lizblackdog: (Camilla)
lizblackdog ([personal profile] lizblackdog) wrote2007-08-03 12:10 am

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

So I was talking to [livejournal.com profile] deathwokclan, and I go to Youtube to show her the Spike tuggy video. And while I'm there, I'm distracted by a National Geographic video of an eagle hunting a chevrotain, and then it occurs to me that I could do a Youtube search for "falconry", and I wonder why I never thought of it before. I'm not usually so slow to find new ways to torture myself.

Edited to add:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34SO5LbZx3s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M2OLYG694Q - includes working ferrets.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnWeN02DLmU

These killed me. They're English. I might even have met the guy, though I can't tell. Don't click the first two if you have a problem with furry mammal death. This isn't a display at a fair, it's the real thing. That was my life. Third one is a redtail, which is what mine was.

[identity profile] silverblaidd.livejournal.com 2007-08-03 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
Well... at least you're not participating in the unnecessary deaths of animals anymore?

Or were you? I'm tryin' to look on the bright side, here.

[identity profile] mcsassypants.livejournal.com 2007-08-03 12:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Heh. I supposed that's what I get for not reading the part about not watching the first two if you have a problem with "furry mammal death".
Although, honestly, I didn't really have a problem with most of it, it's just that my little vegetarian soul rebelled a little at the neck breaking part in the second video. I have a better opinion of people who use domesticated animals for working purposes than I do of the people who would prefer to dress them up in clothes and pretend that they're just furry little humans. At least the hawk and the ferrets were having fun doing what they do naturally.

WOW.

[identity profile] saltwaterscream.livejournal.com 2007-08-05 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
That's freaking *amazing*.

Birds of prey are so beautiful, and so smart. I was at a field test recently, for pointing dogs. It was actually the most ridiculous set-up I've ever seen - basically just a big, bare pasture with trees around the outside. The dogs were taken through a specific route completely devoid of birds before reaching the actual (tiny) bird field, which was more bare pasture, about half an acre in size, and loaded with planted birds. Stupid as hell for these sorts of dogs, but excellent for the eagles and hawks, who would lazily swoop in at the planted birds every once in a while for an easy meal while the dog and its handler and the judge wandered around uselessly in the course before the bird field. It was quite cool to see. The hawks were better at it than the eagles, though. Even though the prey was pretty much stationary, the eagles had more unsuccessful dives than the hawks.

Anyway, end ridiculousy random rambling. :) Thanks for sharing, those are videos are cool.