Posted on 12/21/2011 4:57:03 PM PST by girlangler
So true. We are lousy with deer and coyotes here in GA.
When making silly statements like this you have to be prepared to back them up or are you a hit and run poster?
Its bullsh!t. They are around. They also kill stuff. I will sss.
Sorry about your dog disappearing. It might be soothing bigger than a bobcat taking pets, like maybe coyotes.
Sorry about your dog disappearing. It might be soothing bigger than a bobcat taking pets, like maybe coyotes.
The reintroduction of the Mexican gray wolf into SE Arizona and SW New Mexico has been nothing but an abject failure -- both for the residents of that beautiful part of the country and for the wolf. When a species is extirpated from an area, there is usually a good reason for it. In this case, the reason is simple: the wild wolf and domesticated mankind cannot coexist. When these two populations of apex predators find occasion to meet, almost always one or the other will be killed.
The liberal wildlife groups should know that. Not surprisingly, the Mexican gray wolf reintroduction program is sheer folly.
And on an entirely different note, I'm glad you liked by recent bird survey list. Aren't those huge numbers of waterfowl amazing?
I'm sure Bosque del Apache is similar. It's on my short list of places to visit.
Just got back from 4 days of bird surveys at Moapa (Nevada). If you like phainopeplas, crissal thrashers, and Abert's towhees, you'd love the place! Lol!
Merry Christmas!
Ha ha ha!
Good one, Jaz!
Merry Christmas to you and yours.
May that Great Horned Owl keep your yard rodent-free!
Merry Christmas back at ya, George!
Merry Christmas
How many people have been killed by wolves in the past ten years, twenty years? Compared to pit bulls, or other “dogs”?
Wolves are no more dangerous than dogs because they are both biologically the same animal.
“A pack of wolves in the wild is nothing like
a stray dog on the street.”
I’d say a pack of stray dogs on the street would be as dangerous as a pack of wolves in the wild. Look at all the people that die each year from dog attacks versus wolf attacks.
“Wolves are dogs and dogs are wolves. There are probably more wolves living in people’s homes these days than ever lived in the wild.
When making silly statements like this you have to be prepared to back them up or are you a hit and run poster?”
Where did you think dogs came from? Did you think that God created them separate from the wolf? They are nothing but domesticated wolves.
“The domestic dog is an extremely close relative of the gray wolf, differing from it by at most 0.2% of mtDNA sequence....
In comparison, the gray wolf differs from its closest wild relative, the coyote, by about 4% of mitochondrial DNA sequence.”
Robert K. Wayne, Ph.D.
“Molecular evolution of the dog family”
Theoretical and Applied Genetics
“Not sure of your point, are you trying to insult me?”
Never, my friend.
“Dogs may be related to wolves, but as tragedies have shown, wolves are not domesticated as dogs are.”
I think there have been a good deal more tragedies with regard to dog attacks than with wolf attacks.
“I look forward to collecting my own hides for a Wolf-Skin coat once hunting opens up in the lower 48.”
Good man, and kill some dogs while you’re at it. Maybe a few Chihuahuas, help thin out this dangerous species.
“The domestic dog is an extremely close relative of the gray wolf, differing from it by at most 0.2% of mtDNA sequence....
I know dogs are descendants of wolves and you just admitted that dogs are not wolves and wolves are not dogs but they're close.
“at most 0.2% of mtDNA sequence” which means some breeds are less, probably some are much less. I’ll bet there are people out there who are as different from one another as some breeds of dogs are from wolves.
I’ll stand by my statement that dogs are wolves and wolves are dogs.
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