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!!!........Diesel can be made from dang near anything! Even old milk jugs and other plastics. I forsee a day when we will be digging up all those landfills full of the excesses of the 20th century............
Javelina are just nasty. You can eat the meat if you cut it thin as jerky and marinate it for a couple of days. But I don't know why you'd bother. It barely makes it edible.
It would do in a pinch if you were starving in the desert and had some marinade in your survival gear.
They are a pain in the ass when you're hunting real game. They scare the deer off, they're too ugly to mount as a trophy. If you shoot them, you've probably ruined the spot for deer hunting for a couple of hours.
And the males have tusks that will rip the calf off your leg if give them a chance.
Yup - nasty, nasty! Blech nasty.
My brother would hunt them with a 218 Bee! - Me, I prefer 45/70 myself, these (nasty) buggers would hang out in some pretty heavy brush when I hunted in the SoAZ area.
Did I mention they are NASTY? - And not really worth eating.
its related to the discusa and the shotputa
I was hunting deer in a stand last Saturday waiting for a really nice 10 pt buck that hung out in the area to emerge.
Finally he started to come out. I could just see his antlers in the brush, but not his body.
Just then, three javelina came into the sendero looking for some deer corn. Game, set, match. The buck left.
Instead of doing the right thing and shooting them, I hoped they'd leave and the deer would emerge again. They stayed.
Javelinas are definitely not on my Christmas card list.
>>Or trade in those little bug-eyed dogs for some Irish Wolfhounds.
Should do the trick. Any dog who can single-handedly kill a wolf wouldn't have a problem with a javelina.
All wrong.
Shoot them and let coyotes eat their nasty meat.
LOL
Not only the Christmas list, but never on the menu!
Sorry for your loss of venison.
If I may ask - Bow or rifle? If rifle, the caliber?
Ha!
Well,
I killed a 12 point buck last night.
With my car.
Gonna super-glue the antlers to what's left of my hood.
Are you serious? Are you okay???
I am serious.
I'm OK :).....
You know you live in the South when you immediately pull into the local good 'ole boys hangout (and gas station) with a wrecked car, tell them you just hit a deer, and 3 of them take off into the woods to find it :)
"Oh, don't bother about me, I'm just feeling a bit numb all over!"
Eeeeew, roadkill burgers...So much for southern hospitality. :-)
I'm glad you're okay, how scary!
I do not understand. Are they sure these were javelinas? Javelinas are so small, the only thing they could attack is her ankles.
Howzabout "Shoot it, eat it, and teach its little friends who is and who isn't at the top of the food chain"?
I was shooting (or NOT shooting) a 7mm Winchester magnum.
I got a great axis buck with it this year already. No way would I try bow hunting. I'm not even skilled enough with the rifle to be confident. I get buck fever. ;-)
Huh?? They are swine. They have hooves. Split hooves.
Where do you get this BEAR stuff?
YIKES
Many years ago I was walking on a dirt road with my Mom and other members of our family. This was a vacation home area on the south coast of Rhode Island where we'd rented a home for a family reunion. It had been raining off and on so I had a rolled up umbrella with me. As we passed the driveway for another vacation house a dog came down towards us, growling. I shifted the umbrella from my other hand to the side the dog was on and made a point to place myself between the dog and my family. My mom said "be careful, he'll think you're going to hit him."
I replied "smart dog." The dog got the idea and backed off.
If I'd had a gun I would have unsnapped the holster or chambered a round, depending on type.
At 3 to 4 feet tall and over 75 lbs, they can certainly do damage above the ankle, and a little dog is no match.
I've seen the scars on a human (a former boss of mine) from a javelina attack. It was just below his knee.
It was a serious injury.
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