Call Of The Wild
5 March 2005 12:28![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
denI'm on Rescue Phone today. My first call today:
Caller: Do you trap birds?
Me: Only if they're injured, in danger or a threat.
C: I have an eagle who is a threat.
M: (Thinks: Hawk killing chickens) What sort of eagle?
C: A wedge-tail!
M: oh? How is that a threat?
C: The bastard is killing my Chihuahuas!
M: (stunned silence)
C: It dropped into my back yard and killed one of my dogs! I want you to get rid of it!
I took the details and, after I stopped laughing, phoned our raptor handlers in Trangie. I prefaced my explaination of the situation with "Now, don't laugh, ok?" and told him. After he stopped laughing he said the eagle must be VERY hungry to be attacking prey animals so close to houses. Apparently on the coast Very Small Dogs are lost to sea eagles and pelicans, but this is the first time I've heard first hand of it happening. The Raptor People in Trangie are going to organize trapping the relocating the bird.
I know I shouldn't laugh. I know the lady is traumatized by the eagle killing her pets. I know I'm being a cruel bastard and I feel guilty. But... an eagle killed and ate a Chihuahua. At least it was quick.
The only way this could be more amusing is if it was a poodle.
Caller: Do you trap birds?
Me: Only if they're injured, in danger or a threat.
C: I have an eagle who is a threat.
M: (Thinks: Hawk killing chickens) What sort of eagle?
C: A wedge-tail!
M: oh? How is that a threat?
C: The bastard is killing my Chihuahuas!
M: (stunned silence)
C: It dropped into my back yard and killed one of my dogs! I want you to get rid of it!
I took the details and, after I stopped laughing, phoned our raptor handlers in Trangie. I prefaced my explaination of the situation with "Now, don't laugh, ok?" and told him. After he stopped laughing he said the eagle must be VERY hungry to be attacking prey animals so close to houses. Apparently on the coast Very Small Dogs are lost to sea eagles and pelicans, but this is the first time I've heard first hand of it happening. The Raptor People in Trangie are going to organize trapping the relocating the bird.
I know I shouldn't laugh. I know the lady is traumatized by the eagle killing her pets. I know I'm being a cruel bastard and I feel guilty. But... an eagle killed and ate a Chihuahua. At least it was quick.
The only way this could be more amusing is if it was a poodle.
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Date: 5 Mar 2005 01:36 (UTC)Loxley
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Date: 5 Mar 2005 02:22 (UTC)Can't STAND 'em---!
Yorkies, however, (if raised properly!) are an absolute HOOT. Personable, and look like little animated mops...until you get one wet, and then it just looks PATHETIC--- HAHAHA!!!
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Date: 6 Mar 2005 05:31 (UTC)I'm totally telling my dad that, just to hear him cackle.
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Date: 5 Mar 2005 01:44 (UTC)Aren't poodles bigger? I get the thought that eagles couldn't pick up something that heavy. Or are Wedge Tails huge.
Lizard Rat out.
Hungry Baby Eagle in Albany NY
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Date: 5 Mar 2005 01:51 (UTC)no subject
Date: 5 Mar 2005 02:06 (UTC)*tries to imagine a 6-7 foot wingspan* Big. o.O
Lizard Rat out.
Just Being Bratty in Albany NY
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Date: 5 Mar 2005 01:55 (UTC)Dang it! I was eating TimTams and having a nice cup of rooibos tea and now I have to clean the monitor *again!*
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Date: 5 Mar 2005 05:40 (UTC)sick I tell you.. sick I am
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Date: 22 May 2005 11:36 (UTC)Gah, bad brain! No biscuit!
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Date: 5 Mar 2005 02:08 (UTC)no jam filled donut!
(we used to keep our dachsund inside when we saw the hawks in the air)
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Date: 5 Mar 2005 02:24 (UTC)"What will they use for bait?"
Hopefully it's not the obvious answer! :)
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Date: 5 Mar 2005 02:43 (UTC)It should have been quick for the poor eagle. Lucky for it, Mexican food tends to go right through you...
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Date: 5 Mar 2005 02:46 (UTC)That's why we don't leave the cats or the dogs out around here. If you do, they're not likely to be where you left them...what's left of them.
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Date: 5 Mar 2005 14:07 (UTC)Hate. Hate. HATE little rat-dogs! Grrrrrrrr!
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Date: 9 Mar 2005 00:50 (UTC)"Mummy's little foo-foo got eaten by what?! I'll rip the owner's eyes out!!"
:D
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Date: 6 Mar 2005 09:30 (UTC)I have a half-chihuaha-thingy and I still think it's funny.