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.....
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.
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!
“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.
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?
Kill them all... twice!
LLS
I live in west Tennessee and my place is in the backwoods. Coyote baying is one of the most familiar sounds out here. Well, that and gun shots.
And to answer your original question, I’m not too far off from Owego,... in Sussex, Passaic, and Morris county in NJ, and Orange and Rockland county in NY I’ve seen coyotes and coydogs for as long as I can remember.
15 years ago we still had a native red fox population, and they were seen often by locals. I haven’t seen a red fox in 6 years and I’ve hiked over 1000 miles in the area. Coyotes wiped out the fox population...
I’m in Bucks County, PA and one night I caught a coyote out front stalking my cat. I chased that thing into the woods until I couldn’t fight my way through the brush anymore. What that coyote didn’t know was that my very strong, big fat, fully-clawed cat would have taken his eyeballs out.
I do see coyotes cutting across my backyard from time to time, but they are real shy about getting near humans around here.
Give em’ a meat-ball...
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/12/coyote-rescued-from-floating-ice-in-lake-michigan.html
Can you believe this? FYI, Fullerton Ave. is just about 1.5 miles north of the Loop. It's basically downtown. The coyote had to pass Lake Shore Drive (Route 41 that goes from Chicago to Naples, Florida). It's eight lanes, lucky coyote, she beat the cars and then Mother Nature thanks to the Chicago Fire Department.