I saw one of these one stalking my children.
You have no idea how that feels. I stalked it until I found it and shot it that day.
If I had not rounded the corner of my building and walked up when I did, that SOB would have been approaching my children closer and closer.
I often wonder how much intervention God has played in my life, givn the number of incredibly stupid things I have survived.
These people repeatedly assert that Western Coyotes don’t “hunt in packs”. Just because they haven’t seen it does not mean it doesn’t happen. Just a few years ago wildlife biologists were telling us there weren’t any cougar here, either.
Wow, a long winded tale that seemingly goes nowhere. Shoot the damn things.
Ought be $50 dollar a pelt bounty on coyotes. That, at least, would be a good use of tax dollars.
The only problem with that I can see is that it might breed an (even) smarter coyote.
We’ve got them here in Phoenix, I’m not talking about in the Desert I’m talking about the middle of town. They do indeed hunt in packs. I’ve seen it. Not so much in town but on the edge of town. One will call a dog out away from the houses and then the pack attacks.
We have javalena and bobcats here in town too. I guess it really is the wild west.
I had to laugh when my bleeding-heart-liberal, nature-is-wonderful/humans-are-horrible sister contacted a trapper to take care of coyotes & bobcats who set up shop nearby & started killing house pets.
Still, it gives one a little sympathy for folks that have lions & elephants wandering the neighborhood. While it’s wonderful to have preservation ‘sites’ for wild animals, they don’t necessarily respect boundaries.
The reason cattle ranchers used to shoot and poison coyotes is because in packs they kill cattle, just as wolves do.
Sorry, last post was flawed
Any idiot that has a brain and knows animals knows that coyotes are nothing more than small wolves. They are closely related. Coyotes fear man in most of the USA, but they will stop fearing them as soon as all hunting stops and we will become the prey man has always been when they are unarmed. The difference between man an animals are weapons. That is what makes us superior and the top of the food chain:Weapons.
From the sharpened stick and flint tipped spear and arrow to firearms we have always used weapons to put the fear of god into predators.
The reason cattle ranchers used to shoot and poison coyotes is because in packs they kill cattle, just as wolves do.
bfl
Here in Oregon we’ve had problems with the coyote for years. It began when the eko-freaks got the legislature to ban the use of pesticides in the state. Suddenly the farmers in Eastern Oregon had nothing to cut back the populations of field mice each spring. Eastern Oregon is pretty much high desert, so the field mice and other rodents began feeding on the farm crops. They lived much longer into the summer before starving to death, giving the coyotes and other predators a food source that allowed them to get through the summer.
Not only can we not save our forests from insect infestations, for the first time in even the living history of the Indian tribes there are coyote, cougar, and other dangerous predators in the Willamette Valley.
The tribes used to control such things until the eco-freaks showed up.
Fascinating stuff. Thanks for posting this. I will be more careful.
Time to panic.
Cape Breton is only attached to Nova Scotia by a bridge. If they are there they either were brought there, swam there, or crossed over the bridge at night. Or they’ve been there for thousands of years. Introduced there?