|
Welcome to the YorkieTalk.com Forums Community - the community for Yorkshire Terriers. You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members (PM), respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. You will be able to chat with over 35,000 YorkieTalk members, read over 2,000,000 posted discussions, and view more than 15,000 Yorkie photos in the YorkieTalk Photo Gallery after you register. We would love to have you as a member! Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join our community today! If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please click here to contact us. |
|
| LinkBack | Thread Tools |
08-07-2006, 03:00 PM | #1 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: kent england
Posts: 1,646
| the worry of where you live ive read so many posts about snake bites, killer bees, coyotes and things like that im so glad i live in the uk and we dont have to worry about things like that we only have foxes and badgers and nether would attack a person or dog for no reason . what are the dangers where you live for you and your yorkies? and any near misses with anything scary?
__________________ Facebook group yorkies & small terriers worlwide needing fur-ever homes & deathrow Zac Brandi Suki |
Welcome Guest! | |
08-07-2006, 03:07 PM | #2 | |
Donating YT 12K Club Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Council Bluffs Iowa
Posts: 12,552
| Quote:
The bigest danger here are the hawks. We also hve the cow killer ants, that are normally not agressive, but if a dog decided to try to eat one it could be deadly. | |
08-07-2006, 03:38 PM | #3 |
Proudly owned by Nikko Donating Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Bronx, New York
Posts: 768
| we don't have much in the way of wild life around here but stray dogs and big dogs off leash are always a threat to little guys like ours. the severe heat is also a threat (we had a bad heat wave last week). Fleas and ticks are a common nuisance but that's pretty much it.
__________________ NIKKO and his mommy NECEE |
08-07-2006, 03:39 PM | #4 |
Mojo, LilyGrace & Me Donating Member Moderator Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: cuddling with my babies<3
Posts: 17,329
| We have hawks, owls, rattlesnakes, copperheads, cotton mouth snakes, bear, deer ticks, yellow jackets, coyotes, black widow and brown recluse spiders....you name it, I think we've got it! We live out in the "woods" surrounded my national forest on most sides of our land. We have seen all sorts of animals come through. Once, in broad daylight, we were sitting on our upper deck watching a small herd of deer in our backyard (a few adults and a few little ones) and the deer seemed to be watching something in the woods, pretty soon, here comes a coyote out of the woods trying to get a deer. We freaked out and started yelling, which scared them all, but the deer went one way and the coyote another. Our close encounter: We had a momma coyote that was looking for a place to den (our neighbors had her visit their places too)...anyway, she would come right up to the porch, she didn't seem very shy. I opened the door to scare her off and my DH, who was to have taken Mojo into the other room, had not gotten him or held him or something and out there door he went!! He chased the coyote off and I was running after him with no shoes or socks on, right after a rain to get Mojo! Luckily, I was on the track team years and years ago in school, so I can sprint pretty fast. (Thank goodness) I caught up to Mojo and snatched him up (afraid of other coyotes being out). Needless, to say, we haven't seen a coyote in a long time, we hear them though on some nights. Course, Mojo is never outside unless we are with him and we now have two big dogs outside too.
__________________ Hi I'm Jenn Mom to..... Mojo,LilyGrace & DD Kate RIP Mojo FOREVER in our hearts! Last edited by Jenn218; 08-07-2006 at 03:41 PM. |
08-07-2006, 03:52 PM | #5 | |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: kent england
Posts: 1,646
| Quote:
__________________ Facebook group yorkies & small terriers worlwide needing fur-ever homes & deathrow Zac Brandi Suki | |
08-07-2006, 03:56 PM | #6 | |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: kent england
Posts: 1,646
| Quote:
__________________ Facebook group yorkies & small terriers worlwide needing fur-ever homes & deathrow Zac Brandi Suki | |
08-08-2006, 03:47 AM | #7 |
Yorkie Kisses are the Best! Donating Member | I'm lucky - no worries really and I have a fenced in yard - but yesterday the neighbors 2 dogs broke thru my fence ....what a surprise THAT was. It took me 2 bags of treats to get them back in their yard...one of them - Ray Ray who is Chanel's little Fence running buddy - was baring her teeth at me like she wanted to rip my face off.....yet the whole time her tail was going a million miles an hour - I don't know if she'd have bitten me but didn't take any chances. |
08-08-2006, 04:05 AM | #8 |
Little Boogers Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: virginia beach, va
Posts: 4,460
| our only worries are hurricanes. when isabel hit, we were out of power for a very long time
__________________ lisa lisa and the cult jam yorkies |
08-08-2006, 05:09 AM | #9 | |
I love TBCG! Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: MD
Posts: 7,227
| Quote:
Ditto I haven't seen much wildlife here either.
