The first picture is something I never want to see IRL ever. So I post the second picture to get that first one out of my head!
Posted on 08/20/2013 6:12:17 PM PDT by Rebelbase
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho -- A southeastern Idaho ranch lost 176 sheep as the animals ran in fear from two wolves that chased through a herd of about 2,400 animals south of Victor....
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I just went to a wolf meeting yesterday. That would only be one incident according to the environazis not 176 and you wouldn’t be allowed to kill them.
On another front they are “repatriating” the Mexican Gray Wolf on the US’s dime in Mexico. They cost 800K each to breed in captivity and they are releasing them just south of the border I’m sure so they will come north and this area will also be their territory. Thankfully, all 6 that they’ve released in Mexico have been killed.
I’m not unhappy that the wolves are dead but that is 4.8 million tax dollars wasted.
We took our kids to the zoo. They had a window where you could look at wolves up close.
The wolves seemed to enjoy it. They always stared at the youngest child and probably imagined what fun it would be if that glass wasn't there.
We jest but the top winning Dobe in the country right now is named Fifi, aka “The Fifinator”.
Google her.
She’s incredible.
Mine are named Odin and Seven.
[dear Valhalla, RIP]
“They cost 800K each to breed in captivity”
WTF?!?
1080 is cheaper and more effective.
Even anti-freeze will work.
The first picture is something I never want to see IRL ever. So I post the second picture to get that first one out of my head!
Thanks, but I live on the Olympic Peninsula in the state of Washington. I am thinking of raising the Boer goats.
We’ve had a few shetland sheepdogs (25-35 pounds, not the scariest dogs in the world) who loved to play goal keeper, too. Even up close, it was tough to get a ball past them.
One of them liked me to kick an inflated 6” hollow rubber ball at him as hard as I could kick it. He would jump or dive to block it. Even when it hit him on the nose, he would sneeze, shake his head, and come back for more.
That one also loved to “rebound” basketballs. When the falling ball came near the ground he would slam it into the ground. He jammed his foot doing it one time so we didn’t let him play anymore. He was not happy and wanted to play even though he was limping.
The little suckers can have a lot of heart.
1)Sheep can faint, especially in mass, which would explain the pile up. 2)The goat I rescued has no visible bite marks on its throat. But I had to sit with it for 5 minutes until it was able to wobble off.
It would probably be cheaper to randomly buy live chickens and distribute them around the property once a week or so to keep what wants your goats occupied with catching the chickens.
It would not bother me in the slightest to hunt a wolf for sport, and to get the beautiful fur and have it tanned. Maybe even make a fur coat. It would not go to waste, and as a renewable resource I would be doing a service by keeping the population in a sustainable balance. I would not get all weepy and emotional about it, as I am doing the wolf population a good deed by culling the excess population.
I get all weepy when I think of all the moose and elk calves being slaughtered by wolves.
So there...
Yep, they do, endless heart. My heart is very finite, so I have been getting worn out here lately, but the activity is good for us both.
When I kick her softball, I have heard it hit her front leg fairly hard I suppose. I ‘m not kicking it full force because it’s a softball and it hurts the foot to kick it really hard. But I imagine she must feel it when she blocks it, yet she never tires of this game.
Playing with her makes me feel like a kid again.
Yes and the Forest Service now views itself, right down to the chickenshit rookies, as an up and coming law enforcement/military squad.
Obviously they’re not all that way, especially some of the good old hands from the good old days, but there are some real hotheads/swat-team types as well.
As in so many other areas of government they no longer serve the public except as wardens, that is by telling us what is best for us and making sure we toe the line.
I have a friend who raised sheep for FFA. She said they are very dumb and if afraid will crowd a fence until a bunch of them die of asphyxiation.
The first pic is *awesome*....LOL
I think I’m gonna do that in watercolor and see if it sells.
:D
Mine played soccer with beach balls - she would bounce them off her nose like a seal and herd them with her feet - and she was really fast and smart. I finally learned how to fake her out sometimes, but it was hard to do. And she would play it ‘til she was ready to drop.
Sometimes she would catch a tooth on the ball and pop it. She’d look at the popped ball and then look at me with sad reproach in her eyes. :-)
I bet I know his bloodlines...:)
Odin sounds like thunder.
[maybe shoulda named him Thor?]
When Seven ‘discovered’ her bark, we were stunned.
Never would have imagined a noise like that out of our little girl pup.
I’m really looking forward to her as a grown up.
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