They have trail cams out and see pictures, plus tracks in the snow across thier acre plus back yard. They are about 20 miles west of Villa Park.
I see them occasionally from my house and often when out with my dogs, more ofter during coyote mating season (Jan-Feb).
Once spotted one inside a neighbors 4'fence.
Very lucky Girl- coyote mighta had rabbies- but maybe not-
“A Dingo Ate My Baby!”
Coyotes are everywhere, now - we even have them in Maryland.
“I feeled its ear,” she said. “It almost bited my rib.”
He really didn’t want her....if he did he would have had her. Too big to carry in his mouth.
Scary. We have a 6 foot chainlink fence. Our next-door neighbors were against fences and almost lost one of their small dogs. They put up a small, fenced in area after that.
A coyote snatched the dog belonging to a friend of ours not long ago. She was ten feet from it in her own backyard when it happened. This was near downtown Wheaton.
We fish frequently in a couple of the local forest preserves. Hearing them howl at sundown is a bit spooky.
We’ve seen them strutting down the middle of our street in Carol Stream more than once. No fear in them at all.
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They are all over around here. My dog and I ran into one at the bottom of the steps one night. My dog went nuts and I heard the coyote run off and I saw it go over the fence. Now I carry a flashlight to scan the yard when we go out at night. They are frequently spotted trotting down streets and alleys during to day, too.
Out in the countryside of Madera County, the coyotes run at the site of humans, and that’s because they are hunted as varmints, as they should be.
I’m glad she’s fine, but I bemoan the state of our language. She’s only 5 and already says “I was like...”, “He was like...”.
Ho problem with them here, I shoot everyone I see. It is legal to call them in, spotlight them, and kill them all year and we do.
There are still problems with them killing outside dogs/cats and small calves.
City folks will sue them and ask them to please not eat their children.
My wife is a horse veterinarian.
Went to a farm call a few years back 7-8 coyotes took down a healthy horse. Neighbors saw it happen. It was near death when she got there she had to euthanize it.
Months later I was walking my English Setter on a local trail and heard a pack of coyotes howling behind multi flora bushes maybe 30-40 yards away.
Def puckered me up.
Maggots with fur.
I kill all I can hit. Record shot so far is about 330 yards propped up on the back gate with the 223. You gotta aim really high. I’m no marksman at all.
Chicken leg strychnine would clear them out of the woods.
Ho problem with them here, I shoot everyone I see. It is legal to call them in, spotlight them, and kill them all year and we do.
There are still problems with them killing outside dogs/cats and small calves.
City folks will sue them and ask them to please not eat their children.
Of course, I only saw the stupid ones, that would get withing 150 yards or so, over iron sights... They were surprisingly skittish.
about a year ago I was in our community swimming pool around 5am and one hopped the gate of the community and came trotting by the pool, looked over at me since I had been exercising/splashing the water, but it kept on trotting on into the community. I got out and went inside just to be sure not to have any issue with it.
I think they’re blowing this WAY out of proportion. The coyote never assumed a threatening posture and first trotted up rather casually as if it were inviting the little girl to play. And when she turned and ran, it triggered his prey instinct so he pursued. The last thing you want to do in an encounter with any canid is turn your back and run for that very reason. If it had meant to harm her I think it would have.
FWIW, coyote-dog matings are exceedingly rare but all coyotes east of the Mississippi are hybrids, part red wolf, part gray wolf, part dog and mostly western coyote.
Coyotes were completely eradicated from the eastern states by the end of the 19th century. But they returned in the 20th Century, traveling north of the headwaters if the Mississippi through the Great Lakes watershed, which also happens to host more natural hybridization than anywhere else on earth. By the time the western coyote had crossed the Great Lakes and dispersed throughout the eastern states, it had picked up a little wolf and a little domestic dog in its gene pool. In the last few years they’ve done DNA testing on hundreds of eastern coyotes and found them all to be similarly hybridized, which for one thing explains why western coyotes are uniformly tan and eastern coyotes can be anything from black to blond and anywhere in between.
So the coy-dog thing is mostly myth but the eastern coyote already is a coyote-wolf-dog hybrid.