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The past month or so I've been getting phoned in reports of wolves in my region. They are making a bit of a comeback and expanding their range so it is possible.
Posted on 10/19/2005 9:09:35 AM PDT by george76
Residents Warned To Watch Their Pets
Coyotes have been spotted in and around the Fallsgrove community in Rockville, Md...
Adcock said despite its docile appearance, it's part of a pack made up of some of the largest and most aggressive such animals he's every dealt with.
"The pack is too big," Adcock said. "I mean any place else in Maryland you get two or three animals from a job and its pretty much over with."
So far he's trapped 12 animals and his job is not yet finished.
The trapper told News4 he took a picture of a large male coyote in a stalking position just 15 feet from the popular footpath that runs through the Fallsgrove.
After Fallsgrove residents became alarmed ...
Some conflicts that have arisen."
Officials have warned ...residents ... not to leave cats and small dogs alone in their yards.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbc4.com ...
Walked my shepherd pup on a local bike trail yesterday and found fresh coyote spoor on my back track a few minutes after we had passed and on our way home..
The yote didn't show himself but sure wanted us to know he
was around..
When they quit the bounty on them their numbers went way up as did their nuisance factor...the liberal animal rights DNR around here would protect them over all domestic animals and landowners..
S3
imo
In the last few years, I've seen coyotes that did not move from my approaching car. A pair were 30 feet away, when I stopped my car and yelled at them with the window down. They weren't scared at all.
A couple of months ago, I spotted a cougar on a road quarter of a mile from an elementary school. I called the State Patrol, and a game agent returned my call (at five in the morning). This cougar was spotted about once a month and was a good guy, keeping to regular game.
There are wild things out there. The more wimpified our culture gets, the scarier they get. We aren't being their predators anymore. Why should they be afraid?
DK
Wait until the American Coyote Liberties Union gets involved.
OK, so is this trapper killing them or catching and releasing? If it's the latter, where is he releasing them?
I've got a large pack hanging around here as well. A couple days ago my dog got into a fight with one when we were out hunting grouse. At night, they are all around it seems, yipping and howling to each other.
I thought the increase was due to my neighbor a mile away getting into the cow and wild turkey business.
What ever the reason, there sure are alot of them around, and they they aren't that small either.
It's probably the LACK of people trapping that could account for the increase. At any rate, they keep the mice population down. I haven't seen any rabbits either.
A grandfather hiking a trail...with his 4-year-old grandson was attacked yesterday by a coyote, but saved the youngster by grappling with the animal as it continued to bite him.
Arthur Cole, 76, was attacked...by a 40-pound gray coyote, according to police.
His grandson, Nicholas, escaped unhurt and ran the half-mile to his grandparents' house...
When Arthur's wife and Nicholas' dad asked, "Where's Grampy?" the youngster replied, "A wolf got him," ...
Peter Cole, who was visiting his parents, jumped into his truck, drove to the development's community center and ran down the trail. "I was yelling for my father. He yelled to me, and he was lying on top of the coyote," ... "I tried to kill it, but there was nothing I could really do."
Peter called 911 on his cell phone and police and firefighters arrived.
"We got there and found the guy on top of the animal," firefighter Jamie Desautels said. "The guy basically saved his grandson."
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I doubt very much there is any coy-wolf inbreeding going on. What's more likely is the much larger north-eastern coyote has expanded it's territory, or rather, reclaimed much of it, moving more westerly and south. They remain in a loose pack-like society during their first year or so from birth, which gives the appearance of them being in a pack, when really it's just a den of adolencent pups. If you have a few dens around it seems like there is a large pack.
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The past month or so I've been getting phoned in reports of wolves in my region. They are making a bit of a comeback and expanding their range so it is possible.
I don't doubt your suspicions about the DNR. I don't work from the DNR but I get some very strange calls from time to time. A particularily humorous one was a lady who was convince she saw a pteradactyl and was livid with me when I started to ask her questions regarding it. After about 5 minutes I was able to determine she saw a Turkey Vulture. It took me several emails to convince her of the same.
