Got the bottom of a 100 step staircase this morning to a coyote staring me down not budging. My instinct was to snarl and howl. More wolf. Solves everything.
I have a friend who works as a park ranger in upstate NY. Every year the rangers have to cull the deer, but they use rifles. He said the problem is the only natural predator deer have in the area is the automobile.
I’m in Utah, and we drove out the wolves like 100 years ago and coyotes have a county, so we’re being overrun with deer. As a result, it’s really easy to get a deer tag here, since we need some way to cull the population, but it’s still not enough. We’re finally reintroducing wolves, but it’ll take a while for things to rebalance.
My neighbors feed them and we’re five minutes from downtown in the capital city of my state. They’re cute and all, barely afraid of people or cars. Get scared off by neighborhood cats sometimes.
I would love to post the photo I got of 13 of the 14 that were in their backyard at one time but I’m lucky someone hasn’t already doxxed me.
People loooove to hunt here. People live for deer season. They talk about hunting during the other three seasons like those people who can yammer on about sports for hours in the offseason. I know scrawny little dweebs who bag a buck almost every year.
The meat is good and if they aren’t culled they’re all doomed to starve or die of disease and further ruin the ecosystem. We have a few city coyote, more on the outskirts and countryside. I feel like people would lose their minds here if we tried to reintroduce wolves though.
People already look at me like I grew an extra head when I tell them I’ve never been hunting, so maybe the hunters are doing enough here.
Yeah, people look at me weird as well, but it’s mostly because my parents weren’t into hunting, and I have young kids and don’t want to risk them playing with my guns. Once the youngest is old enough to learn to use them properly, maybe I’ll go try my hand at hunting.
If you’re willing to take some advice from a fellow non-hunter, go with someone experienced. I know my way around a firearm too, but I would never say, go rock climbing alone with kids because I know how a carabiner works.
The thing I understand from talking to the young and old about hunting is that it is very cold and very boring.
I got some Dickies long underwear on sale this winter and it is amazing. Combined with ski style pants, heavy boots, two layers of wool socks and thin gloves under thick gloves, plus jackets (one thick warm, one thin waterproof) of course, I was a snow and ice destroying machine during the last bad storm here. I would recommend a setup like that to go hunting. Even though it’s just the fall or early winter you’re going to be starting at 4am and then not moving for hours.
I was raised by women, and it’s not that women can’t hunt, culturally they don’t where I’m from. And I absolutely hate being cold. I think my ADHD brain might have had a little problem with staring at nothing quietly for hours as well. Hunting is a fuck no for me.
Yeah, that’s another issue. I don’t know now to field dress a deer, nor do I know what to bring to pack it out. I’m not even sure I’ll enjoy hunting in the first place. I know my way around a gun (took my SO to a range on a date), but shooting a living animal is another matter entirely.
So I’m planning to go jackrabbit hunting first. They’re a nuisance animal, not good for eating (so no need to field dress), I can use a small caliber (SO doesn’t have experience with larger guns), and they’re everywhere. If I like that, I’ll ask around to find a hunting buddy.
I don’t know about the difference between a jackrabbit and a rabbit but rabbit jambalaya was sent from the gods. If you’re not hunting them for game why not hit em with the shotty. Super fun to shoot and you can teach quick lessons on how to hold it right because it usually only takes one shot holding it wrong.
Fair point. I actually checked, and the “jackrabbits aren’t worth eating” is apparently an old wives tail. I mostly wanted to try them first since they’re everywhere and there are no limits to worry about since they’re considered a nuisance.
My goal with the rabbits is to get used to shooting rifles with inexpensive rounds (can get away with. 22lr or even pellets) and a fallback to target shooting if we don’t find any. Shotguns are fun, but throwing pigeons is hard, and you need to take turns.
I’d certainly go with shotguns next (pheasant or duck) since they are super fun.
