RE: HYB:Drawbacks

Janet <janet.tollenaar@gmail.com> wrote:    My daughter is a veterinary nurse and although puppies do eat unusual
things - especially when teething, it sound rather bizarre for a puppy to go
to all the trouble of digging up and eating the roots.

  Pliny the Elder, the Roman compiler of natural history lore, recommended hanging a piece of iris rhizome on a string around a baby's neck as a pacifier when it was teething. Perhaps the dog in question is a Latin scholar?
   
  With reference to Betty's original query: cougars are quite common around here, though they mostly stay up in the mountains. I have never heard of any attacks on people by them in Utah, where cougars are actively hunted and retain a healthy wariness regarding close contact with humans. The story is quite different in parts of California and Colorado, where cougars are not hunted and have lost their fear of humans. Since cougars are presumably not being hunted in areas like Kentucky where their presence is largely unrecognized, it seems that due caution would be advisable. The hammer is probably useless, and might only give a false sense of security, since you would never see or hear the cougar in time to make use of it. 




Jeff Walters
in northern Utah
(USDA Zone 4)

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