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| Method for AP-Petside.com poll on pets - San Jose Mercury News Posted: 08 Dec 2010 02:09 AM PST The Associated Press-Petside.com Poll of pet owners on holiday shopping for pets was conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Corporate Communications from Oct. 13-20, 2010. It is based on telephone interviews with a random sample of 1,000 pet owners. Interviews were conducted with respondents on both landline and cellular telephones. Digits in the phone numbers dialed were generated randomly to reach households with unlisted and listed landline and cell phone numbers. Interviews were conducted in both English and Spanish. As is done routinely in surveys, results were weighted, or adjusted, to ensure that responses accurately reflect the population's makeup by factors such as age, sex, education, and race. In addition, the weighting took into account patterns of phone use—landline only, cell only and both types—by region. No more than one time in 20 should chance variations in the sample cause the results to vary by more than plus or minus 4.0 percentage points from the answers that would be obtained if all pet owners in the U.S. were polled. There are other sources of potential error in polls, including the wording and order of questions. The questions and results for this poll are available at http://www.ap-gfkpoll.c om. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Aggressive wolves snatching pets out of yards in Alaska village - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Posted: 08 Dec 2010 07:17 AM PST by Fairbanks Daily News Miner ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Mayor Scott Anderson doesn't travel around his small town of Port Heiden unarmed. Neither do his neighbors. That's because hungry wolves have been wandering into town in search of food, sneaking into yards and snatching dogs and cats. More evidence of that was found Tuesday morning. A pool of blood was discovered on a village road, and Anderson said you could see where wolves dragged the animal away. Another dog had been killed. It is hunger that is bringing the wolves to this town of about 100 people. While wolves have sneaked into Port Heiden for food before, it is usually just one or two of the animals, and they arrive at night. This is different. These wolves are bold and hard to scare off. Sometimes they just sit and stare. Now, the wolves are showing up during the day. And residents are scared. The wolves could be descending on Port Heiden for several reasons. Perhaps it's because the dwindling number of caribou in the area tend to gather near the town to find protection from predators. It could be because now that the bears are gone, wolves are feeding on the carcasses of walrus and other marine mammals that wash ashore near Port Heiden. At least three packs of wolves have been bothering the town. The largest pack is made up of about 20 animals; the others have between seven and 15 wolves. Immediate action needs to be taken, Anderson said. The town about 425 miles southwest of Anchorage wants the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to allow aircraft to be used to track and kill the aggressive wolves. A Fish and Game area biologist held a town meeting in Port Heiden on Monday. "The strange thing is the number of wolves they are reporting," said region supervisor Bruce Dale. He said Fish and Game is coming up with an action plan. In the meantime, everyone in Port Heiden is armed - even the mayor, who travels the town on a four-wheeler with a rifle strapped on the back. "You won't see anybody walking around without a gun around here," said lifelong Port Heiden resident James Christensen, 45. "You could open any car door in this town and you will see a rifle sitting on the seat." Wolves coming into Port Heiden has residents thinking about what occurred in the village of Chignik Lake last March: A teacher out jogging was killed by two hungry wolves. Port Heiden residents in recent weeks have killed about six wolves, and they were skinny animals with sucked-in stomachs, Christensen said. He said his dogs were barking Monday night so looked outside his house and found one of his dogs cowering in the corner of the door, wanting in. There were wolf tracks all around his home in the new snow, he said. "They came about 15 feet from the front door and then they went all around the outbuildings outside the house," Christensen said. He said the wolves are visiting just about every house in Port Heiden. "I guess mainly they must be looking for dogs because they have eaten quite a few already," Christensen said. "They got my friend's dog here a couple of days ago. They dragged him right out from underneath his porch." This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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