She's a Portuguese Podengo Medio who is very old now and every day is to be cherished.
I think she's at least 15 but she still beats up the boy.
Posted on 08/25/2021 10:17:23 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Vancouver coyotes attack people in Stanley Park, bite their own tails, and biologists don’t understand why
Vancouver coyote experts are using every tactic possible – not including catapults and dynamite – to try to solve the mystery of why these animals have attacked dozens of people in Stanley Park this year.
There may not be more than a dozen coyotes living in a four-square-mile park in Vancouver, but they have provincial and city employees chasing their tails in search of answers as to why the animals are so aggressive.
At the same time, the call to rid the park of coyotes is growing louder after nearly 40 cases have been reported since December 2020 of animals biting or showing aggression toward everyone from seniors to toddlers.
Paul Curtis, a professor and wildlife expert at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., has spent decades studying coyote aggression. His research, conducted in New York City parks 15 years ago, showed that people feeding animals that are territorial cause most aggression.
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I can imagine. Nemo used to give me the side-look when I missed a duck. “Nice shot.”
OMG, you have tapped into my flashlight fetish!
:D
Hubby: How many damn flashlights do you have now??
Me: I have the flashlights that I have.
Joni Mitchell - Coyote
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWUgPIQNgGo
;D
If your dad had a large stick in his hands, the coyotes probably would have bolted.
Never heard of a Podengo before but looks like a nice dog.
We are currently owned by a senior doberman that belonged to a neighbor who passed.
Lily is a sweet girl who loves to sleep on your foot.
I have two of these and they light up the whole damn ridge.
Love ‘em!
Do you have one that flashes SOS? ‘Cause if you need a reason to buy another one. ...
She's a Portuguese Podengo Medio who is very old now and every day is to be cherished.
I think she's at least 15 but she still beats up the boy.
People are usually the problem, they removed the bounty and made it a social stigma to wear fur coats. Coyotes are a wonderful animal, especially when they are sewn together.
I have a bunch that have a flash mode but never noticed if they had a particular pattern.
Most of them just flash. Some do an SOS. Which you can do just pushing the button, if you’re old school. Not sure how many people outside of the Coast Guard might recognize Morse code, anyway.
He had nothing and was pushing 80 at the time.
He’d been up on the ridge putting out apples and pumpkins for the deer when the pack showed up.
It’s nothing but loose rocks the whole way down and he knew if he turned his back, he was gone so he walked backwards about 400 yards, to the truck.
It was the *one time* he didn’t have a rifle slung on his back.
He never made that mistake again.
I reckon I could just put my hand on and off the lens myself.
You’d think more people would recognize SOS if nothing else.
:)
I think some of mine have a “strobe” effect that is supposed to disorient an attacker, or something like that.
If I’m ever jumped by an epileptic, I’m golden.
Is that a typo on the one? 90,000 lumen? “Tactical” gets over-used. People think they might have to signal the ISS someday. I had occasion to hang around some of the homeless living illegally in the local park. Tactical meant just bright enough to move through the brush, but not so bright that the police could zero in on it. The little 125 with a weak AA is great for that.
I had an uncle who bought a sheep ranch in Wyoming in the 1920s. His son told me that when they first settled there, his father had a shotgun, and the coyotes would stay just out of range, sit and laugh at him. Then his dad bought a high-powered rifle and shot one while the rest scattered. The funny thing my cousin said was by the next day every coyote in the county knew his father had a rifle.
Set up a station with Ruger 1022s and let kids rent them.
If they're biting their own tails it's most likely due to itchy hemorrhoids.........
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