We have them here in North Georgia. They’ve gotten quite a few small dogs and cats in my sub division. I also saw them nearby when driving to work early in the morning.
If I ever see one near my home, it gets the Scoped/Suppressed Ruger 10/22 treatment.
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Speaking of No. Georgia, the first time I’d heard them at night was when backpacking north of Woody Gap a couple of years ago. I subsequently heard from a resident of the area that the local deer population was being adversely affected as a result of their moving into the area.
At home outside Alpharetta, we have a pack that moves eastward in the evening and returns westward early morning, presumably having enjoyed morsels within the neighborhood of McMansions behind us.
Up here in MA we have coy wolves, which are basically really BIG coyotes. Cross bred between the two species. My Great Pyrs howl with them during full moons.
Coyotes are craftier than wolves too. Wolves are generally fearful of humans and avoid us except to prey on our livestock. Coyotes, on the other hand, have learned to live right next to humans, even in big cities, and take advantage of the bonanza of food that comes along with humans.
Coming soon to a neighborhood near you.
Puppy Chow has an entirely different meaning to a Coyote.
One got my moms toy poodle when she let out to use the bathroom a few years ago in North Mississippi. It dropped it as she chased after it, and the dog died in her arms
I have to give them survival credit. I have seen them in some of the most arid areas of the desert making a living.
I hate coyotes.
Wish they would all be killed on site.
I have told neighbors in our VERY close suburban neighborhood with very small lots, they are ABUSING their cats by letting them run free...allowing that coyotes are here, and cars...and then there’s me...who puts hot pepper powder around my property...which some called ANIMAL ABUSE. So sick of my neighbors thinking THEIR cats can run free...while we keep our two under our control. (In especially bad mood right now, birds nest disappeared this morning...likely from CAT)
A friend of my Dad's used to tell people (including us) about the time he and his Dad saw a game commission truck out in their field. They approached just in time to see some coyotes released from cages in the truck. His Dad told them to get off is property, and to get those animals out of there too. The PGC employees just looked at him, got in their truck, and drove away.
The older, hunting generation NEVER saw a coyote till after that. Now, they are everywhere. There a several that wander across my property - apparently they are breeding with dogs too, from the look of a few of them.
Where are the invasive species nuts on these???
I know they buy most of their stuff from Acme.
So, leave ‘em alone unless they become pests or threats? Or strike preemptively?
If you shoot a coyote “just right” it’ll hop up in the air and then fall down dead.
The More You Know.
I know a farmer in NW Kansas who hunts them with greyhounds......
He had one magnificent hunter that was part wolf, part Russian Wolfhound and part greyhound....
I have lots and lots of them in my neighborhood.
3. They’re speed demons
The coyote can run up to 40 miles per hour. Its animated enemy the roadrunner can only run about 20 miles per hour, making Acme Rockets completely unnecessary in the real world...........................................
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So, the media has been lying to me my entire life?
They are nasty predators to live around.
I love to listen to song dogs around my rural property in West Central Missouri. This year we have a population peak of cottontail rabbits and the ‘yotes are raising all their pups.
My feeling is that if you see them much out during daylight, they need some hunting pressure to make them fear us and stay away from the pets and livestock. I had to shoot a sickly looking dog ‘yote last winter when he started to hang about my place.
Something that keeps most of them well away from the farmhouse is to make sure a large carnivore (me and my yellow lab Raylan) marks the perimeter a couple of times a month.
Coyote walked right by the front of my car as I was inside eating lunch a couple of weeks ago. I thought it was pretty neat seeing him so close. He clearly didn’t see me.
Then I got the idea to try to call him, so I quick YouTubed up some coyote calling video, plugged into the car stereo and cranked the volume. Yote was 150 yards out by then, but he spun right around and came back to me.
At about 20 yards he started getting real suspicious and I couldn’t get him any closer than that.
Was fun, though.