No. Just, No.

[nightdog_barks]

I can only hope Nick R. of Hawkforce was pulling the reporter's leg when he said this:

“The natural predator of these hawks is prairie dogs, which is why they don’t like them," he said. "They would not try to carry them off.”

Because otherwise I'd say he doesn't know a damn thing about hawks and probably shouldn't be handling one.

Prairie dogs, small cuddly herbivores.
Harris hawk ... not.

From the Telegraph: Harris hawks, used to control pigeons in Central London, have been attacking small dogs.

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[nightdog_barks]

I sincerely hope he was MISQUOTED, otherwise I would take away whatever wildlife licenses he has. Oh my god, Topaz.

[topaz_eyes]

I don't think Robertson was misquoted, though. Before his special quote of WTF?, the article paraphrased:

[Robertson] insisted the birds are not trying to kill the dogs, but are in fact attacking because they are afraid.

Riiiiight. Because those evil little herbivores will launch from their underground burrows and devour those helpless meat-eating birds of prey.

Or maybe the guy thinks that "birds of prey" means the birds *are* prey. Either way, this Robertson dude fails biology forever.