Arachnophobia anyone?

[Partymember]

hermit crabs LOL!

[Sparky]

Don't forget the incredibly rare "Canine Hyena," pbl.

[pitbulllady]

Originally Posted by Sparky

Don't forget the incredibly rare "Canine Hyena," pbl.

Ooops...how could I forget THAT critter! I take it you've been following the thread on Arachnoboards then. It never ceases to astound me how many people on that board-a forum devoted to keeping EXOTIC and to some, controversial wild animals-are actually strongly in favor of banning many kinds of animals, if not ALL of them. Many fail to see any connection between banning the animals THEY keep, and banning everything else, though. They cannot comprehend that the same folks who are behind the push to ban Pit Bulls and ferrets are also behind the move to ban their scorpions and tarantulas, and that these are also the very same groups who want to see every last dog and cat in this country sterilized and no more puppies and kittens being born, EVER.

But then, if the "hyena dogs" were legal in New York, wouldn't they eat all the tarantulas and other "dangerous" spiders running around up there? I'm pretty sure they'd devour all the child-eating Pit Bulls, but then, the dope fiends and gang-bangers(and according to the media, those are the ONLY people who would want a Pit Bull in the first place)would all start wanting hyena dogs, so I can see how that would be a problem.

pitbulllady

[Partymember]

they found an alligator in a drug house, guarding the place. It was a few years back. We have coydogs up here, thats a feral dog/coyote mix. I think they would own any heyenas. They are incredibly wily, i've been out several times and can't get a single one.

My uncle in Michigan had a wolf, he had it taxidermied when it died. Seeing a wolf standing on a rock in the living room scared the heck out of me when i was 5.

[pitbulllady]

Originally Posted by Partymember

they found an alligator in a drug house, guarding the place. It was a few years back. We have coydogs up here, thats a feral dog/coyote mix. I think they would own any heyenas. They are incredibly wily, i've been out several times and can't get a single one.

My uncle in Michigan had a wolf, he had it taxidermied when it died. Seeing a wolf standing on a rock in the living room scared the heck out of me when i was 5.

I take it that you've not been around many hyenas, have you? A Spotted hyena is the same size as an English Mastiff, and has the most powerful jaws of any land animal. I've seen coydogs-we have those here in South Carolina, too. I've also been around live hyenas and seen what those jaws can do. One of my Pit Bulls might last....oh, three seconds in a fight with a hyena, and then it would be lunch, and hyenas LOVE to eat dogs! A friend of mine who had an exotic animal rescue outfit had a hyena named "Jake" who was his house "dog"(they are not canines, by the way, not even related). For some reason, Jake hated me with a passion. After he exploded through a locked storm door(he lived in the house, all 180 pounds of him)and bit through my steel-belted radial tire down to the rim without so much as seeming to strain his jaw muscles, I got the point that Jake wanted to kill me, and decided that dropping in unannounced would not be a good idea. There is a heckuva big difference between that and someone having a tarantula for a pet, let me tell ya! That can really put something like a little spider into perspective, when it comes to really being confronted by a large flesh-eating animal like that.

pitbulllady

[Partymember]

it depends on the intelligence factor, are they smart? The coydogs up here are more wolf than coyote, they hunt in packs. Large packs. I really really have been trying to get one, but they are wiley animals. They only show up when they want to, and no amount of scent block and wounded rabbit calls can bring them out. I think if the hyena is as smart as a coydog, which are smart animals, then they could take them. Of coursem, the coydogs might not last long now that the wolves are coming back up here.

How big are your coydogs? Ours are wolf-size.

[pitbulllady]

Originally Posted by Partymember

it depends on the intelligence factor, are they smart? The coydogs up here are more wolf than coyote, they hunt in packs. Large packs. I really really have been trying to get one, but they are wiley animals. They only show up when they want to, and no amount of scent block and wounded rabbit calls can bring them out. I think if the hyena is as smart as a coydog, which are smart animals, then they could take them. Of coursem, the coydogs might not last long now that the wolves are coming back up here.

How big are your coydogs? Ours are wolf-size.

Coydogs here tend to be roughly Pointer-sized, around 40-50 lbs. Many of the specimens from northern states are very likely carrying a high percentage of Timber Wolf genes, which is why they are so large, and this is going to become even more of a factor now that wolves are re-entering their old stomping grounds once more. We do not have wild wolves here in South Carolina-Dingoes, yes, but no wolves. But, yes, hyenas are intelligent, and are also pack animals. I think that the one factor which would prevent them from surviving up where you are would be the winter weather, which is very different from sub-Sahara Africa! Still, the NY law is not so much to prevent non-native species from establishing there, as to protect humans from ourselves-Big Brother in all his glory. It's based on the assumption that if something has even the remotest chance it could hurt someone, ban it, for our sakes, without of course bothering to find out if something is a legitimate threat or not. A bite from a native Wolf spider, while not life-threatening, has a longer-lasting and more painful effect than a bite from Rosehaired tarantula, and is MUCH worse than a sting from an Emperor Scorpion, but the latter two are banned as being "dangerous". Ditto for a critter called a Solfugid(the infamous "Camel spider" of Urban Legend), which has NO venom at all; I guess it was banned based on its looks alone-"if it LOOKS scary, ban it!" All laws like this serve to do is to promote the often-erronous beliefs that things like spiders are inherently evil and horrible and always deadly, which counteracts any attempts by people like the late Steve Irwin to try to educate the public.

pitbulllady

[Jabberwocky]

I love spiders (from Mars lololol), but scorpions scare the stardust out of me. Stingy stingy.

My mom is horrible, she smushes any bugs she sees and LEAVES THEM ON THE WALL because she thinks it'll scare away other bugs.

This one time though, there was an egg sack in our glass cupboard and I opened it up and there were spiders all over the cups. AAHHHH!