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01-04-2011, 08:55 AM | #1 |
Donating YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Michigan USA
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| Watch the sky! This is a cautionary tale. The other day I saw a bald eagle sitting in the very top branches of our neighbors back yard tree. Yesterday I looked out the window and saw what I thought was a large bird with a broken wing flapping along our back fence. My husband went out to see what it was before we took Sophie out to go potty. As he approached it he saw it was a large hawk and it flew up and away with a squirrel in it's talons. It was a very scary sight to see. The squirrel was only slightly smaller than Sophie. Be sure to give a good long look before letting your little yorkie outside even in your seemly safe backyard.
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01-04-2011, 09:00 AM | #2 |
Donating YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: New York
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| Thank you for the warning!! It is so scary that something like that could happen to the small animals. |
01-04-2011, 09:06 AM | #3 |
♥ Maximo and Teddy Donating Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Northern Virginia
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| We have a red-shouldered hawk and large owls living in our backyard. Another reason why my boys don't get to run free in our yard.
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01-10-2011, 07:37 PM | #4 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Virginia
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| I was just getting ready to jokingly say that you must live near me when I looked at your location and behold...you do, at least in VA! We have the same here with two hawks that keep our yard as their hunting grounds, they even walk around on the ground and a couple of owls too! We let Elsa out and pretty much walk with her and keep an eye on her. We live on a 10 acre ranch setting and usually our neighbors bigger outside dogs are with her too. |
01-10-2011, 07:58 PM | #5 |
Donating YT 30K Club Member | Good reminder. I have seen hawks flying near the area I live in.
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01-11-2011, 05:44 PM | #6 |
Luv my Angel, too! Donating Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: USA
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| We live in the middle of suburbia with standard size lots (120 x 60). We have had hawks land on our back fence!!!! When my girls were outdoor pottiers, I had an x-pen set up in the yard. I would carry them outside, place them in the x-pen, tell them to "Potty" and then bring them right back inside for this very reason. I would keep the x-pen area shoveled free of snow during the winter. One particularly brutal winter (very cold with lots of snow), both girls had started getting up at 2am to potty. That was when I transitioned to indoor potty pads for them!!!!!
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01-11-2011, 10:00 PM | #7 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: New Albany, Indiana
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| I have a hugh 200 year old Beech tree and it houses a ton of squirrels and birds so I guess that is why a large hawk visits it regularly. We have never been able to let the girls run. They would love to just run wild in the yard. A real shame but I can't take the chance.
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01-11-2011, 10:03 PM | #8 |
Resident Yorkie Nut Donating YT 20K Club Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Texas
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| I have red tailed hawks here....and have also had them land on my fence. Downright creepy. I have been told that they cannot lift a yorkie, but I don't buy it.
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01-11-2011, 10:09 PM | #9 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: May 2010 Location: Port Aransas, TX USA
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| Thank you for the post. I have a bird refuge and wetlands near my home. Never thought about hawks! I live in a small town and recently read about coyotes that took a small pet from an upstairs deck! Our babies are so fearless, yet so very small and must be watched. Great reminder for us all. |
01-12-2011, 04:44 AM | #10 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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| I live in a hawk/eagle populated area... it's one of the main reasons I don't let him off leash. we have a retractable leash I use for outside play.
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01-12-2011, 05:19 AM | #11 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Charlotte, NC
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| Thanks for the reminder. That is so scary! |
01-12-2011, 06:07 AM | #12 | ||
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01-12-2011, 06:27 AM | #13 |
Donating YT 100K Club Member & Top YorkieTalk Poster! Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: western KY
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| I live on a lake so like you we have lots of big birds just looking for prey as well as we see foxes and other animals, we enclosed our back deck with wire and lattice put in a doggie door to keep ours safe now they can go out and enjoy the sunshine and be safe
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01-12-2011, 11:22 AM | #14 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Hafnafjörður, Iceland , North Europe
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| There are not allot of owls here in Iceland, but not long from my home (40 min. from my house if I walk there) are owls, sometimes they fly over my neighbourhood. Once Molly got out (My neighbours yorkie, wich I own one leg in :P ) while there was an owl outside, the owl flew right after her and was going to have her for dinner! Molly is such a hound that she barked at the owl and wanted to catch him, and kill him, my mom cought her and brought her inside, thank god she did that ! Otherwise the owl would have taken her
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01-12-2011, 12:45 PM | #15 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Ball Ground, GA
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| Here's a picture of a red-shouldered hawk that was in my neighbor's backyard. Needless to say, I am out when Liz is out.
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