Guest Posted March 10, 2013 Posted March 10, 2013 Excellent reports, very interesting. Thanks for sharing them. years....
Explorer Posted March 10, 2013 Posted March 10, 2013 Here is neat story on coyotes invading urban areas in America. http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21573167-coyote-quietly-conquering-urban-america-dogged-persistence I find it interesting that coyotes are also invisible like BF. See the following quote: "In America’s cities the key to the coyote’s success is its virtual invisibility, and sightings of the animal during the recent mating season were unusual enough to have been the subject of news reports. This is no accident. Those who watch the beasts say that the coyote is more nocturnal when it lives in cities than when it is in the wild, which has undoubtedly helped its quiet conquest of parts of metropolitan America. Most people do not actually know they have coyotes living in their neighbourhood." Well, I suppose there's exceptions to every rule even in nature, like those polar bears up in Canada who play with sled dogs. Under normal circumstances those bears would be aggressive to those dogs, maybe even eat them and those dogs would be going ballistic at a polar bear in such close proximity, but for some reason both species seem to enjoy each others company. On the whole, judging from accounts, BF don't like dogs, they will kill them, threaten them, run away from them and eat them, and dogs usually don't like bigfoots, they cower from them and bark at them and try to attack them. But, there do seem to be accounts of the two coexisting peacefully, but I'd say generally speaking the two species don't gel. On the topic of coyotes, whilst I doubt the BF use them for hunting down deer, the yotes will undoubtedly share a klepto parasitic relationship, avoiding the BF but keeping tabs on them and scavenging on there kills, and BF probably scavenge yote kills as well. Good summary, BigTeddy!
Guest Posted March 12, 2013 Posted March 12, 2013 It's interesting to note that humans have recruited dogs for look outs and hunting. BF, being stealthy, should be familair with ALL aninmals in their territory and that includes dogs. I don't think a dog is capable of tracking them. I don't think it is an issue of a dog being capable of tracking BF. They are physically more than capable of doing this. Dogs live in a scent-oriented world, much different from our sight-oriented world. it is more an issue of desire, drive, training and fear. Better yet, put the cam on the canine, but have the canine trained to chase the BF so far....and then high tail it to the rear trenches...... known as coming back to papa, where papa could pull a on the BF. Actually that is not a bad idea! My wife and I did a demo of some protection dog work for a local TV station (we train in schutzhund and are German Shepherd Dog breeders/trainers), and we put a harness/camera combination on one of the dogs we worked. It was quite enlightening seeing the bitework from the dogs's perspective! (It was jumpy and such, but you could still see what was going on.) If someone did this on a dog and had an encounter, you might get some interesting footage... I don't think it would be definitive, but would be interesting.
Sunflower Posted March 12, 2013 Posted March 12, 2013 I've already admitted to feeding a couple of yotes that came near the house through the pasture. I watched them as they watched my dogs eating from their respective bowls and tubs. St Bernards eat a lot, so Bertha had a tub. The yotes looked terrible and skinny so I filled another tub and slid it under the fence. They came over as if this was a nature thing for them to do. They didn't care that I stood there and watched them either. My dogs were oblivious which I found absolutely weird.
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