Posted on 05/17/2012 4:09:20 PM PDT by SJackson
On the bad side, their cholesterol levels are off the charts.
OTOH the Phoenix Coyotes are doing very very bad. Gotta beat LA tonight.
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Too many of them here in MA as it is. And now we have cougars here as well even though officials won’t admit it.
Hell... they live in my moms neighborhood in Clearwater, Fl.
One note, coyotes are scarce this year, and speculation is that they may have been subject to an outbreak of parvo, possibly passed to them by domestic dogs.
Nobody is sad though, as coyotes are nasty and have no redeeming virtues. Ohio has open season on them all year.
[ Near the dawn of time, the story goes, Coyote saved the creatures of Earth. According to the mythology of Idaho’s Nez Perce people, the monster Kamiah had stalked into the region and was gobbling up the animals one by one. The crafty Coyote evaded Kamiah but didn’t want to lose his friends, so he let himself be swallowed. From inside the beast, Coyote severed Kamiah’s heart and freed his fellow animals. Then he chopped up Kamiah and threw the pieces to the winds, where they gave birth to the peoples of the planet. ]
Nice to know the author’s minor in native American Studies didn’t fully go to waste....
Maybe western coyotes accomplish this feat in pairs. As I posted on a thread yesterday, just a week ago I watched a pair of coyote chase down four deer. As they all went racing right past me, the coyotes were within lunging distance of the deer. I guarantee they got at least one.
We've had a deer overpopulation problem here for a couple of years. Now we have deer and coyote overpopulation, with a pack of about a dozen coyote living on the boundary of my subdivision and making frequent neighborhood forays.
A few weeks ago there was a confirmed sighting of a pack of four wolves less than 10 miles from here. I'd expect the wolves will be here by the end of summer to take care of the coyote overpopulation. Then what? Things are about to get interesting, I think.
[ Interesting. Coyotes have returned to NE Ohio in the last twenty-thirty years, absent the former wolf population. But I have not heard of deer being taken down by them, though we are infested with deer. They seem to thrive on smaller prey, including cats and dogs.
One note, coyotes are scarce this year, and speculation is that they may have been subject to an outbreak of parvo, possibly passed to them by domestic dogs.
Nobody is sad though, as coyotes are nasty and have no redeeming virtues. Ohio has open season on them all year. ]
They don’t control the rabbits where we live so they (the coyotes) breed like rabbits and some have attacked people... I wish coyote pelts were worth something again, the problem would go away, stupid PETA.
Till they eat one of the Kennedy's dogs, they they'll hunt them down.
And lots and lots of hybrids inbetween. Wolf/coyote, called eastern coyotes, dog/wolves, dog/coyotes. Not going to get into it here since wolves are off the endangered list around here, but lots of questions about what a wolf is. DNA just confuses it. Very adaptive animals.
Yes, wolves kill coyotes. Or breed with them, till you don't know what you're looking at a couple generations down the road.
“They’re evolving”... ?
Maybe one of them should run for president.
Wolf hunters use coyote calls to attract wolves. Yes, I think when the nearby wolves hear all these coyotes on the hunt they’ll make their way over soon enough. Sometimes when the whole coyote pack is out hunting around the neighborhood, it sounds like the hills are ringing with the echoes of their calling to one another. I bet it carries for miles.
Couldn’t do any worse than the current WH occupant.
Are there gay coyotes? Maybe they need special protection?
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