Tell me... 
about it!
Especially when this falderall... 
produces a vast heard of gay Weresheep!
I am so... 
baaaaaaaaaaad!
Posted on 05/29/2009 8:43:01 PM PDT by george76
Ranchers in the Lemhi Valley of Idaho have suffered increased losses from wolf depredation, as wolf numbers expand. Allen Bodenhamer, who raises cattle near Baker, ID lost three calves this past spring. At first he thought the kills were made by coyotes, then realized he was dealing with wolves.
“When coyotes kill a calf they get hold of the back of the neck and basically strangle it. They usually don’t start eating on it while it is still alive. A wolf grabs it by the top of the back or just in front of the hips and is eating on it while the poor animal is still struggling around trying to get away.”
Simonson said that after wolves kill an animal, the first thing they want to do is chew on the ball joints when they get it apart. We could see teeth marks all over those joints where they had been chewing.”
“My neighbor said trappers told him that when the wolves hear the airplane coming they lie right down under the sagebrush and won’t move – and are really hard to see. They’ve watched the wolves do that,” says Bodenhamer.
During calving season, he and his wife are out checking cows every hour.
“For those wolves to come in between those checks with our spotlights, they must have figured out our pattern. It certainly amazed me,”
“The wolves are coming very close to humans.”
“After the wolves have been in your cows they are all stirred up and hard to handle; if you try to move them all they want to do is chase your dogs,” says Mulkey. The cattle are also very nervous and restless and don’t spend much time grazing; calf weights are lighter in the fall.
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I won’t say the county but there is a ranching county where every rancher has the same gun, if they have to investigate a wolf killing, they’re going to have to check all of them.
The ranchers should consider raising kangals, anatolians, or caucasian ovcharkas. These dogs love to kill wolves and are very good at it - persistent, too.
I was up in Wyoming teaching a concealed carry class recently. This was confirmed by several ranchers. Additionally, the sheep ranchers are having a tough time with the magpies - they pick out the eyes of the newborn lambs. Maybe we need some old-ladys-in-the-city-parks midnight cat feeders up there to solve the problem. It wouldn’t be right to kill anything, don’t ya’ know?
From the Article >> I don’t know how we are going to get rid of them, I have my field glasses and rifle with me every day.
Who’s that, the wolves or the do-gooders?
Many family ranchers are getting killed financially.
Ecos get federal grazing allotments vacated.
Sierra Club lawyers run up the ranchers legal bills.
Go to savetheelk.com. It has a gruesome slide show with 48 slides. Apparently wolves can determine does and cow elk that are pregnant. They have a technique for pulling those animals down to get at the unborn fetus, which they seem to have a particular preference for.
One wolf grabs the prey by the nose. The others eat their way into the animal from the rear or go in through the rear of the stomach. They eat the fetus and frequently leave the rest of the animal. A particularly cruel aspect to the way wolves kill is that they make no effort to kill prey before they begin to eat it.
When this is pointed out to the save the wolves freaks they simply deny it, claiming that those slides showing animals that were killed and the body left to rot deliberately ignore the fact that the wolves return to finish eating the dead animal.
I know too many people who spend lots of time in the mountains here hunting or scouting before the season opens. They see many abandoned, undevoured bodies, so the save the wolf freaks are simply liars.
The herds here in Western Montana have been severely depleted by wolves, but FWP people and university egg heads deny this. There will be fewer tags issued next season and save the wolves freaks will be pleased because they do not want people hunting. They are ant-gun but too smart to come out and say it in this pro-gun state. Creeps.
Many eco watermelon types want to empty much of the west of people to re-wild many states.
Ted Turner dreams of eco lodges where working homesteads once existed.
With a near by private jet airport for his Hollywood pals...
The wolf reintroduction thing has gotten completely out of control. The animal rights and enviro nutjobs have convinced enough people including Dept of Interior and state fish & game depts that the wolf is part of the ecosystem and they belong here, that’s bunk.
We got along without them just fine for well over fifty years. There are more than enough hunters to keep game numbers under control and the wolf just causes trouble for ranchers.
If enviros want to see and live with wolves they can got to Canada or Alaska and live in the wilderness with them, there are plenty there but those enviros want a 30 minute drive out of towns in the Northwest to interact with them.
Plus these are imported , much larger than American, wolves.
Next, the ecos will complain that corporate feed lots using corporate drugs are the only source of their food ( no free range beef ).
The consensus is lead poisoning, but this is a case of those who know aren't talking, and those that are talking don't know.
“There will be fewer tags issued next season and save the wolves freaks will be pleased....”
What is the bag limit on the freaks?
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What used to blow my mind when I lived in the Rockies were people who would make a big deal about saving wolves, antelope, prairie dogs and seals, yet let their cats decimate the bird population round their homes.
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Tell me... about it!
Especially when this falderall... produces a vast heard of gay Weresheep!
I am so... baaaaaaaaaaad!
This is like farmers complaining about the weather.
Leave an iPod on the front seat your car when you’re parked in the far south side of Chicago and see what happens.
There is a rumor that Muslims think elk are another form of goat. Seen any turban wearers in the fields, lately?
;-)
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