The limit is 2 per day.
Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
Posted on 01/21/2007 6:25:42 PM PST by Dallas59
Police Warn Residents To Keep Children And Pets Indoors Image
Hazel Sanchez Reporting
NORWOOD, N.J. A pack of wild coyotes on the loose in a New Jersey town has police on alert and residents staying indoors. The Norwood Police Department has issued a reverse 911 call to residents to warn them of the danger.
Norwood resident Liz Murray tells CBS 2 her children were playing outside when she noticed the animals on the prowl. "The kids were in the backyard a few days ago, and I was sitting on the deck watching them and there were three coyotes watching my kids," she said.
Murray says she's afraid to leave her children outside alone now for fear the coyotes could attack. Investigators believe the animals live in a wooded area just beyond the Murray's playground and say there may be as many as seven of them.
One of Murray's children, Joseph, says he can hear the coyotes howling at night. "Sometimes it's like they're in our backyard, but sometimes it feels like they're a mile away," he said. "It feels sort of scary."
Police say the coyotes recently killed an 8-month-old bichon frise that lived a few houses away from the Murray's. They're now telling residents to keep their children and their pets indoors.
"They seem to be getting more aggressive as our deer population and our coyote population are growing. This is actually the first sign of aggression we've seen in regards to the coyotes, so hopefully we can get some help by the state and county to control it," Norwood Mayor James Barsa says.
Police now plan to increase patrols in the neighborhood and say they'll issue more reverse 911 calls to residents to spread the warning.
For now, Liz Murray admits she's living with a bit of fear.
"It's frightening in that we shouldn't have to worry about the safety of our children in our own backyard," she says. "It should not be, so hopefully something will be done about it."
.22-250?
How about an M1 Garand? Or a .54 caliber Hawken?
Not kidding.
If these PETA types love the coyotes so much, then they should live together inside the same pen.
They're not picky.
The limit is 2 per day.
Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
Down in southern NJ they are common. So are foxes. I see the coyotes all the time by where we keep our RV. They usually stay on the other side of the swampy area. So far I have not heard of them coming into the campground. I hope they don't as I don't want my little shih tzu or pek-a-shih to be a snack for any. We have black bears and some nasty looking snakes too.
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Believe it or not, here in the Piney Woods timber country of northeast Texas, timber rattlers are also (supposedly) an "endangered" species.
Let me say this about that: "When a timber rattlerand I are on the ground together, I am the "endangered species"!
My solution to the problem is:
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"It's frightening in that we shouldn't have to worry about the safety of our children in our own backyard," she says. "It should not be, so hopefully something will be done about it."
Shoot them. No way people should be terrorized and forced to stay indoors over a pack of coyotes. IF they don't take action soon, it's just going to be a matter of time before some poor toddler is torn to pieces.
This is clearly the result of coyotes feeling oppressed. It isn't right that we Americans have so much, and they're forced to crap in the woods.
I think we need mandatory coyote tolerance and diversity training classes, in addition to a federally-funded garbage buffet to make things right for these poor critters.
Perhaps if they talk real nice to the coyotes, and see things from their point of view, they'll leave people alone.
Do you do a lot of trapping?
Well, since animals have more rights than humans here in Jersey....I was expecting it is our duty to feed, embrace and understand their feelings :)
I only trap water critters. Salt and fresh.
Yeah, you were lucky.
If it had been a jackalope the horns could have hit a tire.
:-)
Oh no, that would only upset the coyotes. We must embrace them. And give them our homes, and understand them.
Exactly!
/PETA
They needed have bothered.
In a few years, the cougar will be making a reappearance in the east. They are already well established in Michigan.
The increase in deer herds since farming has died out in a lot of the east is presenting a good food source for them.
>>>>Funny aside, rumor here in SE PA is that the insurance companies and the game commission imported them to reduce the deer population to lower the deer-related traffic accidents and expense. Now you've heard it all, right?
There is a similar rumor in Oklahoma about cougars too.
I was on a fishing forum last year (?). Someone posted that sharks were being incubated and released.
I wasn't able to get anything more out of that poster nor could I chase down information from his nic or profile to find out anything else about him.
Makes you wonder how true those re-wilding stories are.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1568683/posts?page=7#7
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1568683/posts?page=9#9
Don't know if they're true, but know they are unsuccessful here, anyhow. All the coyotes have managed to take here are the free range chickens and an occasional duck. I was wondering about the disappearing chickens and the neighbor called and said that they were at her place....a wing in the driveway, a head on the lawn, etc.
What are you going to shoot them with in N.J.?
Do they allow guns in that state?
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