The owner of the dairy farm next door is not only allowing us to hunt his land free for deer, turkey, ect, but is paying for coyote heads. I have four duck blinds out there that I am using to nab coyotes right now.
I hate them suckers. They are killing his cattle. They will stalk family pets and its only a matter of time before they get brave enough to go snatch a kid. Shoot on site.
This falls under the heading of tell me something I didn’t already know. We are lousy with them in our neighborhood.
One came out of the bushes one night while we were walking the dogs. Our Beagle Buddy took one look at it and went into full pack bay and charged it out to the end of his retractable leash. That coyote did a 180 and back in the woods. Who knew Buddy had a dark side? LOL!!!
The coyote population around the country appears to be exploding. The other night yipping coyotes woke me and my wife up. I can’t remember coyotes being around my area when was growing up. Now they seem to be everywhere.
How do you bait them? I have some suppressed firearms I want to try out from the back deck.
Actually, Atlanta has a skyrocketing population of several varieties of ‘vermin’.
We’re in Florida, live on a golf course, and the coyotes love our part of town.
I’d never seen a coyote before, but early one morning, a couple of years ago, I saw what looked like a shaggy stray running down the fairway (well it’s not really a run, wonder what you call their gait, more than a walk, less than a run.) I called my husband and he realized, right away, that it was a coyote.
Interesting thing to me is, although you only see one at a time (and I know there are several because of different colors)...they all seem to follow the same path home in the early AM, up the fairway, past the clubhouse and back into the woods.
Getting used to the yapping sound they make in the early morning or in the evening was a whole other lesson. Neighborhood association warns to keep cats inside, because cat carcasses are found every now and then. One attacked a dog who was being walked by it’s owner...but it was a toy breed, so easy prey.
Yum! Chicken-fried coyote witha side of succotash and a bottle of Potosi beer! Now that’s the way to live!
“I guess it helps keep the stray cat population down.”
This has been the chief benefit of coyote population growth. Songbirds are doing better generally in urban areas with coyotes.
Besides, the coyotes are fun to watch hunting mice beside the freeways!
The NY Times environment blog recently noted their presence in the city, and being the Times, thinks it's a good thing..( until, I guess, one runs off with an infant)