Coyotes have moved in.

[rags]

This side of the fence, CITY. His side, Nature Preserve with 700 acres. Danged if I do and danged if I don't. Today there were two. All I can do is use the break barrel pellet gun to make 'em go away. Got one and they both left. I don't need them this close thinking my dogs look tasty. The 8 year GSD Mutt old could take on one most likely, with some high vet bills, but the 14 year old is slow and gimpy.

We hear them on a daily/nightly basis. We've seen them for the 23 years we've been here in SW Ohio. More so lately.


When it's chow time, you here the yipping and howling for about 20-25 seconds, they caught something, then silence. They're munchin' down on the kill.

 

[klondike]

Here in the Portland area they have adapted to urban living so well that they even ride mass transit.

 

[Watchdog]

Coyotes have been in the news here recently. Apparently, an area called Tega Cay, on Lake Wylie, South Carolina, near Fort Mill has been having a small coyote problem. But no one seems to be exactly sure what the problem is.

The coyotes haven't actually done anything wrong, other than let themselves be seen by the locals. The folks who live in the high-dollar developments around the lake seem to believe seeing the coyotes is a little closer to nature than they want to be.

So the good folks have initiated a program wherein some coyotes will be trapped, then hauled away to some secret location to be euthanized.

The residents really believe that trapping some coyotes at random will make the coyotes go away forever. It ain't gonna happen. A similar program was tried in Charlotte, North Carolina and Mecklenburg County...just north of Lake Wylie... years ago. It was a miserable failure and a total waste of city/county funds. Maybe once a year, someone in Charlotte will complain about coyotes, but for the most part, it's just a non-issue.

The residents (mostly transplanted city folks) don't seem to realize that Lake Wylie and its surrounding area is just chock full of prime coyote menu items...rabbits, squirrels, possums, ducks, geese, and sadly, fawns.

If any of you live around Lake Wylie, or even in York County, you know what I'm talking about.

The coyotes aren't going anywhere.

 

[charlie sherrill]

We have fox pens in Mississippi. They have tall fences around them and are used to run fox hounds. There is no hunting involved. Folks just sit round at night on their tailgates and listen to their dogs run a fox. "I think I hear Ole Blue". At some point in time someone brought some coyotes to the fox pens. Some escaped and they've been here ever since. I've turned several deer hunts into a coyote hunt whenever one appeared a my stand. Before I retired as a LEO I managed to run over several with the cruiser. I lost a beloved family dog to a pack several years ago and I haven't forgiven them.

 

[ky wonder]

the first one I saw here in central ky was the late 70's, we have several on the place and a lot all around us,
we shoot on sight

and I had a neighbor who raised sheep who put out some baited hot dogs
out around his sheep

most of the guys around here with cattle have jacks for calf protection, they are tough on coyotes

I cant say who but one of my neighbor's had a kind of cruel way of getting them off his place
there might even be some 100lb test braided spider wire with treble hooks around that might have been tied in trees and bated hanging at about 4 ft off the ground

I don't go running thru his woods

 

[Wise_A]

When did the coyotes move East of the Mississippi?

Spring and summer nights down at my club, you can stand out on the pistol range and hear coyote calls all night long. We're just north of Albany.

People let their cats out all the time, and like clockwork, the things go missing all the time. Sometimes I tell people about the coyotes and they laugh it off.

Me, I see a fair few coyote-ish critters at night. We also have some big foxes, so it's hard to tell sometimes. But at least a few have definitely been coyotes. One got close enough to give me a bit of a start, but there was a fence between me and him.

Up north a little further aways from the suburbs, you don't see them as much. I still do, but I got a knack for wildlife. I hear them more than I see them, but they're usually just out of sight.

 

[kozmic]

A mother had a litter of pups under my neighbors back deck when he went to Europe for the summer. Those early spring walks/antler hunts thru the woods and back field used to have countless deer tracks now its heavy coyote and coy-dog tracks. It's amazing. They've been a problem here for at least the past dozen years.
We've had human interaction with small packs. One was my son out running and the other my neighbor while she was walking her Brittney. Both cases they backed off when yelled at. They are a zero tolerance predator in our area.

 

[Watchdog]

People let their cats out all the time, and like clockwork, the things go missing all the time.

Yep. Then they blame the coyotes for...being coyotes.

It's like Krispy Kreme offering free doughnuts. I'm gonna say no? Seriously?

 

[jag312]

I have a pack of coyotes living in the back of my property. My neighbor told me that there are about 10 or 12. They don't bother me. I just don't ever let my cat out of the house. In the summer, I hear them right behind my house. They are more interested in the rabbits and ground squirrels.

