Wildlife, living next to nature

[captainhook455]

Originally Posted by Carruthers

It's a rural fragment in a congested city so people will take their dogs there for exercise.
Whether it's fair to keep a dog in a city is another matter but the least anyone can do when using the park is to keep the dog under control.

I have lived in several cities and just took my dog to a cemetery. It is usually fenced in. No one complains. Quiet. I told my relatives that I want to be cremated and mixed in with the cat food. I all ways wanted to see the inside of a cats gut.

tarheel

[xoxoxoBruce]

If you had $100,000 they might honor that request.

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by glatt

Keep your eye on the sinkhole. This is accelerated natural selection.

The birds don't have it hardwired into their DNA to watch for this threat. Yet.

Take that vegetarians.

That was mesmerizing to watch.

[Sundae]

I was baffled by the bird who attained safety on a ledge and then flew back again and was "eaten" by the sinkhole. It was like a nightclub for bried, "Oh well, if Bob's going in, it must be okay!"

Re Richmond Park. When Mum and Dad used to house-sit they had a number of customers in the area. The kind with indoor pools and security gates. They always asked if they could let the dogs off the lead in the Park. A surprising amount of owners believed their little darlings were well trained enough to ignore the distraction of a running deer. But it's a natural instinct; I wouldn't have trusted Diz with a spider, let alone a rodent. He'd probably even have tried for a smaller dog, and not just in a territorial way.

I can get remember giggling over my keyboard over a story Mum wrote me about combing an enormous expanse looking for a dog. Sadly I can't remember the details. They caught it eventually - I can only assume the thrill of the chase wore off and it was hungry. Suffice to say, they often used long leads in the Park from then on, but a lead they always used.

[Gravdigr]

[Undertoad]

more story, light on details cos there aren't many:

http://www.grindtv.com/random/fisher...ruHC1rTDDOb.97

[Gravdigr]

The canal is thirty (30) feet across:



It's better bigger.

Watch baby panther leap across a 30-foot canal in a single bound

A. That ain't no kitten.
2. It damn sure ain't no babby.
/. Upon further review, the canal doesn't really look like thirty feet, either.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Karma -Revenge of the Elk - Paybacks are a bitch

A hunter in OR killed an Elk then tried to drag it up a hill with his 4-wheeler.
But the vehicle tipped up and the hunter was impaled on the antlers.
Quick first aid by his buddies and a helicopter flight saved his life.

[xoxoxoBruce]

I wonder what they were using for bait?

[Gravdigr]

Jonahs.

[glatt]

I love telephoto compression. I fucking love it.

[Gravdigr]

Something ya gotta live with living around wildlife:



The 'living' part is more difficult when a moose is involved:

[Carruthers]

Although these accidents appear to have happened in daylight, the increased possibility of a collision with a large animal during the hours of darkness convinced me not to drive at night during my visits to the US.

I visited Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska and South Dakota and saw plenty of wildlife, most of it very much alive. I was happy to keep it that way!

[Gravdigr]

It's a shame you didn't come through Kentucky and run me over with a bull dozer. Could have saved me a lot of headaches.

[Carruthers]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

It's a shame you didn't come through Kentucky and run me over with a bulldozer. Could have saved me a lot of headaches.

I don't think that a bulldozer was on the upgrade list offered by Hertz, so I made do with a Chevy Cavalier.