On my brother's place just south of Breckenridge, Texas (Necessity, TX) it was decided to leave the coyotes. Every other weekend three feral pigs would be shot and dragged off to a back pasture for the coyotes to feast on.
The feral pigs are being culled, the coyotes are not eating calves/goats/sheep and you have something to shoot everytime out.
Several years ago we came up to SW Ok to (now ex) husbands Uncles farm/ranch.
We got out, opened the doors for the dogs and one (lab, german shepherd, pit, etc. mix) decided to go investigate the cattle and miniature horses. Our other one, a basenji, took out like a bat out of hell in the opposite direction.
She'd seen a coyote while she was still in the car and went after it. She caught up to it as it was loping along and the coyote was so startled it didn't run or try to fight, it froze. I have no idea what would have happened if she hadn't decided to finally mind us by coming back to where we were and leaving the coyote standing there. From what I've read, basenji packs used to hunt lion. They aren't big dogs as she weighed only about 30 lbs and her head came up to the top of my knee or maybe a hair taller. I'm only 5'0". Basenji's can be hardheaded so she continued her chase and didn't come back to our calling her until after she had caught up with the coyote. Our other dog minded immediately and didn't get to check out the livestock til later while under our supervision.
I had a Plott hound in college. Sweet, yet the dumbest animal I've every had; However, its ability to track a scent was amazing.
Interesting.
Read about Basenjis but never actually saw one.
I guess she would have been in trouble alone. Even Plotts are used in packs.
There's an interesting critter called a Karelian Bear Dog.
It comes from Finland and gets about 50 lbs or so. They are used to hunt bear there and now here also. They hunt alone, track the critter and keep it occupied until the hunter can come up and kill it.
In some places they use black-mouthed curs, and other southern breeds like Black and Tans and various mixes to hunt coon, bear, etc. but I believe the Plott Hound, which descended from German boar hounds is the best on bigger, more dangerous game.
Its kind of hard to ju8dge intelligence in people or dogs.
A Plott Hound may appear less "trainable" than a poodle or German Shepherd, but they weren't developed to do tricks or chase criminals. Their "intelligence" lies in another area.
I have always wondered why they don't use Plotts, Black and Tans, and other hounds more in ssearch and rescue work.
German Shepherds are great for apprehending criminals, but they can't work a trail or find a lost person as well as hounds can. And plotts are smaller than Bloodhounds and probably have noses nearly as good, or even just as good.
I read about another type called the Otter Hound. It looks like a big hairy Bloodhound and can actually follow a trail through water. They are an ancient breed going back to the time of King RIchard and King John but are now in danger of dying out as they are a rare breed. Again, use of them in search and rescue work woould help preserve a noble animal.
At any rate, I'd love to get a Plott Hound.
What state are you in?
"The past month or so I've been getting phoned in reports of wolves in my region. They are making a bit of a comeback and expanding their range so it is possible."
For the past few years I have read news reports of both coyotes and wolf making a comeback in PA,NY,NJ. Apparently there is a cross breed between a wolf and coyotee also roaming about. A friend some eight years back who lives in southern NJ had told me a coyote was found on the road, squashed by a car.
oops, thought this was an immigration thread!
Have a lot of mountain lions here in NW Montana and still have large packs of coyotes. Heard them singing last night, my dogs were growling and watching out the windows with their hair all sticking up. Had a coyote come down at daybreak and lure my boxer off. Had to run down the road at 5:00 am, barefoot, to get her back. Around the bend the pack was waiting.
You wouldn't want a coat out of a south Texas coyote, they often times have mange. Sometimes the mange gets so bad that they are hairless.
Nathan, Nathan,
"I doubt very much there is any coy-wolf inbreeding going on."
Who are we to believe? You, or that d*mn lyin' DNA?
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