Posted on 01/09/2023 3:23:34 AM PST by marktwain
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.
22 WMR
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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