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Unconventional
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when the photo has a recognizable background 
Huh???? 25 was too much or ???
B-i-n-g-o
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Warning, faster than 24, and snakes will attack your tires.
no burn outs over 24mph, must be a Mustang thing.
A few that I like. Kim
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Uncle Tony?
Yep. That's Uncle Tony when he was writing for the magazines.
Professor Fate
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We had (past tense) a family of foxes living in an earthen den in a hill behind our house.
Current residents are a couple coyotes (I have pictures of at least two of them).
Fox(es) we can live with. Coyote? Not so much, and they'll be getting their "Eviction Notice" sometime soon.
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Professor Fate
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Wolves used keep nature in balance ie killing Bison, deer, coyote, fox, rabbits etc. Wolves received their eviction notice so all others multiplied bringing an overabundance of smaller prey and disease. So now they slaughter coyotes and the deer are showing up with cwd and the raccoons have rabies. Similar to ocean town of Wilmington, NC where feral cats through programs were captured, tagged/neutered/spayed and released and the rats were kept at a minimum. A few years ago now that program has been stopped and the rats have become a problem again.
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Agreed!
My wife and I moved "out" to enjoy the wooded spaces, and peace & quiet, of nature during our upcoming retirement, but I'm not having coyotes living 40'-50' from our back door (literally) when we have two medium sized dogs that wouldn't stand a chance against them were they to ever come face to face.
And since we are paying the mortgage on the place, not the coyotes....natural or not, they have to go.
The property behind my house is fully developed now, but 20 or so years ago it was densely wooded. We used to have coyotes come into the back yard and chase our dogs. Thank goodness, they never caught one of them. I had enough, so I taped a 6-cell maglite to the top of my 12-guage Mossberg loaded with #4 buck. My kids said I reminded them of the Bill Murray/grounds keeper character from Caddy Shack. I got my chance one night and took one of those devils out. That was the first time I'd seen one up close....scarey!!!! He had those long canine teeth the whole length of his jawbone; no real molars. Talk about equipped for snatching and holding prey!!! We never saw another one after that.
Scary lmao, I lived in Az for 3 years and used to hike in the desert with my dog Riggs (R.I.P.) whom I rescued as a pup from the Ely, Nevada desert. Encountered several coyotes weekly and my dog nor myself were ever attacked. Had one of two flank me but Riggs chased it off.
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I've had a few up close encounters with coyotes around here, they are pretty common along the river bottom where the off leash dog park that I once frequented is located. I used to go there early in the morning before work with my dogs and the coyotes would hang out yipping and yapping trying to entice the dogs. On one occasion my Anatolian shepherd and I were less than 15 ft from a pair of them. Dunham was a good sized boy, around 100 lbs, he let out a low growl and the coyotes disappeared.
He's been gone a few years now, I still miss him.
Exactly my experience. Riggs grew to about 80lbs but was extremely quick and had a brave heart.
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