I saw this while reading the news:

www.examiner.com/a-137..._park.html

Now they will want to license all the yotes too. Better sty out of hear our wolves have a lot bigger mouth. Ya and they been sending out warnings as the Grizzs are out looking for and easy meal too!

My response to "Maryland" comenting on the coyote attack:

"Maryland,

So I guess your answer is to stay in the city??..Oh Yeah, they tried that and the coyotes are there too. If you think we are encroaching on the coyote's territory, perhaps you should wrap a hemp rope around your neck and jump out of the last tree you saved...."

I don't expect it to be posted very long, as soon as it's reported it will be deleted...

Ain't the coyots fault. Well it is but that's not the point. Should've been watching the kid not doing whatever. If you know they are around than take care not to have issues.

As for the tree huggers move back to the city where it's "safe"

City?? Safe??? Now that's an oxymoron...

Just a different breed of coyotes in the city, tend to walk on two legs...

Hay people think that it's safe from "wild" animals. Truly I'd rather face a wolf or coyote than a dog that the owner says won't hurt anyone. At least I know what to expect from the first one.

Also notice the word's in quote marks.

City... country... doesn't matter, the wolf is ALWAYS at the door. Keep 'em loaded and close at hand...

Bushy, I agree. City--Safe! Beautiful farms and ranches are being cut up in 5 to 10 acre tracts all over this country and a plague is moving in. Wildlife is being shoved aside and pushed into less desirable areas. These transplanted urbanites should realize that they are moving into wild country. I consistently have wildlife in the yard, but hey, I live in the country.

Another sore spot.

Down the road from here, there was a small ranch that was cut up into about 4 blocks; each containing 25 to 90 acres and sold to people from San Antonio. The first thing they started doing was to call the county commissioner and wanting a highway built in front of their places. They bought on a dirt road, and now they want an improvement that the tax base can't support. If you want to live with all of the amenities of urban live, stay in the city. Everyone of them put up street lights up and down the road and lit the countryside up. The glow over the horizon ruins the view of the beautiful stars at night. One of these clowns (the one with 90 acres) decided that he wanted to be a rancher, which is fine, but you should study what you intend to do, at least a little. He still doesn't have a set of cattle pens that work, he still treats his cattle poorly, because the cost of feed is expensive. He called me one day, needing help to pull a calf (first calf heifer), because a vet was not available. I backed my truck up to the cow, put my OB chains around the calf's feet, hooked the other end to a fence stretcher hooked to my truck bumper, and proceeded to pull the calf. After I finished, with the cow and calf fine, he looked over at me and said "Damn you're cruel." Study the subject at hand people, before you start an endeavor. Life is different in the country. There are wild animals, dirt roads, smells of livestock, no city water and sewer, lots of spiders, snakes, wasps. No cable TV (although now days you can get satellite coverage). When you get up in the mornings you might not have water. You are responsible for your survival. All of us, that are native to rural life, know what to do, because we've lived it.

Cary

Wild life in your yard? And I thought those were animated yard decorations...Live and learn...

I was born and raised a county boy. On a dirt road and bare foot... The Navy put me in cities for a while. Now I'm back out where life is slower and the smells or more to my liking. Oh yeah...I have four seasons again...

Ahh, nothing quite like the smell of sun baked cow dung, commingled with rotting woodland vegetation on a hot (dog days) summer’s day. Kind of euphoric, don't you think. That will bring back memories of childhood every time.

I’m sure our urban friends would say, “Ahh, nothing quite like the smell of chlorinated swimming pool water on a hot summer day.”

Cary

Naaawww...My place smells like road apples on a hot humid summers day and wet road apples on a rainy day. That's when the "rotting woodland vegetation" really finds the nose ...

I notice that the most agressive odor in the city was everyone elses cooking intermingled...Aah yes...Nothing like the hodge-podge of various corinary delights mixed together....

I don't know, maybe the California-ites can get the condors to chase the coyotes away for them, the condors should owe them a favor for banning lead bullets.

Ahh, the smell of nukmam and stir-fried mud hen, commingled with the smell of gun powder, wafting down the narrow streets of Danang on a hot summer's day.

That brings back memories from when I was 19 and 20 years old.

Cary

Bushy,

I'll bet you even used a cow trough as a swimming pool when you were a kid.

One day my daughter (about 6 years old) was swimming in the cow trough, and after about 15 minutes, the cattle came up to drink. In a couple of minutes she started screaming. I ran down there as fast as I could, thinking one of the cows was getting her. When I got down there I found her plastered up aginst one side of the trough, screaming and pointing to the other side. I looked over and saw some green foam (from cow spit) floating toward her. The cows didn't bother her, but she didn't want any green cow spit on her. She didn't think that was as funny as I did.

Cary