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Must have been horrifying to witness it. Fortunately just the owner's boyfriend, not her or her child.
What are its chances? Slim I would imagine. :-(
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7275485/Desperate-Chihuahua-owner-pleads-help-snatching-seagull.html
What are its chances? Slim I would imagine. :-(
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7275485/Desperate-Chihuahua-owner-pleads-help-snatching-seagull.html
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a difficult question Kenny; would you have shot the gull (assuming you had the means) to save the dog?
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I'm afraid he's brown bread!!
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Well, Bap, if I had the means I probably would, but that would mean I'm a different character completely so highly hypothetical. Hope it's stuck on a roof somewhere maybe, and will be found.
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quick precis of that juice please.
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jucel, soz.
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agreed; i think it was an unanswerable question tbh & would depend on situ obviously
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I saw that video the other day , didn't realise gulls ate small animals. It seemed to eat it pretty easily too
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poor Gizmo eaten alive
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gulls will eat anything they can kill or swallow
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i glanced at it for 2 seconds, can't watch stuff like that.
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Seagulls are vicious. They can kill an ice cream in one strike.
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Well if you think about it they are sea birds, they wouldn't have a place to take a fish caught miles out at sea and eat it in installments, there will be a huge evolutionary advantage in being able to just whack big things (like fish .. or rabbits or pigeons) down in one gulp.
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Kenny can of course hardly sit in judgement of seagulls given this sort of shocking behaviour!!!
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  DotchiniteYes this is an unpleasant story Kenny But we humans are partly to blame, we have over fished our seas, Seagulls have been forced in land. I imagine the Seagull would have killed it with strikes to the neck of the dog, before eating it. There is a slight chance the dog may have fought him off I suppose, would be badly wounded, probably best it is all over Animals may look cuddly but Nature is very cruel, Darwin's laws. |
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Just Checking 25 Jul 19 13:37 Joined: 25 Jun 06 | Topic/replies: 28,742 | Blogger: Just Checking's blog
Kenny can of course hardly sit in judgement of seagulls given this sort of shocking behaviour!!! ScaredWink https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVPN0w1BWQw Rate reply: | report block user I assume that's a 1.01 landed JC. I have 5 cats and I've never seen a dead bird once, and yes they do go out. Mind you that's not surprising. The only bird round these parts is........ The Chukar Partridge. |
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no such creature as a seagull ......they are just gulls ....who live by the sea.
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I do hope you're right Ebul (3rd line)
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Click on it Kenny, pinky promise it's not brutal or vicious or anything.
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I have a problem with clicking until I'm back on my cannyman account.
Have to log into a friend's account I set up to post. Will look this evening. :-) |
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I don't think it's "forcing seagulls inland" that's not the way nature works. Certainly we are slaughtering seabird colonies by overfishing and stealing all the sandeels etc from sandbanks their young feed on, but you don't see gannets or puffins or albatros inland. Seagulls are fairly aggressive smart omnivores and there is an ecological space for them to come inland anyway with lots of food around, nature fills spaces as it finds them. I was just watching one recently emptying a bin out like a boss, it probably prefers that to being out in the cold sea trying to catch fish.
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Well they follow their food...just checking
It depends if there are less Seagulls at sea...or if there more Seagulls everywhere, I take your point But I feel we are over fishing, and are also far too efficient at it now, not fish are being left to breed |
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I'm skeptical about this alledged ' gull carries off dog ' story.
Doesn't state type of Gull. Was it a Great Black Backed ( the biggest ) ? Or a Herring Gull. - a lot smaller. A Herring Gull weighs 1 - 1.5 kg, the same weight or less than a Chihuahua. 1.5 - 3kg. The gull is not a raptor ( it's webbed feet are hardly talons). So we're being asked to believe that a gull picked up this dog ( weighing at least the same , but possibly double its weight )with its beak and flew off with it ?? Highly unlikely imo. |
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She got her pout in the paper as well as her pooch.
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well maybe that's what the Facebook haters were referring to before the story was withdrawn.
But what can they gain from Lying? Maybe the gull swallowed the poor dog. |
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I agree with Facts that this sounds like BS.
A seagull beak is not at all practical to carry off even a small dog IMO I reckon the boyfriend was meant to be looking after the dog, accidentally sat on it or something, binned it and then dreamt up this story. |
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I agree , the boyfriend made the story up .
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what kind of bar steward would do that to a g/f?
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I agree , the boyfriend made the story up .
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If I were married to Francine in video, I would be hoping a seagull would come down and carry her off.
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need to find a way to cut down the seagull populaltion ..maybe nest egg raiders ...theyve taken over the toans ...even the Magpies and Hawks are wary of them
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towns*
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there's a nest on my roof ... aggressive little buggers they are
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Last week the wrens that nest just outside the office window had a clutch of chicks . I was surprised to see Sparrows attacking nest , parents and chicks . It seems this is commonplace behaviour .
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Are all birds aggro merchants?
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my Aileen is
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I'd forgotten about this thankfully till it was brought back, just found this.
There are fears a Devon dog kidnapped by a seagull which swooped down and carried the miniature chihuahua away in its beak has died. The dog's owner Becca Hill, 24, of Paignton, is hoping four-year-old Gizmo will be found alive. But grim pictures showing an animal leg found on a Totnes rooftop have sparked fears it could belong to Gizmo. Now The Sun on Sunday newspaper has published pictures of the rooftop littered with animal bones - including one photograph of a brown furry paw attached to a leg bone. The newspaper says vets are investigating the grizzly discovery, and Gizmo's owners have been informed. The picture was taken by Natalie Williams, from Paignton, who works in Totnes. Natalie, 29, told The Sun that crowds of seagulls regularly congregate on the rooftop behind Totnes High Street. https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/missing-gizmo-chihuahua-stolen-seagull-16660989 |
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Natalie told The Sun on Sunday: “There have been seagulls nesting there for months.
"We had to get someone out to remove a chicken’s head not long ago, as well as the body of a gull that had been cannibalised. “On Friday, I found what can only be described as a mammal’s leg on a fire escape at the back. I straight away thought of Gizmo as it looks like it belongs to a dog. "I really hope I’m wrong.” "My partner was in the garden putting the washing out at the time and suddenly he saw it swoop down. It carried Gizmo a fair way as we couldn't see him anymore. I have no idea if he was dropped or where he is now," Ms Hill told the Devon Live website. Read More Chihuahua snatched by seagull from garden - leaving owner heartbroken She also posted about Gizmo on Facebook. "Please, please, please, anyone finds a chihuahua he's mine, a seagull took him from my garden," she wrote. Ms Hill said her six-year-old daughter is "really upset" and "missing her dog". Fortunately, the child did not witness Gizmo being taken away. |
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Giz-no-mo
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