. The calf is dead. Then the grizzly starts chasing the cow, and the dog starts chasing the grizzly. And the cubs are chewing on the calf while Mom is chasing the moose."
Turner ended the melee moments later when he returned with a .300 Winchester Magnum and shot and killed the grizzly. He also chased the cubs up a tree, about 40 yards from his house.
Then Turner heard gunshots -- his neighbor's, fired to scare off the black bears.
When wildlife enforcement trooper Jimmy Jones arrived that morning, the cubs were still in a single tree. He and Gino Del Frate, the area biologist for the Department of Fish and Game, finally got one cub down, but it immediately scampered up another tree.
Angel Boy.....#150!!
LOL!! You are too cute! :P
Yeah, funny how we look back on things and see just how different today is. Not to mention how blessed we are or have been.
All on the motorcycle?
TYVM!
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