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Title: what kinda critter
Post by: cassandra and sara's daddy on March 18, 2009, 05:27:56 PM
would carry off a baby goat during the daytime?  was there at 2pm gone at 4
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Post by: geronimotwo on March 18, 2009, 05:32:28 PM
homosapien
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Post by: cassandra and sara's daddy on March 18, 2009, 05:39:51 PM
unlikely where i live  i was home  its was 2 days old and i live between richmond and dc in a rural area
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Post by: Balog on March 18, 2009, 05:45:09 PM
Coyote or dog. Maybe an eagle! :D
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Post by: Bigjake on March 18, 2009, 05:45:59 PM
Big cat.  Hungry coyote unlikely, but possible...  Domestic dog would likely just kill it and leave it.
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Post by: MechAg94 on March 18, 2009, 05:48:46 PM
Hungry critter.

I'm thinking a coyote.  Dogs might have carried it away, but maybe not.
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Post by: Balog on March 18, 2009, 05:50:45 PM
Chupacabra.

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Post by: cassandra and sara's daddy on March 18, 2009, 06:03:27 PM
eagle is a possibility  most of fence is hot wired so i'm gonna hot wire the rest and put a monitor in the barn tonight
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Post by: BlueStarLizzard on March 18, 2009, 07:46:51 PM
get a livestock gaurdian. like an anatolian sheperd.  :angel:
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Post by: cassandra and sara's daddy on March 18, 2009, 07:52:08 PM
i would love one!  or a great pyrennes
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Post by: Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas on March 18, 2009, 07:56:18 PM
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unlikely where i live  i was home  its was 2 days old and i live between richmond and dc in a rural area
Theft-happy voodoo-ers?
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Post by: Gowen on March 18, 2009, 08:20:53 PM
Cougar? 
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Post by: cassandra and sara's daddy on March 18, 2009, 08:22:10 PM
 anythings possible i guess  but cougars would be pretty far down the list
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Post by: Harold Tuttle on March 18, 2009, 08:49:47 PM
any Greeks in the neighborhood?
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Post by: cassandra and sara's daddy on March 18, 2009, 08:55:17 PM
36 hours old is small for eating
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Post by: Matthew Carberry on March 18, 2009, 09:15:20 PM
anythings possible i guess  but cougars would be pretty far down the list

I thought they mainly hunted in the bars near Georgetown?
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Post by: crt360 on March 18, 2009, 09:16:35 PM
eagle, like this:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3n4qPpL8T0

or maybe a liger
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Post by: cassandra and sara's daddy on March 18, 2009, 09:18:55 PM
I thought they mainly hunted in the bars near Georgetown?


you've been to "F Scotts"?  a marine could do well there
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Post by: Matthew Carberry on March 18, 2009, 09:23:05 PM

you've been to "F Scotts"?  a marine could do well there

At 38 I believe I am now a bit too old and yet not rich enough to be preferred cougar prey.  Instead I'm the creepy older guy looking for 1st year grad students.

Good hair though, I got damn fine hair.  =D

If your lamb was taken by an eagle that would almost be cool enough, on a couple levels, to outweigh the loss.  Maybe put in a camera, get some youtube hits?
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Post by: never_retreat on March 18, 2009, 09:45:33 PM
I would check all the local dinners.
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Post by: mtnbkr on March 18, 2009, 09:59:45 PM
We do have a good population of bald eagles in the area, plus various types of hawks, falcons, and such.

Chris
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Post by: Gewehr98 on March 18, 2009, 10:14:43 PM
Chupacabra?  =D
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Post by: cassandra and sara's daddy on March 18, 2009, 10:18:48 PM
i've got a line of hot wire around top of fence so i have not had trouble before  makes me think an eagle could do it  the lil guys don't weigh much
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Post by: Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas on March 18, 2009, 10:29:17 PM
Hawks have good lifting talents. One once tried to take off with our cat.

Conspiracy theory:
It was a hawk sent by Voodoo worshippers to collect their monthly sacrifice.

Or, it was a hawk sent by the KKK to cause the theft to be blamed on Voodoo worshippers and cause goat owners to start a race riot.

