Archive for the 'Animals' Category

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Watch the pronghorn turn on the afterburner and easily outrun a wolf.

Pronghorn.

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“He was trying to get a better angle, better focus,” said Richard Curylo, who is engaged to the injured man’s sister.

The incident occurred on Tuesday, July 21, near a boat launch at Proud Lake Recreation Area in Commerce Township, according to a spokesperson for the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) in a statement to PEOPLE.

The incident involved a 41-year-old man and was handled by local 911, per the spokesperson.

While speaking to local outlet WXYZ, Richard Curylo, who is engaged to the injured man’s sister, said he and his group had been swimming when they noticed movement in some nearby grass.

“We saw and heard the rattle and it was his first time seeing one, so he wanted to get a really good picture,” Curylo said while speaking to the outlet.

Curylo said he recorded video of the Eastern Massasauga rattlesnake before his fiancée’s brother then moved in even closer to capture a photo.

The Eastern Massasauga is the only venomous snake native to Michigan, and only one of two rattlesnake species native to the Great Lakes region, according to Michigan State University.

The family called 911, and the man was transported by ambulance to the University of Michigan, which was the nearest hospital equipped with antivenom, per WXYZ.

Don’t be stupid. A cat has quicker reflexes than a snake and will rarely lose to a snake. You aren’t a cat.

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Anthony Pollio, 33, was hiking in Montana’s Glacier National Park on May 3 when he “surprised an adult male grizzly bear on the Mt. Brown Lookout trail,” according to an interagency report on the first deadly bear attack at the park in nearly 30 years.

“Darkness and deadfall on the trail would have prevented the bear and Mr. Pollio from seeing each other until they were very close,” the report stated, saying the protective grizzly launched an “intense” attack.

Pollio, of Davie, Florida, “fully discharged” his bear spray — but plunged 93 feet downslope “probably while the bear continued its attack,” the July 20 report stated.

Pollio managed to climb 18 feet back up the slope as the bear briefly halted its attack — before it “reengaged and killed Mr. Pollio,” the report stated.

There are several lessons here. (1) Glacier National Park. (2) Bear spray was “fully discharged.” (3) The bear reengaged. Let’s cover that again. He didn’t give it up. He didn’t run away. He didn’t stop. He reengaged and killed the man.

In other news from Montana, “animal advocates ask the state to demand hunters and hikers carry bear spray.

On Tuesday a coalition of grizzly bear advocates filed a petition with the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission to require hunters and trappers to carry bear spray in the state. They argue that it will keep sportsmen safer and reduce grizzly bear mortality.

Local outlets are reporting 19 Montana groups and 46 individuals have backed the petition for “public safety.” The full text and the petitioning organizations and individuals have not yet been made available to the public …

Whatever. It’s just added weight. Carry a large bore firearm like a .44 magnum, .454 Casull or .45 SMC or Super.

Carry a big bore sidearm.

I’ve driven into Yellowstone during the winter along the road on a snowmobile. This snow pack looks weak this year, but I might be mistaken.

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Oregon voters have moved one step closer this week to potentially banning hunting, fishing and animal agriculture.

On Thursday, activists submitted a final batch of signatures to state officials for a ballot measure that would effectively criminalize such practices.

The proposal, known as the People for the Elimination of Animal Cruelty Exemptions (PEACE) Act, has not officially qualified for the ballot yet. State officials have until August to decide whether it goes to a popular vote in November elections.

The measure, Initiative Petition 28, would remove hunting, fishing and livestock husbandry exceptions from the state’s animal abuse law.

“We want to see the state of Oregon stop killing animals,” David Michelson, who is spearheading the campaign, told KGW of the effort, his third attempt to get such rules on the ballot.

Lol. This not only effects hunting and fishing, this would put an end to cattle ranching or farmers harvesting chickens for meat.

Make no mistake about it. This is about worshiping the creation rather than the creator.

I suppose there is a little bit of good news. “Twenty-two states recognize the right to hunt and fish in their constitution, according to the National Rifle Association, while 11 states have bans on Sunday hunting.”

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A flesh‑eating fly thought eradicated decades ago has been found in Texas, its first return to the United States in generations.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed the presence of New World screwworm in a 3-week-old calf in Texas on June 3, marking the first known U.S. case in decades and the closest the parasite has come to reestablishing itself north of the Mexico border since its eradication in the 1960s.

The answer to this is clear and the solution easy.

So you kill the cartel boss who’s extorting money for the USDA flights. Then when you try another flight and some cartel big wig tries to extort money from you, you send folks to kill him too. And so on. Until you reach the end of cartel bosses who want to perish because of fly drops.

There is no real problem that can’t be solved in this manner. The other option is to let our cattle herds be eaten alive and forswear ever eating beef again.

Which will it be?

But we won’t do that because the U.S. has become a nation of effeminate cowards.

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A Wyoming man is apologizing for tossing, kicking and stabbing a coyote in a controversial video that went viral last week.

Aron Snyder posted a video statement on social media over the weekend in which he says the coyote video was taken in Texas in 2019 or 2020.

He said that he finished off the wounded coyote with a knife because he didn’t have a firearm with him at the time. He also admits that the video is “a very bad optic.”

No. It’s not a “very bad optic.” Optics has nothing whatsoever to do with anything.

I don’t believe him. Here’s why. He apparently had enough gun to shoot the Coyote to begin with. Then he expects me to believe he suddenly lost his firearm?

A man who will do this to an animal will do it to a human.

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The Wyoming Game and Fish Department confirmed to Cowboy State Daily that it’s investigating a graphic video of a man, allegedly a Wyoming resident, grabbing a seemingly wounded coyote by its tail, tossing the animal, then chasing it down to kick, stab and taunt it.

The video also was sent to Cowboy State Daily by a private investigator, Reece Soukoroff, who said he was the person who also sent it to Game and Fish.

Game and Fish Spokeswoman Amanda Fry said Friday that department is investigating the alleged incident.

Every ethical hunter knows that Coyotes are invasive in the East, and perhaps a nuisance in the West. But every ethical hunter also knows that when you make shots, you ensure ethical shots, not those to maim or cause unnecessary pain.

Those who inflict pain for the sake of pain are sociopaths and ungodly men. Avoid and report sociopaths.

Translated: “My friend has a small farm, but he’s dealing with a little problem: he’s constantly being chased by the wild boars that naturally roam around his farm. So he decided to bring in a dog to help him drive the boars away. The dog’s reaction to the first chase.”

I think my dog would do a lot better, but I’d still rather rely on a large bore sidearm.

Via: WiscoDave.

🗣️: صديقي لديه مزرعة صغيرة، ولكنه يعاني من مشكلة صغيرة، وهي أنه يتعرض دائما للمطاردة من الخنازير البرية التي تتواجد بشكل طبيعي حول مزرعته، فقرر إحضار كلب لمساعدته في طرد الخنازير

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