Their Schedule vs Your Schedule

[tomtom]

Like all kinds of hunting, fishing, and beer-drinking, anytime you can get some in is a good time to go. I dont know about a dogs telepathy or remote viewing capabilities, but I swear there is something to the movement of animals directly related to the hyperactivity of my dogs. I have just about quit taking my dogs out unless they are being a pain in my neck. It never fails.... I get off early, conditions seem right, aint gotta work or do anything the next day. Its Bambi season right now so if I go it has to be at night. If I look outside and my dogs are all laying around just relaxing, I can take them out and walk/road til the sun comes up and dont even jump a coon at the protien feeders. If they wake me up fighting and crap like they did about 3am this morning, I'm dodging all kinds of animals on the way to the hunting spots. Probably stating the obvious to some of you but I just never really believed my domesticated dogs were under the same influences as the rest of the animal world.

[dwalton]

The activity of all animals is the same I feel. We have just lost touch with a lot of our own sensitivity to it. The only difference is that with dogs that are trained to cold trail you can take a track that was made during the movement time and catch it. Also during the mating seasons animals will move more, some males all day. I always try to hunt by the hunting almanac. Dewey

[Gary Roberson]

I have studied active feeding times and how they relate to calling success since the mid '90s. Wayne Fears interviewed me on this subject and wrote it up for the PROGRESSIVE FARMER as well. Critters don't just get up and move around "willy nilly", Mother Nature along with the moon have a lot to do with animal activity. Weather can override the active feeding times but if everything is equal, it is a good idea to know when the active feeding times will take place.
My GPS has the major and minor feeding times on it and is extremely handy. If you are driving the country and see a predator up moving, I can almost guarantee you that he is moving in an active feeding period.
Adios,
Gary

[sheimer]

This topic intrests me a lot. Don't know why, but it does make me want to understand it better. Do all preditory animals follow similar feeding patterns or feeding times? I guess the question is, if I see a coyote out mousing around, should I expect that cats would be out doing the same in the same area? Do prey animals follow the same schedule as preditors? There's a hundred more questions so if anyone is so inclined, please give us some more info.

Thanks,
Scott

[JTG]

Great topic and it's amazing seeing what most would miss.

[Gary Roberson]

Sheimer
All predatory animals seem to follow the same schedule. As for prey animals, I have not really studied but feel that they, too are on the same schedule. I know that deer tend to feed by the moon as well but perhaps a lesser degree than predators. In my country, deer have changed their feeding patterns to go to the feeders when they hear them throw feed. They also tend to go to open fields such as wheat and use the cover of darkness to help them hide from hunters.
Adios,
Gary