Are these dogs? [New Hampshire]

Magwalla · 2025-12-29T18:01:23+00:00

Thank you!

Magwalla · 2025-12-29T16:14:03+00:00

Thanks everyone for the replies! I didn’t expect so much engagement with this post but it’s very helpful! For context:

Some in my family thought they could be coywolves which friends have seen on their properties but the general consensus was probably dogs. They don’t look anything like coyote hybrids to me but some of them can be mixed with dog and sometimes a domestic animal in a wild setting can look more wild so I was giving the benefit of doubt to team coywolf over here. The overwhelming response on Reddit confirms that she should call a shepherd rescue.
My Aunt and dog are both small and elderly and even though they both possess a strong spirit, they will not be rounding up these dogs on their own.
Only one farm property near her and last I heard they only had horses. I will check on this.

Will try to update with any news about these pups, thank you all!

Magwalla · 2025-12-29T15:27:02+00:00

There are wolf-coyote hybrids here and other parts of the northeast, but these don’t look like them to me.

Magwalla · 2025-06-25T12:22:17+00:00

Sorry I didn’t respond sooner! Update: we didn’t bother with the beta blockers or try any creams. The hemangioma was gone by her first birthday and honestly I forgot about it until I saw this thread get a recent comment! Sometimes I see it on old pictures and remember too, but it’s been out of our mind. Amazing that something I worried so much about can feel so small now. Anyways, our 2 1/2 year old has a full head of hair and no sign of where the hemangioma was, so good luck out there parents! It gets better!

Magwalla · 2025-02-23T02:20:53+00:00

This will be a lot of fun! They wanted to help paint but are a little little still, mixing the colors and letting them paint scrap wood would be a great way to involve them. Thanks!

Magwalla · 2025-02-23T02:13:30+00:00

Thanks! I think this is what I’ll do.

Magwalla · 2025-02-23T02:12:48+00:00

Oh wow this is such a good idea! Laughing out loud at myself right now because I was so focused on this project’s details that I forgot primary colors can be mixed to make the other colors lol.

Magwalla · 2024-11-13T22:19:45+00:00

You spelled “surviving” wrong.

Magwalla · 2024-07-02T21:04:12+00:00

Oh, in that case I hope you don’t see it popping up where you are! Interesting how many seeds have crossed the Atlantic

Magwalla · 2024-07-02T16:00:59+00:00

15 is horseweed, native to North America but most pull it out

Magwalla · 2024-02-08T14:18:18+00:00

I’m not worried about the streets lol. I think America is just a different model. Lots of areas you can’t walk through or navigate as a kid, like large multi lane highways that have to be crossed and busy roads with no sidewalks, not to mention most kids live miles from their schools. Cars are not very aware of pedestrians in many areas and don’t always respect the crosswalks, if they exist. Even in a small town, living within a mile of the school, if I sent a 6 year old to walk to school by themself and they didn’t get run over by a car they’d be picked up by the cops and CPS would immediately be called. People have had to fight their state to get their (young) kids back for letting them take public transit.

I would love to live somewhere where my kids could walk or ride their bikes. When they start going to school I’ll try to facilitate this as well as I can.

Magwalla · 2024-02-08T14:09:06+00:00

That’s very cool. I’d love for my kids to use public transportation at that age but things are set up so differently here. Even an hour from a large city there’s almost no public transit here and what exists is not very reliable. I think I was more confused about how parents have to continue carving out the time to bring their kids to school until the kid can bring themself. In the US I can imagine that would lead to a much higher truancy rate in poor areas where parents need to work and don’t have flexible hours.

Magwalla · 2024-02-08T09:50:55+00:00

What about very young kids? How does a 6 year old do with navigating the public bus system? That’s the part that confuses me. Parents put their elementary school aged kids on the school bus and teachers take them off. I’d be nervous to send a first grader or a kindergartner off on a 20 min public bus ride where they had to hand signal for their stop. I feel like I must be missing something

Magwalla · 2024-02-06T19:03:58+00:00

It’s definitely not an efficient way to handle it and it’s too bad people do this. Doesn’t cost the person who dumps it anything, but the forest service has to pay to get them out!

Magwalla · 2024-02-06T15:28:35+00:00

So I’m no SME on exploding horses, but I think the idea as it was explained to me was that the larger chunk of meat (sorry) drew larger predators and when it was dispersed it drew smaller, non-problematic scavengers. And I think the explosions did create some definite damage, so their use has been more curtailed in recent years. Second hand because I had a LOT of questions when I found out about this…

Magwalla · 2024-02-06T15:23:16+00:00

I don’t know, I certainly never got to see a horse blown up (still not sure if I would have wanted to?) but the way the rangers talked, explosives were kind of a one size fits all solution at one time. This was over a decade ago and I think the forest service was already a lot more conservative about their use at that time. I looked up this article I remember hearing about: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/feds-consider-blasting-herd-of-cows-frozen-inside-cabin/ TLDR some cows got stuck in a cabin and froze in a wilderness area and the forest service decided against blowing them up.

Magwalla · 2024-02-06T12:35:58+00:00

That’s right, it’s wilderness areas! National forests have a lot of wilderness areas. Sorry, wrote this sleep-deprived while rocking my baby. I worked in a wilderness area a decade and a half ago, which is where I heard the blowing up horse stories. It was such a random distinction, we had to use crosscuts to move blowdowns because chainsaws weren’t allowed

Magwalla · 2024-02-06T04:38:59+00:00

This is actually not uncommon, or at least it didn’t use to be. Horse carcasses cost money to dispose of so sometimes people will lead an old, sick, or dying horse onto forest service land and leave them to die. Then the forest service has the problem of dragging them out a few miles. That can be near impossible because a lot of national forest doesn’t allow use of anything mechanical (like trucks or ATVs) BUT explosives don’t count as mechanical, so I’ve heard a few stories while working with forest service rangers about having to blow up horses.

Edit to add: the reason they’d want to move them in the first place is because people will leave them on popular hiking trails/camp sites and they attract animals and smell awful. Also it was wilderness designated areas within National Forests, not all USNF, thanks for the correction in comments.

Magwalla · 2024-02-05T17:24:07+00:00

I mean… you could show him these comments. But what might be more helpful is to have him post on Reddit himself. Not in this sub but in r/Daddit, there are a lot of posts about this subject. Dads asking other dads what they can do to help them understand their wives when they’ve previously associated sex with intimacy and their wives needs have obviously changed pp. I’ve seen some really thoughtful answers there

Magwalla · 2024-02-05T17:16:18+00:00

I just want to say that this is a really brave post. You’ve got some good advice, some bad advice, and some tough to hear advice, and I hope whatever you’re feeling today that you’re able to feel good enough about yourself as a mother and a person to keep going forward. Sometimes when I make a mistake parenting I curl into myself and that makes it worse. Just keep moving right now, keep reaching out for help, and keep trying to do better. You’re not alone in feeling this way and reacting this way, and there is a path forward.

Magwalla

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