Showing posts with label Animals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Animals. Show all posts
You Can't Take Two Minutes To Enjoy The Wild Horses
On this day Oct. 3rd, at 5:30 p.m. I was sitting in my living room enjoying a Jack Daniels on the rocks and the blazing fire in the fireplace, all this while having a nice chat with my wife. As pleasant as all of this was, it paled with the sight of what I saw through the window; the wild horses sauntering down the street in front of my house on D--r P--k Dr.
Eight mature wild horses, followed by a baby horse, by a young horse, and two more mature horses. My wife and I quickly ran to a front window to admire them, as we usually do whenever they are around, but immediately there were three cars, a black SUV followed by a red SUV and followed by a white thing that looked like a box coming down the street in the opposite direction. The cars drove right up to the horses and stopped so close to each other that they formed a wall so the horses on one side couldn't follow the others. The cars were filled with very important people, they must have been, as they just couldn't stop to enjoy these magnificent beasts. They did stop for a second or two but immediately started driving slowly. As the horses surrounding the cars became frightened they started to run in the opposite direction of their intended travel. As almost everyone on my street is retired, what was their hurry? Were they going to the club to feed their faces? At their age, no one was ready to have a baby--for sure. They could not take two minutes to allow the horses to continue on their way? It was so sad to observe.
The reason a herd travels is to find a better feeding ground; this was denied to them. At this time of year, it is extremely important for the animals to get as much nutrition to give them a better chance to survive the upcoming winter.
Eight mature wild horses, followed by a baby horse, by a young horse, and two more mature horses. My wife and I quickly ran to a front window to admire them, as we usually do whenever they are around, but immediately there were three cars, a black SUV followed by a red SUV and followed by a white thing that looked like a box coming down the street in the opposite direction. The cars drove right up to the horses and stopped so close to each other that they formed a wall so the horses on one side couldn't follow the others. The cars were filled with very important people, they must have been, as they just couldn't stop to enjoy these magnificent beasts. They did stop for a second or two but immediately started driving slowly. As the horses surrounding the cars became frightened they started to run in the opposite direction of their intended travel. As almost everyone on my street is retired, what was their hurry? Were they going to the club to feed their faces? At their age, no one was ready to have a baby--for sure. They could not take two minutes to allow the horses to continue on their way? It was so sad to observe.
The reason a herd travels is to find a better feeding ground; this was denied to them. At this time of year, it is extremely important for the animals to get as much nutrition to give them a better chance to survive the upcoming winter.
You Believe That It's Also Fun For The Wild Horses
Feeding Wild Horses . . . Don't!
The basic concept is, "No Feed. No Approach."
"No Feed." Feeding the wild horses can be harmful, often causing painful colic, and may result in death. Apples and carrots kill wild horses. Wild horses cannot eat any food that is not from their natural habitat.
Certainly, we admire and photograph them as they are such magnificent animals, but DO NOT FEED, as it is illegal both on the Federal and State level. If you feel that a horse or several horses are in distress, then you should call the proper authorities who then will come out and take care of them.
"No Approach." Wild horses should be skittish of humans. By approaching too close and feeding them, they lose their fear of humans. This makes them hang around built-up areas looking for handouts where there is more traffic causing them being hit by cars. The general rule is to stay 50-feet from them.
If while approaching, the horse starts to back up, so should you. This should tell you that it feels threatened. Remember, these are wild animals and when they feel that they are being threatened they may bite or injure you in other ways.
You've come to the mountains or the shores for a few days and you think that you're helping the animals by giving them a treat, but in reality you, most often, cause them to suffer excruciating pain for several days and if they cannot overcome this trauma . . . they die.
And when they become dependent on humans for their food and you go back home after your visit, who then will feed them?
You Improperly Feed Deer
Deer Feeding by Humans
Worse than a belly-ache.
It takes two to four weeks of feeding on a new food source for deer to establish the microorganisms necessary to obtain nutrients from that food. The time and energy it takes to convert to new microorganisms uses precious fat reserves that could have been spared if the deer had fed continually on natural winter browse. Studies, including some in Pennsylvania, have documented the death of wild ruminants from feeding on highly digestible, high energy, low fiber feed such as corn in winter. This rapid exposure to a concentrated grain diet can cause a fatal disruption of the animal's acid-base balance. Those that survive the immediate effects often die in the days or weeks that follow, due to secondary complications of the disease.
Feeding by humans causes the concentration of a large herd which attracts predators such as bears, mountain lions, foxes, etc. When the human, especially a child, is feeding the deer and there are predators around, as the human cannot run as fast as the deer, the predator, not being fussy about what it eats, will eat the human. There are several recorded instances where the human child was killed and eaten by the predator. Bears don't kill their prey before they start to eat it . . . human or otherwise.
It seems to the human, especially the human child, that they are helping the deer by giving them a treat and it's a fun thing to do, but they are actually killing the deer. Irrespective of the predators, the deer themselves can become aggressive and harm the human.
If one feels that animals are in distress, such as injured or due to severe weather conditions and snowfall, he should call the proper agency for advice and help.
