Coyotes now making Detroit their home!

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Chicago actually introduced coyotes in the downtown area around 20 yrs ago. The morons that run that town thought it would be a great idea for free rat control. Stories pop up occasionally about coyote attacks in Chi town. Last week a citizen in a suburb north of Chicago found a bag of coyote pups in a lake. 4-5 drown and one still alive with a broken leg. The survivor is now recuperating in a vet clinic with a "go fund me" worth quite a bit. The authorities are spending time and money to find the person who did it as it's considered animal cruelty.
 
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What a relief. I thought the Phoenix Coyotes (hockey) were moving to Detroit! Whew!

Just as a side note, a little Yorkie owned by a neighbor was attacked by a coyote on our street a few weeks ago here in Phoenix. Luckily, he was not severely injured according to the vet, but he's dragging one of this hind legs - evidently hurts him too much to stand on it. Still, he came running over to see me yesterday morning when he and his owner were out walking. Cute little guy named "Champ."

We note small dogs getting chewed up a lot in this area. A coyote might find my Pit Bull mix a bit too much to handle, though.

John

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The story says "experts" tell people, if confronted by one just throw a stick at the coyote and back away.
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Even if they lose their fear of humans they are still very skittish. They may come close but when approached will back off quickly. Here in Oregon in the rural areas they still keep their distance as most get shot at frequently. Ranchers however report how they will come right up to barns and buildings knowing dogs and livestock are around and are quite a nuisance and constantly have to be watched. Heck ya cant shoot them fast enough to keep the numbers down.
 
Suburbia goes out some miles beyond where I live, but a neighbor got a 'yote on his infrared camera not long ago, and around the same time three healthy cats disappeared within two weeks of each other.
He doesn't like it much, but we keep our old mouser indoors now.
I've heard the 'yotes but not seen them here at home, but I have seen them in nearby more rural Powhatan County. There's a $25 bounty on them here, but a friend tells me if i shoot one take it to [county] nearer Northern Virginia where the bounty is $125.
 
If anyone is interested in more information about the expansion of coyotes into non-traditional ranges and into urban areas, I recommend the bookCoyote America by Dan Flores.

Despite the determined efforts of the Federal Government in consort with agricultural lobbyists to exterminate the coyote, he continues to spread his range. They are amazingly adaptable. The more of them killed, the larger their litters. In places where extermination was marginally successful, farmers found their fields and storage areas were overrun with rodents.

My father ranched in eastern Colorado for 70 years and said he never lost a calf to a coyote. My mother's chickens were a different story.
 
Watchdog said:
Another coyote thread. Oh, boy.

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.LOL.......................maybe we can expand it into a "Is this enough gun for coyotes????" thread!!!! :D

There is the Western"Willie" Coyote and in the east ours are showing Wolf DNA..... often going 50 lbs or more.......no more "Walking in Penn's Woods" with just a 4" sheath knife and walking stick!!!!! I've seen two (not too large) in my "burb of the Burgh".
 
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I suspect we have coyote/dog hybrids here too,but I'm not having any luck finding info.There was a male that hung out near here for several years that was huge.
 
Coyotes roaming the streets here in suburban Arizona are a common sight along with Bobcats, Javalina and on occasion bears. Every time I see a lost dog or cat sign posted I'm pretty sure I know what happened to it. So much of the surrounding land has been consumed for subdivisions that there's less and less room for the animal population.
Jim
 
We have them in Toledo and surrounding suburbs, as well as all over the rural areas of NW Ohio. They have lagely eliminated the feral cat problem, to the point that the song birds ar recovering. I haven't seen any kind of snake around here in years, including the common garter snake. I have no idea what holds the rodent population down. We do have 'coons and 'possums all over, and skunks too.
 
Protected One said:
As if Pit Bulls weren't enough of a problem, now Detroit is home to a growing number of COYOTES!!!

Detroit residents nervous after coyotes seen roaming city's...

The story says "experts" tell people, if confronted by one just throw a stick at the coyote and back away.

Yeah....think I would be throwing lead.
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I dont remember what program I saw but--it was about the auto industry leaving--all their buildings being reclaimed by mama nature. They showed entire neighborhoods with no people living there-rotting homes etx. They also mentioned that a large portion of the population left Detroit because of no jobs. Coyotes are reclaiming their lands.
 
Much of the city where buildings have been demolished has been reclaimed by nature as "urban prairie." This has provided habitat for coyotes and the forage animals they feed on. There's even sporadic sightings of pheasants. Just goes to prove that nature abhors a vacuum.
 
I just watched a story on downtown Detroit and the surrounding area neighborhoods. Is that in America? Holy ****! Unbelievable the abandonment of such large buildings and homes and coyotes are the only problem. What a great place for any wild animal to pick up residency. Bigfoot could probably find a nice drafty, rat, coyote infested place to call home. What else is going to make Detroit their home? A newborn undiscovered natural disease? Sad in many ways.
 
One of the eeriest experience I ever had hunting was in Illinois several years ago. I was finishing up a day on stand while deer hunting and it was rapidly getting dark. As I started out of the woods I suddenly realized by the howling that I was surrounded by a pack of coyotes. This made me very glad I was armed.
Jim
 
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