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[bobf <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

When you google 'Pitcur Hound", you get "basset hound" as the results  
(except for one photo that looks kind of like a greyhound, but with nothing 
beside it to give size perspective"  I know the AmStaffs are huge and strong, 
so I omagine your pitcur is a big dog.  That is another problem , when I 
move.  I can't allow the stupid dog outside without me.  She is very 
protective and fearless of anything on her property; but she is 12 and 1/2 
pounds.  .........Yikes........................

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--- On Thu, 1/1/09, Lynda <lurine AT com-pair.net> wrote:

> From: Lynda <lurine AT com-pair.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Mountain lions Hatching Round 3
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Thursday, January 1, 2009, 2:13 PM
> We have two dogs, a Pitcur Hound and an AmStaff.  When any
> of us go 
> wandering, the dogs go with us.  Mountain lions are
> opportunistic and they 
> don't particularly care to make a big effort.  Between
> the clearing and the 
> dogs, our property is more work than they care for, so they
> go elsewhere.
> 
> If it ever makes an effort to bother our livestock, then
> we'll have a 
> "discussion" about who gets to live where.
> 
> We have a bear that wanders through with her cub each
> spring.  She doesn't 
> bother the garbage, she just uses our property as part of
> her trail to get 
> from Point A to Point B.  Works for me.
> 
> There's a bobcat that lives down by our miner's
> cabin.  S/he stays away from 
> the house property and the chickens, so we get along fine.
> 
> Now, the ground squirrels and the raccoons are a whole
> other story.  Them I 
> hate!  The cats have gotten the ground squirrel population
> way down and the 
> few that remain have moved to the neighboring properties. 
> The Siamese cat 
> kind of keeps the raccoon somewhat at bay (they don't
> come around during the 
> evening hours anymore since she chased them off a couple of
> times.  We just 
> have to keep everything shut up at night.  However, they
> keep getting in the 
> garbage and they are going to end up dog food!
> 
> Lynda
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "bobf" <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
> 
> 
> > 'sounds like you would prefer to let them be, if
> you could, too.  I wonder 
> > what they do with the big cat after the kill? 
> huh.........
> >
> >
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> >
> > --- On Thu, 1/1/09, Lynda <lurine AT com-pair.net>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Mountain lions abound in CA.  They aren't big
> on being seen, so you could
> >> live in an area your whole life and never see one.
>  Hear them once in a
> >> blue, but never see them..............
> >
> >
> > ........The gal that just had one killed lives in a
> canyon (prime mountain 
> > lion area) and doesn't barn her sheep and goats at
> night which is kinda 
> > marks her property as a coyote/mountain lion buffet. 
> She's not a terribly 
> > logical person.  She has some guardian dogs
> >> but keeps them close to the house.  Go figure.
> >>
> >> Lynda
> >>
> >> >
> >
> >
> >
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