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NOTHING more STINKY than a, very, dead seal that the dogs have rolled on.

For about 6 months, when I was 16, lived in Imperial Beach with some cousins. One day at the beach the dogs discovered a, long dead seal. Man, that stink was worse than skunk.
How much of that stink is seal and how much of that stink is Tijuana waste water?
Imperial Beach water quality has been bad since The Mighty Six Ninty was in the air.😳
 
How much of that stink is seal and how much of that stink is Tijuana waste water?
Imperial Beach water quality has been bad since The Mighty Six Ninty was in the air.😳
Yep. The SEALS stopped training as much off Coronado and the Dog Beach south of there has been permanently closed due to worsening sewer runoff from TJ.
 
We eat all elk and venison for red meat so I was shocked at the price of beef when I looked for the heck of it. I'm trying to convince hubby to go on a buffalo hunt one of these years since it would be a lot of good meat but next fall it's another moose hunt in Canada.
I bot some Tatanka a few years back from a hobby rancher back home near some property we owned. Pretty tasty but not cheap. It would be very cool to harvest some...he gave it up after a couple years. Not easy animals to work around.
 

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Without a doubt, they are extremely difficult. Hubby saw a ton on them on Ted Turner's ranch when he was in SD a few weeks ago but I'm not sure who's running it now that he's gone.
Ya he said they'd kill ya if you turned your back on them. Sometimes if you were looking right at them tossing out hay. Irritable.

I see there are some guided hunts in various places but not cheap.
 
Only visitors we have seen on our home camera these days....skunks and raccoons :biggrin: I love the little white hat on this skunk...he is a regular. Raccoons wash their hands in the dog dish I have out front (that I no longer let the dogs go near when out there). I just leave it for the wildlife....we have had no rain...so they all stop for a drink each night.
We have not seen the black bear who was passing through over the summer, but my neighbor caught him on her deck camera last week at night.

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Only visitors we have seen on our home camera these days....skunks and raccoons :biggrin: I love the little white hat on this skunk...he is a regular. Raccoons wash their hands in the dog dish I have out front (that I no longer let the dogs go near when out there). I just leave it for the wildlife....we have had no rain...so they all stop for a drink each night.
We have not seen the black bear who was passing through over the summer, but my neighbor caught him on her deck camera last week at night.

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Trash Pandas...we used to see them once in awhile here...no more...
coyotes have been too successful here in the drier uplands forest/suburban interface.

Still plenty of sign dowin in the creek beds and along lagoons...where we walk trails.
I recall someone saying in some forum somewhere that "a bull racoon will kick a male GSDs a$$$"...and they carry even worse crap on teeth than feral cats ...so
"Bonnie-LEAVE IT!"

Only little black striped kitty thats been a regular in my neighborhood spotted after dark digging for grubs and beetles in the mulch around neighbors flowers, and on down to the pool area, then out back...in the open space trails...(Bonnie: "Leave It!")

apparently made a poor life choice- wandered into the neighbors yard-
two female Akitas...
chomp chomp and one spent a few nites sleeping out I am told...
 
A few early mornings ago I was out in the barn getting the horses outside and feeding them. My girlfriend had called me and while we were chatting, I saw a coyote walking through the pasture, right next to the Corral fence. I was so flustered trying to interrupt my friend, put my phone on camera and video and realizing after several attempts, that you can't video when you're on the phone! :furious: Damn it! LOL By the time I figured that out he had walked right by and on to the next property. That was the first time since spring that I had seen a coyote. And no, Annie was not out there with me. I rarely take her out to the barn in the morning. I'm too busy feeding horses and cleaning stalls to watch her so I'm glad she wasn't out there.
 
I saw a coyote walking
OMG! They are thick as thieves right now around here. The youngins are out every night looking for a territory to call their own. Oh the noise they make! Riley is NOT a fan of all the carrying on. He jumps up all night and in his rush to get a look he actually stepped on my face in the dark. People are asking what happened and just give me the "yeah right "look when I say my dog stepped on my face. :spit:
 
The youngins are out every night looking for a territory to call their own. Oh the noise they make!
That's all of the darn fox around here. They come up on the deck almost every night to poop, then drive the dogs nuts early in the morning when they walk back and forth on the driveway and through the yard. We have very few coyotes but there are lots of wolves around and they usually don't coexist well together.
 
We eat all elk and venison for red meat so I was shocked at the price of beef when I looked for the heck of it. I'm trying to convince hubby to go on a buffalo hunt one of these years since it would be a lot of good meat but next fall it's another moose hunt in Canada.
I hope he does get a buffalo, they are delicious!👍👍
Moose? I hear there is no fat at all?
Imma fan of fat😎
 
OMG! They are thick as thieves right now around here. The youngins are out every night looking for a territory to call their own. Oh the noise they make! Riley is NOT a fan of all the carrying on. He jumps up all night and in his rush to get a look he actually stepped on my face in the dark. People are asking what happened and just give me the "yeah right "look when I say my dog stepped on my face. :spit:
They are unusually active around here this year.
I’d say at least 4/7 nights I can hear a pack to our East down in Mockingbird canyon.
Nothing like being woken to a Doberman storming out barking at 2am🫤

Wife commented the other day someone posted on the neighborhood FB page there was a coyote in their driveway seen by their ring cam. Beware!!


I just 😂😂😂 “they must be new around here” 🤷‍♂️
 
That's all of the darn fox around here
i saw and heard a lot more foxes when we lived in the burbs, at least red ones. Now that we are in the boonies, it's gray ones. We don't see them much, maybe occasionally running along the edge of the woods.
 

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