You guys have street signs there!! That's like the middle of the city, right? Where I live, we give directions like "Turn at the big oak stump"......@diane0905 - do you live in a thrill seekers' paradise at Kiawah island?😂That area is just teeming with action!
Oh no not at all - I am not insulted or offended by your comment! 😅 I thought of my mother when I read your comment and her lamenting with regret several times that us city kids are so pampered and sheltered and don't know anything! 🤣 She wished she had raised us with much more worldly experiences and life skills.. Not that it was easy for her since we were pretty much hellions ourselves (and my dad always took it easy on us) 🙈
Benji rules! 😆Benji reminds me of myself as a kid (when I didn't have any fear and responsibilities). I terrorized my poor mother several times with injuries like bloodied, broken noses (3x, it is wonderfully crooked now 🤣) and swollen bumps, bruises to my face and head. This was due to playing lacrosse for school competitively and I was not very tall compared to some others. Felt like I had a lot to prove.. Except she didn't let me do whatever I wanted (after my third broken nose, she banned me from playing lacrosse for school 🤣 and if I didn't quit and played behind her back she was going to put me in a hostel) and I can't believe you let Benji do pretty much whatever he wanted! 😂
But reading numerous times about a coyote playing with a dog to lure them is making me take it seriously. I think can't trust Ramses- he is literally the walking definition of curiosity kills the golden retriever! He listens and stays close to us. But I told him not to pick up the injured puffin back last summer (although very noble and well intentioned) and he disobeyed me twice. My golden retriever for all the good reasons (and maybe bad?) has never been aggressive. If a little chihuahua barks at him aggressively from a distance, he will respond in whines. I don't think this will go well with a coyote...
Coyote spotted in an area like this - it's residential.. Is this considered suburbs? I ask because the French definition is something entirely different....
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My mother has always given us directions this way! 🤣 She also draws us her own maps with road signs and monuments. She's frighteningly accurate though - Do you also do the same? 😅You guys have street signs there!! That's like the middle of the city, right? Where I live, we give directions like "Turn at the big oak stump"......
The county I live in has more miles of road than any other county in Iowa and there is not a single stoplight.You guys have street signs there!! That's like the middle of the city, right? Where I live, we give directions like "Turn at the big oak stump"......
As it should be.....The county I live in has more miles of road than any other county in Iowa and there is not a single stoplight.
I appreciate that.SRW, it's very thoughtful of you to take on the heavy responsibility of protecting toddlers by shooting as many coyotes as you possibly can.
All of the discussion on coyotes reminded me of something that happened to me some time ago as a visiting nurse. I normally made friends easily with people's pets when I did home nursing visits. However at one home there was a yellow lab who was very suspicious of me and the owner was surprised at that behavior, and so was I. She finally had to put him in a bedroom and close the door.
I didn't make too much of it until a week or two later when I was getting ready to wash that winter jacket for the first time; it was the one I'd been wearing at the home visit. The laundering instructions stated that the hood should be removed before washing because it was trimmed with real fur, and that fur was coyote fur! Do you think that the lab was able to detect coyote scent from that fur trim, even though it had undergone a manufacturing process?
That must have been it!!! Funny thing is that I don't think I've ever had a coat with any real fur on it before that. And the fur trim around that hood was not very soft, so I figured it was something artificial. Since then, I always check the labels before purchasing!That lab was definitely a secret PETA member.. He disapproved of your coyote fur winter jacket - and you know how they get when you do things like that! 😂
Obviously the dog did some lab work on your coat.....you're lucky he didn't call for a cat scan as well....All of the discussion on coyotes reminded me of something that happened to me some time ago as a visiting nurse. I normally made friends easily with people's pets when I did home nursing visits. However at one home there was a yellow lab who was very suspicious of me and the owner was surprised at that behavior, and so was I. She finally had to put him in a bedroom and close the door.
I didn't make too much of it until a week or two later when I was getting ready to wash that winter jacket for the first time; it was the one I'd been wearing at the home visit. The laundering instructions stated that the hood should be removed before washing because it was trimmed with real fur, and that fur was coyote fur! Do you think that the lab was able to detect coyote scent from that fur trim, even though it had undergone a manufacturing process?
Could have been worse, could have "marked" his territory...Obviously the dog did some lab work on your coat.....you're lucky he didn't call for a cat scan as well....
And more. Coyotes in my area carry a dangerous parasite that can be passed through their poop. So if your pup eats coyote poop, or picks up a ball that lands in their poop, etc., they can pick it up. I don't know if that is the case for all coyotes every where. I'd talk to your vet about what your pup needs in terms of vaccines and parasite prevention.I'm in an area where we get coyotes way too often, middle of a midwest suburban neighborhood. Can I assume they are carrying the same diseases as domesticated dogs? This is currently something I am thinking about as I'm bringing home a pup shortly and I have to figure out the potty training logistics.
I missed this post earlier....I would say from your description you would be considered a suburbanite. Outside the city limits but part of the greater metropolitan area if that makes sense. I draw really great stick figures so when I draw maps, they're stick maps I guess....pretty basic, not too much detail.....My mother has always given us directions this way! 🤣 She also draws us her own maps with road signs and monuments. She's frighteningly accurate though - Do you also do the same? 😅
I am confused as to whether its a city most probably because my English stinks. I live in Bethany but have a Portland postal code. In Wikipedia it says, "Bethany is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Washington County, Oregon, United States". I then clicked on Washington County - where Wikipedia says "Washington County is one of 36 counties in the US state of Oregon and part of the Portland metropolitan area". So I am guessing I am living in a metro? And then I clicked on that and there was a whole lot of definitions.. I said alright I am done! 🤣
*I know Wikipedia is not always an accurate source - I tell my students this all the time and I did just that! 🤣
I kind of assumed they were disease-ridden but my department of natural resources has varying info. So I'm planning on using purchased sod until I can get vaccines up to date.And more. Coyotes in my area carry a dangerous parasite that can be passed through their poop. So if your pup eats coyote poop, or picks up a ball that lands in their poop, etc., they can pick it up. I don't know if that is the case for all coyotes every where. I'd talk to your vet about what your pup needs in terms of vaccines and parasite prevention.
I missed this post earlier....I would say from your description you would be considered a suburbanite. Outside the city limits but part of the greater metropolitan area if that makes sense. I draw really great stick figures so when I draw maps, they're stick maps I guess....pretty basic, not too much detail.....