Archive for the 'Animals' Category

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

رد فعل الكلب مع أول مطاردة: pic.twitter.com/qLjbWpmeiL

— TAKTO (@Ne_zaha) April 30, 2026

Apparently not.

A hiker on Mount Wilson in California came face to face with a black bear in the middle of a trail, but his method of trying to scare away the huge animal was less than successful.

In fact, the man was fortunate to escape injury, or even death.

Cellphone video by another hiker in the Angeles National Forest shows the man trying to frighten the black bear (who was actually brown) by jumping up and down and making noise with bells attached to his hiking gear, KTLA reported.

The video, which was posted on Instagram on Monday by Eric Chiu, shows the bear’s reaction, which was not what the hiker had hoped for, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Instead of retreating, the bear charges at the hiker before the video stops, the newspaper reported. The hiker and the person recording were not injured, but Chiu, whose stepmother filmed the video, was incredulous.

Folks in the Smokey Mountains weren’t so fortunate.

Parts of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park are closed to the public after visitors encountered aggressive bears in two areas over the weekend, the National Park Service said. In some cases, bears chased and bit people.

Rangers responded to three incidents involving bears along Ramsey Cascades Trail, a popular hike to a waterfall, and three more on Abrams Falls Trail, which is another waterfall hike, according to the park service.

In the encounters near Ramsey Cascades, two bears “approached visitors and took two backpacks,” while a third “displayed aggressive behavior and briefly chased a group,” the park service said. Ramsey Cascades Trail and Ramsey Prong Road, which leads to the trailhead, remained closed Monday as rangers continued to monitor the area for bear activity.

The other trio of incidents near Abrams Falls involved “an aggressive black bear,” which in one instance bit a visitor who had entered a closed area, the park service said. Both the trail and road leading to it had been closed, but they were reopened by Monday after several days without bear activity.

About 1,900 black bears live in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, a massive wildlife area that covers sections of North Carolina and Tennessee. It’s also the most-visited national park in the U.S., according to the park service, which notes that the “combination of high visitation and a thriving bear population increases the likelihood of human-bear encounters.”

Thanks, but I’ll carry a large bore firearm rather than jingles and jangles and human seasoning packaged as bear repellent.

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During a training exercise in Alaska, two U.S. Army soldiers were attacked by a brown bear, officials said.

The two troops were participating in a “land navigation training event” at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson’s Arctic Valley training area in Anchorage, Lt. Col. Jo Nederhoed, a spokesperson for the 11th Airborne Division, told the Anchorage Daily News.

Wildlife officials from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game told the Anchorage Daily News the incident appeared to have been a defensive attack after the bear recently emerged from its den, and both soldiers were carrying bear spray and used it.

“We hope both individuals have a full and quick recovery, and our thoughts are with them during this time,” Fish and Game Regional Supervisor Cyndi Wardlow told the newspaper.

After the incident, the soldiers were “receiving appropriate medical care” Friday morning. The extent of their injuries is unknown.

“The safety and well-being of our personnel is our highest priority,” Nederhoed said. “The incident is under investigation, and we are coordinating with local wildlife authorities to ensure the safety of all personnel in the area.”

So, the deployment of bear spray wasn’t a successful tactic. Color me shocked.

I guess the safety and well-being of their personnel isn’t really their highest priority since they weren’t carrying large bore sidearms for bear defense.

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That’s either an 8-pointer sparring with a 6-pointer, or a 10-pointer sparring with an 8-pointer. It’s hard to tell with the mix of horn in the video. The one of the right is clearly more mature, and the smaller buck will fight right up to the point of death, or if he’s wise, leave before that happens and learn from it.