Or it was a chupacabra.

Or the Philadadelphia Experiment's residual effects...
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Post by: never_retreat on March 18, 2009, 10:36:15 PM
Maybe obama sent the hawk to take you goat, to redistribute it to people that can't afford their own goat.
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Post by: LadySmith on March 18, 2009, 10:37:14 PM
I'm sorry about the loss of your baby goat and hope you find out who/what the culprit is.

How are your girls handling this?  
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Post by: cassandra and sara's daddy on March 18, 2009, 10:40:21 PM
they are ok  there were twins so they still have one.  they have lost critters before. chickens and ducks and we had a pony die of old age. the pony was bad because i didn't bury it here and kid was steamed.  you know what kinda whole you need?!  hard ground too!
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Post by: Matthew Carberry on March 18, 2009, 10:51:06 PM
Chupacabra?  =D

A Chupa-thingy?

http://rvb.roosterteeth.com/archive/episode.php?id=89

NSFW language
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Post by: roo_ster on March 18, 2009, 11:33:51 PM
How big is a baby goat?

A co-workers wife lost her Jack Russell Terrier to a large raptor of some sort in N Texas.

Second happiest day of my co-worker's life, as he hated that damn dog.
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Post by: Matthew Carberry on March 18, 2009, 11:44:33 PM
How big is a baby goat?

A co-workers wife lost her Jack Russell Terrier to a large raptor of some sort in N Texas.

Second happiest day of my co-worker's life, as he hated that damn dog.

They've got velociraptors in N Texas now?

Saddle up boys.
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Post by: cassandra and sara's daddy on March 18, 2009, 11:45:31 PM
yea they small enough for a bird to take em  saw a pomeranian puppy go for a flight with an owl
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Post by: Jamisjockey on March 19, 2009, 06:08:55 AM
Another vote for raptor.  Eagle, bald or not, or maybe an owl.  Are there Barn Owls out here?
Oh, and I think you need an attack cat.
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Post by: geronimotwo on March 19, 2009, 08:15:23 AM
if no blood/signs of struggle, you might find it stuck somewhere out of sight.
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Post by: Tuco on March 19, 2009, 08:26:44 AM
or maybe a liger

That's pretty much my favorite animal....


But x2 on look around for a stuck goat.
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Post by: MillCreek on March 19, 2009, 10:46:57 AM
they are ok  there were twins so they still have one.  they have lost critters before. chickens and ducks and we had a pony die of old age. the pony was bad because i didn't bury it here and kid was steamed.  you know what kinda whole you need?!  hard ground too!

So what does one do with a dead pony, then?
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Post by: mtnbkr on March 19, 2009, 10:49:49 AM
So what does one do with a dead pony, then?

Dig a hole with a backhoe or some sort of excavator, put pony inside, then cover.

Yes, really.

When I worked for Parks and Rec during college, we had a polo pony die during a match at one of our parks.  That's exactly how it was handled, in a remote corner of the park.

Chris
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Post by: cassandra and sara's daddy on March 19, 2009, 11:11:34 AM
the stafford county landfill took it  surprised me  th guy was real nice  he thought i was bringing the kid  had a "grave " dug off to the side . hes got daughters too
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Post by: Balog on March 19, 2009, 11:14:59 AM
I'd go for a Viking style funeral pyre. Kids feel like the horsie gets a good send off, you get to play with fire. Win-win imho.
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Post by: AJ Dual on March 19, 2009, 11:21:16 AM
I'd go for a Viking style funeral pyre. Kids feel like the horsie gets a good send off, you get to play with fire. Win-win imho.

Horses are pretty big, and that's a lot of wood. The fire would have to be very large, very hot, and stoked for a very long time to break down the bones.

Even high temperature gas-fired human crematoriums can't get rid of all the bones and teeth, they have to pulverize the remains to give the the unrecognizeable "ashes" to the survivors.
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Post by: Balog on March 19, 2009, 11:28:32 AM
Horses are pretty big, and that's a lot of wood. The fire would have to be very large, very hot, and stoked for a very long time to break down the bones.

