We have the big ones here, the Eastern Coyotes, that are genetically a red wolf/coyote cross. Some are as big as a German Shepard. So far all they hunt are regular prey but that can include calves and goats. Most cattle farmers here keep donkeys to keep them run off. Most goats are kept close to the house.
Thank God for fathers. Thank God for fathers who are protective and vigilant and aware. Malachi chapter 4 ends with a warning.
Why not trap them, and send them to gated communities?
My first thought was that SloJo Biden had escaped his handlers again.
My husband used to live in a forest preserve near my dialysis center when I was still on hemo, and one night I walked out his back door to see a pack of four or five coyotes in the street and the end of his driveway near my car. I slowly backed around the corner to the house and went inside, then he walked me to my car with his shotgun. This was probably 01:00.
Pretty sure it wouldn’t have been legal for him to shoot them, even on hos property knowing Illinois laws.
What Are Wild Coyotes Doing in the Big City?
[Excellent for understanding urban coyote behavior, in order to counter them. It’s liberal PBS, and coyote-sympathetic, but you can still learn from it.]
“They become nocturnal ghosts.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB7nomE1VL4&ab_channel=PBSTerra
COYOTE HUNTING at NIGHT - Instructional Tips and Tricks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M9eUIU-9qE&ab_channel=SinCityOutdoors
Coyotes Behavior Differences Between Day and Night
[More great night hunting tips. Coyotes are extremely curious and can’t resist when they hear recorded “distressed prey” calls, other coyote calls, etc.]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WHJjQJJ-mU&ab_channel=BurrisOptics
Coyotes and Coy-wolves can also jump 6 foot fences which many people think will keep them away from children and pets in the back yard. Local suburban ordinances frequently limit fence heights to six feet in height to “maintain property values”, but fail to protect children. People should demand that be changed.
Coyotes are maggots with fur. We have too many around here but they stay wide of the farmstead because I shoot at them and kill some when they venture too close. They will wait for an opportunity though. I’d put out poison if I knew what it killed. I am not ambitious enough to bait them and wait in ambush in a tree stand at night or during the day for that matter.
My longest kill shot is about 300 yards so far. It takes a lot of windage and elevation with a .22. You have to watch for the little dust clouds when the round hits the ground and compensate. A poor man’s tracer? I don’t waste .308 on coyotes unless I’m very serious and that is not my carry gun when I’m out.
When I was young and living in New Mexico, almost every gate had dead coyotes hanging from the fence posts.
Then in the 1970s city slickers and animal rights groups started complaining about the shooting of coyotes and seeing them hanging.
Now I live where there were no coyotes sixty years ago. Today they are everywhere.
I read that animal farms started selling coyote pups to fox hunters in the South as the pups look the same, causing the spread of them in the South and East.
A very good friend of mine was on a walk on a greenway in South Carolina. He saw toddlers playing in their backyard. Suddenly, a coyote charged him and attacked.
After a fierce battle, my buddy managed to kick and stomp the critter to death. He decided he would go back to his pickup to get his phone so he could take a picture, because no one was going to believe this story. He also picked up his hunting knife.
When he got back to the place where he was attacked, there was no sign of the coyote. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a blur charging him. It was the same coyote. Either he hadn’t killed it after all, or this was a zombie coyote. He kicked and stomped it to death again. Then he sliced the animal’s throat, just to be sure. He placed the body high in a tree branch and called authorities.
It turned out the coyote was indeed rabid. And my friend had broken some bones in his leg during the battle. He didn’t have any cuts, so he was spared the Rabies shots.
He doesn’t go for a walk in the woods without a gun, now.
We now call my friend Coyote Killer.
That coyote could have easily killed those toddlers that were playing in their backyard.