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[Puddin Fluff]

No wolves here, but we are having a rough year up here for coyotes. I can hear them nearby but haven't spotted any, yet. Many have lost poultry. Mostly I have issues with smaller predators - hawks, weasels, rats and skunks. Oh, skunks. They are my lot in life.

I did get my trapping license earlier this year. I may be helping a friend out with a night predator in her coop's run. She keeps seeing prints in the snow, so far it hasn't figured a way in to the coop. She's setting up the game cam tonight so we know for sure what we're dealing with and when it comes.

We are not supposed to have wolves, so I think it is a mix - dog/wolf but it looks like a wolf. I saw it. And it is roaming alone. We have all of the other criters as well. Don't forget opossoms and racoons.

 

[Alaskan]

We don't get them that often here but they tend to get tangled in something (like a run) and push past it causing damage. I have never seen a bear, but a coworker had one in her yard a number of years ago. It ran off with her american flag (she had pictures).

WOW!

that is a hoot!!!

I am not sure how the moose would get tangled... unless it is a cattle kind of fence.... one with a few horizontal wires... they sometimes push through those and pull the entire things down.

Unless they get tangled in some low 'cutesy' fence that they don't see? Like something decorative?

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Haven't had a coon here yet (knock on wood) and I think we got the lone opossum 2 weeks ago. No carcass but I think we hit it... and it hasn't been back.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

WOW!

that is a hoot!!!

I am not sure how the moose would get tangled... unless it is a cattle kind of fence.... one with a few horizontal wires... they sometimes push through those and pull the entire things down.

Unless they get tangled in some low 'cutesy' fence that they don't see? Like something decorative?

Yeah it's the "low" fences like garden fences that they tend to get tangled in and push through. We've had them occasionally in downtown which is fun to see and read about. Maybe we just get the really stupid ones this far south.

 

[Puddin Fluff]

Yeah, we have a couple of youngsters that like to fly out of our open run. Otherwise, I don't worry about them too much. I am considering ways to net the top but that takes time and money. Neither of which I have available at the moment, so hopefully my hubby gets a good shot.

 

[perchie.girl]

Yeah, we have a couple of youngsters that like to fly out of our open run. Otherwise, I don't worry about them too much. I am considering ways to net the top but that takes time and money. Neither of which I have available at the moment, so hopefully my hubby gets a good shot.

did it look like this?


My neighbor took this a couple of years ago. They are repopulating the Mexican desert wolf so I spoke to one of the Wild life management people for the project. He said they were too far away and that his looked like a Wolf dog hybrid. Later on we found out some new people had move up on the mountain and they had a Wolf dog.... idiots... Probably city people thinking they can now let their dog run.... People here will shoot first ask questions later...

deb

 

[Puddin Fluff]

did it look like this?


My neighbor took this a couple of years ago. They are repopulating the Mexican desert wolf so I spoke to one of the Wild life management people for the project. He said they were too far away and that his looked like a Wolf dog hybrid. Later on we found out some new people had move up on the mountain and they had a Wolf dog.... idiots... Probably city people thinking they can now let their dog run.... People here will shoot first ask questions later...

deb

Not quite. Close. This one was fluffier, not as long legged. According to Ark. Fish andWildlife there are no Wolves in the state, only possible hybrids.

 

[perchie.girl]

Hey Puddin.... welcome to the Old folks... I read the thread on my email through out the day and only pop in when I have something to say...

deb

 

[Bunnylady]

Hey, there, Puddin!

Don't it just stand to reason that TOFH would be full of coffee drinkers? How else would old folks get their days going? They don't put glow plugs on pacemakers, ya know . . . .


Well, I think my chickens have learned to speak rabbit, and have been inducted as honorary members of the rabbitry. Certainly, they have put a new spin on "how can we drive her crazy today?" I have a pen with several young hens in it; birds that developed the annoying habit of egg eating within weeks of starting to lay. I replaced their nest with a roll-away nest, hoping that would put an end to it. I got a couple of eggs out of the box, then the hens decided they preferred laying their eggs on the floor to laying in the nest. I kept checking the box; nothing. Finally, I quit checking the box, and just looked on the floor several times per day. Today, out of the blue I checked the box - it was chock full of eggs!

 

[drumstick diva]

Welcome Puddin' you don't really have to be old or drink coffee to belong here. I'm plenty old but, don't like coffee or tea. But lots of real nice people on here and they put up with me anyway.