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Feral Dogs - A Potential Problem?
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Posts: 534 		  Quote roxy Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 31 2006 at 7:05am
 thanks for starting this thread,  will add to the list to finnish fencing in backyard,  to save my 2 dogs, and the garden, this list is getting longer lol, roxy
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Everyone around me has dogs.  I would be worried about this, if we did not also have Coyotes and Mountain Lions.  It's sad to think of, but I don't think they would make it.
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  Quote sybdragon Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 06 2006 at 11:11am
food for the non preppers, as they will eat anything once they get hungry too, and the dogs will come to you looking for food so you don't have to wander around the woods looking for a deer or anything   LOL  LOL
 
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I keep my 2 small dogs indoors, have fenced yard, and enclosed a piece of it so the dogs would not come in contact with bird poop when going outside, I also bought for them all terrain boots up to their thighs for protection, crazy isn't it?  but I love them and I would like for them to be safe and survive this BF.
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Hungry feral dogs will not only attack small dogs They will attack children and sometimes adults.
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Until I was eight years old my family lived in Ft. Smith in the Northwest Territories of Canada.  One of my earliest chilhood memories was of bringing the HGuskies into the house during hard winter nights when wolves would come into town.  The dogs knew the wolves were outside and were determined to get back out there.  I must have been about three, that would make it 1955.  When you're a little kid, things like that make a BIG impression.  Packs of roaming dogs would most certainly become something to consider if BF gets as bad as it might.  
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  Quote Guests Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 26 2006 at 9:41am
My dog is a useless cur.  When the mice come she runs away, says woof, and calls me!  But I love the silly thing, and she has her very own stash of pet food.  Beth
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Originally posted by justme

. . . "I LOVE DOGS, especially my dog!!!". . .


So do I. . . Well done. . .with a side of BBQ sauce. . .

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LOLLOLLOLLOLLOLLOLLOL
I always said my mutts could feed a family of four for a month!!  Most days they eat better than me!!
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  Quote Guests Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 04 2006 at 1:58pm
    I have just read that cats can be a major carrier of bird flu. What should we do with them?
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Everything is a "carrier".  Cats are no different than anything else. 
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  Quote Guest4Now Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 05 2006 at 12:06am
I was wondering, do you think it would be a good idea to run fence-enclosed paths to and from my out buildings like above ground tunnels?

Just how smart (and desperate) do you think these dogs will be? Do you think that they will eventually play Kujo and break into houses and attack us where we consider ourselves to be safest? Maybe bars or chain-link on the lower floor windows isn't a bad idea, or am I just paranoid?
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This is a rather unlikely scenario. If there are a few dog packs they will be more likely to eat other dogs/cats/rats, etc. than attack people. I don't know that I've ever heard of a feral dog pack attacking anyone. The dog attacks that happen are from dogs that got out of a yard. Feral dogs don't survive long, the ones that do get very scared and avoid humans.

Keep in mind just how important your dogs can be in an emergency. Their hearing and sense of smell are vastly superior to our own. Even if they won't attack anyone, they'll let you know if people or other animals are around long before you could detect them. Maybe help you locate game if things stay bad for a long while. I can't imagine a better tool for survival. In fact, if you don't have one and things get rough, you may want to adopt one off the street if possible.
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Where I live the wild animals are being forced out of their habitats with urban sprawl and growth.  We have coyotes  in the yard all the time.  They do kill cats but my dog is 100 lbs and is an alpha male.  The coyotes do run from him but he will stay on a leash if anything goes down.
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