calicokid
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Yesterday I went on along atv ride in S Utah, where it is mixed pinon pine, junipers, sage and prickly pear cactus. As I was riding I noticed a red pile of coyote scat and a little farther on another pile, I saw no less than 35 of them in a 2 mile stretch. This was a bright blood red color and I could not figure what these coyotes had been eating. When we took a break I saw what it was, the fruit on a prickly pear cactus, as I picked one off the cactus, hundreds of tiny needles were instantly in my fingers, I cant imagine a coyote ingesting the amount of fruits that I saw without terrible pain in the dogs mouth, throat and whereever else. Anyone else that lives in the desert areas of the west have this same experience? The prickly pear is just now getting ripe where I live.
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