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It looks exactly like a German Shepherd cross to me, with a very bad overbite. The lower jaw is almost deformed, perhaps an injury to the growth plates as a puppy.
Dog creatures walking on their back legs? My 100% purebred registered dog, all 80 pounds of her, will get up and walk on her back legs when she is trying to see something high up. Every night, after my dinner, she walks backwards up on her hind legs all the way from the dining room to the dishwasher because she gets the plate scrapings and she is trying to see what might be left on my plate for her.
All of my tiny dogs have gotten up on their back legs and walked, again, trying to see higher.
There is no reason to think that wild canids can't walk on their back legs.
It looks exactly like a German Shepherd cross to me, with a very bad overbite. The lower jaw is almost deformed, perhaps an injury to the growth plates as a puppy.
Dog creatures walking on their back legs? My 100% purebred registered dog, all 80 pounds of her, will get up and walk on her back legs when she is trying to see something high up. Every night, after my dinner, she walks backwards up on her hind legs all the way from the dining room to the dishwasher because she gets the plate scrapings and she is trying to see what might be left on my plate for her.
All of my tiny dogs have gotten up on their back legs and walked, again, trying to see higher.
There is no reason to think that wild canids can't walk on their back legs.
Google Linda Godfrey and read some of the encounters she has written about, and you will see how these are much different than dogs occasionally standing on their hind legs for a short time.
It's ridiculous that people are allowed to shoot animals for being "near" their livestock. How sad.
When their possible prey is worth $2000+ it doesn't really make sense to give predators free access. Would it be better to wait until they've selected from the menu and taken their first bite?
Most working ranches are hundreds or thousands of acres. A rancher may not be back in the same area for several days, especially in rugged country. Protecting the herd sometimes means making a decision to preemptively eliminate a threat rather than coming back next week to find dead cattle. A lot of urbanites don't understand the pragmatism that is required to live in rural areas, much less to make your living from the land.
It would be great if predators never attacked livestock and ranchers never had to shoot predators, but that isn't the reality of rancher's life.
It's ridiculous that people are allowed to shoot animals for being "near" their livestock. How sad.
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Originally Posted by JimRom
When their possible prey is worth $2000+ it doesn't really make sense to give predators free access. Would it be better to wait until they've selected from the menu and taken their first bite?
Most working ranches are hundreds or thousands of acres. A rancher may not be back in the same area for several days, especially in rugged country. Protecting the herd sometimes means making a decision to preemptively eliminate a threat rather than coming back next week to find dead cattle. A lot of urbanites don't understand the pragmatism that is required to live in rural areas, much less to make your living from the land.
It would be great if predators never attacked livestock and ranchers never had to shoot predators, but that isn't the reality of rancher's life.
Here's some reality:
Annually, deer-vehicles collisions cost more than $1,000,000,000 in total vehicle damages. Tens of thousands of people are injured. Over 100 people die. Every. Single. Year. Do wolves and coyotes each a billion $ worth of cattle? A: No. Do they injure tens of thousands? A: No. Do they kill 100+? A: No.
Yet the rancher can just claim "It was giving my steer the evil eye, so I killed it!" and he gets a pat on the back and an "Atta boy!". But were I to cite the far, far greater risk of a deer on my property, and then kill it? Or, as you say, 'preemptively eliminate a threat', I'd be paying one stiff fine.
And why?
Because the same group that screams that wolves are a threat and that they should be able to kill them at will also is the same group that loves to hunt deer in the fall, and they make damn sure that no one is allowed to reduce the bounty of their sport, even if that person has a lot greater cause than they do when they kill a wolf.
PS - Not that I'm actually saying that I want to kill every deer I see. I don't subscribe to the 'Hey, that might cause problems someday so we better kill it just in case!' ethos.
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