Posted on 01/23/2009 12:02:48 PM PST by WildernessNut56
Edited on 01/23/2009 12:04:36 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Did anyone else read this story in the New York Post about wolves in Connecticut?
Once native to the state, Wolves were hunted out. However, Wolf sightings have increased dramatically across the state, as Wolves make their way back into Vermont, Maine, etc.
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welcome to FR. Before we get too excited, I gotta say Coyote until we have a ‘body’.
Keep your pets inside at night.
Welcome to FR.
In NY and CT, they’d be Coyote.
“Before we get too excited, I gotta say Coyote until we have a ‘body’.”
I live in Ct not too far from Bethany. My wife and I saw a huge coyote saunter through our backyard. I mean he was big, not fox like at all, more german shepherd like.
My dog can smell him in the neighborhood and doesn’t go off the back porch. Last week, a cat down my street disappeared and is presumed eaten.
Can’t shoot him. Dense neighborhood. Animal control are drunk, retards. Couldn’t catch a cold. So..we any luck we’ll catch him snatching a child so we can shoot him.
I suggest you consider using a .22cb cap in a rifle. It's essentially a .22 short with a reduced powder charge. It sounds like a pellet gun when it goes off....so your neighbor is very unlikely to hear it - or probably won't know what it was if he does hear it. I used one regularly when I was in Navy housing in New London, CT on raccoons getting into my garbage cans. I'd shoot them and then grant their last wish....and put them in the garbage can.
It’s gotta be Coyotes. We started getting them back here in NY too over the last decade or so. Seems they go where the wild turkeys go.
To a Connecticut suburbanite, they probably think an adult coyote is a wolf.
My son’s friend was out riding his quad & stopped for a smoke. He was immediately surrounded by 4 coyotes. He gunned the quad & they took off, as did he.
You can hear them howl at night if you like near All Saints Cemetery in North Haven, Connecticut. We’ve seen them run through our back yard though there seemed to be more a few years ago.
We’ve heard them at out place in Central Vermont as well.
Vermont/Maine sightings mean little. They are a long way from Connecticut. When we start seeing moose in Connecticut, then I will believe wolf sightings.
Connecticut has had coyotes for at least the past 15 years. I used to live near a very large Christmas tree farm in central CT. I could hear a pack of them howling on most nights, even back then.
I had a close call with a rabid coyote about 8 years ago. He walked about six feet away from me, right across my driveway, foam dripping everywhere. Fortunatley for me, he was so delerious with rabies that he didn’t even know I was there.
those ‘yotes just wanted a hit of whatever he was smoking...
“I suggest you consider using a .22cb cap in a rifle”
I wouldn’t risk shooting and a run in with police unless it was life and death. Even if the coyote ran off with my dog, I couldn’t take the risk shooting.
There is a kid in the neighborhood who I consider expendable. Much like Obama, he has lip audacity. Maybe I could stake him out as bait and then save him by shooting the coyote. The only problem with the plan is explaining the stake thing or if I slept through the shooting thing.
Wow...my parents are buried in All Saints Cemetery. Haven't been back to CT in a long time. I think I would enjoy visiting Mom and Dad with coyotes howling in the background.
FMCDH(BITS)
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