Re: Sad Time at My House

And, some people import them in...when my parents were living in GA, my Dad
told me that a hunt club brought some in for sport.  Of course, they are
intelligent and were soon all over the place getting into domesticated
animals.


> [Original Message]
> From: Jesse Bell <silverhawk@flash.net>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Date: 5/20/2006 10:10:33 AM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Sad Time at My House
>
> OH ZEM!!!! How horribly SAD!. You poor thing. I am sending you so many
> hugs and prayers. I will light a candle in my garden outside tonight in
> memory of your precious babies. Man, if I lived closer I'd be out there
> with the local law enforcment shooting them. I don't believe in shooting
> animals..but my husband and kids know that the ONE animal I would shoot
> is a coyote. They carry rabies a lot of times and they can destroy a
> goat or sheep herd in one night if you have a large pack of them. In
> fact, my husband shot one that was rabid in the barn once (in the middle
> of the day...which is odd for a coyote to be seen during the day...and
> it was sitting up on top of a few bales of hay and didn't even try to
> run when Robert walked in....so he knew something wasn't right with it).
> Coyotes have been moving closer and closer into the city in the past few
> years too. In some midwestern towns, people shoot them and take them in
> to the county office and they actually PAY
>
>  people by the pelt because they are trying to thin them out.
>   
> Zemuly Sanders <zsanders@midsouth.rr.com> wrote:
>   Lucky for me, our policeman is a real animal lover. The TN wildlife
people 
> have said we have had a huge jump in coyotes this year and that the only
way 
> to deal with them was with shotguns. The mayor has approved shooting
them, 
> so I guess that's what the policeman is going to do.
> zem
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kitty" 
> To: 
> Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 8:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Sad Time at My House
>
>
> > Oh Zem, that's so sad. To lose several all at once and under such 
> > terrible circumstances. I hope something can be done about the coyote 
> > situation.
> >
> > Kitty
> > neIN, Zone 5
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Zemuly Sanders" 
> > To: "gardenchat" 
> > Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 8:24 PM
> > Subject: [CHAT] Sad Time at My House
> >
> >
> >> This is a very sad time at my house. A coyote has eaten two of my 
> >> friendliest
> >> cats (Melvin and Esmeralda), whose only fault was eating the mice and 
> >> greeting
> >> the parishioners at the Episcopal church across the street (I know it 
> >> was a
> >> coyote because I saw him looking for more "snacks" in the middle of the
> >> afternoon two days ago.) When I noticed they were missing I also
noticed 
> >> the
> >> most socialized cat of all, Tiger Lily, was not feeling well and had a 
> >> mass
> >> under her front leg. I took her to the vet where he determined she had
a
> >> lipoma, and she was also running a fever. He gave her some antibiotics 
> >> and
> >> scheduled her for surgery next Tuesday, and I put her in the house in
a 
> >> room
> >> of her own. This afternoon when I got home I found her dead. I've no 
> >> idea
> >> what the cause might have been, but I do know that after initially 
> >> seeming a
> >> little better she was obviously not feeling well this morning. I'm 
> >> calling
> >> the vet in the morning to see if he wants to do a necropsy on TIger
Lily
> >> before I bury her.
> >> zem
> >>
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