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Post by intrigued12 on Jan 11, 2010 21:07:17 GMT -5
I have a bird feeder and squirrel feeder outside my back window hanging from a tree. I looked out the other day to see a beautiful hawk sitting on the chain link fence just below the feeder. I would guess he was sizing up his next meal.
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Post by daworm on Jan 11, 2010 21:53:15 GMT -5
Legally be damned, if a hawk attacks my dog and I can get to it, lets just say they won't find the carcass.
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Post by Bob on Jan 11, 2010 22:44:18 GMT -5
Legally be damned, if a hawk attacks my dog and I can get to it, lets just say they won't find the carcass. LOL You're dog, unless starvation is a factor wouldn't be considered... [grin] Nothing against your little girl except there are neighborhood rabbits that are bigger.. a hawk will most often not attack anything it thinks if can't carry. |
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Post by Justin Thyme on Jan 12, 2010 6:44:00 GMT -5
What if my dog sits real quiet in my backyard and waits for a red shouldered hawk to swoop down after and ground squirrel and my dog then pounces on the hawk, killing it? Is my dog breaking any law?
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Post by ohwell on Jan 12, 2010 6:56:36 GMT -5
Please, my little four pound Yorkie ran out the back door to terrorize Samson. A hawk can down out of the trees. I never saw my Yorkie again. We had electric floor heat in Sammy's dog house. It burnt down one really cold night. We change water daily in the bird waterer. There are a lot of birds that don't migrate.
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Post by gridbug on Jan 12, 2010 7:47:15 GMT -5
Fine - no hawk is getting MY dogs without a fight  |
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Post by ScarlettP on Jan 12, 2010 10:49:50 GMT -5
A long time ago (30+ years)... in a land far, far away (Harrison) a Golden eagle tried to get one of my dogs... or maybe it was after Shooter's dog. In a pack, it's hard to tell who was the target.
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Post by ohwell on Jan 12, 2010 10:58:36 GMT -5
I live in Harrison, way - way- way out in Harrison. Unusual things happen in this part of Hamilton County. The funny thing was the fact that Sister, the four pound Yorkie, would absolutey terrorize the 125 pound Dobie/Great Dane mix by the name of Samson.
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Post by LimitedRecourse on Jan 12, 2010 13:11:29 GMT -5
THe doberman put a hit out on the yorkie---hired a hawk.
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Post by ohwell on Jan 12, 2010 19:42:54 GMT -5
Never thought of it that way. You might be right. Sammy was a sweet heart and could never hurt anyone. But, that doesn't mean he couldn't hire someone. Oh, Wait, he didn't have any money or extra food. OK, he offered the bird a good home. Now I see your point. Sammy would really protect that bird - as long as it didn't snore.
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Post by TNBear on Jan 12, 2010 20:36:12 GMT -5
I remember my mother putting out a bunch of bird seed one winter, I complemented her on the nice cat feeder.
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Post by daworm on Jan 12, 2010 21:32:18 GMT -5
Speaking of cold, on my walk from my hotel to the restaurant this evening, it was -11 C, 9 F, not counting wind chill (-20 C, -4 F).
Brrrrr.....
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Post by Bob on Jan 13, 2010 0:00:56 GMT -5
FYI:
the only birds that are in the area that would "hit" a dog (less than 5 pounds) or cat is the Red Tail Hawk who hunt small animals for a living and the Bald Eagle that will eat road kill (There are very very few sightings of golden eagles EVER in this area and a juvinal bald (less than 5 years) looks a bit like a golden)
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Post by ScarlettP on Jan 13, 2010 6:39:47 GMT -5
*sigh* Don't you just LOVE bird watchers? Whatever. It was HUGE and brown and swooped out of the trees stirring up our pack of small yappy mixed breed mutts.
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Post by Warkitty on Jan 13, 2010 7:04:18 GMT -5
Maybe it just wanted to watch them run.
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Post by gridbug on Jan 13, 2010 9:40:23 GMT -5
FYI: the only birds that are in the area that would "hit" a dog (less than 5 pounds) or cat is the Red Tail Hawk who hunt small animals for a living and the Bald Eagle that will eat road kill (There are very very few sightings of golden eagles EVER in this area and a juvinal bald (less than 5 years) looks a bit like a golden) How about big owls? I have barred owls living behind my house and a bunny-sized dog with big ears. |
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Post by Bob on Jan 13, 2010 10:43:18 GMT -5
FYI: the only birds that are in the area that would "hit" a dog (less than 5 pounds) or cat is the Red Tail Hawk who hunt small animals for a living and the Bald Eagle that will eat road kill (There are very very few sightings of golden eagles EVER in this area and a juvinal bald (less than 5 years) looks a bit like a golden) How about big owls? I have barred owls living behind my house and a bunny-sized dog with big ears. Great horned, possibly.. |
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Post by gridbug on Jan 13, 2010 13:27:25 GMT -5
Barred are some pretty big hooters!
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Post by LimitedRecourse on Jan 13, 2010 14:45:59 GMT -5
Big hooters should never be barred.
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Post by ohwell on Jan 13, 2010 15:51:47 GMT -5
A dog less than four pounds or a cat?  ? Don't understand. My Yorkie weighed four pounds, Damnit, my Siamese kitty cat, weighed 29 pounds. Big difference. There is a reason my cat was named that. |
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Post by Bob on Jan 13, 2010 16:55:03 GMT -5
OK how about small mammals? little dogs, little cats. A hawk would not hit your 20 pound cat, probably wouldn't hit any animal that weighed 10 or more pounds.
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Post by el Gusano on Jan 13, 2010 22:08:44 GMT -5
We had an eagle try to carry off a lab once, and labs are big.
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Post by ohwell on Jan 14, 2010 6:27:25 GMT -5
Are you ready for this one? The Prestone spray bottle of windshield deicer froze. Wouldn't spray. Doesn't sound like a very good product.
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