Time of the Season

what's your name, who's your daddy? is he rich like me?

it's that time of year, summertime, when people take their dogs into the hills, up on the trails and generally mess up the back country and my nature experience of solitude..it's bad enough I have to see chain debris nets marring our trickling creeks, but now I gotta see clueless city folks with GPS devices hiking the hills with their dogs...the GPS is for when they will inevitably get lost

how can anyone get lost hiking? I mean, how stupid do you have to be? and why can't your dog find the way home? a dog should have the instincts to get you out of a jam

but nowadays everyone is pretty much helpless because all they do is stare at an iphone all day

and to add insult to injury, they have rattlesnake aversion classes for dogs!! when a coyote sees a rattlesnake, his instincts keep him safe because he's wild and free..but domestic dogs, useless as they are, go right up to the rattler and get bitten..the dog's instincts have been driven out by crazy, needy owners who pamper and use baby strollers to walk their dogs down the street...

Coyotes kill rattlesnakes mostly for food (but also to protect their pups at their dens) by teasing the snakes until they stretch out and then biting their heads and snapping and shaking the snakes...teach your dog to do that and you won't have any worries

but rattlesnakes are beneficial to the ecosystem..dogs are not- no way, no how

however, I encourage you to keep walking your dogs in rattlesnake country

please