Re: Small Yorkies - Beware of owls, hawks, eagles, etc. -- Yorkie Talk

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Date Posted: 12:58:01 09/12/03 Fri
Author: R.
Subject: Re: Small Yorkies - Beware of owls, hawks, eagles, etc.
In reply to: Carla 's message, "Re: Small Yorkies - Beware of owls, hawks, eagles, etc." on 20:11:45 05/22/03 Thu

>Today I witnessed an attempted attack on my 10 week
>old puppy. I was sitting on the patio in our back
>yard, while the puppy was about 40 feet away "doing
>her business" when my five year old emerged from the
>house yelling, "look at the eagles over you mommy!" I
>looked up to see two very large birds of prey (not
>sure if they were eagles, hawks or falcons) circling
>above. Just then, they simotaniously went into a
>dive, at first I though they were diving at me, then I
>realized they were after the puppy. They were close
>enough for me to hear the wind ruffling their
>feathers. They broke off the dive about 20 feet away
>from her, I assume because she was too close to the
>fence for them to grab succesfully. I came running
>over and they flew off to the north. Needless to say
>I will not be letting her get more than a few feet
>from me from now on.

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