Skip past the video if you are overly sensitive to the suffering of animals and read only the text to learn about dangerous human and wildlife encounters and the deadly attacks that are being reported each week in newspapers across the country and on your local nightly news.
As man continues to encroach on the forest that has been both home and refuge to countless numbers of wildlife, vicious attacks are becoming common. In this extremely graphic video a female deer pummels a dog while defending her fawn on a city street.
In this video filmed on a residential street in British Columbia a doe and her newborn fawn attract the attention of a cat and numerous spectators.
After the residents started filming the cute cat meets fawn video a neighborhood dog apparently got a little too close to the deer's fawn and she attacked the dog. The deer literally pummeled the poor dog who seemed to have forgotten how to run after being surprised by the charging doe.
Horrified neighbours can be heard in the background screaming and yelling for help to no avail. The deer continued kicking and hurting the old dog. The dog left the incident limping, but is reportedly doing OK, said CTVNews.
Are attacks like this the exception or are they the new rule? Will they continue to be a regular part of the daily news? We set out to find the answer to that question.
A simple Google or YouTube search displayed thousands of matching stories including two separate incidents involving men who were brutally attacked by deer and injured to the point of needing hospitalization.
A rash of attacks by male deer prompted California wildlife officials to warn people to try and keep their distance from the wild animals and these warnings are still valid today. At Southern Illinois University Carbondale there have been multiple attacks spread out over many years during the past decade. Some contribute this predatory behaviour to a loss of habitat which can make deer much more nervous than they would be otherwise and prone to attacking in defense of what it perceives as unwanted contact and a threat to its young.
Why is Lyme disease on the increase ?
"Lyme disease is on the increase for several reasons: reforestation of suburban developments where small critters, such as chipmunks and squirrels, act as intermediate or secondary reservoirs for the Ixodes tick vector of Lyme disease; global warming that predisposes to a preferential multiplication of the most virulent subspecies of Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative organism in Lyme disease; and the burgeoning population of deer, the primary reservoir host of the Ixodes tick."
The number of confirmed cases of the tick-borne illness Lyme disease is on the rise in the United States and around the world. An upsurge in the amount of cases have been reported in recent times.
Statistics from the Centers for Disease control and Prevention show that there were approximately 30,000 confirmed cases of Lyme disease in 2009 and close to 40,000 probable cases.
What are the symptoms of Lyme disease that people should look out for ?
"Lyme disease, much like syphilis in the previous century, is a great mimicker. Symptoms are countless, but some of the most common include fatigue, waxing and waning joint pain and stiffness, muscle aches, headaches, blurred vision, concentration difficulties, sleep disturbance, imbalance, palpitations, exercise intolerance and shortness of breath. Manifestations across the pond are quite different. Europe sees a lot more in terms of cranial and spinal nerve root inflammation and pain."
WE THINK THAT WE CAN DO AS WE PLEASE ON THIS PLANET ........ BUT MOTHER NATURE IS ALWAYS BUSY GETTING HER OWN BACK.
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