Posted on 02/05/2006 3:22:11 PM PST by SJackson
Since the sheeple of the PRNJ regularly elect nanny wussies who are much too frightened of allowing the citizens they represent to carry handguns, the coyotes may very well overcome. On the positive side, they do represent a possible solution to the deer "problem" and to the chronic overpopulation by small, expensive to educate childen
Last week I started taking my gun with me when I am outside. We live in the mountains and I know they were here first.
When I walk my dog at night, I carry a tear gas cannister, a very sharp knife and a weighted baton. The nannie wussies like Senator Loretta Wussie haven't yet made these illegal.
We have a cabin in Potter County PA, right up against the New York state border, and we've been hearing coyote packs up there for several years, now. It is an eerie thing to hear them howling on a moonlit night...
We live down near Philadelphia, and I was startled to see a lone coyote in a relatively remote section of Valley Forge Park a couple of weeks ago - in broad daylight. I didn't think they had migrated this far. But we've had the odd bear get this far south in years gone by, so I guess it's possible.
I live in Nevada, prime coyote country. When Californians move in and buy a house on the edge of town, their "outdoor" cats quickly disappears--coyote dinner.
Coyotes have been seen in downtown Detroit. They are fairly common in the far western suburbs.
Along with a few Seahawks.
Sorry, couldnt resist,
That depends a lot on what sort of dog you have running outside. A mature southern Georgia "catch" dog has no problems (a variant of the American Bulldog).
Another animal that is rough on coyotes is a mule or a donkey. They'll stomp a coyote or a snake into the ground.
Coyotes can dang well be eradicated, just not in one night. Following this recipe about ten times over the course of a couple of weeks will work. Don't let up once you start. Bait them up at night with a tethered live chicken or two, an electronic rabbit squaller, some red spotlights and four or five buddies who are decent rifle shots and......
Oh wait. This is New Jersey.
"That depends a lot on what sort of dog you have running outside."
City dwellers that move to the new suburbs with their city raised and coddled pets is equivalent to a tethered live chicken, dead meat!
There is a fellow near me that catches coyotes in live traps, similar to those used by the dog wardens.
He baits them with a cat. He puts the cat in a small wire cage inside the larger cage.
Coyotes can't resist cats.
There is a fellow near me that catches coyotes in live traps, similar to those used by the dog wardens.
He baits them with a cat. He puts the cat in a small wire cage inside the larger cage.
Coyotes can't resist cats.
The feral cats have all disappeared as well. Lately the doves are starting to 'explode'. It's the coyotes I tell the neighbors so don't let fluffy or muffin outside unattended.
When my pug gets his excersize theres a .22 revolver in my pocket loaded with CB caps. Nice and quiet, won't penetrate an exterior wall, but they will penetrate coyote hide. Concealed carry is illegal here, but if I don't admit to carrying concealed there ain't much they can do about it.
Let 'em do ballistics on a varmint if'n they want to.
The most they can get me for is discharging a firearm in city limits and that's a misdemeanor. State law says I can kill an animal attacking a pet or livestock, so screw 'em.
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Stop. Don't run. Stand still, and let it go on its way.
Give it plenty of space.
Never stare an animal down. It considers that a threat.
Considering that most coyotes aren't much bigger than foxes, I don't see how they're being treated as such a booger. I doubt that any coyote who encountered a human (an adult, anyway) would stay around very long.
In New Mexico I have never seen a coyote that would let you catch their eyes with yours for over a half-second. A split second later, if you were lucky, all you would see was a small dustdevil fast moving away from you a hundred yards out.
Muleteam1
15 lbs is big for a red fox. 12 lbs is more like it. They look larger because they have a lot of hair and the hair fluffs.
A coyote that is equivalent to the 15 lb. red fox will weight 40 lbs.
But equally signigicant, the red fox is a loner. Except when the vixen is teaching her cubs to hunt or during breeding season, you will almost never see two fox toghether.
Coyotes on the other hand will pack up into large packs. Four or more 40 lb agressive animals with long sharp teeth can do a lot of damage.
Also fox are afraid of almost everything. Coyotes are much more clever about what they can get away with.
I hear coyotes here almost every night. And so long as they don't bother our cats (coyotes most definitely do eat small household pets) then I don't mind them. I'm thrilled to see almost any wild animal (with the couple of exceptions mentioned above). I think it would be thrilling to see a bobcat sometime.
The coyotes we have here in central Alabama are considerably larger than a fox. In fact, some of them are way more than 40 pounds. I have a feeling that they are cross breeding with wolf hybrids that people let loose. We shot one last year that was 70 pounds. It was definitely a coyote. They reek havoc with livestock. I've got two Great Danes to watch after me when I'm outside doing chores.
It is quite possible that they are some kind of hybrid, or perhaps coyotes just grow larger than I have assumed. But my old college biology professor has also described coming suddenly on a coyote while walking (it was catching grasshoppers), and if he considered himself in any danger he didn't indicate it.
So your an animal lover huh? How 'bout squirrels? Coyotes love them too! Rabbits? Coyotes love them. Wild turkeys? Yep, coyotes really, really, love them. Their eggs too. Ducks? You guessed it coyotes love them. I could go on.
I'm from Alabama, lived here all my life. Hunted all my life from 8 yrs on. Never saw a coyote till about 20 yrs ago. Let these critters move in to an area and don't control them and there goes your game. Don't think they'll take down a deer? Think again. EVERYONE who hunts anything HATES coyotes.
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