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 ...
Geeze.
They know if people find out what's *really* out there stalking the neighborhoods, the "shoot, shovel, shut up" rule will go into effect.
It's depressing to think that the intentional denial of a potential threat is preferable to protecting the lives of the people in the area.
FReepers can't be the *only* people who are taking notice of the instances of cougars killing humans.
"Also a ton of stupid environmental types who let the the coyotes "raise families" on their property nearby."
They've seen too many reruns of "Dances With Wolves".
One of my neighbors had a large litter of big black lab/shepard mix puppies and the mother took them all (7) into the woods to raise. They "assimilated" into the coyote population and a couple years later we have large BLACK coyotes. One of the more interesting things to happen around my place. Saw one dead on the back of a four wheeler- it was wolf-sized.
5 posted on 10/19/2005 9:24:11 AM PDT by Salamander (Cursed with Second Sight)
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That's surprising.
I always liked them, but thought that when they were "rescued" from extinction in the 1800's and bred to other dogs some of their original ferocity was bred out of them.
Like they say:
Gentle when stroked, firece when provoked.
Its unfortunate they have such short life spans.
I was kidding about the mountain lions. South Dakota just added a mountain lion season a couple weeks ago. Out of state environmental groups had filed lawsuits in an attempt to stop the season. I would like to know where all these lions are coming from because 10 years ago they were very rare, now they are all over. My opinion is that some group or person must be raising and releasing them.
Just as I finished reading that I remembered that I hadn't locked the gate on the road up to the cabin.
That was an interesting couple hundred yards walk into the dark, forbidding, coy-wolf infested woods.
[thanks a LOT!]....:))
If I had to guess, I'd say that a female dog stood a better chance with coyotes/wolves.
Female coyotes will "entice" male dogs into the woods where the pack then eats them.
Now that particular pack has even more "lack of fear of humans" bred into them.
I keep my mutts fenced in at all times.
The geese and goat have "horse" fence where the holes are very small at the bottom and get larger further up...topped with barbed wire.
Security lights are positioned around where anything approaching from the woods will set them off.
The geese are really good "alarms", too.
[and nasty...my usually sharp "hunt & kill" hounds give them wide berth]...:))
Oh, pardon me!
I'm in western Maryland.
[don't know I missed your question]...:-\
Ah, ok. Just the way you talked about the DNR, it sounded like you were from PA. LOL!
Western Maryland is *nothing* like the rest of the benighted state.
Out here, we're normal....well, sort of....:))
Feral pigs are just like rats...they have about three litters a year and the situation in the northern half of Texas has really gotten out of hand in the past 20 years.
You can't kill them all at once or you will have a different problem. I don't know if the packing plant in Lubbock is still buying live feral hogs and the cost of fuel may prohibit shipping them out.
Don't forget the Eastern Shore. Other than the transplants screwing things up there, the folks are normal.
Most of Maryland is great.
It's that little cluster of counties that border DC/Balto screwing things up....:))
[and now they're migratng this way and we suddenly have a "crime rate"....imagine that! where Dems go, misery grows.]
Wow.
I had no idea.
It's a beautiful state. I grew up in Silver Springs before it was over run. Most of my family is on the Shore, but my Dad came from Hagerstown.
We've lots of coyote packs here in Northern Illinois
and Southern Wisconsin. They lurk around in the
woods and in the farm areas. They come out at night
and feed. Daughter runs a horse farm just over the
WI/IL border. She's lost more than few cats to them.
She now locks her cats up at night in one of the barns.
Needless to say, the cats aren't eager to stay outside
either.
We are having the same problem here in Central Kentucky. For the past several years there have been a rash of mountain lion sightings, with some photos taken in a few incidents, but the authorities don't want to admit that they have a lion on the prowl, so they that the sightings are probably just Golden Retrievers and that the cattle have been killed by black bears, coyotes, or wild dogs. I'm sorry, but I've seen the photos and the castings of their paw prints and we've got a catamount on the loose.
"that the sightings are probably just Golden Retrievers"
ROFL!
They must think y'all are blind....:))
"catamounts"
God bless ya, Stonewall.
It's good to know that somebody, somewhere, still uses that wonderful "mountain" word....:)
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