For such a spooky animal I've actually seen a pack of 2 or 3 coyotes harass a Great Dane and Bullmastif. Twilight-- howling and stalking around the dogs behind brush cover. The dogs were behind a fence, but still.....
Posted on 12/31/2010 11:49:33 AM PST by Doc91678
Has anyone heard of coyote attacks on pet dogs in the area of Broome and Tioga Counties, New York State? Seems coyote activity has increased in this area. Anyone having the same problems?
I read about them a number of years ago in that area. Local paper at the time was featuring dogs and cats attacked right outside owners houses.
Saw one on the Ohio Turnpike West of Cleveland Dec 21. about 3:00PM.
He (it?) crossed the eastbound lane to the center, then turned and went back to the wooded area on the right.
Coyotes are snacking on small pets all over the country. My neighbor lost a small dog this year when she let her dogs out in the backyard one morning. She managed to save the other one.
Coyotes all over metropolitan Atlanta suburbs. Many cats and small dogs disappear. Concerning to see them boldly wandering around in the daytime since they generally are nocturnal in these densely populated areas, it can mean they are disoriented and possibly rabid.
We live down south and have packs and packs of coyotes that wander the river bank down below our house. Our dogs talk to them, and what they say to them makes them tend to travel on down the river. They seem to be peaceful with each other actually. It’s neat to hear our dogs yowling at the moon in a different language, and the coyotes answering back.
“Yes, it’s a dog eat dog world...”
and I’m wearing Milkbone underwear.
-Norm (from the TV show “Cheers”)
We had problems last winter when a pair extended their range into town. Had to keep the cats indoors. If it had gone on much longer, I’d have bought a crossbow with a laser site, and will if they come back. (”City” ordinances forbid discharging firearms and a host of other projectile weapons, slingshots, bb and pellet guns included, but not, on plain reading of the ordinance, crossbows or bows.)
Name your favorite firearm for taking down coyotes!
The arguments for bows vs crossbows are twofold. A real bow has a lot more power for a given draw weight since energy is measured in foot-pounds; the crossbow has the pounds but not the feet. Second is that second and third shots are much faster and easier to get off with the real bow. In fact most bowhunting is front tree stands and there’s no real way to cock a crossbow in most treestands.
“Anyone having the same problems?”
...not since the wolves ran them off....
A friend of my Dad's (both of them now deceased) said repeatedly since the 70’s that he saw the PA Game Commission drive into his Dad's field, open cages in the back of their truck, and release coyote's (within 10 miles from where I live now). I know people who were killing them in the late 70’s when the Game Commission was still denying there were any in PA. Once the coyote population went crazy, the Game Commission must’ve reconsidered as now they are one of the few creatures that can be hunted any time year-round.
Met a kid last week out in the country that had several pieces of raw chicken hanging hanging from a tree about 5’ off the ground.
He’d seen a coyote at dusk the prior evening and was sitting in the back of his truck with a rifle waiting for it to return.
About 6 weeks ago, my husband called me as he was going down the stairs - he saw a coyote out circling the lab. Our neighbor has just bought a pair of donkeys to keep them out of his pastures, and I think we may do the same.
You have got to be kidding right? Coyotes have been around since forever all over the state of Michigan and Canada. The problem is with Coyotes is that they can and will survive real well in the city areas.
Dont want coyotes? Then import a few wolves like we got up here in the UP. We’d be more than happy to let you have a couple thousand of them if you want.
They aint talking they are trying to call out your dogs to kill them and eat them.
:-)
Injured rabbit call. Works every time.
Lotta people see coyotes and think they are dogs. Coyotes never run with their tails up in the air-always with the tail down. That and they have that Fox type of look to their face, at least to me.
Wolves will run with their tails straight out or up if they are at a lope. Plus wolves are big, real big. Had one out and out wolf attack on a forester this past fall up here. Matter of time before a pack gets a kid waiting for the school bus. Of course the fish and game will say it was a stray dog. How do you fight off a wolf attack without a gun? Especially if there are three or four and they are at the 100 plus pound range each?
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