watch those hawks!!

[RoxyLuv]

Originally Posted by Jellybears

I KNOW! I was on here a couple of weeks ago saying about a FALCON sitting on my son's fence in Florida when we were visiting. It just sat for a few minutes staring down at Mr. Darcy's toy hedgehog......long enough for me to get a picture of it and hawks were circling everyday over his backgarden.My big problem right now is the fishers who live out back of my house as we live up north in Canada. I never leave him out by himself. I do have chicken wire around back deck where he plays. Anyone know anything about fishers??? I have been wondering lately if they would climb up.....??

Climbing the fence is definitely something to watch for. Sometime back I say a video (I think on utube) about an outdoor shelter w/about 4-5 beagles in it. Shelter was about 7-8 ft tall w/that wavy metal stuff for a roof that was anchored down with bricks or something. The sides were covered w/chicken wire. One of the beagles climbed to the roof & squeezed himself through the roof that hadn't been screwed down, jumped to the ground. He almost looked like this was not the first time. So much thinking your dogs are confined. They are sometimes just too clever.

[Julie1760]

I too read somewhere last year about placing cd's on the clothes line. We have a chicken wire fence for the dogs off the back porch, and I went and got some flashy pinwheels and zip tied them to every post. It looks rather funny, but I haven't seen any birds of prey hovering around any longer. Myah also has a light weight dress, that has a strip of flashy sequins on it that I put on her when she goes outside.

Before we put all the flashy stuff out....we had birds circling over head all the time. Not any more.

[RoxyLuv]

Another thing that draws in hawks is feeding the wild birds. We used to see hawks often in trees right in back of the house when we used to feed them. I'd have a fit, but it didn't keep them away. We stopped feeding the birds some years back, & no longer see hawks up near the house. I see them further in the distance though.

[BanditSocks2]

That's so scary!!!

[Jellybears]

I know fishers are horrible aggressive things. We back on to 'pickies'! I would never leave Mr. Darcy out back alone. Would you know if they would climb up onto our deck? I used to leave the dog door open so he could go in and out and watch the driveway for me to come home. Yikes, not anymore. I heard the Ministry brought them in to get rid of porcupines - go figure - which is worse??? Now why don't the get rid of fishers - I haven't seen a porcupine in ages.

[Jellybears]

Google them!! Ugly things with very sharp teeth, and long nasty claws.