Posted on 06/06/2006 9:19:05 AM PDT by tgusa
Perhaps they kill them because they see them as competition in their territory?
susie
I've said it before, there was absolutely no excuse or reason under the sun to reintroduce what our forfathers spent their lives ridding the country of. Wolfs belong in Northern Canada living under the harshest conditions. Not living anywhere in the USA except wolf farms, animal farms, and Zoo's.
Yes, they could have seen these dogs as an invading pack.
We saw occasionally coyotes right downtown early in the morning in the E. TX town we lived in. They routinely killed cats and small dogs.
susie
Any bureaucrat, even well-meaning, can screw things up royally. Just ask the farmers in Pennsylvania who are getting eaten out of house and home by re-introduced elk, for cryin' out loud.
I thought the same thing when I read that.
that's correct....and i agree....it's now open season in GA on wild hogs as these suckers breed as fast as rabbits....they were also rooting out the pond bank when the water was low and they ruined the entire pond, we had to get a bobcat (the mechanical kind) and re-scape the banks....
they are good eating though.....
Yes, I find it utterly bizarre that people would want wolf-dog hybrids as pets. We spend thousands of years breeding juvenile traits into our dogs and some people want to go back and own a wolf. Their personalities are more . . . hair-trigger, I guess. More aggressive and nervous, plus the additional problem of them wanting to patrol square miles of territory. I like wolves out in the wilderness but absolutely not as pets.
The same could and should be said of humans.
Personally I'd rather be thought of as a "Not Nice Critter" than as food.
Interesting that you bring up coyotes being bigger, I read an article several years ago that said the wolf was not really eradicated in most of the US, it had crossed with coyotes and created a hybrid that was different from the traditional coyote or wolf. According the the article the coyotes they did DNA samples of had wolf DNA.
The man that did the research for the article got curious as to why there were few to no natural wolve populations, yet many coyotes when man had tried to eradicate both. He wondered how the coyote survived and the wolf did not. He came to the conclusion that todays coyotes are a hybrid of yesterdays wolf/coyote crossbreeding.
We're ending up in all the same places. I freepmailed you yesterday with our recent experience with a couple of wild dogs. I just posted it at #25.
It is possible that the dogs were mixed with coyote, or wolf. That does happen out in some of these areas. I wish whoever had owned them had the guts to do away with them instead of dumping them out around ranches. My kids go out in the morning to feed these calves. This happened very early, so my kids weren't out there thank goodness!
This is good! One of the dogs ran off in our back pasture trying to get away. The herd of older cattle sensed a danger, and they surrounded the dog and wouldn't let it gountil my husband caught up to it with the gun. Bye Bye doggie!
For the record. I adore dogs. We have a collie. She's great at staying with my kids, and I have no doubt she would defend them to the death. I don't think that instinct neccessarily applies to cattle though. She is pregnant with the neighbor border collie pups, so we will be keeping two males. They are still great with people, and far more territorial than a female.
A 20? Hmmm....good small bird, rabbit, squirrel or varmit.! I remember those days well. I've popped a lot of .22 High Standard L, LR rounds.
In 10 years Robbins says he has never received any payment for loss of cattle to predators.
In one case he said a predator control officer observed a wolf eating a dead cow, but could not say what killed it.
"They can't verify it, so they don't pay you."
Thats why they are called Wolves..
You know, for years I have heard from people that "there is no documentation of a wolf ever harming a human." Right.
I understand, I meant to freepmail you back but hadn't gotten to it yet. I've seen the photographs of animals mauled by dogs, that must have been horrible. Kudos to your smart cattle for cornering one--must be remnants of some old instincts! I think shooting the dogs was absolutely the right thing to do. When dogs start packing up, staking a territory, and attacking prey they can end up redefining "prey" as "humans". I'm afraid I'd be more tolerant of coyotes around rather than feral dogs if I lived in the country.
AAAAAAAAmen. Used to live in Alaska, never went into the woods without at least a 357 Magnum. The ones who knew, carried even bigger, like 44 mag.
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