Coyotes

[BigBill]

I’m sitting at the kitchen table drinking my coffee when I noticed a coyote that blended in with a stone wall go into the street grab a road kill squirrel and take it in the woods at 10:30am. This coyote has been hanging around for days now. Time to take him out. There getting bold. He was close to the misses the other day.

 

[4barrel]

There are 1000s here. Never a human bite. Chickens are the favorite. Small pets are next. 12--20 in a pack is normal for the last 50 years in a wooded area or near a large body of water. They can eat anything-Frogs to sheep.

 

[Watchdog]

Oh, boy.

 

[TX-Dennis]

Coyotes are fairly common in town here. I see them on a fairly regular basis especially on the local UT campus with its semi wooded areas and abundance of prairie dogs and rabbits.

 

[italiansport]

We see them running thru our subdivision on a regular basis. Since it's illegal to discharge a firearm within the city limits they're probably safe here as long as they avoid cars.
Jim

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

When they are that close to the family, they must go!

For shooting Coyotes, I usually use my AR-15 with a Veri X III set around 10 to 12 power. That way I have quick follow up shots for when I mess up. If you miss the first shot, you have 2 to 4 seconds before the lightning takes to foot! I once took a runner at about 375 yards on Dad's farm but that was the 5th shot!

Ivan

 

[robertrwalsh]

There are at least two families of coyotes living in San Francisco city limits. In all of L. A. there is one reported incident of a coyote biting a human since they have been keeping track, which is a very long time. They are not really a threat to humans except maybe unattended babies or very young children. They are certainly a threat to small domestic pets.

 

[Texas Star]

A couple of them killed a Canadian folk singer in a national park a few years back.

 

[Drm50]

We have the scourge in SE Ohio. They were here thick and ate
up the small game almost to extinction. They put a hurt on deer
herd and turkey. They did some damage to newborn lambs
calfs and people just gave up on keeping chickens. Now we are
seeing a reduction in Coyotes, they must have are themselves
out of business. I think they moved on to greener pastures to
the south. There was never enough of them shot or trapped to
dent them.

 

[ExRanger714]

One tried to eat a guy throwing out his trash in Raleigh the other week.

I think they are smart enough to realize they don't get shot at in some areas. Maybe they can read "City Limit" signs.

 

[Mainsail]

What a coincidence, my security camera caught a small coyote gallop across my front lawn yesterday around 10:30am. Weird he was out in the daytime.

If he starts taking care of the cats that roam the neighborhood (and they're not strays) then I'll call him a friend.

TRIM 20180423 191255 - YouTube

 

[Clarke Hammer]

They aren't wolves. Coyotes are little guys. They will indeed take out a pet dog or cat if they have the opportunity, but coyote attacks on people are very rare.

 

[cmort666]

I heard some yipping in the Metropark the other night.

 

[Mule Packer]

Our state has a $50 bounty on them because they've not only become a liability to the ranchers, but they taken a pretty good toll on the deer herds as well.

I've made a few bucks off of coyote kills. Not enough to supplement my retirement or claim that I'm starting a cottage industry out of my home, but enough to keep me in shells.

They'll probably start becoming more vocal in the next week or two now that the calving and lambing season is getting into full swing.

 

[BigBill]

I have a pellet gun. I need a fur/pelt licence here. It’s time. The two neighbors whe were shooting them passed away recently.

 

[susieqz]

i have a pack of 4 that consider my land their range.
i can't shoot them . they know about guns n move only at night.
they are worthless at controlling bunnies. my kitty n i have to do that.

 

[Kernel Crittenden]

Our state has a $50 bounty on them... .

That's awesome. I wish my State did that. What State are you in?

I'm in Wisconsin and also hunt a lot in Iowa. Both have lots of cows, but neither has any bounty, that I know of.

 

[Texas Star]

Probably had a lousy voice.

No. She was a good singer and quite pretty. I think your comment was a little mean. The poor girl was killed at 19 by dangerous wild animals, and you posted that?!

If I recall her name, I'll YouTube one of her songs. See below. (The video makes her look heavier than she was.) While looking for her, I found an account of coyotes attacking a man in Montreal, too.


[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X07xYgVFpo4[/ame]

 

[Texas Star]

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcaOUjRxCJU[/ame]

I actually like this one better. Several of her songs are available.

