Posted on 12/08/2006 4:15:25 AM PST by radar101
Heading into the Pima Pet Clinic, Tracy Gordon holds Tino, who received a large bite on the neck during a javelina attack. Another of her Chihuahuas, Peatree, was in critical condition Thursday afternoon. Gordon's leg was bitten, and she was treated at Tucson Medical Center. chris richards / arizona daily star
At 7:15 a.m. Wednesday, Gordon and her three Chihuahuas were attacked by a pack of javelinas, an unusual moment because Gordon's previous encounters with them on her daily walks were always uneventful. It started with one javelina sighting on Snyder, near North Sabino Canyon Road. The javelina charged across the street, and though it seemed that the animal wasn't about to attack them, Gordon's dogs had assumed a confrontational stance. "Their hair went up on their backs, and they had puffed up their chests," Gordon said.
How to fend off a javelina attack • Be sure there is no wildlife-feeding going on in your neighborhood. • Harass the animal or spray it with a hose. • Shake an aluminum can, such as a soda can, with pebbles or nuts and bolts in it. • Repel the animal by putting pepper or hot sauce on specific plants and ammonia in bowls where they bed down. • Remove any ground cover that the javelina may be using as shelter. • Keep them away by using fencing or electric fencing. Check local ordinances first if you choose to do this.
Javelina, the other other white meat?
True in a sense. Javelinas are to the new world what swine are to Europe and Asia and the Hippo is to Africa.
All three groups fall into the sub-order Suiforme of the order artiodactyla. As a group, they are all about equally related to camels, deer, and giraffes.
I would not generally classify Javelinas as good eats.
The chef is here. Good eats for everyone.
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My first question, upon reading this, is "who is Snyder?" Of course that was before I clicked on the article link and read that you cut out the first sentence/paragraph that explains Snyder is a road.
Now that's a gun.
That is incorrect. They are members of the Artiodactyls--the same as swine and hippopotami.
I thought the hippo was related to the horse amd the rhino was related to the pig.
Well there's the problem right there. She was baiting them. Everyone knows that Chihuahuas = javelina bait.
(I can never see the word Chihuahua without thinking of Les Nesman on WKRP in Cincinnati and the way he pronounced it on the air: "Chi-hoo-a-hoo-a". Makes me laugh every time!)
You thought wrong.
We can make diesel out of javelinas........
Then they'd be called Meccarys........
Then my high school biology class back in the 60's was wrong. Then again, my grade school parochial schooling told us dino's were a myth.
It was commonly thought that hippos were related to pigs. Recently DNA has proved that Hippos are related to dolphins and whales which is why they can submerge themselves in water for long periods of time.
I MEANT to say that the remark about Hillary in a fur coat was cruel and sexist and I was going to have to do somehting about it just as soon as I stopped laughing.
I guess I was laughing too hard and my computer got all upset. (And, yeah, the ankles ARE too thin to be Hillary's.)
It was commonly thought that hippos were related to pigs. Recently DNA has proved that Hippos are related to dolphins and whales which is why they can submerge themselves in water for long periods of time.
Uh-oh. guess the President better commission the "Javelina Study Group" (JSG) to resolve this problem.
NO doubt we need to have dialogue with the javelinas.
Time to call James Baker again.
LOL. But the hairy little guy has nicer ankles.
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