Comments on: How to Protect Your Dog From Hawks, Owls, & Other Birds of Prey https://www.k9ofmine.com/how-to-protect-your-dog-from-hawks/ Your Dog Care Resource For a Healthier, Happier Canine! Thu, 06 Apr 2023 17:07:12 +0000 hourly 1 By: Dawn Mello https://www.k9ofmine.com/how-to-protect-your-dog-from-hawks/#comment-4339668 Thu, 06 Apr 2023 17:07:12 +0000 https://www.k9ofmine.com/?p=2021206#comment-4339668 I saw a video where a hawk picked up a cat looking to be at least 10 lbs. Idiots filmed it instead of saving the cat. I have 3 small dogs and we are putting ropes across the dog pen with discs and old pie pans. There are at least 4 hawks that constantly fly over the dog pen. It’s annoying. I see hawks everywhere, I don’t see how they’re endangered anymore.

]]> By: Dan https://www.k9ofmine.com/how-to-protect-your-dog-from-hawks/#comment-4338819 Sun, 02 Apr 2023 19:48:33 +0000 https://www.k9ofmine.com/?p=2021206#comment-4338819 Ben,

Thank you for putting this hawk/dog information almost all in one place. Having Chihuahua’s for 16 years it has only been the last 2 years the hawks became so aggressive I felt it necessary to search for answers on how to deter them.

I am pleased to provide a successful update as the hawks are staying about 100 yards away and flying at a higher altitude. I am not sure which option is most productive as I have strategically placed Horned Owl decoys, reflective tape and holographic reflective pinwheels. My wife is looking for holographic reflective fabric to have vests and sweaters made for them as additional precaution.

My house does not look like a circus entrance as I placed the pinwheels facing the sky as I want it to blind the magnified eyes of the predator while not annoying the human eye. I believe that’s been the most successful as they can’t focus on the decoy and I have noticed a change in their flight direction.

These measures have not affected the other wild life as I still have the song birds, blue jays, robins and cardinals etc.

Unfortunately the most social of North American raptors, these birds cooperate at nests and hunt together as a team. When hunting, a group of hawks surround their prey, flush it for another to catch, or take turns chasing it. The birds not only hunt together, but also nest in groups. A pair’s offspring will often hang around for up to three years.

I am still watchful only to see the success of measures instead of making sure Bella and Mia are within my reach.

Again thank you for putting this information on your site and I want readers and visitors to know the suggestions you offered are effective!

]]> By: Dan https://www.k9ofmine.com/how-to-protect-your-dog-from-hawks/#comment-4334816 Wed, 22 Mar 2023 01:50:23 +0000 https://www.k9ofmine.com/?p=2021206#comment-4334816 85 Years of uncontrollable growth, not including the Eagle’s Nest on former Bethlehem Steel fire watches,(1.5 miles away) the nest is as large as a sofa,luckily their diet is fish. The turkey buzzard (yes the two of them) eat road kill and do not circle my house and go after my dogs. Fair Enough its been getting worse the last couple years as I have lived here 64 years and never had been eyeballed in my hot tub or seen as many as I have been this year.

Thanks for listening-

]]> By: Ben Team https://www.k9ofmine.com/how-to-protect-your-dog-from-hawks/#comment-4334713 Mon, 20 Mar 2023 19:08:42 +0000 https://www.k9ofmine.com/?p=2021206#comment-4334713 In reply to Dan.

Fair enough, Dan. But seeing so many hawks you “lost count” typically means one is looking at circling vultures.
At any rate, stay safe out there.

]]> By: Dan https://www.k9ofmine.com/how-to-protect-your-dog-from-hawks/#comment-4334711 Mon, 20 Mar 2023 17:35:01 +0000 https://www.k9ofmine.com/?p=2021206#comment-4334711 They are not vultures, as Lehigh University (South Mountain 3 miles from my residence ) changed it’s mascot from the”Engineers” to “Mountain Hawks” and proximity to Hawk Mountain a mountain ridge, part of the Blue Mountain Ridge in the Appalachian Mountain chain, located in central-eastern Pennsylvania near Reading and Allentown. The mountain was previously called North Mountain because it is across the Lehigh Valley from South Mountain. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawk_Mountain).

In 1929, the Pennsylvania Game Commission offered hunters $5 for every goshawk shot during migrating season, as the birds were considered pests. In 1932, Richard Pough (a birder and photographer from Philadelphia) photographed hundreds of killed hawks and published these photos in Bird Lore, the predecessor to Audubon. In 1934, after decades of hawk and eagle slaughter on the ridge, Rosalie Edge unilaterally ended the annual shoot by buying the property, changing the name of the mountain to the present one, and turning it into a sanctuary.

Not vultures,Hungry Hawks from a sanctuary.

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