From: atropos@mac.com
On Feb 16, 2026 at 3:28:46 PM PST, "Rhino"
wrote:
> On 2026-02-16 3:54 p.m., Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>> BTR1701 wrote:
>>
>>> CALIFORNIA:
>>
>>> The Governor of California is jogging with his dog on a nature trail. A
>>> coyote jumps out and attacks the governor's dog, then bites the
>>> governor. The governor starts to intervene, then reflects on the movie
>>> BAMBI and realizes he should stop because the coyote is only doing what
>>> is natural.
>>
>> While the story made me smile and there is plenty of truth in it, one must
>> assume the coyote is rabid and is not doing what is natural. Why didn't
>> the dog alert?
>>
>> I tend to walk my dog overnight. I don't wake up in the middle of the
>> night every night, but when I do, the dog is always ready and willing.
>> We have encountered juvenile coyotes. The dog always alerts but acts
>> more like encountering another dog being walked than danger. In an
>> afternoon walk, we have encountered foxes. I have no idea if there are
>> wolves around here but we've never encountered one.
>>
>> The most reaction I get from the dog is upon encountering the most
>> dangerous creature of all, a squirrel.
>>
>>> TEXAS:
>>
>>> The Governor of Texas is jogging with his dog on a nature trail. A coyote
>>> jumps out and attacks the governor's dog. The governor shoots the coyote
>>> with
>>> his state-issued pistol and keeps jogging.
>>
>> He shot the animal? Doesn't he know that you drop an anvil on his head?
>>
>>> The governor has spent 50 cents on a .45-caliber hollow point cartridge.
The
>>> buzzards eat the dead coyote.
>>
>>> And that, my friends, is why California is broke and Texas is not.
>>
>>> (h/t to anim8r for finding this for me.)
>
> Ontario is much closer to California as these things go. When I lived in
> London (Ontario), there was a provincial park not too far away that
> regularly had deer and some of the locals noticed that the deer were
> rather thin and scruffy-looking. They had also seen Bambi and decided
> that these poor deer were hungry so they needed to be fed. Before too
> long, the government was putting out food for them and, what do you
> know, the deer population positively boomed! (A result even an idiot
> could have predicted: put deer on welfare and there are going to be more
> deer!)
Years ago when I was working visits at Camp David, the Marines there talked
about how the deer population was so out-of-control that they were literally
clearing the forest floor of all new growth. They'd eat the sapling trees and
bushes before they could get big enough to survive and as a result, other than
the old growth trees, the forest was completely bare, which was a problem
because the thick forest undergrowth is a significant security feature for
Camp David. It blocks lines of sight to the presidential cabin, etc. and now
it was gone, so the Secret Service and the Marines wanted to do something
about the deer. They put out a solicitation for hunters in the area to hold a
mass cull.
Of course PETA and the other eco-kooks threw a fit, claiming it was kinder to
the deer to let them starve and freeze to death than to cull the herd down to
a manageable level and donate the venison to local homeless shelters. They
held protests and threatened injunctions, basically all the crap they normally
do to get in the way of normal life.
Rather than fight it, the government publicly conceded, waited a few months
for the whole thing to blow over, then quietly brought in the ATF at night
with silenced rifles and NVGs and had them shoot hundreds of deer. They loaded
the deer into big freezer trucks and took them halfway across the country
where a sudden influx of venison at shelters wouldn't draw any notice and
within a few months, the forest started growing back.
The only problem is that by using stealth mode, PETA was able to claim victory
and say, "See? If you just leave nature alone, it solves its own problems."
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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