The Dead of Winter
Winter mortality will never be eliminated, it's nature's way of ensuring that only the strongest of the species survive to reproduce. Winter survival is determined by the availability of high quality fall food (to ensure fat accumulation) and winter thermal cover (to conserve energy). By late fall, deer (even captive deer) instinctively reduce their food intake and continue to do so through most of the winter. During that time, deer rely heavily on fat reserves and their ability to conserve energy, thereby making those reserves last longer. They travel less and seek protection in cover where snow is less deep, wind is less severe and tempertures are warmer. Winter energy conservation, especially important to fawns which use a good portion of their fall food to grow bone and muscle, not build up fat reserves. If an animal's fat reserves are used up before the end of winter, it is much more likely to die.
That being said, any activity that causes increased energy demands can harm deer by compelling them to waste essential fat reserves. Supplemental feedig can cause deer to expend more energy by coercing them to travel farther and more often and can increase winter starvation by luring in more animals than the feed can support. In one study, feeding was found to increase the winter death rate from 25 to 42 percent. Supplemental feeding also lowers the quality of the herd by enabling less fit individuals to avoid selective, natural winter culling. High concentrations of wildlife at feeding sites also attract predators. Animals expending energy to avoid those predators burn fat reserves that would have otherwise enabled them to survive the winter.
Sources: Wildlife conservation websites.
http://www.ruidosonews.com/story/news/local/2017/01/12/feeding-wildlife-could-fatal-wild/96491254
Worse than a belly-ache.
It takes two to four weeks of feeding on a new food source for deer to establish the microorganisms necessary to obtain nutrients from that food. The time and energy it takes to convert to new microorganisms uses precious fat reserves that could have been spared if the deer had fed continually on natural winter browse. Studies, including some in Pennsylvania, have documented the death of wild ruminants from feeding on highly digestible, high energy, low fiber feed such as corn in winter. This rapid exposure to a concentrated grain diet can cause a fatal disruption of the animal's acid-base balance. Those that survive the immediate effects often die in the days or weeks that follow, due to secondary complications of the disease.
Feeding by humans causes the concentration of a large herd which attracts predators such as bears, mountain lions, foxes, etc. When the human, especially a child, is feeding the deer and there are predators around, as the human cannot run as fast as the deer, the predator, not being fussy about what it eats, will eat the human. There are several recorded instances where the human child was killed and eaten by the predator. Bears don't kill their prey before they start to eat it . . . human or otherwise.
It seems to the human, especially the human child, that they are helping the deer by giving them a treat and it's a fun thing to do, but they are actually killing the deer. Irrespective of the predators, the deer themselves can become aggressive and harm the human.
If one feels that animals are in distress, such as injured or due to severe weather conditions and snowfall, he should call the proper agency for advice and help.
The Dead of Winter
Winter mortality will never be eliminated, it's nature's way of ensuring that only the strongest of the species survive to reproduce. Winter survival is determined by the availability of high quality fall food (to ensure fat accumulation) and winter thermal cover (to conserve energy). By late fall, deer (even captive deer) instinctively reduce their food intake and continue to do so through most of the winter. During that time, deer rely heavily on fat reserves and their ability to conserve energy, thereby making those reserves last longer. They travel less and seek protection in cover where snow is less deep, wind is less severe and tempertures are warmer. Winter energy conservation, especially important to fawns which use a good portion of their fall food to grow bone and muscle, not build up fat reserves. If an animal's fat reserves are used up before the end of winter, it is much more likely to die.
That being said, any activity that causes increased energy demands can harm deer by compelling them to waste essential fat reserves. Supplemental feedig can cause deer to expend more energy by coercing them to travel farther and more often and can increase winter starvation by luring in more animals than the feed can support. In one study, feeding was found to increase the winter death rate from 25 to 42 percent. Supplemental feeding also lowers the quality of the herd by enabling less fit individuals to avoid selective, natural winter culling. High concentrations of wildlife at feeding sites also attract predators. Animals expending energy to avoid those predators burn fat reserves that would have otherwise enabled them to survive the winter.
Sources: Wildlife conservation websites.
http://www.ruidosonews.com/story/news/local/2017/01/12/feeding-wildlife-could-fatal-wild/96491254
You Mistreat Dogs
There Is A Place
There is a place in the afterlife for people who mistreat dogs. It's called "Dog's Revenge." It's not hell, but it's near hell and you'll wish you were in hell instead of in "Dog's Revenge."
How it works, as I saw it in my premonition.
The weight distribution will be reversed. If you're 100 pounds and your dog is 10 pounds, then you'll be 10 pounds and your dog will weigh 100 pounds.
If you now kick your dog twice a day, then your dog will kick you 20 times a day, every day for eternity.
If you now chain your dog outside in the winter, then your dog will do the same to you. As thirsty as you will be, you won't be able to drink from the water bowl because the water will be frozen like your dog's water bowl is now.
You'll only be fed one-half as much as you're feeding your dog now. And if the food you're feeding it is merely half-rotten scraps, then your food will be more foul and putrid.
If in your anger, you throw your puppy against the wall, he, then, will drop-kick you against the wall whenever it remembers a time that you did it to it; and his memory will be excellent so he will be drop-kicking you against a wall almost on a daily basis.
