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<blockquote data-quote="DSheetz" data-source="post: 2577669" data-attributes="member: 91783"><p>By now the coyote pups are looking like smaller versions of their parents . They should still have some awkward moves but have been working on honing their moves , hearing , sight and smelling skills . The red and swift fox kits are hard to tell from the adults by size now . They have been tuning up their little radar dish ears and pouncing skills on the bugs in the weeds and grass . It's such a treat to watch them as they are training to be hunters Turning their heads from side to side tipping them and getting a fix on their intended prey . Then slowly gathering their feet and tensing their whole body in preparation for the big pounce , then the leap coming down on the grasshopper with both front feet . I don't have any idea as to how much force they strike with but I do know it's a lot from what little dog strike with when we play and they pounce on me in that fashion . One evening years ago the wife , kids and I were going up on the mountain to visit my Grandma . I saw a couple of coyote pups out mousing in a meadow out a couple of hundred yards . Farther down the road Lenard was riding towards us his horse just plodding along . We sat and watched the pups till he rode up stopped and then we visited with him for awhile . He said it's odd that you saw them , they've been here about every evening now for a week but most people just drive on by . Sadly some day someone will see them and shoot them . We visited a while longer then he rode on so he could get home and put his horse up before dark . Lenard has been gone now for well over 20 years but his son still rides his cattle daily on horse back instead of a four wheeler . It's just more peaceful and you get to see so much more , A horse steps with four feet , as do the other animals , we step with two and animals know the difference in the sound . And have learned to fear the two footed steps . For all of my life I have slowed down taken the time to look listen and enjoy what is around me in the world . Even when I worked around equipment and others I would stop listen and look when the sounds around me changed , So many times people would look at me then ask what's up with you what are you doing . One morning as I was on my way to a morning meeting I heard an odd sound coming from the steam turbine turning the generator on unit #4 . I called the control room and asked them if they were aware of the sound and that I thought they had a broken expansion joint in the 15th stage extraction steam pipping . How the h234 would you know that was the reply . Latter that day the unit came down because they had a broken expansion joint in the piping in the exhaust trunk of the turbine . They noticed it because the feed water heater it was feeding wasn't working as it should . In todays world it pays to be observant , what the military trainers would say was a high condition yellow . You don't have to be nervous , excited or a lot of adrenalin flowing just not in a daze . Be aware of the sounds , sights and smells around you it's a relaxed state but an aware state . From past experiences I can tell you that people stink if they have adrenalin flowing and the animal world can smell it as an alarm to them . That's why some people catch more fish , or are more successful at hunting they are aware of their surrounding but don't have the smell of excitement or fear .</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DSheetz, post: 2577669, member: 91783"] By now the coyote pups are looking like smaller versions of their parents . They should still have some awkward moves but have been working on honing their moves , hearing , sight and smelling skills . The red and swift fox kits are hard to tell from the adults by size now . They have been tuning up their little radar dish ears and pouncing skills on the bugs in the weeds and grass . It's such a treat to watch them as they are training to be hunters Turning their heads from side to side tipping them and getting a fix on their intended prey . Then slowly gathering their feet and tensing their whole body in preparation for the big pounce , then the leap coming down on the grasshopper with both front feet . I don't have any idea as to how much force they strike with but I do know it's a lot from what little dog strike with when we play and they pounce on me in that fashion . One evening years ago the wife , kids and I were going up on the mountain to visit my Grandma . I saw a couple of coyote pups out mousing in a meadow out a couple of hundred yards . Farther down the road Lenard was riding towards us his horse just plodding along . We sat and watched the pups till he rode up stopped and then we visited with him for awhile . He said it's odd that you saw them , they've been here about every evening now for a week but most people just drive on by . Sadly some day someone will see them and shoot them . We visited a while longer then he rode on so he could get home and put his horse up before dark . Lenard has been gone now for well over 20 years but his son still rides his cattle daily on horse back instead of a four wheeler . It's just more peaceful and you get to see so much more , A horse steps with four feet , as do the other animals , we step with two and animals know the difference in the sound . And have learned to fear the two footed steps . For all of my life I have slowed down taken the time to look listen and enjoy what is around me in the world . Even when I worked around equipment and others I would stop listen and look when the sounds around me changed , So many times people would look at me then ask what's up with you what are you doing . One morning as I was on my way to a morning meeting I heard an odd sound coming from the steam turbine turning the generator on unit #4 . I called the control room and asked them if they were aware of the sound and that I thought they had a broken expansion joint in the 15th stage extraction steam pipping . How the h234 would you know that was the reply . Latter that day the unit came down because they had a broken expansion joint in the piping in the exhaust trunk of the turbine . They noticed it because the feed water heater it was feeding wasn't working as it should . In todays world it pays to be observant , what the military trainers would say was a high condition yellow . You don't have to be nervous , excited or a lot of adrenalin flowing just not in a daze . Be aware of the sounds , sights and smells around you it's a relaxed state but an aware state . From past experiences I can tell you that people stink if they have adrenalin flowing and the animal world can smell it as an alarm to them . That's why some people catch more fish , or are more successful at hunting they are aware of their surrounding but don't have the smell of excitement or fear . [/QUOTE]
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