Posted on 05/13/2022 5:12:39 AM PDT by marktwain
If people are leaving their pets-especially small dogs-outdoors at night-or even all day-in an area where there are predators, it is like offering the predators some takeout food-and your yard is the drivethru-same with an unsecured trashcan at the curb...
Coyotes are very intelligent canines-they will avoid an area where one of their kind has met a bad end-that is what the skins on fences convey-it is a keep out-deadly force used sign...
It’s a neighborhood in the middle of urban Dallas! My mom has lived in her house for 62 years and never heard of coyotes in the neighborhood.
The neighbors were calling about the coyote beforehand because it is so unusual.
Well, this one does not. It’s smack in the middle of an older neighborhood with no bike paths around.
I’ve never even heard coyotes at night there, and I grew up there and my mom is still in her house there.
I just moved from a neighborhood in San Jose, California that routinely had coyotes. You’d hear them screaming at night and see them walking the streets and trails.
Ca paid $5 FOR 2 EARS in the 80s.
Probably something is pushing them out of their normal habitat-like development, maybe? Clear cutting of woods, bulldozing of natural habitat, etc? Coyotes are opportunists-that is why they survive when other species of wild canines nearly go extinct-and why they moved in and filled the niche that was created when ignorant people killed off the wolves that have better manners and don’t bother humans as much.
But coyotes won’t come to an area without having discovered that it has resources-mainly food-garbage cans, dumpsters,-and soft, plump city pets are all wonderful sources of fast food-no hunting required. They most certainly need to be evicted back to where they belong-maybe a few skins on some fences, like is done out here in the country?
will have to listen better....must have been a wonderful life being raised on a ranch. Every minute im on this fellows ranch i feel so blessed. Dogs and I have limited access, only allowed during furbearing season.
Sorry to hear you have limited access. :(
Yes, it was a rare opportunity and fantastic experience to grow up on a ranch. I am sorry my own kids did not get to experience this also.
I’ve been thinking about it. There’s a big park and a lake nearby, Flag Pole Hill and White Rock Lake. It would have to come down some busy roads to get where the kid was.
Just very strange. I just think about how much all the neighborhood kids ran around outside growing up there, and there was a lot more open space 50 years ago. I’ve never seen nor heard about coyotes. Snakes were the big thing. My brother would catch them and bring them home
Prayers!
They are all over Massachusetts….except for The Vinyard and Nantucket.
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When I was a kid we would head out over holidays and use a rabbit call to bring them in, then sell the pelts to a guy in town who would give us between $25 and $75 for clean-shot coyotes.
The trick these days is to visit Montana and Idaho and shoot 'wolves by the dozen and a coyote now and then for kicks.
I shoot every Yote I see, but the hides are almost worthless now.
A prime Jan MI coyote now is worth maybe $10-12.
I don’t know why but only mountain west and Montana yotes are worth much.
Lots of yotes on my property but they steer clear of 150 yds of my house. They found out that something coming out of that bathroom window bites!
You don’t know the area. Creekbeds are a superhighway for varmints. Spent many summers at my rich granny (WhiteRock) and my poor granny (Pleasant Grove) respective homes.
Yotes have always been there.
Dallas County is plumb full of retards.
Also, Dallas County has the largest inter-urban forest in the nation (@6k acres) There are deer, hogs, cats, yotes, etc. all along the Trinity in Dallas County.
Lots of homeless encampments in there as well.
Have a pal who frequently ministers in said forest. I may just go with him one day(with my compound bow and my edc)someday.
I was there last weekend! I grew up there!
My mom has lived there 62 years and was shocked at this.
My friends who grew up in the neighborhood and some who still live there are shocked.
This is far from the Trinity River area. That’s on the other side of town.
I am so sorry that you are geographically challenged. And I am sorry that you live there. Must be some kind of hell.
I lived in the woods for 20+ years while commuting to Dallas.
You city peeps are worthless
I am so sorry that you are geographically challenged. And I am sorry that you live there. Must be some kind of hell.
I lived in the woods for 20+ years while commuting to Dallas.
You city peeps are worthless
Far from the Trinity River basin? All of Dallas County is the Trinity River Basin.
How many branches run through there?
Idiot.
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