i use to believe when i was a kid that if there was a god that he made us caretaker to the planet and creatures...
i think we have actually forgotten to take care of the planet and its creatures centuries ago.
when i was growing up i lived up on a hill a few miles from the city.. no big deal i could run home in an hour if i wanted to... but in the hills there was trees and open grass area..
i had two wolf dogs that i raised not as pets but just as another member of the family. when they were a few months old i would keep a close eye on them and run and chase them all around the area but mostly to keep them from getting eatin by coyotes as small puppies...
i would let them come into the house and even build them a fenced area with big dog house but they never like being away from me or sleeping outside since they were too small and would freeze to death...as they got older they would chase and eat pheasants and whatever they could catch on their own. i would only bring them food if that is what they wanted, they were smart enough to turn on water facets from behind the house...
anyways a lot of ppl started to move into my area and it stop being an open wooded area and became a neighborhood with cattle fenced area paved roads more neighbors budded up to our property. it made me upset that they would call animal control on my wolf/dogs and considered them pest when it was humans who destroyed their habitat.
after that coyotes, squirrels, hawks and owls disappeared along with the woods.. my favorite part that i missed the most was the pheasants with their hatchlings in dozen shuffling along every fall..
one time a squirrel ran to me behind my leg b/c of a flying hawk was hunting him..i let it hide and even fed it.. i use to think it was funny b/c the bird would stare at him and me knowing it was protected and wouldnt come near me... the squirrel would show up every once in a while in my patio and just chill stare at me and wait for me to feed it b4 it would run off.. it would play and hang out when i was present like it knew it wouldnt be harassed by other animals especially my wolf/dogs since they new to leave animals alone on my property. what they did further in the woods was their business but animals like pheasants could not be touched...
it would be funny b/c their would be days they wouldnt leave into the woods and hang out and just lounge and just stare at pheasants eating seeds and walking in big crowds with their babies and they would get sad knowing they couldnt eat them or play with them..
a neighbor got a pitbull one day or had a pitbull and came into our property and the little haven area for the animals... and it came onto my property all belligerent dumb and it saw the pheasants and their hatchlings..
it just starting running right into them and i was angry and was running to it and yelling at the dog to leave trying to scare it off .. the pheasant parents all ran toward me trying to get closer to our property trying to reach the patio and bushes to hide in.. they were not afraid of me or my wolf/dogs. the chicks waddling along and my dogs/wolfs ran around them so not to step on them and they both tackled the pitbull....
knocking it down and they started growling and surrounding him like a pack of wolfs would.. the pitbull was too stupid although bigger then my /wolfdogs since they were still only 8 months to a yr old they would snip at it grab it hind leg.. and throat when the pit bull would try to attack the other.. they finally grabbed him by the throat and pushed him to the ground while the other bit its mussel trying to smother it to death...
once i made sure the pitbull was scared and not going to attack i had my dogs release it and let him go back to his property... a full grown pit was scared of my wolf/dogs as they hurried him along sniffing and snipping at him...
anyways my wolf/dogs belong in the woods and it was their home b4 the home development and it makes me angry.. now i have two more small dogs that my brother and i rescued one is the size of jack terrier like the dog from frashier.. the female one i got from a friend who planned on leaving her in the woods where he lived at to be eating by coyotes...i ended up taking her home instead..
i also had a ferret.. my wolf/dogs learned to protect the ferret and small dogs and show them the woods and they never let them go anywhere without them...
i use to laugh watching the small female dog chasing and carrying the ferret in its mouth thinking it was her baby... my ferret when it would get done playing with her would run off and hide in the dog house and hide with my wolf/dogs
it thought it was a wolf too b/c it was all white like my wolf/dogs and my wolf dogs would just lie their sticking their head up or on their crossed paws and my ferret would stick its head out from between their paws and hide again or he would curl up with them to go to sleep... i would make sure i check up on the ferret periodically since it was smaller then the rest of my pets and didnt want it being snatched by hawks or even possibly eagles.
but now the woods are gone we have one ranch area and the rest its a neighborhood now.. and my babies cant run free anymore.. 🙁