[AKA: there are no wild hogs on my property]
:)
Posted on 07/17/2011 8:00:03 PM PDT by george76
I don't get this letting wildlife run rampant.
[AKA: there are no wild hogs on my property]
:)
Unlike illegal aliens or Muslims, hogs can be eaten. If people are too p**** to eat edible invaders, they deserve what nature deals out.
What breed of dog are they?.
Do you mean e coli on their bodies or in their meat?
Every state and county park and forest I travelled through in the east coast of the Central Florida region was completely rutted out by hogs.
Everything, everywhere, all of it except the most barren sand wastelands.
The threats are definitely different but mosquitoes can kill all of the above. Mosquities also kill cattle and horses. The reason people don't sit out on lawn chairs in their back yards during summer months is not because of feral hogs.
There has been so much recent development in Florida and so many urbanites now living in outlying neighnorhoods who have never before seen a wild animal outside of a zoo that when they see a alligator, bobcat or feral hog, they feel they must call 911.
The Portuguese ‘variety’ of Ibizan Hounds, called Portuguese Podengo Grandes.
[they’re both the same root stock brought by the Phoenicians to the Med coast and islands from Egypt]
They look like a cross between a collie and a grey hound.
Good looking group of animals you got there.
We agree on the urban organism’s anxiety when confronted with a potentially dangerous predator. The issue is why is the predator dangerous.
For much of America’s history, large bodied predators were not a danger to humans. This desirable situation was explained by Milton Skinner. He was the first Naturalist of Yellowstone National Park, a scientist so well thought of that Teddy Roosevelt appointed him.
According to Skinner, in his book The Yellowstone Nature Book, page 109, “they learned to their great regret that nearly every man and boy carried a rifle.”
With the passage of the Great Un-Natural Acts (Wilderness Act, Endangered Species Act, ad nauseam), the Constitutional Guarantee of self protection was removed and beasts could kill man as they wished.
Where predators learn that man is the pinnacle predator, attacks are exceeding rare. Allow Liberals, enviro-socialists, just plain old commies, to remove our 2nd Amendment rights and beasts become beastly.
The dogs you see carved on Egyptian tombs and whatnot are them.
The Ibizan Hound breed is at least 5000 years old and remains virtually unchanged.
Studies and tests hypothesize that they descended from the Egyptian Red Wolf.
The sea-faring Phoenicians took them from Egypt and pretty much spread them in every port they visited, mostly in the Maltese/Ibizan/Mallorcan areas. [and Portugal]
They're exceptional hunters with their prey ranging from shipboard rats and mice to birds, rabbits, hoofed mammals such as antelope and obviously, wild boar.
Those are not my actual dogs.
That photo was taken in Portugal.
Mine have to content themselves with terrorizing squirrels, rabbits and field mice....:)
Here is one of mine:
And here is my pack [two of which have passed on]
And, for good measure, here's Gypsy, a Portuguese Podengo Medio, the medium-sized version used mostly for rabbit hunting.
Don't let her small size fool ya..she's blood-thirsty and relentless...like a little Velociraptor....:))
That goes for deer, coons, foxes and skunks, too.
Down in the suburbs of DC/Balto, the incidence of Lyme disease and rabies is *far* higher than out here in the hillbilly half of MD.
The only reason for that is the above-mentioned animals know they can go wherever they want without fear of being shot.
Out here, not so much.
I see all of them at some point, all the time...and when they see me, they respectfully run like hell.
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