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On Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:54:04 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
<ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

While the story made me smile and there is plenty of truth in it, one must >assume the coyote is rabid and is not doing what is natural. Why didn't
the dog alert?

I tend to walk my dog overnight. I don't wake up in the middle of the
night every night, but when I do, the dog is always ready and willing.
We have encountered juvenile coyotes. The dog always alerts but acts
more like encountering another dog being walked than danger. In an
afternoon walk, we have encountered foxes. I have no idea if there are
wolves around here but we've never encountered one.

The most reaction I get from the dog is upon encountering the most
dangerous creature of all, a squirrel.

I'm not a dog lover but my late wife (ir will be 4 years in about 3
weeks) very definitely was and when she passed the responsibility for
Beau-dog passed to me (he's 12 so probably 2 or 3 more years at most).

That means 2 walks a day - a long one during the day, a short one at
night. My adult daughter who lives with me works from home 3 days a
week, downtown 2 days - so she does the day walks on weekends, I do on
weekdays and we switch on weekends.

Our dog regularly wants to bark like mad at the woods across the
street at night which terrifies me since one never know what's in the
woods - and we have had our fences damaged twice by bears in the area.
So when he woofs into the woods it's "ok buddy let's get outa here!
NOW!"

I enjoy the day walks, the night walks not so much
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On Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:54:04 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
<ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

The Governor of Texas is jogging with his dog on a nature trail. A coyote >>jumps out and attacks the governor's dog. The governor shoots the coyote with >>his state-issued pistol and keeps jogging.

He shot the animal? Doesn't he know that you drop an anvil on his head?

I didn't know cartoons were on-topic in this newsgroup :)
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On Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:01:50 -0500, Rhino
<no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

While the story made me smile and there is plenty of truth in it, one must >> assume the coyote is rabid and is not doing what is natural.

Why? We only know that the coyote attacked the dog, not that the coyote
was rabid. It's reasonable that it was tested for rabies in any case but >maybe it was just ultra-aggressive (or stupid).

Because the cost of being wrong is a LOT higher if the critter is
rabid than if he isn't.

Though I laughed hard at that story.
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On Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:28:46 -0500, Rhino
<no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

https://thamesriver.on.ca/parks-recreation-natural-areas/londons-esas/sifton-bog/white-tailed-deer-in-sifton-bog/

Pathetic! They first noticed the problem officially in 2000. Nine years >later, when the report ended, they seemed to have done absolutely
nothing but study the matter without coming to any conclusions except
that a small bow hunt to test the feasibility of that approach should
NOT be done and that maybe a fine for people who fed the deer should be >considered although they never implemented it. A classic example of
"moving at the speed of government"....

That's an unusually sketchy response from the London, ON I Know.

It would be funny if it weren't incredibly sad.
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