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That sounds like an interesting show! I do love me some PBS nature shows. Especially since my daughter likes them AND I know they won't be offensive! :D
Adrenaline is a wonderful thing, isn't it? I was once camping in Yellowstone in May, and one night while in, um, an altered state, we were standing around the fire and I looked at Jeanie, and Jeanie looked at me, and Jeanie thought I looked scared because of the firelight and yelled "RUN", and next thing I knew I had seemingly flown across a rocky meadow in my long underwear with one sock on, and then we were in some scrubby pines and I had to hold onto Jeanie's belt to keep her from climbing a tree. It was the stupidest thing--I knew a bear would likely run after a running human--and hysterical in retrospect, but none of us slept much that night...That same summer I also managed to see a very large black bear near the road on a solo road bike ride into a wilderness area. I turned right around and pedaled as fast as humanly possible; clocked myself @ 35 mph out of there.
:ROTF:The coyotes won't come up on the pad any more - they sit on the other parcel and look at our place. It's like they're saying to each other, "Don't go up there! Stay away! That's where that CAT lives! She's got LONG CLAWS!"
Adrenaline is a wonderful thing, isn't it? I was once camping in Yellowstone in May, and one night while in, um, an altered state, we were standing around the fire and I looked at Jeanie, and Jeanie looked at me, and Jeanie thought I looked scared because of the firelight and yelled "RUN", and next thing I knew I had seemingly flown across a rocky meadow in my long underwear with one sock on, and then we were in some scrubby pines and I had to hold onto Jeanie's belt to keep her from climbing a tree. It was the stupidest thing--I knew a bear would likely run after a running human--and hysterical in retrospect, but none of us slept much that night...
:ROTF:
Oh yes they do! That's the other reason it was stupid--I knew perfectly well that a bear can outrun a human and climb trees. I remembered that about halfway across the meadow, but at that point there was no point in stopping.:ROTF::ROTF: Hilarious LB ... But don't bears climb trees? (grizzlies not koala bears).
One of my favorite movies ever. I think I had the soundtrack before I saw the movie. But at the time we knew it from Will the Circle Be Unbroken by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, which I just happened to buy this week on iTunes. But what I would give for the album cover...Love the song choice ( reminds me of the Coen bros flick ' Oh brother where art thou')
They really are beautiful...hoping urban areas can find a way to coexist.
I've read a number of reports of coyotes in the east (particularly northeast) attacking people...odd behavior for coyotes; it's being attributed by some to their cross-breeding with wolves & feral dogs (DNA testing has proven the cross-breeding...and some of these crosses have taken to running in packs, which I gather is a factor in the attacks). Still very much the exception rather than the rule, but frightening to consider...
We adopted a rescue dog who had been a sled dog - and even though he appeared to be Alaskan husky, the wolf component was questionable. Anyway, he'd been "on death row" at the Humane Society for supposedly having killed a small dog much like described above. The details were sketchy, and the death row dog's nature was never fully determined. We brought him home (after us being copiously screened), he was with us for 5 years before passing on. RIP, Polar. :( He was a loyal, One-Man (DH) dog.but some issues with little yappy nasty @$$ yippy dogs.
where the aggressive sheep guard dogs are scaring the recreationalists.