Coyotes made Mistake

[CO_Kid]

I don't have a kill them all policy. Around here they're the only thing that keeps the rabbit population somewhat in check. But the second one loses its fear of humans, that one's time has come. Tons of documented cases of attacking kids after losing their fear.

I have seen a group of three yotes take down a full size buck mule deer. Quite a battle to have witnessed.

 

[Watchdog]

Coyotes made Mistake.

I'm still trying to figure out what kind of "mistake" the coyotes made.

Now all of a sudden there is
going to be a meeting at Centerville, Ohio- with DNR and other state agencies. I will be going...

Did the meeting take place? If so, was anything decided? Were any state officials in attendance? What did everyone have to say?

 

[BAM-BAM]

Well,let me be the first to tell you that it's pretty damned difficult to take a drink from the Great Lakes when you live in Colorado,OR South Carolina! And just what is YOUR point in posting a comment like that in this thread? You just made my list. Congrats!





f.t.

Is that a Nissan Frontier????????




I've seen 2 in the past year...... in the "Burbs of the Burgh".....in a straight line it's about 8 -10 miles to The Point (Three Rivers)

Course we have monthly sometimes weekly sighting of Black Bear.......


Its a rare weekend at the cabin that you don't come across chunks (sq foot or better) of deer hide or turkey feathers/wings on an evening walk....... one of the reasons a CZ 452FS in .22mag has become my "walk in Penn's Woods" gun

 

[CO_Kid]

I'm 64 years old, and have hunted and fished all over Virginia since I was old enough to wander away from the house without my mother having a dying duck fit.

Until about ten years ago, maybe, I had never heard of a coyote in Virginia. A coyote was something I saw on Bonanza or Cheyenne. Since then I've seen maybe a dozen or so, but my outdoor activity has slowed down a lot since my wife became disabled.

I saw one in the woods one morning while squirrel hunting a few years ago. I watched it for a bit, thought about shooting, but (1) I wasn't 100% sure it was legal, (2) thought it was too far for a sure kill with a 22 LR, and (3) remembered my mothers stern warning the day I got my first gun "Don't ever shoot anything you can't brag about."

I also remembered one time when I was a kid, I shot a raccoon. I proudly carried it home to show my grandfather. He looked at it, he looked at me, and asked..."What you going to do with it now?" I felt about 2" tall when I realized I had no idea how to answer that question. I had killed it for no reason really.

I let the 'yote go on about it's business.

(This is not to say I wouldn't shoot one on another occasion or that anyone else shouldn't shoot them.)

I'd see them pretty sparingly when I was a patrol cop in northern Chesterfield county from 03 to 08. Usually out west on Midlothian turnpike, hull street rd, or up by the james river. Nothing like out here in colorado though. Now it's weird when I don't see one on a night shift.

 

[gtk]

Growing up on our dairy farm, coyotes came in cycles. For a few years, we would have ample quail, rabbits, & small game. Then the yotes would show up, and wipe the small game out. Once the small game was gone, the yotes would leave too.. a few years pass, the small game population increased again, then coyotes show up again.. Its just the cycle of nature. The only real issue we had with them, was during calving season. They are opportunistic hunters and if they came across a cow giving birth or new calf, they would kill the calf.

Coyotes have found easy living in/near cities & urban sprawl. Pets are easy pickings & I don't see the coyotes leaving as long as food is prevalent .. Why should they waste all that time chasing down hard to catch rabbits in the wild, when someones cat or little lap-dog is such easy prey?

As others have said, coyotes are here to stay. They only way to really affect the population is poison/trapping for years on end, and even if you do manage to almost eradicate them from an area, they will always migrate back if food is present.

 

[Squarebutt]

A local Western Mass. dairy farmer was on the news tonight talking about how coyotes killed newborn twin calves and their mother yesterday. The local farms are not large, so the loss is big. That, and his kids asking where the new calves went, made for a tough day.
Our coyotes are big wolf/dog/coyote hybrids that showed up in the last couple of generations here in New England. They were not here in the fifties and sixties. Now they're everywhere.