Coyotes have moved in.

[kthom]

I've been culling coyotes all my life. I have developed a great admiration for their intelligence and ability to survive in any and all conditions. The Indians are right! They will make a living any where they are found, and surprisingly, coyote populations in any town or city surrounded by coyote country (just about everywhere these days) are much higher than almost anyone can imagine. Groceries are very easy for them to find where people live in close proximity to each other. They become right at home anywhere they can find chow.

If you call one to your stand, shoot and miss him, next time you call, he will stop just out of range and bark at you. I'm pretty sure he will also stick his tongue out and maybe give you a high salute! In my experience, there is very little danger of ever coming close to putting the coyote population in any danger of extinction.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

The Navajos and other Tribes have many Coyote beliefs and stories.
Like - they never want to touch one.
I know a dude who got caught by a Navajo Game Warden on Res Land.
He claimed he thought he was on National Forest.
This was up around Mt. Taylor in the checkerboard so he could have been con-fuse-ed.
That's where Reservation sections alternate with National Forest sections.
Anywho, The Game Warden said what's under that tarp?
It was of course some Yotes.
He jumped back and said you need a license to hunt on the Navajo Reservation.
I am ordering you to go to the nearest Navajo Office and get one!
If he gave our guy a ticket for illegal hunting, he would have to confiscate the evidence and handle the coyotes.

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

A favorite neighborhood pet was done in by coyotes. Since then, dead coyotes appear every now and then on our lawns. Must be heart attacks?

 

[halvenut]

When did the coyotes move East of the Mississippi?

I'm in N.E. Ohio and they've been in this area for a good while now.

 

[susieqz]

do they take pigs?
texas pigs are moving this way n seem to cause more economic losses.

 

[Drm50]

When did the coyotes move East of the Mississippi?

I'm in SE Ohio, they started showing up in this area in late 80s.
It took them about 15 years to become a real problem. This area
is part of Appalacia, rough hill country. Known for grouse, turkey
big deer herd & big bucks. Small game, varmits, and fur plentiful.
Now small game nonexistent and deer & turkey hurt badly. Now
they have graduated into pets and livestock, mostly newborns.
Now we have some "experts" who try to tell us they have always
been here. Even though no one alive in these parts ever saw one
before the 80s. Of course guys that spend everyday in the field
and live in these rural areas are not capable of seeing coyotes.
If you believe the experts. They can't be shot out, country is to
rough. State is very little help, basically tells you, that you are on
your own. I think a bounty on them would cut the numbers down,
but because of Animal groups, we will never get one.
The big question I have, how or why did they migrate here.

 

[Tyrod]

Nature abhors a vacuum. Since humans have hunted most predators to extinction in Florida, something had to take their place. The black bear is making a very slow return. The Florida panther, the jury is still out. Although there can't currently more than a handful of them. Crockegators have made a huge comeback. But, only because they were an endangered species at one time. But, alligators are not great scavengers. Now you can't approach a puddle in the road for fear there might be a gator in it. The American crocodile doesn't exist in great numbers and mostly inhabit salt or brackish water. Besides, they only feed on fat tourists. An armadillo or oppossum will keep a bobcat fed for a week.

What I'm waiting for is a youtube video video showing a 16' gator attacking an unsuspecting thirsty coyote.

 

[steelslaver]

My partner and I chased one with a squad car through the streets of east Memphis one night. This was about 1989, we followed it for probably 30-45 minutes before he gave us the slip.

Fast aren't they. About the only dogs that can catch up to one are greyhounds, Whippets and Afghans. A rancher south Of Miles City Montana used to have a pack of Greyhounds and a couple od Greyhound Doberman crosses. Greyhound would run the coyotes and roll them then the Bigger kill dogs would take them.

They are NOT going to leave. Around here they have been shot, snared, poisoned, hunted from airplanes and helicopters. Still all over the place. The range association has one of those government hunters and he gets a lot of them every year, year after year. When they were about $60 a piece in the 70s a guy in Broadus snares over 300 of them. In December and January traps and snares out all over for them. People out calling them. I am sure well over 10,000 are killed a year. Still all over the place. Just part of the landscape.

I don't hate them, they are what they are and very efficient and crafty at it. I love to hunt them and there is an endless supply. The Cheyennes say that last creature on earth will be a coyote.

My BIL was riding by a prairie dog town and saw 3 coyotes. 2 would mess around ad get all the towns attention, while the 3rd would sneak up from other way and get one. Then they would do it again. I watched on get some kind of gopher or something through a foot of snow by listening and then diving through the snow. The ultimate hunters. The fish and game here had a video of a pack chasing a big mule deer buck, they ran him out onto a lake where he couldn't run or maneuver on the ice and they had him. SMART

 

[soFlaNative]

Considered native since fossilized remains have been found they made a comeback in the panhandle in the 60's. I've seen large dog-like tracks for years in the scrub west of Lake O. but have never seen or heard one even though they have been spotted in all 67 counties.
Legal to hunt or trap year round, just the fur bearing animal license needed although the official FWC stance is live and let live... waving arms, yelling and throwing rocks if the encounter becomes serious.

 

[BAM-BAM]

We've had them in the "Burbs of the Burgh" for at least 10 years....... I have two county parks, two nature preserves and the twp park all within 2 miles of the house......across the road is an 4/5 square mile area of horse farms....... all linked by wooded areas/backyards.

It's a rare day you don't see deer in the back yard....Saturday there was a herd of about 12/15 in a neighbors front yard at 4 o'clock in the afternoon...

