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Wildlifes
Well, we had wun rite in ower nayborhood yesturday!!! Thu police or da wildlife offishuls tried tu catch it an then shotted it. Meomie lukked atta photo uv it inna innernet an sed 'Thatz thu ise creem place!' It wuz inna parkinlot uv a playce wat sells ise kreem bout 5-10 minutes walk frum usses!!! Meomie sez I gotta stop tryin tu git Out now that thu snow iz gone or I will be eeten! Dose coyotes is scary fur a kitty! We had dem in Southern Catifurnia, and in Iowa. Harri MRRRRRT!!! on dem coyotes!!!! Yew bedur AWL stai IN nao. yeUP!!! srsly. Weh hurd frum uh cuple uf owr nayburz dat der wuz uh Cougar heer in da mobile hoam park wer weh lif. Our naybor hurd uh skreem n et got uh kitty hoo wuz in da out, but t exsaped n sew did da Cougar. Weh is awl gunna stai IN!!! Mosey, PookyKat, Sqweex n Pipps |
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On May 2, 12:16*pm, Cheryl wrote:
Az yu nose, we lives inna middul uv a city. A small city, Meomie sez, altho it luks big enuff tu me, butted a city. We gits cats, d*gs, seegulls, pijins, mices, rats, an thatz bout it. Sumtymes a moose inna parks, wat causes eggsitement. Now weze gotten these fings called coyotes!!! They iznt sposed tu be on ower intire island, butted they swum ovur or climbed onna ice or sumfing onna west coste an haz been movin eeast tuwards usses. We NEFFUR had coyotes, an thu noos repurts say they iz biggur anna more aggresive then westurn coyotes cuz they mixed wif wolves onna way across thu continent frum theyr propur home out wiffa cowboys anna buffalos. Well, we had wun rite in ower nayborhood yesturday!!! Thu police or da wildlife offishuls tried tu catch it an then shotted it. Meomie lukked atta photo uv it inna innernet an sed 'Thatz thu ise creem place!' It wuz inna parkinlot uv a playce wat sells ise kreem bout 5-10 minutes walk frum usses!!! Meomie sez I gotta stop tryin tu git Out now that thu snow iz gone or I will be eeten! -- Sam OOOhhhheee! Da biggest fing we gets heer is a fox! N da bigfatcat negstdoor bopped da wittle fox n he wan away. Dat showed him.....but coyootes? Yu stay inna IN! Harry Gordon |
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Wildlifes
diz iz why da hoominz gifez uses winnerz, we kan sniff da owt wifowt da
dangerz, OEJ "Cheryl" wrote in message ... On 2012-05-02 12:33 PM, Storrmmee wrote: dat iz beree skaree stay IN urown IN, OEJ Yah, but the Out smells soso inturestin this tima yeer! -- Sam |
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Wildlifes
On May 2, 2:17*pm, Cheryl wrote:
On 2012-05-02 1:32 PM, Will in New Haven wrote: Wen da coyote alert is soundeded, onwee da mos' 'speriunsd kittees is adbised to go to da OUT, effen wiff hoomin snupervisun, *and den onlee wen dere ar wots ob trees aroun to scape two if a coyote appeers. If you hab dog frenz adbise dem too stay in awlso excep wen woking a hoomin and surtan bigfastfeers doggies, wike mine Airdale Terrorist Hether, hoo ar suppost do discoruj da coyotes. -- Wascal, Secratery ob da Xterior Ize notted sure if addin a Airdale Terrorist tu thu household wud akshually be an impurovement ovur thu coyotes, wich at leest stays inna Out. I iz notted rilly a fan uv d*gs. They chases me. Mine Ant Saras big doggy Sashi killeded a coyote out in Catifornia wen it cam in da yard. Butted yoo wood be rite to be scared ob Sashi. I wivd in a hous wiff her down in Saraland wiff myne Mommie an da hoomins had to keep usses apart or I wood hav had to beet her upp. WooToo Hoomin note: Sara lived in San Diego and there were a lot of pets killed by coyotes. One day she looked out the window and three coyotes were coming into the yard. She yelled to her husband to get the dogs in and then watched in horror as Sashi shook one coyote like a rat and left it dead and drove the other two off. -- Will in New Haven |
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Wildlifes
Hoomin note: Sara lived in San Diego and there were a lot of pets killed
by coyotes. One day she looked out the window and three coyotes were coming into the yard. She yelled to her husband to get the dogs in and then watched in horror as Sashi shook one coyote like a rat and left it dead and drove the other two off. I try to be understanding of all wildlife's place in the ecology, and I do understand about wild creatures being forced into urban areas by loss of habitat, but even so I have little love for coyotes. They do far too much damage to small animals (including domestic cats) and too few natural enemies. Dan |
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On 2012-05-02 6:33 PM, Dan M wrote:
Hoomin note: Sara lived in San Diego and there were a lot of pets killed by coyotes. One day she looked out the window and three coyotes were coming into the yard. She yelled to her husband to get the dogs in and then watched in horror as Sashi shook one coyote like a rat and left it dead and drove the other two off. I try to be understanding of all wildlife's place in the ecology, and I do understand about wild creatures being forced into urban areas by loss of habitat, but even so I have little love for coyotes. They do far too much damage to small animals (including domestic cats) and too few natural enemies. Dan As far as I can make out, the coyotes aren't being forced anywhere; they're perfectly happy to move into new environments like cities, and are extremely adaptable and so do well!! None of the new eastern habitats - wild or urban - are coyote territory, but as they moved east, they found lots and lots of places with no top predator and plenty of dinner on the hoof or paw. They wouldn't have found it so easy moving in here if we still had wolves (although some people say the two species can interbreed). As it is, the only other big predators on the island are bears, which don't target quite the same food sources, and lynx, which are not so numerous and very shy of humans, so there are lots of places lynx won't live. Places with moose, caribou (and most especially their young), hares, small rodents - and cats and dogs. These coyotes killed a hiker in Cape Breton a couple of years ago. People remember that even when the local expert says that cities all over the continent live peacefully with coyotes. -- Cheryl |