Yeah, I live in a neighborhood that’s kinda in-between suburban and rural. I.e. a neighborhood of 1/4 acre lots surrounded by mostly protected shrubland. The deer seem to have learned to stay in the neighborhood where they can’t be hunted. They often sleep in people’s back and sometimes even front yards. I don’t really mind them, except for the fact that they’ll eat almost anything I try to plant, and even jump my backyard fence to eat their favorite plants.
Exactly why I got no beef with deer hunters. How are there not enough humans doing that in NY?
The park is surrounded by residential neighborhoods. No hunting allowed for miles.
Most of them unintentionally hunt deer with their cars, from what my friend tells me. He said Pound Ridge has an absurdly high number of car accidents involving deer when compared to similar towns, hence the local support for culling.
To much pollution is controlled by releasing wives into mansions and penthouse apartments, not warehouses.
Encourage the people making the bad decisions to make better ones.
Releasing wives into mansions and penthouse apartments would probably result in more pollution from all the deliveries.
What kind of wives are we talking about here?
Evidently not the Temu ordering kind, otherwise pollution would actually increase.
Believe it or not, there’s a relevant xkcd
Xkcd is the rule34 of information
there’s always a relevant xkcd
Because of course there is. It’s a good one too. Lol
This one is honestly baffling 🤣
Sometimes I wonder how some people looks at a topic and knows that there is a relevant xkcd and exactly which one.
I don’t know about people in general, but in my case it’s a simple case of me thinking “that reminds me of something”, then figuring out that what it reminds me of is an xkcd comic, and then finding the comic 🤷
In this case, it was pretty much inevitable since it’s one of my all time favorites 😁
lmao didn’t know this one
One of my absolute favorites 😄🥰
Instructions unclear: Gave wolf offering of table scraps and warm place by fire, now have dog that barks at twigs
Nova has an episode about the need for multiple predator species. Keeps all of the animals in their roles.
Wolves, lions, bears, and cheetahs.
The last American lions died out here about 13 thousand years ago. There was all kinds of wild-ass shit roaming around here back then. Humans have been wrecking the world’s ecosystems far before the industrial revolution, we just kicked it into overdrive the past 200 years.
It was about 25% larger than the modern lion, making it one of the largest known felids to ever exist, and an important apex predator.
That would be effective to get attention.
Helpful Tip: in a pinch, other predators will do, but they should be spec’d up for lethality if facing larger prey.
Source: Fox that attacked congressman and others near Capitol had rabies, officials say
The amazing thing is, that would actually solve all three situations.
In a bloody, slaughter sort of way, but still. Solved.
Wolves would have to be real hungry though
Limit it to atrocities against nature and i’m game.
Sounds like one fix for all type maga thinking.
Finally, someone makes sense.
Reminds me of one of my friends who is in his 50s and still obsessed with wolves like an elementary school kid. He non-ironically wears lots of wolf t-shirts and has his house decorated with tacky posters of them, etc.
I roll my eyes at it, but he’s pretty fun to hang out with.
I would have rolled my eyes at it in my 20s but I’m feeling it in my 40s.
20s’s me: “well how are wolf posters going to help you get ahead in life?”
40’s me: “I dont care if you have sex with a taxidermied wolf, everyone has hobbies its all good.”
Funny. In my 20s I didn’t give a shit about getting ahead in life, more like getting head in life. So I would have been dismissive of wolf shit for that reason among others.
40s me to 40s you- fuck yeah go for it, let that freak flag fly!
Wanna lose weight? That’s right; Wolves.
I have two wolves in me, and they’re both fat-asses.
I’m a little concerned about the wolves… in you 😳
Considering they’re on yiffit, that may well be a reasonable concern.
I mean, as long as all the beasts involved are consenting adults, what do I care 😜
Wolves? More wolves.
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That clearly doesn’t work, lol.
spoiler
We don’t have enough wolves.
Release the wolves! Its time!
