Where we live, being able to reach out the window and club a deer with a claw hammer has taken the fun out of hunting.
“But throughout much of the South, (Midwest, and suburban Northeast,don’t know about those areas) the coyote is a fairly new predator and is barely on the radar .”
Pure BS
These suckers will tear the hell out of a watermelon patch.Kill them all.They’re all over the place down here.They love watermelons; hint.
Coyotes go hand in hand with fawn predation, more coyotes, fewer fawns make it to summer. Lots of attention has been focused on predators in WI and the disappointing deer population the last couple years. The harsh winters in 08-09 also had an impact. One issue I've not seen addressed is the packing up of coyotes, which of course is purely anecdotal the DNR not identifying it as an issue. One coyote, a threat to deer, three or four, a bigger threat. And if they're not packing up, why at night in winter or spring can I hear them yipping at me from three sides. Aggressive democrats pursuing my vote?
They forgot to add wolves and bears into the mix we are not in short supply of them in Northern Wis and may other places.
I live about 15 miles west of Grand Rapids, Michigan. I walked outside the other night and heard coyotes howling....it was a little unnerving. I’ve got chickens and I’ve got a shotgun and if I see a coyote it’s not going to be alive long.
Welcome to our world.
Down here in South Texas, Coyotes were here before people. And they ARE smart, nasty, tenacious, and audacious. I’m not sure they are that much of a threat to wildlife anymore. They’ve figured out that eating is much better in the city and they are rapidly moving in (apparently Fluffy is easier to hunt than Bambi).
I’ve seem them walking along the street, in broad daylight, almost as if saying, “what are you going to do, start shooting and get a ticket?”. Outside of killing them, there is not much you can do to get rid of them.
I am in Arkansas and have seen the coyote population literally explode over the past five to six years. They are taking a lot of deer, I can certainly attest to that fact.
Anyone use nighttime wildlife cameras in their yard?
Someone once told me: If you decide to hunt coyotes then make sure you get a good look before you shoot. You don’t want to walk up to it and find that the “coyote” has a collar and tags.
Heard a whitetail hunter this season tell of killing a deer and a bobcat after the deer and then a cayote after the bobcat. Predators are in abundance as are the deer
I see signs for missing cats and dogs in my neighborhood frequently. The prairie dogs are faster, so the coyotes (and foxes) go for easier food.
Deer hunting in CA sucks. I have to travel to CO to have any luck. Too many predators here. Mountain lions are protected and can’t be shot.
We have a coyote pack in our area. We’ve seen some tracks in the snow this winter but it’s been several years since they were back in our woods howling every night.
I think a serious danger this article doesn’t mention is that in parts of the Northeast, which has only recently been overrun by coyotes, they have cross-bred with wolves. What you get from that is a pretty dangerous animal.
Luckily, our dogs seem to keep them away from the house.
I always have the lever action 30-30 near.
Yeah these things are no joke, a canadian pop star was killed and eaten by a pack of coyotes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Mitchell
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As whitetail predators, coyotes may be more destructive than ever.
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Here in Mid-Missori (Columia, MO), the coyotes seem to be on the rise.
We livc on the southwest side of Columbia with an adjacent multi-acre
undeveloped field.
Occassionally, maybe once every two weeks, we are treated to the howling
of a pack of what we can only presume to be a pack of coyotes.
We have local deer...but lately haven’t seen them much.
Given the harshness of our “global warming” winter (guffaw), the deer
may be on the downturn.
Although I have some testosterone, I no longer walk my brother’s
Australian Cattle Dog in that area for fear of encountering a pack of coyotes
(no matter how generally timid coyotes are reputed to be).
A local talk-radio show host mentioned that while riding by
a park area about 3 miles from our home at about 5AM...
he was spooked by hearing the howling of a pack of what he presumed were coyotes.
I don’t worry that the local coyotes wil attack humans...but if hungry enough
during an extreme winter...who knows?
I should mention that (IIRC) Discovery Channel had a documentary that
showed something like 2,000 coyotes lurk in the Chicagoland areas.
One strayed into a conveience store near downtown Chicago.
(and didn’t apprear to be deranged or suffering from a neurological
defect like rabies).
Next time I see a coyote though, I'm going to drop it.
I guess the coyote orders out.