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01-26-2005, 11:58 AM | #1 |
YT 6000 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Seattle, WA
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| [News] Protect Your Yorkies From Owls A tiny Yorkie dog was attacked and nearly carried off last week by a determined owl in search of a midnight feast. Caillou, a three-year-old male Yorkshire Terrier who weighs about 1.6 kilograms (just under four pounds), was on the veranda in the back yard of the Rockland home he shares with owners Josee Brennan and Jean Lamoureux when the attack occurred. It was about 11:30 p.m. last Wednesday and Caillou was in the process of having a final piddle before settling down for the night. "We put him outside every night before bedtime," explained Ms. Brennan. "Luckily, my partner was watching through the window or else I think the dog would have been gone. He saw this shadow come down, and -- it was snowing that night -- he just went outside barefoot and grabbed this thing and started shaking it." "The dog was under its talons. Jean kept shaking it, and the dog got free. Caillou came back inside and he was just soaked in blood. A few seconds later I guess there would have been no dog. It was quite a terrible scene; the dog was soaking in blood as he had been injured by the bird. My partner also got a few scratches in the process. "This was unreal, it was unbelievable. The dog shivered throughout the night." Caillou was taken to the veterinarian and treated for a puncture wound under its neck but did not require stitches, said Ms. Brennan. "That was the worst one. He had a few others on his head and neck. He's very traumatized, but he's fine. There were feathers left on the ground because of the fight, and the vet confirmed that it was an owl." But what kind of owl? Ms. Brennan contacted the Citizen about a story published last week about an irregular increase in the number of great gray owls in Southern and Eastern Ontario. Using their keen hearing, these owls hunt mice and voles under the snow. They tend to move farther south when food is scarce, as seems to be the case this winter. In last week's story, biological consultant Brian Ratcliff said that great gray owls do not attack household pets or chickens. After Caillou's encounter with an owl, Ms. Brennan said in an e-mail to the newspaper that "Someone may want to revise that article." "My specific concern is the statement that people don't have to worry about their pets. Now we don't let the dog go out at night by himself," she said. Bird expert Bruce Di Labio, who examined feathers from the owl last night, believes the culprit is a great horned owl, and not the great gray owl. "Only a great horned owl is big enough to go after a small dog. They'll go after skunks and other prey." As for Caillou, his attitude is, "Ask not for hoo-hoo-whom the bell tolls." It tolls for unwary little dogs with flowing tresses. Tiny Dog, 1 - Hungry Owl, 0 http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawac...9-fa66d02e0940 |
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01-26-2005, 03:10 PM | #2 |
Donating YT 7000 Club Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Alabama, etc.
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| fasteddie ... you're scarry!!! Just this morning, I was thinking of all the new yorkie owners we have and how nice it would be to compile information such as this [that we repeat a lot] for a little "newbie" area on the site!! There are soooo many little things such as predators, etc. that I was shocked to learn when we first got Toto and sometimes forget to mention to new owners asking for information. That was really odd!!!
__________________ Toto's Mom - http://www.dogster.com/?206581 Yorkie Rescue Colorado - http://www.yorkierescuecolorado.com/ "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has limits." -- Albert Einstein |
01-26-2005, 11:38 PM | #3 |
YT 6000 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Seattle, WA
Posts: 6,238
| Lots of people say I'm scary! Heh, just kidding, yes, it'd be nice to have a new Yorkie owner How-To Guide. One of the many things we'll have to work on... |
01-27-2005, 09:19 AM | #4 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Georgia
Posts: 246
| That is just terriable what that owl did to the poor little dog. At my house we have Hawks and one swoped down one day and almost got Charlie but I yelled for Charlie to come in and it scared the Hawk off. |
01-27-2005, 08:21 PM | #5 |
Boppin' Bo! Donating Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Indiana
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| Here in Southern Indiana we have both owls and hawks. I hear owls calling outside my house fairly often. We live in a rural area and I have wondered about them when I take Bo out at night. My husband says it would be OK if we're with him and he's on a leash, but it still creeps me out! The other thing we have here is coyotes and I know they can be pretty fearless! Everyone guard your babies! Thanks so much for the post Fasteddie!! |
02-06-2005, 07:50 AM | #6 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Teague, Tx.
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| I live out in the Country at a lake and we have hawks, owls, coyotes and a bobcat or two I believe. I've never seen the bobcat's but I've heard some very strange noises at night, almost like a baby crying and have found some big cat footprints outside. My yorkie is a pretty big dog so I don't worry too much about him but his daughter is so small, she's smaller than most rabbits, she would be perfect for these animals so I'm very careful to watch her outside. Unfortunately we don't take our dogs out too much because of all of the other animals that aren't leashed out here. There is no leash laws at a private lake. I do keep my big dogs on a leash at all times outside which I hate to do. But after countless attacks upon them not to mention them starting to attack the cows around here I was basically left with no choice. It breaks my heart to have animals chained up but until I can afford to buy a good fence, i'll just have to do that. I actually worry more about the hawk out here than anything else. He is huge and has been out here for years with his mate and now they have quite a few children that live out here too. I love the hawks for getting rid of the snakes but I hope they don't think my yorki's a squirrel, hehehe. Anyway, if you live in an area like this, always watch your pets outside. Never believe the so called experts who say this or that will not attack a house pet. Every rule has been broken at least once and if something's hungry enough, it'll eat anything...cough the Donner Party...cough....It happens. Sometimes, knowing my yorkie, I am kinda afraid for the hawk or owl that grabs him, hehehe. |
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