__________________ Morgan Mommy toGeorgie boy & Isaiah RIP sweet Coco 10/12/99-8/1/12 Read About Georgie's Experience with Atlantoaxial Instability (AAI) Here! | |
08-08-2006, 05:29 AM | #10 |
Gina, (Lexi's Mommy) Donating Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: LONG ISLAND,NY
Posts: 10,455
| i worry about hurricanes, maybe tidalwave, that hasnt happened yet.. im just not waiting for the big hurricane where i gotta take my canoe out and row to another state.... my house would be distroyed.. but by all means, i would grab lexi first and head out...
__________________ Gina & Lexi CLICK HERE for our Photo Album ... |
08-08-2006, 05:36 AM | #11 |
No Longer A Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: NEW YORK
Posts: 16,218
| It's not the wild life I worry about it's the pestisides that are put down in the dog walking area in the condo complex where I live and also the inconciderate pet owners who do not pick up after the pets. Buddy is very healthy but since he was a pup he has had bouts with diahreaa. I was just at the vets again last Fri. The vet has no explantion. I think it is a combination of both that give him this. I have had two dogs for 17 & 16 yrs who never had this but we had our own fenced in yard at the time. There are so many dogs that are sick where I live from cancer to heart problems. I just don't know what to do anymore. Has anyone else experienced this problem (diahreaa)and if so any suggestions? Carol |
08-08-2006, 05:55 AM | #12 |
I heart Sugar Donating Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Florida
Posts: 7,373
| Here in Florida we definitely worry about hurricanes. As far as wildlife, my biggest concern is hawks. If we lived on the water, I'd also have to worry about water moccasins and gators.
__________________ "If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men." — St. Francis of Assisi, 1181-1226 |
08-08-2006, 08:07 AM | #13 |
Donating YT 10K Club Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Alabama
Posts: 11,432
| The biggest concern we have would be the wildlife. We live in a very rapidly developing area and they animals are honestly running out of places to go. You see them crossing the nearby (major) highway all the time now. I'm always worried that there will be a possum or raccoon or something under my car...doubtful, but you never know. There are coyotes near, but they mostly keep to themselves and done come that close to humans...that I've seen, but again, you never know. I guess our biggest problem is hawks--you see them all of the time here. Recently, my dad was on his deck (half is screened in, half is uncovered). They'd left the bottom screen loose so the dogs were going back and forth between the two decks. Dad said that all of a sudden they came hauling tail in and hid under him...he looked up just as a hawk flew in through the bottom of the door after them! And still came after them on the deck with him RIGHT THERE IN BETWEEN THEM. He opened the door and got them inside, but was still stuck with this hawk on his deck! Scary....he was right there, no more than a few feet from them in plain view when this thing came after them! |
08-08-2006, 08:40 AM | #14 | |
Donating YT 10K Club Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Alabama
Posts: 11,432
| Quote:
Hurt like the dickens when they sting. They hang around trash cans, picknick areas, etc, mainly. | |
08-08-2006, 08:46 AM | #15 |
Luv My Butterflies Donating Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: The Big Easy
Posts: 2,083
| Let's see..we have mosquitoes, hurricane, the heat, wasps, the heat again (lol), and stray dogs in our neighborhood. We have called the pound several times, but they never fricken come! My neighbor wants to do something b/c no one can let their little dogs out! |
Bookmarks |
|
|
| |
|
|
SHOP NOW: Amazon :: eBay :: Buy.com :: Newegg :: PetStore :: Petco :: PetSmart