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Coyote Attack Best Footage Ever - YouTube

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Geoff. Since 1960.

You're right a 357 is the proper medicine for that coyote.

One problem it's BC. The coyote has more self defense rights than the human. At least as far as pistols are concerned.

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Does it appear to anyone that perhaps this animal has had contact with humans before? Perhaps been fed by them?

Had to have had, maybe even raised by someone and released when it was no longer "cute". Ex-pet status notwithstanding, one playing games with me in that way is going to get a couple of more holes in it than it was born with.

They are more skittish of a human on foot once they recognize them as such than anything else I know of down here, even more so than a black bear. And that is because they are SMART.

Ahhhhhh, how cute. Blam!

I dunno, way up there, who lives out there to feed it? Seems like we have half a country or more, in these days, that is too busy to get outdoors, hunt and fish (its barbaric you know), etc. These animals don't get the pressure put on like they did 75 years ago, and I think they are losing their fear of man. 100 years ago an animal like that wouldn't last an hour before it got shot at, but things aren't like that any more. How many human encounters do today's coyotes have without ever experiencing something that keeps their fear of us awake? This is a species that needs to re-learn to be scared of us.
Never thought I'd say something like this 20 years ago, but I think its time for a bounty on coyotes in this country. We'll never get them all, but a real good thinning out is what they need more than anything. We could eliminate half the coyotes in the USA and still have too many. Time for a $50 tag on each of them, plus letting the hunter sell the hides.

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Geoff. Since 1960.

I agree wholeheartedly, this was no more an attack than when I get home and my pets greet me! Add in the fact that the guy running the camera didn't act at all threatened to me.

have to agree that is not an attack.... my dogs attack me worse then that when there hungry

When I first saw this I thought that that Coyote was too friendly and too well fed.

We have some healthy and well fed Coyotes in our area, but they are very shy. I might accept a starving wild animal or a rabid one approaching like that, this Coyote was playing with the cameraman.
I don’t think an attack would consist of nipping at a boot Pac.

It acts like my Sister’s Jack Russell.

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Such encounters are not uncommon in our national parks where the city dwellers feed them and they are never shot at.

A child could have been in real trouble running across that animal. If it's not a pet, which I suspect it might have been, it probably needs to be put down. Beautiful animal though.

At the very end of the video,

"my trailer (pans back to canine) and that's my dog.

Looks very well cared for, well fed and playful. I think it is a pet.

bob

Here's another one from those crazy Canadians
Great White North - Topic : Great White North - YouTube

It is defintely someones pet and I swear it looked like it responded to his command to stay at one point for a sec.

Things sure must be different in BC. Around here he'd have gotten a taste of the 255g Keith HC's I carry in my 25-13 while in the woods. Yotes are a shoot on sight proposition in WV.

For the first 20 seconds the coyote wants nothing to do with the cameraman. Only after being "called" does he run over. That's the most domesticated coyote I have ever seen ...

I agree, at first the coyote is running away. Then the cameraman whistles at it.

Who cares!

If it charges you shoot it. But of course... I guess you could try to pet it.

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I think our Canadian friend there is a couple Molsens short of a six pack.

ahhh...... make a good looking hat!

I saw this video (posted on You Tube by Jfrech1) about a year ago. When questioned in the comments section of the video he claimed it was not his pet. He also stated that it was a wild coyote that was being fed at a camp a few miles down the road and that it was hit and killed by a truck a few weeks after he shot the video. Good riddance, whether caused by tire, bumper or revolver.

Some of the comments from the tree huggers on You Tube think that it would make a good pet. I bet they wouldn't think that after that yodel dog ate their cat.

Class III

Coyotes are starting to show up in all states. They are almost as bad as the feral hogs. The really scary thing is that those idiot tree huggers re-introduced the wolf to the lower 48. Those things crossbreed with the coyote. What you have then is a really dangerous animal. I remember as a youngster in North dakota, my grandfather setting traps and baiting those things to get rid of them to protect his livelyhood. (he was a farmer) Chickens, turkeys, and even the small game birds in the area were considered part of his food source. If something catastrophic happens and we have to go back to the small farm to survive, we'll have to get rid of the predators all over again.

A little thread drift...

One nite I stopped at a Quick-Sak between Laughlin and Las Vegas for some gas and Copenhagen...Anyhows,
there's this good size coyote jest a lurkin around there.

I stomp my foot at 'im and tell him scat...He just looks at me like he owned the place.

While gettin my can of Cope, I tell the hippie lookin' feller behind the counter,"Y'all sure got some gentle yotes around these parts."

He sez, "Yup, I feed him these corndogs everynite that I can't sell, he a good'n!"

Go figger....

Su Amigo,
Dave

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Anybody who has ever seen a coyote attack knows that it does so (almost every single time) with it's ears laid - just like most dogs. In this case, it appears that the animal is simply telling the camera man to get out-of-his-face. I agree that this coyote seems to have been de-sensitized to humans. He needs shot for that reason alone... regardless. Just my two cents.

Two summers ago a coyote ran into a deli in Chicago and jumped in the cooler. Guess he knew about the gun ban.

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