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08-14-2015, 10:44 AM | #46 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: USA
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| Owls will swoop on them, also
__________________ . Cali , and Cali's keeper and staff, Jay No, not a "mini" Yorkie - She loves to motor in her Mini Cooper car |
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08-14-2015, 04:19 PM | #47 |
Don't Litter Spay&Neuter Donating Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: So Cal
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| GASP! JRT's are a between 14-18#'s (I'm sure there's smaller & bigger, just like Yorkies)...they don't mention the weight, but sadly she was carried off by a hawk. Hawk Carries Away Family Dog In Lexington - LEX18.com | Continuous News and StormTracker Weather Posted: Aug 14, 2015 4:06 AM PST Updated: Aug 14, 2015 4:06 AM PST Hawk Carries Away Family Dog In Lexington A hawk recently attacked and carried away a family dog in a Lexington neighborhood. The bird attacked the 15-year-old Jack Russell Terrier named Destiny in the Plantation neighborhood, off Harrodsburg Road and Man O' War Boulevard. "She was getting pretty old. She was limping a bit. That would have probably attracted the hawk to some degree, an animal, you know, that was somewhat wounded," Bob Newbold said. The family actually installed decoys before the attack because of hawk sightings. Other neighbors have had close calls as well, and a hawk also attacked a chicken in the area. The Clays Mill Vet Clinic issued a warning to keep small pets on a leash and to take down bird feeders. Hawks are federally protected, and it is illegal to kill or injure them.
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10-20-2015, 04:32 PM | #48 |
Yorkie Yakker | We have Red Tailed Hawks in a tree at the back of our property, I never let our 2.8 pound yorkie outside with out me, but this makes me more afraid for Roxie. I will definitely keep a close eye on her |
10-20-2015, 07:26 PM | #49 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Dallas, TX
Posts: 35
| Wow! Yorkies are tough little doggies!! Thanks for the heads-up about owls, too. I hear & see them all the time. I'll be keeping my baby on a leash. |
10-23-2015, 01:57 AM | #50 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Oct 2015 Location: Toronto
Posts: 25
| So sad for that lovely Yorkie that was attacked by a hawk. In fact I didn't know that hawks could attack Yorkie. Am so much worried about my Yorkie now. I will be very careful |
10-23-2015, 08:17 AM | #51 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Dallas, TX
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| Thanks so much for letting me know. I'm going to be watching more carefully now. |
10-28-2015, 06:00 PM | #52 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: Santa Monica
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| I have a series of 3 photographs of a red tailed hawk circling my Yorkie in Southern Oregon. The last of the 3 pics shows the hawk coming down for him. I happened to be photographing some items outside (I'm a freelance photographer) when I realized I was hearing 2 hawks communicating with each other (possibly) before one of them started his descent for my Yorkie. There was a man in a store in this town who told me he & his wife had a Yorkie who was on the ground next to them when an owl swooped down & took the dog. From that moment on, I never let my dog out without a leash & even when he goes out on the deck in the snow, I go with him. I've heard too many stories like this. There was an owl who swooped down & removed someone's hat off her head as she was bicycling along the golf path. Never let your Yorkies out alone where these raptors can grab them. They aren't even afraid of people. |
11-01-2015, 07:52 PM | #53 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: May 2011 Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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| I always go out with my babies and sit there while they go out. They are never too far from me. Mia will be about 10-20 ft away and I still get super nervous.
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11-02-2015, 09:39 PM | #54 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: Lexington Ky
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| A Jack Russell terrier was taken in central Ky from a yard in a local neighborhood Their dog was old and not very strong but it weighed 8 to 10 lbs. |
11-25-2015, 08:20 AM | #55 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Massapequa, NY
Posts: 48
| OK...so we were on our walk this morning-on Long Island...Bethpage path...Chip started going berserk...practically climbed a tree! I thought he was going for a squirrel...looked up and snapped a photo of what I thought was a snowy owl...I posted it on my page and a few people told me it was a Hawk! My question is this...Everything Ive read says hawks are put off by shiny objects...would weaving a piece of tin foil around his leash or harness help? Are there any products like a mirrored collar?
__________________ Kathy, Chance( RIP) and Chip! |
11-25-2015, 08:31 AM | #56 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Massapequa, NY
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| Update- Found and ordered this- I can put it on the snap of his harness so its on his back and wont drive him nuts... Blue LED Dog Bone Pet Safety Lights by FlashingBlinkyLights!
__________________ Kathy, Chance( RIP) and Chip! |
12-06-2015, 03:53 PM | #57 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Reading, MA
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| Hawks This afternoon, I was walking Beanie around where my cousin lives. There are lots of trees, but not really "wooded area". All of a sudden, a hawk flies (didn't dive THANK GOD) by me, like a few yards from Beanie and I. Then the hawk goes onto a light pole and just looks at me walking. I scooped up my dog and kept walking. A woman had pulled into her driveway and asked me what was wrong and that she had seen me kind of freaking out. She said Oh my God, I have very small children, as she is looking at this giant hawk sitting on the pole right in front of us. The hawk finally took off from the light pole. I cannot believe the size of this creature. |
05-31-2016, 06:08 PM | #58 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: May 2016 Location: Pennsylvania
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| That is so scary. I am glad little Rocky is ok. My husband is always afraid of a hawk grabbing our little pups & my Phoebe is only 3#. How terrifying for the poor pups. Coyotes were brought in several years ago to kill the deer population. Now we still have them & they scare me to death.Some people down the road had put their little dog out to the bathroom & a coyote killed it. Just have to be very protective . |
06-01-2016, 02:58 AM | #59 |
Donating YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: E.Stroudsburg, Pa.
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| Coyotes are early morning (dawn),night and evening (dusk) hunters, I have them in my area, I live in heavily wooded area. I am up at 4 / 4:30AM, Cody uses the deck for potty during these hours with me and my club out there with him. You MUST stay with your dog and that is still not a guarantee a coyote will not snatch your pup with you right there. I am 100 feet from the edge of woods, have spot lights facing woods and entire back yard is illuminated and I watch the wooded area while Cody decides where to potty. One cannot be to careful.
__________________ Joan, mom to Cody RIP Matese Schnae Kajon Kia forever in my A House Is Not A Home Without A Dog |
09-19-2016, 07:50 PM | #60 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: pittsburgh
Posts: 26
| I like in Pittsburgh suburbs, this is not the first Yorkie I have heard of getting attack. When I was at the vet last year there was a Yorkie who was a 9pd. He got attacked. It was horrible and it really affect him. I also have a lake house 2hrs away and we also have eagles. I am always outside with my babies. I use to let them run with the other dogs many people outside watching will long leads on there harness . But them my brothed brought it to my attention that it was extremely dangerous too. Think now thinking was not smart of me. So now I turned my two car garage that is attached to my house in a dog gym. The can run, play, have splash pool. They still go out to play but there is always more then 1 person and multiple dogs. Which two are there aunt and uncle who are large labs. Uncle gunner 120 pounds and would love to take brown a big bird and aunt Mazie another large lad does not like anyone messing with her puppies. A very unfriendly German shepherd got from his owner on a walk. And it took two people to get a uncle gunner calm down because he was not letting the dog near my babies. It such a very scary world for them. I could not live with myself if something happened to them that I could have helped. |
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