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Post by BestoFour on Feb 18, 2013 22:20:10 GMT -6
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Post by spuds on Feb 19, 2013 15:19:38 GMT -6
Cute!
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Post by BestoFour on Mar 10, 2013 18:42:03 GMT -6
He chases her all the time and usually right up a pole.  |
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Post by w8in4dave on Mar 10, 2013 21:45:07 GMT -6
Cuteee!!
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Post by BestoFour on Mar 11, 2013 12:33:15 GMT -6
Agreed. I think he's a handsome guy.
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Post by Wrennie on Mar 11, 2013 14:31:58 GMT -6
Awww!
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Post by Laura on Mar 11, 2013 16:33:44 GMT -6
Hey that is where our little Callie cat is. That looks EXACTLY like HER!! We miss the little Callie.  We are not 100% sure what happened to her but we strongly suspect an owl took her. As when the remaining kittie cats hear the WHO WHO WHO WHO they hunker down on the porch. |
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Post by BestoFour on Mar 11, 2013 20:00:09 GMT -6
Laura, my mother's cat got beaten up twice by an owl. She had to have surgery both times. Sorry about Callie.
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Post by Pharmer Phil on Mar 13, 2013 5:02:19 GMT -6
Laura, my mother's cat got beaten up twice by an owl. She had to have surgery both times. Sorry about Callie. Sheri what is a hard thing for Us to deal with is what we read while researching OWLS.. They can take a fairly large critter..and..if they don't kill it out right.. They take it in their talons...fly up to 20-30 feet...and drop the animal to stun/kill it... How Horrifying to think they may have did that with our lil Callie  |
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Post by BestoFour on Mar 13, 2013 14:36:30 GMT -6
So after the owl drops their victim they then swoop back down and pick it up? Maybe my mothers cat was picked up, dropped, and then got away somehow. She was really beaten up.
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Post by spuds on Mar 13, 2013 14:56:13 GMT -6
So after the owl drops their victim they then swoop back down and pick it up? Maybe my mothers cat was picked up, dropped, and then got away somehow. She was really beaten up. A bird of prey swooped down and snagged sis Pomeranian from right at her feet! |
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Post by BestoFour on Mar 13, 2013 15:05:59 GMT -6
Oh my gosh how awful.
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Post by Laura on Mar 13, 2013 15:24:09 GMT -6
So after the owl drops their victim they then swoop back down and pick it up? Maybe my mothers cat was picked up, dropped, and then got away somehow. She was really beaten up. That is what we read on the bad owl issue. I am hoping our neighbor took her & put her cat outdoors & she came to us. As the cat we call stray pussy cat looks a lot like the kitten she dropped off on us last fall. & in turn I took it back to her.I will do my best to go visit her & see some how. As far as the animal dropping that is what they do to stun the creature that they took. |
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Post by Laura on Mar 13, 2013 15:30:47 GMT -6
I do not care for owls to begin with & do not like them even more now. They kinda freak me out with their hooten & hollarin.
We did have a screech owlet here a few years ago & it's mother was swoopin in on us constantly..then Sonya & Nate were here to visit & We was hoping it swooped in on her..all it did was clack at her. We have pics of the little one that the black birds knocked it off the tree. It was the SOFTEST lil creature I ever touched. But they too can pick up a good sized creature.
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Post by w8in4dave on Mar 13, 2013 18:12:03 GMT -6
We had a Great Horned Owl in our chicken barn for 3 days one time!! It ate 3 chickens , we called DNR and they said kill it! We said ummmm they are protected , they said not if they are killing your chickens!! We didn't have the heart to shoot it!! It was Awesome!! We let it eat fresh chicken and leave .... I used to have a video of it but somewhere along the way it was taken ......
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Post by BestoFour on Mar 14, 2013 8:58:53 GMT -6
Will the owl actually eat the cat or little dog? That's so strange. I guess my mothers cat was too mean or the owl was too little to get a good grip. She looked like she put up a great fight. And it happened twice.
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Post by w8in4dave on Mar 14, 2013 11:13:24 GMT -6
Yes Bestofour it will eat them.... Sometimes it can be a young owl that is trying to get the cat or what ever ... drops it and the cat isn't knocked out and runs off or it wasn't held very well to begin with ... easy targets!!
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Post by BestoFour on Mar 14, 2013 21:07:41 GMT -6
Well that's just awful.
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Post by spuds on Mar 15, 2013 4:15:10 GMT -6
Will the owl actually eat the cat or little dog? That's so strange. I guess my mothers cat was too mean or the owl was too little to get a good grip. She looked like she put up a great fight. And it happened twice. We were driving once and saw a Hawk go flying by with a huge snake in its talons wiggling away. |
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Post by w8in4dave on Mar 15, 2013 6:17:06 GMT -6
We usually see the hawks sittin on the poles by open fields w8in to see his dinner  |
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Post by Pharmer Phil on Mar 17, 2013 6:22:21 GMT -6
we have an abundance of predators flying around, and sitting on the power lines here..Over head >Eagles..In the trees >Owls..on the powerlines >Peregrine falcons and red tail hawks... lil critters..BEWARE  |
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Post by w8in4dave on Mar 17, 2013 6:56:14 GMT -6
Absolutely! Our pigeons get taken out by the Falcons almost every year!
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Post by lucy on Mar 19, 2013 0:32:44 GMT -6
we don't own chickens but a couple stray ones came when some neighbors moved off and left them. An owl swooped down and picked up a rooster and dropped it on the walkway. We thought it was dead. It laid there a few minutes. Darrell went out and nudged it and it jumped up and scared him to death.
And Love the dog and cat by the way. Always wanted a calico.
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Post by BestoFour on Jan 27, 2014 18:21:27 GMT -6
Andy felt like posing today  |
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Post by BestoFour on Jan 29, 2014 10:21:39 GMT -6
He doesn't like the snow. Staying in his dog house.
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