Posted on 01/09/2023 3:23:34 AM PST by marktwain
In 2022, the officials of Nahant, Massachusetts, started noticing they had a coyote problem. The coyotes had become so disdainful of people they had snatched, killed and eaten three pets directly from leashes. Numerous other pets were killed and eaten. No one knows precisely how many. From December 15, 2022, abcnews.go.com:
Local officials said eight to 12 coyotes inhabit Nahant, a densely settled town of about 3,300 people on a peninsula about 15 miles north of Boston. The animals have killed pets, including three that were taken straight from leashes held by their owners, said Antonio Barletta, the town administrator.
Coyote populations are on the rise all over the country. They are causing problems, killing pets and livestock and even attacking the occasional person, from California to Texas to now Massachusetts. Several coyote attacks against people prompted a program to reduce the coyote population in Vancouver, British Columbia. The Nahant town officials decided they needed to reduce the coyote population. They decided to hire federal agents from the Department of Agriculture. From cbsnews.com:
The town of Nahant will become the first community in Massachusetts to bring in trained marksmen to shoot and kill habituated coyotes. Town officials voted Wednesday night to enter into an agreement with the United States Department of Agriculture.
“We have risen to a level of public safety threat in the town,” said resident Vivien Gere who lost her dog Snoopy to an aggressive coyote back in June. “I had him on a short leash and the coyote just took him off the leash and slaughtered him and ran off with him right in front of me.”
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Nah, coyotes can swim at least a half mile and in the ocean. The causeway just makes their passage easier.
I’ll note up to the 1980s in Alabama...there were none. By the mid-1990s....most everyone was seeing a coyote at least a couple times a year.
What difference would it make if they were spotted? They are not allowed to be hunted or trapped.
Cars are not going to swerve onto the shoulder of the causeway to hit a coyote.
Here in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina, the coyote population is strong. We can often hear them at night howling, though sometimes it sounds more like “yipping”.
Consequently we prefer a big male dog like a Labrador Retriever. He constantly marks his territory near the house and along the trails we like to walk (I always take him with me when walking the trails). The coyotes stay on the other side of the creek that runs through the property. We hear them close by, but never see them.
People who insist on tiny designer type dogs never let them outside alone! It’s just like with our resident bears …. You just have to learn to live with them.
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Coyotes here are a mix of domestic dog, wolf, and coyote. They call them coyotes, but they are not true. These things are much bigger than one would expect.
Had several in the backyard a few months ago. Definitely as big a German Shepard. One gray the other larger and black.
People used to laugh and call some of us crazy, but science is finally confirming we are seeing a hybrid. And the hybrid is much bolder, less scared of humans.
They would not be a problem if people were encouraged to trap and shoot them.
They are certainly present in the northshore suburbs of New Orleans.
I was in Arizona and saw a friend’s relative dog get snatched up by an owl at night. It was not a pretty sight.
Coyotes gotta eat too.
We have them in abundance in Jacksonville, Florida they’ve managed to cross the inter coastal waterway and the St. Johns River, I don’t think they cross the bridges or are deliberately placed there, I think they swim across otherwise I don’t see how they could cross in numbers without being seen
In my neck of the woods in upstate NY, we call them coydogs.
That yip yip yip always freaks me out when I’m outside because I know they have already caught something and it could have been one of my pets.
They’ve been common in Atlanta suburbs for at least a decade.
Yup. I had little doggy guest here that goes out on tether. Tiny, white maltese for the week. I go outside with her. And I make lots of noise before bringing her out.
One late night bedtime turnout, darn thing howled from just behind the shed. Needless to say the little guest used a potty pad instead inside.
Lived here near 25 years and used to daily hike the back of the property, now I won’t go back there without protection.
Our authorities have a tracking map, IF people report them. If they do not get reported, the authorities do not know how often they come into and onto city property.
Legal to hunt in Pa. https://precisionoutdoors.org/coyote-hunting-in-pennsylvania-what-you-need-to-know/
I think there’s a $25 bounty program still in place.
Anybody know what hardcastle and McCormick are up to these days
Going “yote hunting Thursday. Kentucky is open season year round no limit on Coyotes. I prefer night hunting but day’ll do.
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