Posted on 10/11/2004 10:49:32 AM PDT by HolgerDansk
The reports from Almaden Valley are alarming. Coyotes stalking little kids in gated townhouse communities. Sharp-tusked wild pigs rototilling the lawns of million-dollar estates. Foxes, skunks and bobcats turning this suburban paradise into San Jose's own little Wild Kingdom.
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That's not what Gardner needs to hear right now.
``This is getting to be very scary,'' she said of her nightly visitors. ``It's like Almaden Valley is under attack.''
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Funny. Folks build nice houses up on the hillsides and pay huge sums of money for them. Then they're surprised when the critters that live in those hills wander through their yards.
Most of these folks are Kerry voters, in the first place, and wouldn't know what to do with a pesky animal in their yard, so they whine and cry about it.
PETA....No Coyote....abortions,....ever!
PETA.......No Coyote abortions........ever.
Sometimes the really wealthy people just cannot get over the fact that they can't keep the world out of their yard. My dad's like that. He kills squirrels, he kills cats....any poor unfortunate creature that happens across his yard. But of course...there are always more squirrels and cats and other critters. I've tried telling my dad to get used to a certain amount of inconvenience because he cann't kill all the squirrels and cats in the area, but to no avail. (These sorts of creatures seem a lot better than the sort of creatures you'd meet on the streets of my city at night. I prefer the four legged kind.)
What rational folks would do, would probably put them into prison in the People Republic.
Three S's - shoot, shovel and shut up. But then I grew up in California's Central Valley, where property owners still had a few rights, and every kid on the block had a .22 (or better).
Three S's - shoot, shovel and shut up. But then I grew up in California's Central Valley, where property owners still had a few rights, and every kid on the block had a .22 (or better).
I like nature as much as the next guy, but if it comes down to a choice between human beings and dangerous wild animals, I think I know where I'm going to stand.
In Louisiana, we have similar 3 s's. Shoot, skin and saute. I've never eaten coyote, but they are wild canines. Asians eat lots of dogs--can't be worse than neutra.
200 geese isn;t "hilarious", as one resident described it..It's a frigging mess...
I omly took one year of German, but does your tag line refer to sh*t in one's socks?
The mouse and pocket gopher population will go up once they start keeping their cats and dogs inside because of the coyotes, then they can expect a few buzzworms as well.
Then they will get more hawks eating the snakes and mice.
And with all the empty gopher burrows the snakes and hawks leave behind, tarantulas will move in..
And the beautiful Tarantula Hawk wasp will become plentiful, sometimes right in their yards.
Don't they teach ecology in school anymore?
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Then there is the cougar thing here in Kalifornia.
A jogger got attacked and killed near Auburn, just east of state capitol a few years ago. A lady got attacked in the So part of Kalifornia earlier this year bicycling with 2 other men. Only their presence saved her life.
It wasn't too long ago that environmentalists were arguing that the mountain lion threat to people was greatly exaggerated and that there wasn't a single, solitary documented case in the Old West of a mountain lion actually attacking or harming anyone. But now in just the last ten years or so, at least half a dozen people have been killed by mountain lions and just as many have disappeared and are suspected of having been "taken" (and, oh, by the way, eaten) by lions.
The mountain lion fiasco alone should've been enough to put environmentalists on the official nutball list of every governmental agency in the country. But it hasn't happened and government at all levels is still giving its ear to the damned loons. Meantime coyotes are roaming the suburbs, snatching pets, and it's only a matter of time before they start snatching babies out of backyards.
Man, it's not hard to imagine what our parents and grandparents would have done if coyotes had been a threat to their kids. We need to get back to that way of thinking and acting.
"but if it comes down to a choice between human beings and dangerous wild animals, I think I know where I'm going to stand."
Depends on what human being. I can think of quite a few where I'd cheer for the critters. :)
This is also happening in a state where the Attny Gen of Kalif is trying to take all our guns from us. His latest idea is to laser mark with an ID number EVERY BULLET and matching casing sold in Kalif. Stolen ammo will be the order of the day. Somehow, the original owner of the bullets with ID's on them- and the corresponding registration of the purchaser of said ammo will be responsible when there is a burglery. No matter what, the crime continues to climb and climb.
Dunno if I'd care to try coyote. Carrion-eaters tend to pick up all sorts of exotic parasites. Try serving it to the local Democratic party pot-luck first and see what happens.
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