I would actually encourage it. If someone is too dense to know that you don't approach 2,000 pound animals, they certainly shouldn't be contributing to the gene pool.Zaiquiri said:
Not prohibiting petting would clean the gene pool up.
WaldoWings said:CanyonAg77 said:
Going through the tourons of Yellowstone video, I find a touron right here in my backyard. Well, 80 miles away in Caprock Canyons State Park.
I will say that we encountered two bachelor bulls on a trail in CC a few years ago. We got off the trail as far as we could, kept quiet, and I wondered if the 9mm I was carrying would do anything besides make them angry. Lucky for us, they just ambled on by.
My photo, taken with 135mm telephoto, after they had passed:
The touron video
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CqUSR9RuUyi/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
I drove through caprock canyon and stayed in Turkey two weeks ago. Beautiful area I never knew existed and a neat little town. I thought I was in Dancer, TX.
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Not sure how many people know about Dancer, TX.
Eh...I'm a third generation "city slicker." I can read park rules. Been to Yellowstone and many other parks without incident. And as an authentic city kid, I certainly don't need any rules telling me to keep a safe distance from wildlife.giddings_ag_06 said:
Y'all realize it will only get worse, right? The vast majority of Americans only have outdoor experience from a city park or backyard the size of a living room. For cheap trips or to "experience the outdoors" they just load up and drive through parks usually having never even seen any of these animals before. They don't watch the outdoor or discovery channels and know what nature is really like. The more citified Americans get, the more dumb decisions they will make in parks. Harsh fines won't teach anyone before the fact either. Videos would help, but we have too many idiots trying to get "outdoorsy" now.
Friend sent me a Nextdoor post where people were complaining of coyotes coming into the suburban neighborhood and one commented on a coyote that looked unwell and a woman posted she had out some food out for it and would try to catch it to take to the vet for help.Microwave Onions said:Eh...I'm a third generation "city slicker." I can read park rules. Been to Yellowstone and many other parks without incident. And as an authentic city kid, I certainly don't need any rules telling me to keep a safe distance from wildlife.giddings_ag_06 said:
Y'all realize it will only get worse, right? The vast majority of Americans only have outdoor experience from a city park or backyard the size of a living room. For cheap trips or to "experience the outdoors" they just load up and drive through parks usually having never even seen any of these animals before. They don't watch the outdoor or discovery channels and know what nature is really like. The more citified Americans get, the more dumb decisions they will make in parks. Harsh fines won't teach anyone before the fact either. Videos would help, but we have too many idiots trying to get "outdoorsy" now.
I suspect social media "animal lovers" just don't understand the differences between domesticated animals and wild, and want to do something heroic for another lost fur baby. I sometimes read posts from crazy cat ladies on my neighborhood Nextdoor app, and their are people who genuinely believe they can communicate with the lost fur babies they see crawling out of sewer ditches and so forth. They also think stray dogs on the jogging trail are "coyotes." My favorite was some lady who kept complaining that someone was killing possums and depositing them in the middle of one of the main roads every morning. Because how else could you explain dead possums in the middle of a street?
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Not sure how many people know about Dancer, TX.
I heard it has a population of 81.
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I'm really deficient on West Texas travel, and never seen the panhandle at all. Have several places in mind to visit when I can, including Turkey - which I only know of for Bob Wills Day. Some older Ags told me about a group that would take an RV up there for Bob Wills fest every year, after stopping at the Chicken to see if anyone wanted to hop in.
I hope your friend "encouraged" her in her pursuit of help for the poor varmint.jwoodmd said:Friend sent me a Nextdoor post where people were complaining of coyotes coming into the suburban neighborhood and one commented on a coyote that looked unwell and a woman posted she had out some food out for it and would try to catch it to take to the vet for help.Microwave Onions said:Eh...I'm a third generation "city slicker." I can read park rules. Been to Yellowstone and many other parks without incident. And as an authentic city kid, I certainly don't need any rules telling me to keep a safe distance from wildlife.giddings_ag_06 said:
Y'all realize it will only get worse, right? The vast majority of Americans only have outdoor experience from a city park or backyard the size of a living room. For cheap trips or to "experience the outdoors" they just load up and drive through parks usually having never even seen any of these animals before. They don't watch the outdoor or discovery channels and know what nature is really like. The more citified Americans get, the more dumb decisions they will make in parks. Harsh fines won't teach anyone before the fact either. Videos would help, but we have too many idiots trying to get "outdoorsy" now.
I suspect social media "animal lovers" just don't understand the differences between domesticated animals and wild, and want to do something heroic for another lost fur baby. I sometimes read posts from crazy cat ladies on my neighborhood Nextdoor app, and their are people who genuinely believe they can communicate with the lost fur babies they see crawling out of sewer ditches and so forth. They also think stray dogs on the jogging trail are "coyotes." My favorite was some lady who kept complaining that someone was killing possums and depositing them in the middle of one of the main roads every morning. Because how else could you explain dead possums in the middle of a street?
NvmTony Franklins Other Shoe said:I hope your friend "encouraged" her in her pursuit of help for the poor varmint.jwoodmd said:Friend sent me a Nextdoor post where people were complaining of coyotes coming into the suburban neighborhood and one commented on a coyote that looked unwell and a woman posted she had out some food out for it and would try to catch it to take to the vet for help.Microwave Onions said:Eh...I'm a third generation "city slicker." I can read park rules. Been to Yellowstone and many other parks without incident. And as an authentic city kid, I certainly don't need any rules telling me to keep a safe distance from wildlife.giddings_ag_06 said:
Y'all realize it will only get worse, right? The vast majority of Americans only have outdoor experience from a city park or backyard the size of a living room. For cheap trips or to "experience the outdoors" they just load up and drive through parks usually having never even seen any of these animals before. They don't watch the outdoor or discovery channels and know what nature is really like. The more citified Americans get, the more dumb decisions they will make in parks. Harsh fines won't teach anyone before the fact either. Videos would help, but we have too many idiots trying to get "outdoorsy" now.
I suspect social media "animal lovers" just don't understand the differences between domesticated animals and wild, and want to do something heroic for another lost fur baby. I sometimes read posts from crazy cat ladies on my neighborhood Nextdoor app, and their are people who genuinely believe they can communicate with the lost fur babies they see crawling out of sewer ditches and so forth. They also think stray dogs on the jogging trail are "coyotes." My favorite was some lady who kept complaining that someone was killing possums and depositing them in the middle of one of the main roads every morning. Because how else could you explain dead possums in the middle of a street?
