Surrounded by Coyotes while Hiking alone

Cal Sportsman ^ | 1/9/2018 | C Cocoles

[1_Rain_Drop]

Coyotes don’t howl. They yip.
They yip when they have caught a prey.
Coyotes are most dangerous when you cannot hear them.
Make a lot of noise and it will scare the coyotes away.
No biggie.
I have coyotes in my back yard.

[Mom MD]

I never hike or even go for a run without a handgun Never For this very reason

[Mom MD]

I would far rather face a mountain lion than a pack of coyotes. Singly a coyote is not a problem but you seldom encounter just one

[Wm F Buckley Republican]

Wrong, just yesterday we saw two coyotes in our front yard. They eventually left our yard heading south. I posted about this experience on a neighborhood website and it seems many around here have seen coyotes. We’ve lived here seventeen years and this is the first we’ve seen coyotes. We have deer, fox, geese and other wildlife but I don’t know what to think about coyotes.

[nicollo]

as far as a threat to humans I’d worry about a opposum more.

What should we be worried about opposums?

I'm a suburban boy here who had to have an opossum removed from my house that's 1/2 mile from the Pentagon. The fat bastard took to sitting on my back fence and my dogs were freaking out. My back neighbor, who leaves raw meat out in her yard for her cats, said "he's cute."

The trapper told me they can carry T.B. and some other nasty diseases, but not rabies. My worry is for my dogs.

[Wm F Buckley Republican]

I think the ones in our front yard last night must have been of the eastern variety as I was surprised at how large they were.

[enduserindy]

Point is I wouldn’t worry about coyotes attacking humans very much.

[nicollo]

Haha, got it. Tks!

[enduserindy]

BTW coyotes in the burbs too.

[TheBattman]

http://tchester.org/sgm/lists/coyote_attacks.html

[Osage Orange]

The Sierra Club and the U.S. Forest Service were presenting an alternative to the Wyoming ranchers for controlling the coyote population. It seems that after years of the ranchers using the tried and true method of shooting or trapping the predators, the Sierra Club had a "more humane" solution to this issue. What they were proposing was for the animals to be captured alive. The males would then be castrated and let loose again. This was ACTUALLY proposed by the Sierra Club and by the U.S. Forest Service.

All of the ranchers thought about this amazing idea for a couple of minutes. Finally an old fellow wearing a big cowboy hat in the back of the conference room stood up, tipped his hat back and said; "Son, I don't think you understand our problem here... these coyotes ain't fuckin' our sheep... they're eatin' 'em!"

The meeting never really got back to order. . .