““A coyote can smell a cat a mile away,” he said. “If it was alone out in the woods with coyotes, wolves, mountain lions and foxes, that cat would be dead.””
This is simply NOT true.
I live just North of YNP — we have three cameras on our home and I see fox and bear all the time. We hear coyotes at night and the gully just north of us (neighbors land) gets moose, elk mountain lion and the like.
We also see multiple cats that the neighbors let roam free (we keep our cats inside except when we walk them) currently there are four cats that show up on camera regularly...I think these boneheads don’t understand that cats are very wily.
Thanks for the story!
He’s an “expert.” What do you expect? ;-)
I thought it was also silly to assume someone picked up the cat & took it to CA. Then why would they just dump it & leave it to someone else to take it in for a chip check? If you’re going to help a seemingly abandoned animal, why not go to where you can check for a chip in the first place?
Plenty of coyotes around here, so our cats stay indoors. There are some outdoor cats in the neighborhood, but you don’t seem to see the same ones for a long time. A few weeks ago, I watched a coyote come very close to catching a cat one morning. The cat escaped (that time).