She was fatally attacked on Cape Breton Island in 2009.

 

[sureshotbob]

Bill I would not use a pellet gun ! Please use a gun with enough power to put them down humanly .
I've shot a few of them several years ago when hunting deer in the NW corner of the state.
I also have them behind my house and have never had trouble with them. I also live not very far from the fair grounds.

 

[OFT II]

A couple of them killed a Canadian folk singer in a national park a few years back.

We need to find those coyotes, box them up and send them to Justin Bieber.

 

[Watchdog]

One tried to eat a guy throwing out his trash in Raleigh the other week.

That coyote was rabid, which is most likely the only reason it attacked the man. Coyotes usually go out of their way to avoid contact with humans.

 

[SC_Mike]

I used to get just one on game cam at the hunt property. Now i'm getting two and this being springtime and all, you know what that means...

 

[BAM-BAM]

I seem to remember reading..... Coyote populations tend to self regulate base on food availability.....

lots of food = lots of pups

food gets scarce = smaller litters.

 

[BearBio]

I seem to remember reading..... Coyote populations tend to self regulate base on food availability.....

lots of food = lots of pups

food gets scarce = smaller litters.

True--if the mother's weight is down the embryos don't implant on the uterus/placenta. Also, established resident coyotes have been shown to stay away from livestock==kill them and transient ones move in and the crime rate goes up (predation on sheep, etc.).

Besides, I love to listen to them at night!

 

[thomasinaz]

We have a pack of them that live around a small mountain next to our development. I see them in the neighborhood sometimes, on my morning walks, carrying a fresh cat or rabbit. Usually there will be a sign up in the next day about someone missing little fluffy the cat. My dog is usually happy go lucky on our walks unless she senses the coyotes, then she puts on her game face. They do make nice music when they're stirred up.

 

[bigwheelzip]

Local news in NYC had a warning about coyote in Westchester County, the first county north of the city, but they have been spotted in the city for years.

 

[NYlakesider]

We get them up here in my hood. I have a large mountain that comes right down to the back edge of my property. It is a good route for both deer and yotes.

I have not seen any this year but I sure have heard plenty. They were quite active up till about a week ago. Have not heard one since, nor have my neighbors. Their territory is quit large and I believe they have moved on.

Most of the does I see up here are carrying twins, but since the yotes dropped by I note I have seen less deer crossing the road.

 

[Iggy]

I use to serve as gunner for a Govt trapper flying a Piper Cub.
We had the side window open and I rode in the back seat with a 12 gauge shot gun.

When we spotted a yodel dog we would zoom down on him and I would lean way out and aim at the tip of his tail.. Number 4 buck did the job.

The hairy part was landing out there on the prairie so the pilot could cut off the pasture poodle's ears so he could collect the bounty.

Being the youngest and the skinniest when I was a kid, I was the one that had to dig down and crawl into any dens we ran across in the spring.
I would take a shovel and a .22 revolver and start mining my way in to where I could shoot the pups. I would dig in to where I could see the pups.. I would shoot one and drag him out, put my shovel in the tunnel to keep the rest of them escaping until I had the dead one out of the way and repeat. One time when I pulled my shovel back to shoot another one, I discovered Momma was in there and she came out and crawled over my back and got away. I finished up that job and never did that again.
Worst part of that doin's was the den was always loaded with fleas.. I would have to strip down and take a good bath in the nearest crick or stock tank, because my Mom wouldn't let me in the house.

There was a meeting of the County Predatory Animal Board a few years back where a US Govt employee gave a talk about a proposed control program for coyotes.

She stated they were considering capturing male coyotes and castrating them in order to reduce the population.

A bearded old ranch owner at the back of the room stood up and said "Lady them coyotes ain't screwin' (that's not the word he used) our sheep, they're eating them."

The room exploded in laughter and the lady packed up her things and left. Never heard anymore about that program.

Had 20 lambs born one day, coyotes killed 19 of them.. That was when my Granddad finally decided to give up on the sheep.
Happiest day of the rest of the families lives.

That's when I decided to quit the Highway Patrol and go back to ranching.

 

[pmanton]

Yip yip yipping outside the window last night. My wife is hoping they'll eat the rabbits that eat her plants.