OT - Slow News Day

Wouldn't be such a slow newsday if it was _your_ dog....

I have a 22# Lhasa Apso/Shih Tzu mix. I have had local turkey vultures take a close look at him....

I want that dog owner arrested for depriving a protected species from their tasty little snack.

-- Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air... -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

They have? You might want to check on that dog... don't turkey vultures eat dead stuff. :-)

Hear hear! Not to mention the trauma the owl must have endured by getting caught in the dog's leash and being frightened away by the owner! Book 'em Danno!

Well........... True! But I'm not sure I would expect it to show up on the CNN homepage.

RonB

Come to think of it, if an Owl had carried our old, and deceased, dog away It would have been a national news story.

Sam was a 100 pound German Shepherd. That would be one big %@$^^# OWL!

RonB

They will eat small live animals. My dad scared a couple off that were attacking a litter of small pigs (in the absence of the mother). He saved the pigs but most had their ears and tails nipped off.

RonB wrote in news:14a21b58-41af-4f0e-865c- snipped-for-privacy@g26g2000vbi.googlegroups.com:

The singer Tom Rush has a CD titled "Trolling for Owls", which is what he calls walking his very small dog in the evening.

Doug White

Wouldn't be such a slow newsday if it was _your_ dog....

I have a 4 pound Chihuahua and a 6 pound Chihuahua and it would be a dead owl if it got anywhere near my little babies

Who said anything about Chihuahua rodents? We were talking about dogs! . . . . . . . I keed.

I have a 7lb chi and have had a couple of arguments with local hawks... I'm bigger than hawks and don't take prisoners.

Live very few miles from downtown Houston, in a highly urban setting, and on recent occasions have had a hawk(s) dive bomb me on the sidewalk whilst walking a six pound pup.

SOB's are getting hungry ...

A couple of years ago there was a report of a hawk swooping down and grabbing an Easter chick("Mr Peep") from the playground of an elementary school. The pupils watched in horror as the hawk sat atop a light pole and ate the chicken (yum) while discarding the hard parts.

"Well," said a teacher, "at the least the children learned a lesson about the 'law of the jungle'."

Sounds a little like Funniest Home Videos where a hawk swooped down into a back yard and grabbed a pet mouse.

Nine pound miniature pinscher in Oregon and the hawks are coming in the back yard checking out the dog. One caught a pigeon in the front yard.

Saw one take a ground squirrel as six of us sat eating lunch at a picnic table outside the office. Pretty interesting and the squirrels stayed away for a few days.

Who said anything about Chihuahua rodents? We were talking about dogs! . .

Oi !, be nice Chihuahua's are a good dog great watchdog, faithful, very easy and cheap to feed, clothe etc. What more could you want? . . I keed.

The dog caught a pigeon ? Good dog !!