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 ...
Irish wolfhounds are quite capable of munching and lunching on a pack of coyotes. One pair here in Florida happened on a pack of coyote on a ranch.
As the rancher told the owner, "Last I saw your dogs (2) had killed some and the rest of the pack was trying to escape. I don't give 'em much of a chance."
That was said as he handed the surprised owner a large package of prime beef. As the rancher put it, calves were safer now that there were wolfhounds in the neighborhood, and those wolfhounds were always welcome on his ranch.
Evidently, the hounds had killed the first few without breaking stride and they kept looking for more targets of opportunity.
While I hope you are correct that there is no unauthorized breeding experimentation going on...
I disagree on your theories of pups as a pack rather than adults..
Packs of adults have been seen raiding farms...a friend of mine had full grown coyotes in his barn caught pulling the fetus out of a birthing dairy cow..
Once upon a time it was pups in packs...not any more... they have gotten smarter and hunt cooperatively now.
Back in the late 70s/early 80s, the western MD "park rangers", as we called them then were cool as can be.
They'd come out at any hour of day or night and pick up a sick/dead/suspicious critter for you.
They'd do all night stakeouts for poachers and routinely get shot at and take it in stride.
In short, they were "manly men" and most of them were hunters themselves.
Then, the green government dweebs arrived.
Now they will threaten to arrest if you so much as stop and pick up an injured chipmunk.
After dealing with them for the last 20-some years, I'd put -nothing- past them so far as "rewilding" and "restoring" animals which the pioneers sensibly got rid of centuries ago.
The combination of the coyote's boldness and lack of fear of humans and the size and pack mentality of wolves, combined, probably does not bode well.
When I go up on the mountain on my ATV, I have at least a lever action 30.30 on the gun rack.
I *used* to carry a piddly little .22 squirrel rifle but then the black bears came....
Good plan but what happens when you run outta pigs?...:-\
I've seen pictures of that.
The ones up here are fluffy and plush....:)
Like Ibizans [but on a much larger scale] Wolfhounds "snatch and snap" whatever they're chasing.
The local cotton tails all come in my yard and eat but when they hear the back screen door squeak, they all know to skedaddle *now*.
My dogs can hit 35 mph in less than a dozen feet from the door and the bunnies have about a 100 foot shot to make it to the fence.
So far they all have, thank goodness.
[there's been some really close calls, though]...:))
Oh, goody. I think I'll take coyotes and human trappers over having mountain lions around. (Not that we don't here in Kansas, whatever the government may claim.)
Meep meep!
Meep meep!!
This is Texas. Running out pigs is NOT a problem.
The area in which these coyotes were trapped is about a mile or so from where I live. About a month ago the local police chief spotted his first one. Of course civilians have been spotting them for some time. Enter the trapper. Trap and destroy program.
On another news station the trapper was quoted as saying several were about 80 lbs...huge if just coyote with no mixing. Heavy enough woods and abandoned or fallow farms to give them a fairly broad range and lots of juicy yuppie puppies.
I'm just waiting for the whiney 'Can't we just sterilize them crowd' to start acting up.
Down here in Georgia they are so thick you can put out dead livestock and 10-15 would show up to dine. The bad thing is that they used to be small- about 25 lbs, but after breeding with some larger dogs they have become 40-75 pounders. The yipping and howling of ten or more coyotes in your yard will make you think twice about getting that firewood. On a lighter note, they really do a number on rats, mice and grasshoppers and you rarely see them in daylight hours. I had one that waited by the roadside to cross every night at the same time- beautiful animal, but stayed a little too long in the public eye and disappeared. We worry more about snakes and gators down here, and 2 legged vermin.
Ahhhh....then please pardon my lack of Texas porcine knowledge....:)
[pignorance?]...;-D
Check the link I posted.
The "experts" haven't detected a dot of doggy DNA in the "eastern coyotes".
You've got wolves!
[yeah...say it that obnoxious 'AOL' voice]...LOL!
Feral cat coyote colonies?....LOL!
We used to get that BS from the Minnesota DNR,until too many videos showed up on the local TV newscast to ignore.
Then they claimed that they were released pets and weren't a breeding population,Until videos showed up of mother cougars with kittens.
Now they just keep their mouths shut because they realized that were starting to look like idiots.
Now they list Cougars on the DNR website as Minnesota Mammals,but claim they were never common.
Must be all them deer,rabbits,and other small edible mammals and vegative cover that scared them away. Minnesota Cougars
We have had sightings in the Twin Cities Metro area.
I contend that even if the first generation started out as released pets,The following generations are wild cougars and no different than if the DNR had transplanted them from somewhere else.
That has been my personal experience here. Had one stand and stare at me and then lift his leg while I menaced him to the best of my ability. After he finished urinating he just turned around and walked away.
I hate them, but then we have chickens and dairy goats which we breed most years. Also a ton of stupid environmental types who let the the coyotes "raise families" on their property nearby.
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