Some lost pets in my area prompted a half page story in the paper about 2 years ago....

I've only seen 2 coyotes within a mile of the house.......

They are open season in Pa. just about 24/7/365...... so thinking about trying my hand at calling them this spring/summer/fall at the cabin....... as an excuse to spend more time out in Penn's Woods.................

 

[kthom]

do they take pigs?
texas pigs are moving this way n seem to cause more economic losses.

Suzieqz,

I have no doubt that if the circumstances were right for the coyote, they's have no problem with capturing a small pig. But I think this would not happen very often. The little ones are not often seen separated from mama and the rest of the group, and you very seldom ever see a hog out on his own regardless of size. It does probably happen occasionally, especially in the case of a large boar, but he has nothing to fear from any likely predator!.

Hogs are very seldom taken by any kind of predator in my knowledge or experience. Certainly not often enough to have any kind of negative impact on the population numbers. That's one reason why hog numbers have been increasing so radically and why they are continuing to spread across the country! About the onlh thing that keeps that from happening is their dislike for the colder climates or the lack of groceries and habitat that they prefer. A hog will eat anything, and so will a coyote, and that would include the remains of either one that is dead, since both species will and do eat carrion and both are also omnivores.

I just recently read an article on the All Outdoor blogsight talking about the spead of feral pigs. This picture of their present locations in 2015 was a part of that article. Coyotes are much more widespread than hogs, but I ain't sure that the hogs outnumber the coyotes in some places. There is much easier picking for the coyotes grocery list than hogs!

 

[diggler1833]

Coyotes are not a problem that a couple of people can cure.

Where I am originally from (Eastern WA), the farms that I hunted had several large dogs each that were typically of the Rottweiler or German Shepherd breeds. The 'yotes there were dog killers for sure, and would pack up on even a lone big dog and kill it. When my father worked in earth moving he would occasionally take his Walker/Plott mix out with him. It got to bawling one night, and by the time dad got back in the job yard, there were (7) coyotes circled around it.

Where our family ranch is now (Southeastern OK), the 'yotes are less of a problem to dogs and calves. My father-in-law has yet to lose a calf to a 'yote in the past 20 years almost. Still, we keep several dogs out that love a scrap and that seems to work on keeping the coyotes away from the house, but it has not kept us from losing at least (4) barn cats this year. Could be a bobcat problem too, but I suspect 'yotes.

I carry a rifle with me everywhere I go on the ranch when I am back home. Typically I will get a shot on a 'yote the first day that I am home each time. Afterwards the rest are smart for a little while (hogs too).

Best bet is preventative measures. If you have little yippy dogs, then stay with them when they are outside...carry a gun etc... I still place my money on good ranch dogs. One of our Catahoulas is covered in scars from fights over the years, but nothing comes up around the house. I'm picking up an American Bulldog this year, and a Beauceron the next just for reasons like this. Plus they make good babysitters for the kids when they want to play outside.

 

[bearman49709]

When did the coyotes move East of the Mississippi?

Few thousand years ago.Recorded history mentions them as far back as the late 1400's.

 

[JSR III]

I live about 25 miles west of Boston. The town leaf dump is about 1/4 mile diagonally behind my home. Many nights I can hear them howling and yipping. Neighbors have seen them in their yards.

While hunting at my gun club (about 10 miles west) this black powder season, I had one walk behind and next to my ladder stand twice this season around 10 am. Would have taken a shot but didn't want to alert bambi and reloading my flintlock is a process 20' in the air and requires much movement.

 

[BAM-BAM]

Suzieqz,




I just recently read an article on the All Outdoor blogsight talking about the spead of feral pigs. This picture of their present locations in 2015 was a part of that article. Coyotes are much more widespread than hogs, but I ain't sure that the hogs outnumber the coyotes in some places. There is much easier picking for the coyotes grocery list than hogs!

Heard before that there are hogs in Somerset/Bedford counties of Pa.
Our cabin is on the Eastern Continental Divide. which separates those counties....... have yet to see one or even signs....

 

[Grayfox]

When I was a boy we had some great rabbit and quail hunting around here. Then the coyotes moved in.
When I worked for the city, there have several pieces of property up on the north edge of town in the river bottoms that I had to go to regularly. Back in the early 90s there one road in particular that I would drive down early in the morning and might count as many as a dozen rabbits catching the early sun by the edge of the road. I haven't seen a rabbit or quail in at least 15, maybe 20 years now.
But I have spotted coyotes on a fairly regular basis since then. Once I had to stomp on the brakes as a coyote chased a young deer across the road right in front of my truck.
I got no love for coyotes, but I've had to accept that they're here to stay.

 

[rond]

If I'm not mistaken, they'd be fair game any time, as an invasive species. Sort of like the pythons in the everglades, which I hear are good eatin. Wonder what a coyote tastes like.

A little gamier than dog.

 

[Iggy]

We use to chase them on snowmobiles on the ranch. A 12 gauge pistol (did I say that?) loaded with #4 Buck from 30 or 40 feet was pretty effective.
We use to kill around a hundred every winter.. I'm older and smarter now. Sold the snow machines and put the stock back on the shot gun and sold it too.

 

[chaparrito]

They're a fact of life here in C. AZ, always have been.

 

[Watchdog]

If I'm not mistaken, they'd be fair game any time, as an invasive species.

Coyotes are not considered an invasive species any more than any other North American animal that naturally migrates into other states. And no, they are not fair game any time.