new dogs and cat

[pigman]

Two stray dogs came up close to our house today. We have been without a good stray dog for several years. I knew that if we waited long enough a stray would come by and we would have a good farm dog. I sure didn't expect to get two at one time. 8) They seem a little shy, but I think if I feed them they will calm down and make good pets. They look a little thin, but some good dog food should put some weight on them.

[Mooseherder]

Call them BanG and BooM. :D

[Gary_C]

Some baby pigs should fatten them up a little bit.  :D :D

[Texas Ranger]

Do they sing to ya Bob?

[Norm]

They bloat up real good on a diet of lead.  ;D

[doctorb]

If you had shot the strays with something else, you could have had a 2 for 1 deal.  Looks like an electric fence didn't keep them out.

[ely]

i was thinking thru the shoulder on one and out the guts on the backside. any yote with a hole in it is a good yote.

[doctorb]

Is it just my lack of experience, or do you think that these guys are pretty young?  They appear that way to me from the pic, but I could easily be mistaken.

[pigman]

They looked to be full size, but I didn't check their teeth. ;)

[Yoopersaw]

They are kind of cute.  A good cottontail distressed call will probably have them eating out of your hand in no time.

[isawlogs]

I think you should leave those strays alone and start cutting some hay.

[pigman]

Marcel, I will when it quits raining.

[Dan_Shade]

I shot a fox once about 20 yards away with a .300 Win Mag, there wasn't much left of it.

I think a fine cartridge like a .300 win mag would do the two of those critters justice.

Of course, I'm sure Mrs. pigman would love a new coat, so I think Mr. pigman should catch them by hand and drown them as to not damage the furs....

[WDH]

When you take them to the vet to get their shots, get them some nice collars.

[Onthesauk]

And we had a new kitty.

Bobcat hung around yesterday morning for half an hour.  Grassy knoll 100 plus feet up the hill from the house on the edge of the woods.  Fresh mowed grass, warm and sunny, just sat around, rolled around in the grass, just made himself at home.  Could be the young one we had hanging around last summer.

[D Hagens]

Why would one want to kill such a beautiful animal ???  Is there a real reason that you need to get off by blasting a shot at something that never did anything to you
Instead of shooting the guy with a gun why not shoot as in take a pic of him with a cam

BTW this isn't hubby talking this is his wife Darla. 

[WDH]

Darla,

Every creature has its place in the world.  Some are beneficial to humans and some are not.  The problem we have here with the coyotes is that the population has exploded.  They can decimate wildlife desirable to humans like deer, turkey, quail, and ground nesting songbirds.  As they decimate these species, the coyotes own numbers fluctuate rising and falling with the prey animals.  That is nature's way.  Humans like deer, turkey, and quail, and as a result, we compete with the coyotes.  That is why many people want to shoot them, right or wrong.   

[Norm]

As long as they keep their distance from my house they are safe, come to close and they get shot. You may think they are beautiful but may change your mind when you see your pet dog or cat in their mouth. They are also very hard on new calves and lambs.

I only shot things for two reasons, food or protecting my family and farm.

[isawlogs]

 Darla my issue with them here is that we have/had free range chickens, well they think its free meals on legs. Ya can't raise free range chickens in a pen, between the foxes and the coyotes the raising gets thined out fast and becomes costly.

[thecfarm]

Same here Norm. We have them here,just don't see them much. The few times my wife and I have seen them,even if we had a gun or camera,no time to take a shot. They took right off as soon as they see us. I have more trouble with foxes,coons and skunks. isawlogs is right about the free range.

[WDH]

The train track is about 3 miles from me as the crow flies.  At night, when the train comes through and blows the whistle approaching a country road crossing, the whistle sets them off into a cacophony of howling.  That is one way to tell how many there are in proximity.  It is way more than you would think.

[SwampDonkey]

I discovered a coyote den on my woodlot. It wasn't occupied recently that I could tell. Should maybe take a picture when I resume thinning again. One thing about thinning, you find all the wildlife dens.  ;D :D


Found a porky den yesterday in a hemlock root ball. He has all the cherry stripped around it. ;)

[isawlogs]

Last year one of my labs found a porky  :   300$ later we got the dog back from the vet. Yesterday on my way in I saw a porky on the road, zipped on by him and got my gun, I will not be paying no vet bill for this porky's advenbtures near my lab or vise versa.

[WildDog]

300$ later we got the dog back from the vet.

Isawlogs no doubt a silly question, what do the porcupines do to dogs, have their spines got venom? our echidnas have plenty of spines but they don't cause any harm, Wilddogs/Dingoes roll them into water so they unroll and then theyy can get to their soft unprotected bellies.

[Ianab]

I think porcupines tend to shed spines, that get stuck into whatever is attacking them. Then they get infected, and you have to spend $$ for the vet to clean up the mess - putting dog to sleep, removing spines, dosing it up with anti-biotics etc

I've only seen both critters in a zoo, but the Echidna seems a lot less dangerous, spiny for sure, but not the long quills like a porcupine.

Ian