Wolf

[CrealCritter]

I'm pretty sure we have a wolf out back. I wouldn't be surprised since my property backs up to the shawnee national forest. I've heard it howling several nights in a row now. It's pretty close to the house. So close that my wife's Rottweiler starts going nuts in the house. Tonight I had to grab my shot gun. I hate firing up in the air at night but I had too, in order to get it to leave.

We have coyotes up the ying yang and this is most defiantly not a coyote howl. I'm going to talk with my neighbor when I catch him home and ask him if he has set up any trailcams yet this year.

Wolfs are not good to have around, they are killers.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Hope the wolf doesn't cause any problems to anyone. They are so majestic that I love the IDEA of them being around....the REALITY can be different if you need to protect your property.

Oh...when we need to fire a gun to scare something away - we don't shoot in the air - we just shoot into the ground. That way we don't have to worry where the bullet goes.

 

[Lazy Gardener]

Deer population can be nicely managed by appropriate hunting.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

humans are getting too complacent and lazy, might also help to keep the lbs off having to run a bit more.

LOL - I like the way you think. Yep - I'd run more if I had to dodge a saber tooth tiger!

And yes - hunting helps control the deer population - but what's wrong with the "natural order" of things like an apex predator taking down a natural prey animal? (as long as they stick to natural prey and not people - yikes!)

 

[frustratedearthmother]

I've lived in the same house for 35 years and never saw a deer here - until a couple weeks ago. One crossed our dead end road right in front of me. DH saw one in the brush across the street a couple days before that and a year or so ago, after he had a horrible accident he got a new car. His first day to go back to work after his accident, in his new car, he hit a deer. We have lots of hunters, and lots of coyotes - and yet the population has increased to the point that they are everywhere now. We don't have wolves here so maybe I need a hunting license and a rocking chair on the porch, lol!

 

[CrealCritter]

I've lived in the same house for 35 years and never saw a deer here - until a couple weeks ago. One crossed our dead end road right in front of me. DH saw one in the brush across the street a couple days before that and a year or so ago, after he had a horrible accident he got a new car. His first day to go back to work after his accident, in his new car, he hit a deer. We have lots of hunters, and lots of coyotes - and yet the population has increased to the point that they are everywhere now. We don't have wolves here so maybe I need a hunting license and a rocking chair on the porch, lol!

I take Illinois nuisance law pretty serious. I see a deer in one of my gardens, it becomes many dinners.

 

[flowerbug]

OH dang - I've never seen a herd of 40 - 70 deer. I've seen them in other parts of our little town in groups of 10 - 15. Could I hit one from a rocking chair? I'd sure try to stop rocking, lol. Nerves might get the best of me! But, "across the road" is less than 20 yards. I'd probably never try to shoot one here unless they were actually on the property. Deer carry a parasite that can infect goats - so I can't tolerate that.

this is a pic from a few years ago.

neighbor said she counted a herd of about 50 of them a few months ago - i've not seen that many together this season yet.

i've had them bed down in the North Garden which is about 15-20ft from where i'm at now. i don't think they will this winter because i took all the weeds and cover out of there. there's nothing in there to eat until spring comes along.

 

[flowerbug]

LOL - I like the way you think. Yep - I'd run more if I had to dodge a saber tooth tiger!

And yes - hunting helps control the deer population - but what's wrong with the "natural order" of things like an apex predator taking down a natural prey animal? (as long as they stick to natural prey and not people - yikes!)

i have always striven to be an example to others, perhaps not a good example, but one-none-the-less.

i have a dark sense of humor, i would not really mind if my last moments at a ripe old age were in terror being jumped by a wolf or sabretoothed tiger. alas, i'm just likely going to have to be satisfied with being gummed by worms in some cemetary someplace. i haven't selected one yet, trying to find natural burial at a decent price. my true preference would be a hole out back so i can hang with the buds in the dirt, but i guess we can't have human remains scattered about. people freaking out about some skull grinning at them when it isn't halloween might have something to do with it beyond the risks of diseases, but again. i guess i wouldn't want ol' Joes femur showing up on my doorstep either, unless perhaps his bone is connected the the finger bone with a nice big diamond ring on it... hmmm...

none of us gets out of this alive so i hope to have some fun along the way and find humor in the great and small things as i can.

perhaps this is strange, but i'm comforted by the idea that i'm not all that and have no aspirations to ever be.

there wolf! (another movie reference)...

 

[flowerbug]

I've lived in the same house for 35 years and never saw a deer here - until a couple weeks ago. One crossed our dead end road right in front of me. DH saw one in the brush across the street a couple days before that and a year or so ago, after he had a horrible accident he got a new car. His first day to go back to work after his accident, in his new car, he hit a deer. We have lots of hunters, and lots of coyotes - and yet the population has increased to the point that they are everywhere now. We don't have wolves here so maybe I need a hunting license and a rocking chair on the porch, lol!

if you can hit one while rockin' i think you'd be a shoe-in for the Wild Bill show as Annie Oakley... we have people hunting around here during the season. some years we can tell if the hunters have gotten the ring-leaders that come wandering in our gardens or not. this past year has been pretty active so far even with the fencing i've been trying to get put up. also we've had severe winters where we've had herds of 40-70 deer feeding on the cedar trees. it didn't matter what i sprayed the trees with, the deer were hungry. they'd come back a half hour later and eat urine and hot pepper soaked trees like it was spring salad.

 

[elwood]

As beautiful as wolves are you dont want to live near them. Apex predators and they will hunt humans.