Coyotes doing what Coyotes do.
My wife has been watching American bald eagle nest cams for a few years now.
When she started I warned her that they were indiscriminate hunters.
Wasn’t long until one showed up in the nest with a juvinile domestic animal......I’ll just leave it at that.
I’ve told this before but years ago, I had to fight a Golden Eagle to save my little Portuguese Podengo.
It did not care that there were 6 other big dogs or a human in the yard.
If she hadn’t been emotionally scarred from her previous life and prone to flattening out on the ground if anyone moved too fast towards her, she’d have been eagle food.
I saw the eagle spiraling down and ran out to her as fast as I could go, scooping her up like a dropped football and ran back to the house, with that damn flying lizard clawing me and whacking me with its wings, the whole way, trying to make me swat at it and drop her.
I run recon at night before I let the dogs out.
Jacklight and AR.
I love ALL animals but I love MINE more.
You have no idea how BIG a Golden Eagle is, until one is on your back.
I hate reading the local lost and found pets groups.
A lot of people looking for the cats that never come home.
Just the other day, one person commented that there were a “lot of large bird feathers” in her back yard after the cat went missing one night.
Probably one of the huge owls.
Ugh.
You mean a widdle kitteh....
boo hoo(I t’ought Y t’aw de eagle tore dee puddy tat)
I see a yote around my house, Ima shoot it dead. No question...
One of my neighbors had a yappy mutt. A great horned owl snagged it.
I’ve also seen a large raven kill a juvenile ground squirrel.
Friends of ours are farmers and one night they let their dog out (can’t remember the breed but bigger then a German Shepherd). He heard yipping and looked out and there were 3-4 coyotes surrounding the dog. Luckily he had a shotgun near and killed a couple of them.
Bald eagles are scavengers, I have seen them hanging out with buzzards; they don’t hunt live animals.