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.
LOL. You mean the Javelina Surrender Group :)
javelinas are usually pretty small. 45-90 pounds on average.
Small size, BIG teeth :)
Javelinas, also known as collared peccary, are tough desert dwellers with a fearsome reputation. “In the old days,” wrote Theodore Roosevelt in 1893, “it had been no uncommon thing for a big band to attack entirely of their own accord, and keep a hunter up a tree for hours at a time.”
William T. Hornaday, turn-of-the-twentieth-century director of the New York Zoological Park, wrote that “An enraged peccary, athirst for blood, is to any one not armed with a rifle or first-rate spear a formidable antagonist.”
(Both are quoted in Dangerous to Man, by Roger Caras.)
Javelinas love tulip bulbs and are experts at rooting them up. They don't like daffodils but will root through a bed of them if there's a chance of digging up a tulip. When motivated, they're expert at getting under fences.
"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...."
No mention of a fast moving heavy projectile introduced to the point of the shoulder or top of the head?
Javelina are good for two things.
#1. Buzzard food.
#2. Coyote food.
Oh, and you owe my employer 15 minutes of my time!
Leni
Trap them or shoot them. Turn them into sausage.
try a 1911a1
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.....Shoot the SOB and put on spit for four hours at medium heat.
It's quite possible that science in general was wrong about much taxonomy in the 60's. For that matter, it could be today. Genetic testing may shake up quite a few classifications.
Man, you are the McGyver of Diesel! I can see it now:
*car runs out of diesel fuel in Arizona"
Wife: "Red, honey, we're out of gas."
Red Badger: "Alright, I'm gonna need a rubber band and two paper clips. That'll get us home...once I use them to kill a javelina and top off the tank."
No thanks. In an escalating effort to drive them away from his place my father shot one one and tried cooking it up- nasty, stringy meat. At least the pack stayed away for a couple months after that.
They aren't related to pigs either, they're much closer related to bears.
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