What does bother me is the mountain lion. It ripped open my neighbor's dog from shoulder to hip with just one swipe. It went after my horse on Thanksgiving evening. It came back again and jumped on my horse's back. It ripped the thick winter blanket he was wearing. I assume my horse kicked a field goal with the cat using his hind hooves. If the cat ever comes back, I will kill it. Oh, and last year the mountain lion killed a deer about 75 feet from my back door.

 

[chopshopcop]

The came into the Memphis around 1980. I have no idea if they swam or not.

Ed

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.

Ran across them many times since then, in all parts of the city. A few years back, parts of the city flooded after a series of storms. We had deer, coyotes and other critters forced out of their usual habitat and into the city proper. Came to work one morning, there was a bobcat roaming the parking garage.

 

[Whitwabit]

When did the coyotes move East of the Mississippi?

a couple hundred years ago .. I'm 67 and we have always had them here in Central part of the state during my life .. they have only gotten worse .. big scare back in the 50's with them and wild dogs running ..

just over 2 years ago had one try to take my then pup that was in the back yard .. she's 3 now .. by the time I got out of the house and around to where she was it had jumped back over the fence and was running away across the corn stubble .. couldn't get a shot off .. if the pup hadn't been barking her head off I would never have know what happened to her ..

we hear them howling about once a week at night or evening .. there is at least two packs one on each side of town out in the woods .. you never see a dead coon on the road the next day the coyotes get them at night .. I use to see them before retiring when I went to work at 3:30 am .. usually right in town and always more then one together .. Cops in town were worried about the town drunks being harmed a coupe of times .. they have seen them hazing a drunk walking home at 1 am .. staying just 10 feet or so behind him .. have seen them trotting down the road past my house here in the country .. and they are fast .. gone before I can get out and pull up on them .. they're no where in sight ..

 

[redlevel]

I have been seeing and hearing them here in South/Central Georgia for at least 40 years. I can't hate them too bad. What I really hate are feral cats, and the 'yotes keep that population in check. Feral cats are just about the most devastating enemy of small game populations. I believe, in my area anyhow, that coyotes are sort of self regulating. I believe parvovirus really thins them out periodically. Deer hunters kill a lot of them here, too. On the other hand, deer hunters provide them with a lot of food around the hundreds of "deer camps" in the area, not only with the trash they inevitably leave, but with the remains of the deer they butcher.

 

[Kernel Crittenden]

Up north the skin disease mange can devastate a coyote population. Practically wipe them out in areas as large as a township. They need a heathy pelt to survive the winter. Natures way of keeping them in check when they get to thick.

 

[arjay]

We had a healthy population of fox around here and a breeding pair of coyotes about a mile away.The fox contracted mange about 5 years ago and disappeared.Two years ago I came across a coyote a block from here in the middle of the day with a really bad case of mange.Havent seen a coyote since,but I'm seeing and hearing fox again.

 

[jessebogan]

I live right outside of DC, in Maryland. I see them frequently. I also see them in DC itself. In fact the 2 biggest I have seen were in DC.

 

[Rpg]

Here in the Denver suburbs they are plentiful.

Always have been.

Green belts are natural corodors and funnel them into areas you wouldn't expect.

Occasional mountain lions too.

Pets left out get taken with some frequency.

Part of the fun of living in the burbs.

 

[susieqz]

got coyotes cutting up here all the time. they come right up to the house at night but i never see them unless a cow dies n they feast for days.
kinda wish i could have a kitty, but coyotes think they are yummie.
i don't bother coyotes. they kill evil bunnies so they are my friends.

 

[Iggy]

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Back in the 60's I use to be a back seat gunner for a Govt Coyote hunter.
I would hang out the side of his Piper Cub with a 12 gauge shotgun.
We would fly around until we spotted a coyote. We'd drop down to a few feet off the ground and fly after the coyote. When we got close enough,I would lean out the side and aim at the tip of it's tail and let'r fly.

We would then land and he would collect the ears for proof for bounty payment.

He also used Cyanide guns to kill them.. They would bite the stinking bait concealing the 38 cartridge filled with Cyanide. It would be blown into his mouth and kill him very quickly.

These were very effective until the Govt banned the use of poisons.

Went to a meeting of the County Predatory Animal Board concerning coyote problem.

A nice lady from the BLM presented a proposed program to capture and castrate male coyotes and release them.

A grizzled old rancher stood up and said, "Lady, them coyotes ain't F***in' our critters, they're eatin' them.

The meeting kinda fizzled out after that.

 

[Old TexMex]

Firsst they came for the rodents, then they came for the squirrels.
Then they came for the kittens.....
Finally, they came for the possums.
About time, stupid coyotes.


Additional,
In Australia we used 10-80 baits for dingos. 10-80 bait lure - 09/09/2005

 

[Iggy]

Indians say that when the world comes to an end, coyotes will be the last to go..

They are smart rascals that's for sure.