Red pup short clip video

snafu · May 12, 2013, 11:47:32 AM

Click on the pic. Last yrs litter.

coyote101 · May 12, 2013, 08:10:21 PM

That is outstanding!

Pat

FinsnFur · May 12, 2013, 09:43:13 PM

Good stuff. It's pretty amazing how "on guard" she remains, even with three toddlers circling her.
I can remember raising three toddlers at once, and there were times a was a dang basket case.

Hawks Feather · May 12, 2013, 10:23:35 PM

She does have her eyes on everything, including the pups. Seems like a pretty good mom. I know a few that could take lessons from her.

Jerry

snafu · May 13, 2013, 07:00:35 AM

This is the 4th yr I have watched this female & her litters. She is quite observant, as you guys say. Last season she let me get around 30' away from her & the pups, pretty cool. I have noticed over the yrs. The female pups are more curious & brazen. Whereas the male pups are more shy, wary & skiddish.

Hawks Feather · May 13, 2013, 08:51:03 AM

Quote from: snafu on May 13, 2013, 07:00:35 AM
The female pups are more curious & brazen. Whereas the male pups are more shy, wary & skiddish.

I think that this is true with humans as well.

Jerry

FinsnFur · May 13, 2013, 04:12:15 PM

dang Hussies

snafu · May 13, 2013, 06:54:46 PM

One day last yr I watching her & the litter. The female trotted deeper out into the field 70-80yrds or so. Dug down a little ways & pulled out a dried out mouse. When she brought it back to the pups. Two pups took it out of her mouth, tore it to pieces & chucked it down like they were starving.

When a Red female is laid up in the den. The male will bring back his kills & leave it by the den entrance hole. Most of the time from what I've seen. The kill is a skunk. Other times a cat or coon. When the pups are small. Sometimes the female will also go out on short hunts nearby. She'll do that more often the older the pups get.

FinsnFur · May 13, 2013, 07:25:18 PM

Thats some interesting stuff.

Ok...I've decided I want a better camera and a couple pasture dens to watch myself.
Hey Snafu...do you know Randy Buker? Very very good friend of mine. Almost like a Dad to me, lives in Minnesota, and has been studying fox just like you for quite some time.

snafu · May 13, 2013, 08:03:07 PM

Yes Jim I know who he is. I've conversed with him in the past. Your right, he is well versed on the Reds. I slowed down my killing some yrs back. Et spent most of my hunt time observing & learning. I figure a hunter new or old. Can't learn much from a dead predator, eh.

FinsnFur · May 13, 2013, 08:14:03 PM

Yeah a lot of times watching them and learning their ways is a nice reward with a different type of shine.

snafu · May 13, 2013, 08:17:44 PM

Last time I did any amount of killing was season 03-04. I seen over 75 canines. Went after only 20 of them & killed 14. Since then I only try for a few each yr. I spend all of the rest of my time observing & learning. I must say, it has been enlightening on what I have missed over the previous yrs. This last season, my only focus was on killing me a puma. That is also my only focus until the day I no longer can hunt, kill one or check out, which ever.

FinsnFur · May 13, 2013, 08:54:35 PM

kill one or check out.
Thats a pretty short bucket list pal. I kinda want ya to hang out a little longer and keep sharing those pics.

snafu · May 13, 2013, 10:29:06 PM

Your right Jim. That is the edited version. I left out the part about being old weak, toothless & feeble(can't hunt no more). Et being set out on the ice pack for the 1st hungry Polar Bear. Prior to me thumping a puma.

Okanagan · May 13, 2013, 11:22:16 PM

Quote from: snafu on May 13, 2013, 08:03:07 PM
. Et spent most of my hunt time observing & learning. I figure a hunter new or old. Can't learn much from a dead predator, eh.

Right on! And amazing how few people pick up on the value of observing a critter for awhile rather than shoot at first sight. Animals teach me when I watch them awhile-- and sometimes I go ahead and shoot one after watching it. It makes me a way better hunter, sometimes waiting with confidence for a much better shot instead of hurrying a poor one, etc. I've learned a lot about coyote body language by watching, as well as body language of deer, cats and bears. It has surprised a few people with me when I predict something a little unusual that an animal is going to do-- and they do it. (Wish I could always do that

) On the times I get it right it has come from watching animals and getting used to what their posture etc. indicates they are going to do.

snafu · May 14, 2013, 05:45:03 AM

Okanagan, one day when I was young. I snuck in on a coyote that was 1/2 mile from a roadway. The coyote was sleeping around 250 yards from me. I was laying prone with my crosshairs on him on a nearby hilltop. As I'm aiming at him. I hear a faint distant farm noise. I also see one of that coyote's ear rotate towards the same direction. I thought that was cool. So I watched awhile longer. I laid there a long time watching its ears rotate towards distant noises.

This coyote had its eyes shut, but its ears were turned on. Checking out distant sounds. I thought that was so cool. I shot underneath coyote rather than kill it.