Hunter Becomes Prey as Eagle Makes Meal of Dog

Reuters ^ | Thursday, January 9, 2003

[budwiesest]

the cold spell sweeping northern Europe was forcing hungry birds of prey closer to towns and cities.

After an extended period of fog-bound days(visibility <100ft) I encountered an owl just outside my front door in an oak tree. What drew my attention to him were the strange 'cat-like' sounds coming from his direction.

When I spotted him, I froze while he continued to call like a cat. After about a minute or two, he took off and literally cleared the cul-de-sac with two strokes of his wings and was well over a neighbor's yard (and out of sight by then).

[Willie Green]

Dachshund survives after eagle carries it off

[RoughDobermann]

YOU are a GOD!!! Thanks!!

[XLurk]

...eagle gonna eat the dog?...

When I lived in Oregon, bald eagles would grab little baby lambs and carry them off to their nests. I never saw it, but the rancher across the street from me assured me that it occasionally happens.

I did however, once see a bald eagle grab a salmon right out of the river - effortlessly. I was on the back stoop shortly after daybreak with my first cup of coffee, sort-of-almost awake, breathing the air, enjoying the view of the mist-shrouded river and the douglas firs - and swoop-grab-bank-climb, and gone.

It was one of those truly inspirational moments when you say a silent prayer, thanking God for creating you, creating the Earth, and allowing you to have lived that particular moment.

It was rather unlike the time I stared down a mountain lion at 100 yards while hiking (me, stupidly, being both unarmed and alone). Now THAT was a different experience entirely. (about 30 seconds of eye contact, then the cat continued downslope. I was sweaty from the hike, and I suppose I smelled unappetizing - and Yup, I said a different sorta prayer after that one...)

Lord, it was beautiful there - why did I ever leave?
Oh yeah, Kitzhaber, socialism, stagnant economy, starvation - I remember now.

[AnAmericanMother]

My girl is VERY smart - way too smart in some respects. She had a shot at alpha female but didn't get it - she's number two and slipping to number three as my 14 year old daughter is now working towards Junior Handler.

She's very birdy but we haven't been training for hunting (although she brings me any birds she finds in the yard. When they hit the glass in the back she's right on them and carries them to me. One actually survived this experience . . . ) We started her in obedience but we were both bored, so we switched to agility and she's having a ball. She is not yet 2 and still has fits of adolescent silliness, but she'll probably be ready for competition in the spring, with a little luck . . .

Here's a better shot of her at her first agility trial:

[null and void]

LOL!!!!!!!!

[AnAmericanMother]

She stared and stared and about turned inside out when it barked at her.

I think it's the WEIRD stuff that gets to them. My girl went nuts over the little model train around the tree at Christmas - it plays "Jingle Bells" and the Santa in the cab waves and the little elves look like they're running the handcar - she barked at it hysterically, and she NEVER gets upset at much of anything.

[Willie Green]

Shucks, tweren't nothin'.
Simply typed "dachshund" in the search box
and was lucky to have it pop up first thing on the list.

But it is kind of weird how eagles seem to be targeting weiner dogs now.
It looks as though it has become a global trend.
Maybe it has something to do with El Niño...
I wish Art Bell hadn't retired, he'd know for sure!

[RoughDobermann]

Hehhehee! Thanks just the same.

[null and void]

I was sweaty from the hike, and I suppose I smelled unappetizing

A high school chum's mother maintained that the only way the human race survived was that we smell bad and taste worse...

[CdMGuy]

Well, I live in coastal So Cal, and I see several hawks on light poles every morning when driving to work. They sit on poles next to an open field just waiting to see a mouse or whatever. As for coyotes, we get them on a regular basis. They have reduced our rabbit population to near zero, and any cats that prowl around outside at night are candidates for becoming tasty morsels. The deal with both hawks and coyotes has been going on here for many years.

[RepoGirl]

The oversized bratwurst

LOL! The most apt description of a dachshund I've ever heard!

Those wacky swedes--they make great cars, but they sure have some funny ideas about hunting dogs. I'd like to see an eagle try to make off with the Catahoula Leopard dog that lives on my street. Now that's a hunting dog--sweetheart, too.

[XLurk]

It's interesting that some Labs are very smart, and some are the exact opposite. Some friends of mine had a black Lab (that sadly passed on last year) that was the sweetest, friendliest dog you ever saw - but dumb as a rock. Great watchdog because she would bark ferociously at anyone she didn't know.

Every spring she would chase and eat every flying insect within range - until the first bee, wasp or hornet, and her snout would swell up like a grapefruit. Thereafter she would spend the rest of the summer RUNNING AWAY from every decent sized flying insect. Every single year.

[AnAmericanMother]

It does seem that Labs are either very smart or dumb as a bag of hammers. No middle ground. I've known both kinds.

I think I'd rather have a smart one. They can get kind of full of themselves, but at least you have something there to work with.

[gnarledmaw]

"...would poke her pointy snoot right down ..."

I had a dog that loved to crack the late winter ice and jab her nose into the tunnels and nests of various rodents for a quick snack...it wasnt quite the surgical operation you describe...due to size and shape it often took numerous nose to the frozen ground, skull thumping tries for my St. Bernard...

[sheik yerbouty]

That must be its "war face"!

[LibKill]

I understand dachshunds can be pretty fierce, I have owned a few. What I can't understand is why someone would be hunting rabbits with one.

Dachshunds are fierce but not very fast with those short legs.

[Servant of the Nine]

My children's 7 pound weiner(THOR)has killed a 10 and a 12 pound opossum and two rabbits all in my back yard. Damn dog thinks he's a doberman.

The jaws and teeth of a full sized dashund are as large and as powerful as a German Shepherds.

So9

[kaylar]

Not even a chihuahua deserves that!

[duckbutt]

Dog - pinging you to this thread -- I was thinking of poor little Sadie as I read it......