Posted on 06/25/2019 9:36:06 AM PDT by Gamecock
A Florida woman was tired of feeling like a prisoner inside her own home, thanks to a pesky coyote.
“We have a coyote who visits our property every night,” begins Alkema’s post. “I admit I feel trapped inside my house from dusk to dawn.”
“This evening, I placed a camera on the ground near the path of the coyote to see which direction he is entering our property from. I certainly did not expect THIS response.”
The video illustrates why her response was, um, unexpected.
The grainy black and white clip shows the animal, its giant snout in plain view, sniffing at the camera. Suddenly, it turns around, then raises its leg and urinates, drenching the camera lens and marking its territory.
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
Yes.
That’s where they belong.
Not in residential neighborhoods.
It’s horrible how they kill pets.
It’s healthier for cats to be able to go outside and inside.
It used to never be an issue. Maybe they might’ve got hit by a car.
But now there’s a real chance of a coyote getting them.
It wasn’t like this before.
Did not watch....I refuse to watch videos that are more advertisement than substance.
“Coyotes are pests that should be shot.”
My own rule on them is that if they’re just passing through our property I leave them alone. But if they stop and stare at the house, the critters, or my kids then sitting still becomes their very last mistake.
I’ve never had a coyote bother a farm animal and they’ve pretty well eliminated our rodent problem. On the whole, I’m glad they’re around.
We have coyotes that roam the area where I live. I’m not a fan of small dogs let outside for hours, keeping me awake at night with their yipping. A couple of times in the last month or so, “Lost Dog” signs have gone up in the neighborhood. Coincidentally the yipping has stopped.
Things that make you go, “hmmmmm.”
Great Pyrenees are very good at getting coyotes to stay away. Met a guy watching one for a friend. The dogs parents worked a sheep farm. 5 coyotes came in toward the sheep. In about a minute the two Pyrenees had 4 coyotes dead and 5th on the run.
IF you have the room to own one, get a DONKEY & your coyote problems will be GONE.= I have a pair of jennies that I paid 50 bucks for & they keep the coyotes OFF of our farm.
Donkeys are VERY cheap, seldom get sick, cost little to feed & will generally take care of their own needs.
Yours, TMN78247
IF you have the room to own one, get a DONKEY & your coyote problems will be GONE.= I have a pair of jennies that I paid 50 bucks for & they keep the coyotes OFF of our farm.
Donkeys are VERY cheap, seldom get sick, cost little to feed & will generally take care of their own needs.
Yours, TMN78247
Yep, gone in the morning, the people tried to claim it was us.
I know lots of farmers around here that keep donkeys just for that reason :0)
coyote or eagle or hawk?
A firearm is more specific than poison. Often an unintended is the one to take the bait.
It doesn’t take a rocket surgeon to figure out why there are so many coyote now.
One un-neutered or un-spayed dog can make a thousand puppies. No one is out there sterilizing the coyote so they multiply fast. It’s a shame too because when they are at a normal population level; they can be good neighbors. It’s when they are more of them than the land with its rodents can provide food for they become real problem pests.
Here in AZ I know retired guys who worked on ranches in one way or another when they were younger who go out coyote hunting on a regular basis. Maybe 2-3 times a week getting a few kills each time but there are still too many coyote. The coyote and feral dogs can do some nasty things to livestock besides killing them for food. Sometimes they would chew off the ears and noses of cattle requiring them to sometimes be euthanized. Can’t harvest the meat because it’s unknown whether they got rabies from the feral dogs or coyote. I think the coyote get blamed for this more than they should. Coyote are natural hunters so if there are enough rabbits and other natural food for them in the wild; they won’t attack livestock. Feral dogs on the other hand don’t have that ability like they did before they were domesticated so they will attack cattle because they are starving and don’t know what else to do. Unfortunately coyote don’t see Fifi or Sam the cat as being someone’s loved one. All they see is today’s food.
No good answers. Just lots of feral dogs who were dumped in the country to fend for themselves. In a perfect world those who did this to them would be hung by the neck until dead then dumped in the country to feed the feral dogs and coyote that still lived. If they tasted too nasty for the coyote then the bugs and carrion could have them.
Fairly sure it was a coyote, had sometimes seen them still sneaking around as I left for work in early AM. Yapper was in a walled back yard, no problem for a coyote to jump.
ALL that I know for sure is that it only took a couple of coyotes being stomped into bloody mush for the rest of the local coyotes, coy-dogs & feral dogs to seek other places to hang out.
(Coyotes are smart.)
Yours, TMN78247
"Yip, yip, yip, yip, yip, yip!"
("Sure would like some company don't care who it is."
"Yip, yip, yip, yip, yip...YIGH-EEE?!"
("Why yes Mr. Coyote I am deliciou...WTF?!")
Actually, it’s a little more complicated than you suggest, as the SIZE/FREQUENCY of coyote litters is directly proportional to the available food in the local environment.
When there is a great deal of edible garbage and/or stray cats/dogs/small mammals available, every coyote bitch has frequent/large litters. - On the other hand, when the garbage & animal PREY is scarce, each coyote bitch will either have FEW or NO pups.
Note: To some degree the same is true for bobcats & pumas in urban/suburban areas.
(We have at least ONE male resident puma in downtown San Antonio, that has been photographed on several commercial surveillance photo systems. - The TPWD biologist has seen his photos on surveillance cameras & says that he is “obviously well nourished” & likely is “routinely dining upon WT deer, stray dogs/cats & other ‘urban wildlife’ in San Antonio/Bexar County”. - Btw, some areas of the city/county have large numbers of “semi-tame” WT deer.)
Yours, TMN78247
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