Even high temperature gas-fired human crematoriums can't get rid of all the bones and teeth, they have to pulverize the remains to give the the unrecognizeable "ashes" to the survivors.

And a free horse skeleton after! Sounds like a triple win to me. :D
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Post by: MillCreek on March 19, 2009, 11:36:44 AM
http://www.bakercommodities.com/animal-mortalities.asp

This outfit in south Seattle picks up dead cattle as feedstock for the local rendering plant.  I wonder if they would take a horse.
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Post by: Harold Tuttle on March 19, 2009, 11:37:20 AM
ya gots to call the knackerman and he hauls it off to the rendering factory
http://knackerman.com/
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Post by: BlueStarLizzard on March 19, 2009, 11:53:51 AM
mtnbk is right.

and its a big hole.
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Post by: myrockfight on March 19, 2009, 03:48:13 PM
I like Savalas' theory....

"Or the Philadadelphia Experiment's residual effects..."

Well. I was entertained anyway.


When we had cattle or horses die, I would wait for them to decompose and/or the coyotes/etc. to pick most of the meat off and then take the skulls and bleach 'em out. I always thought they were cool. My buddy's son came out to the farm and we told him that a cow's bones were that of a dinosaur's. He was young enough at the time to believe us. Barely.

That was the same day he thought I was trying to run him over with the truck. Apparantly that stuck with him for a while, because my friend's mom (she has been friends with my aunt since they were 5) was complaining to me about it a month later. LOL. Poor kid. That is the kind of crap my Dad's friends would do sometimes too. You've always got to have someone who is older to pick on you a little bit when you are young. Although it bugged me a bit, I enjoyed it the attention and being acceptable enough to goof around with like one of them. 
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Post by: Matthew Carberry on March 19, 2009, 04:02:56 PM
the stafford county landfill took it  surprised me  th guy was real nice  he thought i was bringing the kid  had a "grave " dug off to the side . hes got daughters too

He thought you wanted to bury your daughter in the landfill?  :O

Big mob presence out thataway?
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Post by: Matthew Carberry on March 19, 2009, 04:03:25 PM
I'd go for a Viking style funeral pyre. Kids feel like the horsie gets a good send off, you get to play with fire. Win-win imho.

The best kindling is old floppies...
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Post by: cassandra and sara's daddy on March 19, 2009, 04:17:46 PM
He thought you wanted to bury your daughter in the landfill?  :O

Big mob presence out thataway?

nah  he was trying to keep my kid from seeing her pony go into the trash
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Post by: Bigjake on March 19, 2009, 07:14:42 PM
And a free horse skeleton after! Sounds like a triple win to me. :D

Triple win, new term fun!  :laugh:

We'd take deceased dairy cows out to a woodlot on the property and toss em in the corner.  Bag of lime, and they melt away to bones in no time flat.
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Post by: Lee on March 19, 2009, 08:18:55 PM
Sorry to hear that. 
I have a friend who used to tie his little dog up outside a lot.  When the dog would start barking and acting weird, he would go outside with his highpoint 9mm rifle and pop the coyotes coming in.  I think he shot about 5-6 of them.  This was always during the day or early summer evening. 
I suppose it could be a raptor of some type though. 
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Post by: cassandra and sara's daddy on March 19, 2009, 08:33:18 PM
its all part of the food chain  of course i'm above most of the predators  and anything not a federally protected species is toast if i catch it  federally protected i just scare it :rolleyes: :angel:
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Post by: Matthew Carberry on March 20, 2009, 04:11:17 PM
Sorry to hear that. 
I have a friend who used to tie his little dog up outside a lot.  When the dog would start barking and acting weird, he would go outside with his highpoint 9mm rifle and pop the coyotes coming in.  I think he shot about 5-6 of them.  This was always during the day or early summer evening. 
I suppose it could be a raptor of some type though. 

Is it legal to use live bait for Coyotes?  =D
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Post by: El Tejon on March 20, 2009, 04:15:58 PM
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would carry off a baby goat during the daytime?

The owner of an Indian restaurant?

Mmmm, spicy baby goat with eggplant . . . . mmmmmm.