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On May 2, 5:15*pm, Cheryl wrote:
On 2012-05-02 6:33 PM, Dan M wrote: Hoomin note: Sara lived in San Diego and there were a lot of pets killed by coyotes. One day she looked out the window and three coyotes were coming into the yard. She yelled to her husband to get the dogs in and then watched in horror as Sashi shook one coyote like a rat and left it dead and drove the other two off. I try to be understanding of all wildlife's place in the ecology, and I do understand about wild creatures being forced into urban areas by loss of habitat, but even so I have little love for coyotes. They do far too much damage to small animals (including domestic cats) and too few natural enemies. Dan As far as I can make out, the coyotes aren't being forced anywhere; they're perfectly happy to move into new environments like cities, and are extremely adaptable and so do well!! None of the new eastern habitats - wild or urban - are coyote territory, but as they moved east, they found lots and lots of places with no top predator and plenty of dinner on the hoof or paw. They wouldn't have found it so easy moving in here if we still had wolves (although some people say the two species can interbreed). As it is, the only other big predators on the island are bears, which don't target quite the same food sources, and lynx, which are not so numerous and very shy of humans, so there are lots of places lynx won't live. Places with moose, caribou (and most especially their young), hares, small rodents - and cats and dogs. These coyotes killed a hiker in Cape Breton a couple of years ago. People remember that even when the local expert says that cities all over the continent live peacefully with coyotes. Oh, they _can_ interbreed with wolves and there is plenty of genomic evidence that they have in the past. However, wolves are very good at thinning out coyote populations and preventing coyote migration into their territory. The reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone and nearby areas was a tragedy for coyotes. They have to lay very low because wolves will run them down relentlessly and kill them. On other occasions, the same wolves will ignore coyotes but coyotes can't count on it. Sashi would not have had much luck with wolves. -- Will in New Haven |
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On 2012-05-02 9:39 PM, Will in New Haven wrote:
Oh, they _can_ interbreed with wolves and there is plenty of genomic evidence that they have in the past. However, wolves are very good at thinning out coyote populations and preventing coyote migration into their territory. The reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone and nearby areas was a tragedy for coyotes. They have to lay very low because wolves will run them down relentlessly and kill them. On other occasions, the same wolves will ignore coyotes but coyotes can't count on it. Sashi would not have had much luck with wolves. We shouldn't have killed off the Newfoundland wolf in the 19th century, but it's too late to undo that. Of course, there are lots of wolves in Labrador....for some reason, they don't seem to float down on the ice and come ashore on the island portion of the province, as the newsreaders call our bit. Polar bears do, quite regularly. So do Arctic foxes, less often, but they sometimes have rabies and as a result been killed if they come ashore because they ruined our rabies-free status and pose a risk to our local red foxes, not to mention pets, in the northern areas where they were spotted. But not the wolves; they stay back in Labrador. Some sheep farmers tried various solutions (guard animals etc), but others have gotten out of raising sheep altogether because of those coyotes. Apparently, they're very fond of lamb, along with cat, dog, etc. -- Cheryl |
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On 2012-05-02 5:53 PM, rafflescat wrote:
OOOhhhheee! Da biggest fing we gets heer is a fox! N da bigfatcat negstdoor bopped da wittle fox n he wan away. Dat showed him.....but coyootes? Yu stay inna IN! Harry Gordon Weze gotten foxes tu, butted they duznt jenerally come rite intu thu city. Furry neer thu city inna wooded areaz, yeah. I haznt seen wun butted Meomie sez they iz thu red wuns, an thu wite ones, wat brings da rabeez frum labrador, haz only effur bin spotted hundreds anna hundreds uv km away frum usses. She says same fing about stayin IN, butted at this tyme uv yeer spayshully, I likes tu try tu git Out an eggsplore. I succeeded twice resently, bekus Meomie wus busier then usyoual movin fings round (long story) an I cud git past hur feets wile she wuz holding fings an trying to git In an close thu door, alla same tyme. -- Sam |
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