If you are now torturing dogs, every one of them will be there torturing you, constantly taking turns for all of eternity.
A trillion years of eternity is like a second in the lifetime of a human who lives to 100-years-old.
My premonition did not exclude those who make their dogs fight, and even the spectators will be made to fight every day getting their face chewed up and their body to suffer from the injuries. Made to fight daily, never allowing time for the injuries to heal.
If you've ever dropped off a dog in the woods or countryside to fend for itself, that is what your dog will do to you. Your plight will be to forever roam the forest tormented by wild dogs. You will never be molested by them, but always have in your mind 10 times the fear that your dog felt.
The only way to avoid this is to immediately start treating your dog like the loving pet that it is and that he so richly deserves..
My advice: if you can't treat a dog properly: don't get one. If you already have one, turn it in to a shelter.
(My [expanded] version of what my wife hopes will happen to people who abuse dogs).
There is a place in the afterlife for people who mistreat dogs. It's called "Dog's Revenge." It's not hell, but it's near hell and you'll wish you were in hell instead of in "Dog's Revenge."
How it works, as I saw it in my premonition.
The weight distribution will be reversed. If you're 100 pounds and your dog is 10 pounds, then you'll be 10 pounds and your dog will weigh 100 pounds.
If you now kick your dog twice a day, then your dog will kick you 20 times a day, every day for eternity.
If you now chain your dog outside in the winter, then your dog will do the same to you. As thirsty as you will be, you won't be able to drink from the water bowl because the water will be frozen like your dog's water bowl is now.
You'll only be fed one-half as much as you're feeding your dog now. And if the food you're feeding it is merely half-rotten scraps, then your food will be more foul and putrid.
If in your anger, you throw your puppy against the wall, he, then, will drop-kick you against the wall whenever it remembers a time that you did it to it; and his memory will be excellent so he will be drop-kicking you against a wall almost on a daily basis.
If you are now torturing dogs, every one of them will be there torturing you, constantly taking turns for all of eternity.
A trillion years of eternity is like a second in the lifetime of a human who lives to 100-years-old.
My premonition did not exclude those who make their dogs fight, and even the spectators will be made to fight every day getting their face chewed up and their body to suffer from the injuries. Made to fight daily, never allowing time for the injuries to heal.
If you've ever dropped off a dog in the woods or countryside to fend for itself, that is what your dog will do to you. Your plight will be to forever roam the forest tormented by wild dogs. You will never be molested by them, but always have in your mind 10 times the fear that your dog felt.
The only way to avoid this is to immediately start treating your dog like the loving pet that it is and that he so richly deserves..
My advice: if you can't treat a dog properly: don't get one. If you already have one, turn it in to a shelter.
(My [expanded] version of what my wife hopes will happen to people who abuse dogs).
You Are One
A pig lives on my street.
A while ago I was walking my dog. I noticed during one of his stops that he was trying to eat something. I quickly got it out of its mouth and noticed that it was a partially eaten chicken wing that someone had thrown to the side of the road. The ignorant pig, obviously, doesn't realize that chicken bones are soft, not like steak bones, and if the animal attempts to swallow a piece it will lodge in its throat and suffer a slow, painful death. There are several people on my street that walk their dogs and there are many wild animals, deer, elk, turkey, etc., that would most probably try to eat the discarded chicken wing.
I'll leave it up to the reader's imagination as to what the pig should do with his partially eaten chicken wings.
A while ago I was walking my dog. I noticed during one of his stops that he was trying to eat something. I quickly got it out of its mouth and noticed that it was a partially eaten chicken wing that someone had thrown to the side of the road. The ignorant pig, obviously, doesn't realize that chicken bones are soft, not like steak bones, and if the animal attempts to swallow a piece it will lodge in its throat and suffer a slow, painful death. There are several people on my street that walk their dogs and there are many wild animals, deer, elk, turkey, etc., that would most probably try to eat the discarded chicken wing.
I'll leave it up to the reader's imagination as to what the pig should do with his partially eaten chicken wings.
You Break A Dog's Heart
A woman in India killed eight puppies because the mother/dog had them in the wrong place on her property. This was to teach the mother dog a lesson. After the puppies were buried the dog dug up her puppies and tried to nurse them. How broken hearted it must have been. What kind of lesson do you think that the dog would learn? None, I would venture to say. The lady was arrested, but still
. . .
My point in retelling this story:
Anyone who is arrested and tried for causing bodily harm to an animal abuser MUST be found Not Guilty.
Anyone who trespasses on another’s property to care for an abused animal MUST be found Not Guilty.
All members of all juries and each and every judge, worldwide, MUST find the person protecting the animal Not Guilty.
Each and every Prosecutor MUST refuse to try anyone who assaults an animal abuser and anyone who is trying to protect an animal from his abuser.
Each and every Law Enforcement Officer MUST never arrest anyone who causes bodily harm to an animal abuser or one who is trying to protect an animal from the abuser.
I do not know what fate will be forthcoming to you when you die; but, I do know that each and every juror, judge, prosecutor and law enforcement officer will eventually die.
Retired LEO, and dog owner.
