"Gunner" wrote in message
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On 14 May 2006 17:52:46 -0700, wrote:
Laurie Forbes wrote:
My neighbours have a problem with a pair of coyotes frequently coming v
close to their house (on an acreage) and threatening their dog and cats
etc.
Was wondering if anyone could suggest some aversion therapy (other than
bullets or poison) to help deal with the problem.
TIA for any suggestions............
Laurie Forbes
Laurie,
You sspecifically asked for a solution that does not involve bullets,
or poison.. Here it is.
A friend of mine has a pet timberwolf. This is a big animal, and very
very friendly and playful around people. He is protective of anything
in the household. One day coyotes came around, and discovered the cats.
One cat came running acros the yard, with a coyote hot on his tail. The
cat ran straigt towards Teddy, and the coyote did not see him until too
late. One giant CHOMP! and the cat was out of danger.
The coyotes have not come back, ever. No bullets were involved, no
poisons were involved.
Granted the occasional visit in the middle of the night by a pack of
about a dozen timberwolfs, who come in to visit with Teddy. Teddy, is
very friendly, and never seems bothered by the wild wolf pack.
So one possible solution is to get a timberwolf.
HTH
Pete
My malamute Baron was very protective of the cats also. Had a pit bull
chase one up onto the porch where Baron and I were kicked back in the
shade. Baron was laying there on his belly, stretched out like a big
fur rug one moment..and the next there was a popping sound as the air
filled the vacuum with some long hairs floating in the breeze..and a
very large and noisy furball in the middle of the front yard. Baron
actually broke that pits neck right there in the front yard. He got
the tip of one ear a bit shredded, and that was about all. He walked
around that dying dog, looking about twice his normal 165 lbs..all
puffed up, turned his back on the pit..scratched the ground a couple
times, then he ****ed on that pit bull, and ambled back up on the
porch and checked out "his" cat.
Damn I miss that dog. He passed on at the age of 12 or 14, and is
buried in my side yard, near the female who was much older and passed
on a couple years before he did. He mourned for months.
He killed about 8 or 9 coyotes in much the same manner and for the
same reason. Funny as hell watching him sprawled out on the living
room floor with a litter of kittens crawling all over him. He would
mumble and grumble..but when they were out..he would lay down near em
like he would be inviting them to play. One of the momma cats would
come up to him, cry, and he would follow her back to the box kittens
were in, and he would lay down near the box so she could go off and
eat etc.
Amazing dogs..but you had to like hair..lots of hair..
Gunner
The aim of untold millions is to be free to do exactly as they choose
and for someone else to pay when things go wrong.
In the past few decades, a peculiar and distinctive psychology
has emerged in England. Gone are the civility, sturdy independence,
and admirable stoicism that carried the English through the war years
. It has been replaced by a constant whine of excuses, complaints,
and special pleading. The collapse of the British character has been
as swift and complete as the collapse of British power.
Theodore Dalrymple,
A friend of mine that lives way back in the Carolina pines where no on else
lives, has labs and cats. They have all grown up together. I couldn't
believe it one day when I was visiting him, there was his large male Lab
laying next to where we were talking, and here comes this cat that lays down
next to the labs head. The lab starts nibbling down the cats back (like
someone eating an ear of corn). as soon as he got to the end the cat would
roll over a little so he could get the next area. The cat keep rolling until
the lab had "itched" his entire back for him.
I have also seen the cats he has clean the dogs ears and face several times.
When my dogs visit his place with me they are totally confused because the
cats won't run from them, they just sit there, and the dogs don't know what
to do so they just ignore them. But they watch them just in case.
We used to have a unrecognized breed of sled dog from western Alaska, (named
TANK) that was very protective of my daughters cat (TIGER). They normally
wouldn't have anything to do with each other, but if another dog came around
and chased TIGER he would run to the back yard jump up on the dog house
waking TANK up, and let him solve the problem.