01-05-2010, 12:07 AM
I am back, just walked in and saw a post got wacked just as I clicked on it... lol
It must have been a good one if it got wacked before I got to it. [laugh]
I agree with ya, why move in to the wild if ya dont like the wild?
back to my story, I let off a couple rounds of bird shot in to the air, back then we used bird shot to kill off starlings near the corn feilds so the gun was always loaded and sittin right beside the door.
I had to do that about three days before the deer learnt to keep his distance from the dog. Still that deer came by every day at the same time for a couple more weeks but at a distance. The last 3 times he came out he had a doe and a fawn with him.
my little brother has a pitbull, and when it come to going out side, some times he bolts out the door, and other times when he wants to go out he will sit there and wimper even after you open the door. That pitbull knows when the cyotes are outside and when they are he will sit at the front door and water the carpet if you dont put a leash on him and walk him out and back.
the other one that gets me is the people who think their dog only barks when he wants to come in to the house. Dogs bark for all sorts of reasons wich is to my point, When the dog barks you look to see what is the matter.
My point is you wouldnt leave a 5 year old girl to play unattended in the streats of the city of detroit and expect nothing to happen. Then why would that same person feel it was safe to tie up a pet out side in the wilderness and expect nothing to happen?
back in the olden daze, farmers used to tie up live sheep in the middle of a feild and shoot off wolves and cyotes as they came in. that system worked so well it virtualy wiped out wolves and cyotes pumas and mountain lions.. No better bait than a live animal tied up in the wilderness.
There is a cyote that lives right across the street from me half mile down the road. I see him about 3 times a year, I even found his den. Most of them have never seen the cyote and dont beleive me when I tell them he is there. They laugh at me when I tell them to keep thier cats well fed and in the house. There are lots of things out there that like to eat cats and poodles, not just cyotes, but owls and hawks have been known to fly off with a kittypoo here and there.
These same people dont beleive me when I tell them we have deer that walk through our neighborhood.
I aint moved 3 miles in 50 years. It used to be beutiful country side, fishing holes galore. I could not walk out the front door of my house with out jumping half dozen phesants. Now I cant walk out the front door of my house with out getting sneered at by at least half dozen city dwelers... lol [:p][laugh]
One thing I can say with cirtanty is; when it comes to the wilderness, city folk get dumber and dumber every day.
I still get a chuckle when I think about the guy down by canton who shot a rattle snake because it was chasing him and his boy down a fishing trail in the middle of august.. he never did get why he had to pay a 500 dollar fine... I thought he got off easy.. they could have taken away his handgun permit, charged him with unlawful discharge of a firearm ect..... when I was a kid there used to be a 5 dollar bounty on rattlers, now there is a 500 fine for rattlers. That is because the loss of habitat has placed rattlers on the threatoned list.
When I was a kid, we used to have to study nature in school, now the study computers, that in itself is well enuff, but the problem I am seeing is "every step forward we make in progress we step on and crush the things we need to survive in this world"
if they had more wolves and pumas out west, granted there would be fewer deer and mountain goats to hunt but there would also be more deer and goats to hunt because there would be a shortage of CWD infected deer and goats..
If wolves and pumas are not there to clean up the heards and kill off these sick animals the desease is allowed to spread in these deer heards, and it dose so like wild fire.
Can there be a ballance wild life and humans... Yes, humans need to understand and respect that this is the way life is in the wilderness and if they dont like the wilderness, then move to mars where there is no wilderness to bother them..
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It must have been a good one if it got wacked before I got to it. [laugh]
I agree with ya, why move in to the wild if ya dont like the wild?
back to my story, I let off a couple rounds of bird shot in to the air, back then we used bird shot to kill off starlings near the corn feilds so the gun was always loaded and sittin right beside the door.
I had to do that about three days before the deer learnt to keep his distance from the dog. Still that deer came by every day at the same time for a couple more weeks but at a distance. The last 3 times he came out he had a doe and a fawn with him.
my little brother has a pitbull, and when it come to going out side, some times he bolts out the door, and other times when he wants to go out he will sit there and wimper even after you open the door. That pitbull knows when the cyotes are outside and when they are he will sit at the front door and water the carpet if you dont put a leash on him and walk him out and back.
the other one that gets me is the people who think their dog only barks when he wants to come in to the house. Dogs bark for all sorts of reasons wich is to my point, When the dog barks you look to see what is the matter.
My point is you wouldnt leave a 5 year old girl to play unattended in the streats of the city of detroit and expect nothing to happen. Then why would that same person feel it was safe to tie up a pet out side in the wilderness and expect nothing to happen?
back in the olden daze, farmers used to tie up live sheep in the middle of a feild and shoot off wolves and cyotes as they came in. that system worked so well it virtualy wiped out wolves and cyotes pumas and mountain lions.. No better bait than a live animal tied up in the wilderness.
There is a cyote that lives right across the street from me half mile down the road. I see him about 3 times a year, I even found his den. Most of them have never seen the cyote and dont beleive me when I tell them he is there. They laugh at me when I tell them to keep thier cats well fed and in the house. There are lots of things out there that like to eat cats and poodles, not just cyotes, but owls and hawks have been known to fly off with a kittypoo here and there.
These same people dont beleive me when I tell them we have deer that walk through our neighborhood.
I aint moved 3 miles in 50 years. It used to be beutiful country side, fishing holes galore. I could not walk out the front door of my house with out jumping half dozen phesants. Now I cant walk out the front door of my house with out getting sneered at by at least half dozen city dwelers... lol [:p][laugh]
One thing I can say with cirtanty is; when it comes to the wilderness, city folk get dumber and dumber every day.
I still get a chuckle when I think about the guy down by canton who shot a rattle snake because it was chasing him and his boy down a fishing trail in the middle of august.. he never did get why he had to pay a 500 dollar fine... I thought he got off easy.. they could have taken away his handgun permit, charged him with unlawful discharge of a firearm ect..... when I was a kid there used to be a 5 dollar bounty on rattlers, now there is a 500 fine for rattlers. That is because the loss of habitat has placed rattlers on the threatoned list.
When I was a kid, we used to have to study nature in school, now the study computers, that in itself is well enuff, but the problem I am seeing is "every step forward we make in progress we step on and crush the things we need to survive in this world"
if they had more wolves and pumas out west, granted there would be fewer deer and mountain goats to hunt but there would also be more deer and goats to hunt because there would be a shortage of CWD infected deer and goats..
If wolves and pumas are not there to clean up the heards and kill off these sick animals the desease is allowed to spread in these deer heards, and it dose so like wild fire.
Can there be a ballance wild life and humans... Yes, humans need to understand and respect that this is the way life is in the wilderness and if they dont like the wilderness, then move to mars where there is no wilderness to bother them..
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