A Chupacapra found in Texas

[moi621 (imported)]

Near San Antonio, Tech<choke>Hass a legenday goat sucker has been discovered.

http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/92971?fp=1

I think I prefer our Californian, Big Foot then a Texas Chupacapra

EA awaits more details from our Tech<choke>Hass correspondents.

[Paolo]

Looks like a shaved dog.

[jemagirl (imported)]

Looks like a coyote that had a bad hair day. Might just be a bad case of mange.

[randy (imported)]

it looks like macwolf after discovering Nair.

[A-1 (imported)]

it looks like macwolf after discovering Nair.

HOWELLLED You come up with that?

[FianceeUvBigGuy (imported)]

First...It's "ChupacaBra", meaning "Goatsucker".

That poor animal (Coyote) was afflicted with mange, sad to say, and was suffering horribly. Death was a blessing. Cold weather would have been a slow death for him.

I may have stated here that I never shoot coyotes, foxes, bobkitties, or lions although Texas affords such opportunites. In that I was erroneous in that I have shot animals that were suffering, be it from mange or a horrible injury.

I'd estimate I've killed perhaps a dozen coyotes for the above reasons.

Happily, I've never killed a bobcat, fox, or lion although I've watched and admired them through my rifle's scope.

I HAVE killed numerous feral dogs, maybe 35 or so, so well as over 100 feral hogs. They are bad news and should be killed.

On the subject of Mountain Lions...Some years ago the idiotic bleeding-heart Disneyites in Californicate managed to get a law enacted forbidding the hunting of lions. I'd never hunt them for sport but unless the fools in CA begin thinning their numbers even more horrific attacks on humans will occur, and there have been many already since the ban went into effect.

Yoli

Arbiter of outdoor morality 'n other stuff.

[FianceeUvBigGuy (imported)]

it looks like macwolf after discovering Nair.

Yoli

[chilliwilli (imported)]

Near San Antonio, Tech<choke>Hass a legenday goat sucker has been discovered.

http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/92971?fp=1

I think I prefer our Californian, Big Foot then a Texas Chupacapra

EA awaits more details from our Tech<choke>Hass correspondents.

Scary creatures indeed! Yes a California Bigfoot would be great fun. Although a visit to marine world would be preferable than brush up against one of those fuzzy beings.

Infact next time I visit the aquatic zoo I'm packing heat just incase! You never know when I guy needs protection...or maybe a bath???

chilli-:D

[DeaconBlues (imported)]

First...It's "ChupacaBra", meaning "Goatsucker".

That poor animal (Coyote) was afflicted with mange, sad to say, and was suffering horribly. Death was a blessing. Cold weather would have been a slow death for him... I HAVE killed numerous feral dogs, maybe 35 or so, so well as over 100 feral hogs. They are bad news and should be killed.

On the subject of Mountain Lions...Some years ago the idiotic bleeding-heart Disneyites in Californicate managed to get a law enacted forbidding the hunting of lions. I'd never hunt them for sport but unless the fools in CA begin thinning their numbers even more horrific attacks on humans will occur, and there have been many already since the ban went into effect.

Yoli

Arbiter of outdoor morality 'n other stuff.

I have got to agree with you totally on this point.

Most any animal in creation is a "thing of beauty" to be admired, so long as it is managed well and responsibly. Even the common market pig can be a sort of "thing of beauty" ("beauty" being in the eye of the beholder) when you consider the amazing feed to weight conversion factors. But all of these animals need to be RESPONSIBLY managed. The very same animals can be turned lose and in very short order they become a DANGEROUS nusiance. I for one would like to see most feral hogs wiped out completely except for certain hunting areas where they could there be responsibly managed and kept withing the hunting areas.

Dogs are called "man's best friend" for good reason, but the same animals can be dreadful trouble and even deadly when irresponsibly kept, or allowed to become feral. Shooting or otherwise killing a feral dog is a distasteful but necessary duty.

When you look at a lion (aka Puma, Mountain Lion, Cougar) you cannot deny that it is quite a "thing of beauty." But it is also very deadly, for the most part, the North American Mountain Lion stays clear of people, but in recent years, the cats are being pulled in closer and closer to human population. The decades long drought that we are seeing has caused most of the Mountain Lion's natural prey (i.e. deer) to come in closer to human occupied lands, the deer come in close to get water from livestock water tanks, the lion follows it's food there too. The deer come even closer and end up in city parks, people's back yards, they need to find food where ever they can and now that is almost exclusively in close to human occupied lands, and as they migrate in so do their predators. In California, the deer are truly becomming a problem for city parks and home owners who are seeing all the shubbery being "naturally pruned" down to a stubble by the deer. And the newly arrived deer are bringing in the lions, and the lions will in short order discover new and easier to get food, starting I suspect with pet food dishes in people's back yards... Then there will be an ever rising number of lion attacks on humans, most probably the physically smaller women and children.

A few months ago, the local police had to kill a wild black bear that had come into our city. So ironic and sad. If I had gone hunting bear in the Arizona wilderness, I truly doubt I would even see one, but yet here comes one right into town. Poor animal was probably on the verge of death from lack of food and just got crazy.

http://kingmandailyminer.com/main.asp?S ... onID=1&S=1

Things like this are going to become more and more common if we don't figure out how to get water to the wild life out away from populated areas.

[moi621 (imported)]

I am involved in part ownership of 80 Acres, with 40 irrigated for pasture uses. Above in the mountains, up the river is, a National Park. Old timers use to live on the outskirts and no one was bothered by, "The Bear", or "The Wild Pig(s)", and such if they ventured into more civilized areas. The old timers were gate keepers.

In move the "liberals" down the valley and they object and report the violations. So the last old timer does not serve gate keeping duties. Now the liberals are experiencing destruction of their orchard trees and pastures and are sorry they ignorantly complained about the gate keepers.

The worst case scenario are the dumb ass parents who let a 2 year old wander off out of sight and are shocked when the child is attacked by a critter and want the critters all killed. Currently, there are coyotes in Central Park, NYC. In "The OC" we had two such mountain lion attackes on small children some years ago. Currently we hear of coyotes attacking small children around Altadena where the fires just occurred.

People have forgotten how to live with other animals.

Moi