I have wondered how it works. Because it seems like it could be smelly. Guess not. They are made by Kohler and use an oil trap in the line that allows the piss to pass through the oil which acts as a plug.
Nothing. Now with our kids in the house I have triple locked up all my firearms. They are trigger locked inside a safe inside a locked closet. My kids would instantly gravitate towards a loaded gun if given the chance. Can't let that happen.
No. Three is going to be a lot of work. Once our youngest son gets up and moving around, it will be a ton of work! Our two oldest are into everything and very active. More than any other kids their age. I assume our youngest will be the same way. We have to come up with creative ways to exhaust all their energy everyday.
Lake Como is hard to beat. My wife and I went there, we camped out. But wandered around like we lived there. Everyone was so nice, especially to my wife.
Going to the gym is part of my weekday pre-workday ritual. I go, every weekday morning, no matter what. I have a set of weights and a bench at home but rarely use them. I like the gym more. I never have to wait for equipment there either. It's just part of who I am.
Dude! Same at my gym. There are not any new years resolutionists this year. Actually, a number of regulars have dropped off too. Strange. I wonder what the deal is. Are gyms not in vogue anymore?
I never make fun of fat people in the gym or out on a jogging path. They are trying to better themselves and have a lot of courage trying to fix their problem. Good for them and shame on the fuckers that make fun of them within ear shot. People at my gym do that whole earshot snide comment shit all the time to the fat fuckers.
Hey, cats should be smarter than coyotes or at least be able to get away from them and over a fence or onto a roof. I feel bad for cats that come across a bobcat. But if your cat gets owned by a coyote, that's its own fault for not knowing the difference between a pet dog and wild coyote.
Erikah Baydu, think thats how her name is spelled, she lives just on the other side of those trees a few hundred yards. She puts out dog food for them I have heard.
They also eat loose domestic farm geese that live in a cove. My kids call them "bread ducks" because they attack a stroller with a kid holding bread. There are also "leaf ducks" as my kids call them, that only eat regular naturally occuring food like algae.
Actually that coyote area was an infamous faggot suck off spot 10 years ago. Cops ran stings there constantly busting homos. Some fags still go there and get caught by the cops. The main Southwest Airlines spokesman was caught there just last year showing his dick off.
In March, Mech flew to Dallas to collect DNA samples from the coyotes' fecal matter, and geneticists at the university are examining it to determine why the coyotes are so big. The results will be available in August.
Mech said crossbreeding between coyotes and dogs has been well-recorded in the Northeast but is new to Texas.
Some animal experts are skeptical.
Ron Cornelison, a public health technician with the Texas Department of Health, attributed the coyotes' size to diet.
"They simply have more access to dog food or cat food," he said. "The food supply is more plentiful, so you'd expect to see coyotes a few pounds heavier with a better coat and appearance."
Cornelison said he doubts that dogs and coyotes are interbreeding.
"Coy-dogs are very rare," he said. "People claim to see these mixes -- and genetically they can breed, they're not that far apart -- but most of the time coyotes and dogs just don't mix."
But Mech said arguments in favor of diet fall short. Coyotes throughout Texas have the same access to the usual fare of rodents, rabbits and garbage in addition to pet food and small, domesticated animals found in greenbelts and neighborhoods, he said, and record weights are being reported only in a specific area of the state.
Crossbreeding between coyotes and dogs might also explain the animals' aggressive behavior.
"A coyote bred with a dog is dangerous -- it removes their fear of humans," said Capt. Garry Collins of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. "They can be aggressive if you're between them and a food source."
However, Collins said he is unaware of a population of coy-dogs in the Dallas area. "Dogs are a bigger problem," he said. "I think that's what people are seeing."
Mech said a second explanation might be that Trpkosh stumbled upon a pack of coyotes that had bred with wolves. This cross-hybridization accounts for larger coyotes in the Northeast and in Canada. But given that Texas' indigenous red wolf population was virtually hunted to extinction and has not been seen in the state for nearly 30 years, Mech said this theory is not likely.
Trpkosh said the trend reaches beyond a single strain or group of giant coyotes; the big animals have been trapped in Garland, Murphy and Mesquite, 15 miles away. Packs usually range five to seven miles, Trpkosh said.
Coyotes -- traditionally known as solitary creatures that howl in the distance at night -- have learned to live among humans. And researchers say that the coyotes captured in North Texas may have a remarkable ability to adapt to their changing environment or have crossbred with other canine species.
"It's possible that the coyote is changing genetically," said veteran trapper Mike Trpkosh, who has caught a number of these coyotes. "The coyotes are huge. They're off the charts -- a super species of coyote."
He has combed through tangles of mesquite, ragweed and cottonwood in the reedy outback of the Lochwood area near White Rock Lake in search of coyote tracks, waste, kill sites and dens, hoping to track down an enormous alpha male coyote.
"I've been looking for him for over a year," he said. "I found some scat with bones and a large print in the gravel on Tuesday. I'm pretty sure it's him."
Trpkosh contracts with a number of cities, including Dallas, to trap and dispose of coyotes and other nuisance animals.
Over the past few years, he said, he started noticing a change in some of the coyotes he was trapping, particularly in the Lochwood neighborhood. These coyotes are bulkier than most, with deeper chests and fur with a downy undercoat like a dog's.
At first he attributed the coyotes' change to diet.
"I figured they were eating pets and pet food and their size was a product of good nutrition -- but good nutrition's not enough to explain the change," he said.
These "super coyotes" may be the first signs that the species is crossbreeding with dogs, Mech and other researchers say.
