When a wild cat meets a buzzard....
That's a very cool picture! Nice defensive position
Is this a wild cat ?
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That's a very cool picture! Nice defensive position
Really? Considering that the dachsund was bred to do just that. It would seem to me that such cats should be at least as tough as a dachsund?
dachsunds are bred to bark incessantly - they wouldn't survive a badger fight well, they are just meant to bail up the badger.
Cats wouldn't survive fighting in an enclosed space.
Cats wouldn't survive fighting in an enclosed space.
So the breed history of them digging out the badgers is false? I'm truly asking here, not trying to be flippant. The following was lifted directly from the AKC's official breed description:
"A Look Back
Dachshunds were first bred in the early 1600s in Germany. The goal was to create a fearless, elongated dog that could dig the earth from a badger burrow and fight to the death with the vicious badgers."
We don't have badgers here in Florida but the two Dachsunds I've known have always actively dug to attack whatever prey they scented.
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Dachs is the German word for 'badger' and 'hund' is obviously for 'hound'. It is what they were bred for.
Well I only have general experience of animals to go on, but I'd say the 'fight to the death' bit is someone's imagination running away with them. You don't normally breed dogs then risk them being maimed every time you go hunting with them. People breed dogs to hunt mountain lions in the USA - but only to tree them, not to kill them. Fox terriers are bred for going down fox holes, but again only to bail up the fox.
That's the only way we ever hunted coons; turn the dogs loose to tree them. Then send somebody up the tree to shake them out for the dogs. Brought home loads of dead coons but never had a dog hurt yet Never really thought of it as a "risk." This I know from loads of personal experience.
Is that what really originally happened with dachsunds and badgers? I really don't know and I've often had my doubts because of the size difference. But I do know it IS what's on the official breed description and that's the best info I have to go on.
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Great news.................Members of the aformentioned organisation who deals with the regional wildlife & enviroment ( Indre Nature) have deliberated & concluded that this is indeed a wild cat (something to do with the muzzle shape ) & have now included it in their dossiers. There is still some doubt though as to whether it is a pure wild cat as it appears to have stripes on the sides which are not usually present in adult animals but that could be a 'trick of the light ' so to speak, so at worse it is a high percentage wild cat hybrid.
The cat has been filmed again since ( same place ) as has a fox who comes & goes into the badger set.....The badgers are there so they must be sharing.
The cat has been filmed again since ( same place ) as has a fox who comes & goes into the badger set.....The badgers are there so they must be sharing.
Great news.................Members of the aformentioned organisation who deals with the regional wildlife & enviroment ( Indre Nature) have deliberated & concluded that this is indeed a wild cat (something to do with the muzzle shape ) & have now included it in their dossiers. There is still some doubt though as to whether it is a pure wild cat as it appears to have stripes on the sides which are not usually present in adult animals but that could be a 'trick of the light ' so to speak, so at worse it is a high percentage wild cat hybrid.
The cat has been filmed again since ( same place ) as has a fox who comes & goes into the badger set.....The badgers are there so they must be sharing.
That's good news, let's hope there are some more sightings in the future.
