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Offline Victor3

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Don Heath - Help!
« on: October 05, 2011, 12:08:00 AM »
 May need your services.  :)  This is only a couple miles from my Sister's house...
 
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/10/mountain-lions-sierra-madre.html
 
 She keeps a cutout of a mountain lion's head with LED lights for eyes in her front window to scare deer out of her yard (they eat her roses) at night. Now I'm wondering if that's really a good idea.  :-\
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Re: Don Heath - Help!
« Reply #1 on: October 05, 2011, 08:25:36 PM »
Look on the bright side- at least they are not leopards. We have a couple of instances every year where leopards break into houses to eat those anoying small yappie dogs that folk think are great burglar alarms...frequently they break in by simply diving through a (closed) window (since every window that opens around here has heavy burglar bars on it).
 
Actually I suspect your problem is more like the one in Northern Europe with the Wolves- They are not afraid of people, happy to take a dog off the porch while the owner screams and shouts...It takes a little bit of hunting preasure (not much- Sweden shot 29 wolves and solved the problem) to install a bit of healthy respect- And also they are of a size where a .357 or .40 /.45 Auto will sort them out if push really comes to shove. 
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Re: Don Heath - Help!
« Reply #2 on: October 06, 2011, 02:47:11 AM »
 Sis hasn't has a big kitty in her yard yet. Coyote and bear are common in the neighborhood though. Her previous dog was killed by a rattlesnake and current one bitten but survived.
 
 I always thought us city folk and our pets weren't supposed to get eaten by wild aminals.  :o
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Re: Don Heath - Help!
« Reply #3 on: October 06, 2011, 03:08:32 AM »
Man I hope that some of the grizzlies or wolves that the tree huggers thought we need in Wyoming make it to L.A. or Denver.
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« Reply #4 on: October 06, 2011, 03:18:15 AM »
There are copperhead snakes around where I live ( woman up the road was getting mail and walking back down her paved drive reading the mail was bitten on the foot and lost a toe ). There have been several bear killed on my road or near two over 300 lbs. There are yotes and big cats. One thing is be aware of whats near. Two don't be a target and three SSS ( shoot , shovel and shut up ) . We are not suppose to kill snakes unless they are close to house , buildings or play areas. Bears are in season one week. Yotes are open year round and to kill a big cat is both a federal and state offence. Sorta like affirmative action for critters , give them the upper hand.
 
 
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Re: Don Heath - Help!
« Reply #5 on: October 06, 2011, 07:51:26 AM »
Quote from: bilmac on October 06, 2011, 03:08:32 AM
Man I hope that some of the grizzlies or wolves that the tree huggers thought we need in Wyoming make it to L.A. or Denver.

Seems like the news reports a couger or bear in or around  Portland,OR, or Seattle,WA and the freak out starts with wildlife officials coming to the aid of the good citizens. I'm waiting for when, sadly, some child gets eaten and the proponents shrug it off with it being the hunters fault for killing their natural food. The "huggers" are behind the efforts to raise the populations here in the PNW as well. Since those critters used to run wild in the vicinity of the big cities as well, I say start releasing them where they can do the most good.
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Re: Don Heath - Help!
« Reply #6 on: October 06, 2011, 11:08:42 AM »
  I think this push for predators is part of a long term plan to overthrow the 2nd amendment. First the wolves in Yellow Stone. Then in Midwest states like Wisconsin. The mountain lions in the west. Next they will want to ban hunting bobcats and coyotes. Then they can say we have enough predators now we can ban hunting and outlaw guns.


Operation gunrunner and fast and furious are part of the same plan.


Victoer3 if I lived in that neighborhood I would have a good slingshot.
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Re: Don Heath - Help!
« Reply #7 on: October 08, 2011, 11:27:08 PM »
Quote from: SHOOTALL on October 06, 2011, 03:18:15 AM
We are not suppose to kill snakes unless they are close to house , buildings or play areas.

 California has very loose regs (strange as it is, considering our other goofy laws) concerning rattlesankes.
 
 Most reptiles require a freshwater fishing licence and are restrticted as to when, where and how they may be taken. Not so with rattlesnakes. No licence required, can be taken day or night any time of year without restriction on how (shoot, chop, run over with your truck  :)  ) you do it. None of CA's 10 species is protected by law. Only places they can't be taken are from ecological reserves or state/national parks.
 
 So my family's eaten a lot of rattlesnake and will never need to buy a hat band...
 
 
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Re: Don Heath - Help!
« Reply #8 on: October 10, 2011, 07:36:01 AM »
I think critters are on the come back. The peta types who live and breed in a city/urban area don't realize what folks in the outskirts and country deal with.
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