Wily coyotes are at home in N.J. [Send school into lockdown]

North Jersey Media ^ | 2-5-06 | JUSTO BAUTISTA

[Mrs. Shawnlaw]

And cats, kittens, chickens, chicks, lambs, goat kids, calves, piglets, etc. These are moneymakers for property owners and losing them to coyotes is money not put in the bank and less food on the table.

(Yes, cats. They eat the mice that would otherwise eat the feed).

[nmh]

Anyone know what counties in NJ have the worst problem with coyotes?

[elkfersupper]

If there is a pool going somewhere concerning which critters will survive any sort of world-wide cataclysmic event, I'll take cockroaches and coyotes.

[junkbond]

I would not be surprised if it were bigfoot.

http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_county_reports.asp?state=nj&county=Sussex

[Coleus]

so far, i'd say passaic county. who would have thought?

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

they are shoot on sight in florida. same with wild hogs

[dalereed]

They aren't threatened by developmnet, they move into newly developed areas because of the easy pickings off the stupid new residents that leave their cats and dogs run outside.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Of course it hasn't occurred to these school principals to post a faculty member outside during recess who knows how to use a shotgun!!!!!!!

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

The coyotes have apparently figured out your dogs-go-outside schedule!!!

[OldPossum]

What coyotes kill very often is family dogs.

Not if you protect them (the dogs, that is).

My dogs live indoors. When the weather is nice we go on walks through my woods. At night, they go into our front yard to "do their business." But Dad is standing on the porch with a .22 automatic pistol with an extra magazine in my pocket, and a pump 12-gauge as a stand-by. No coyote is going to hurt my dogs.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

I'll vote for mice and crocodiles/alligators, as well.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

What about all those feral cats running around in FLA? Any similar law on the books?

[Ditter]

I keep hearing people say there are coyotes in the middle of Houston in Memorial Park. Buffalo Bayou runs thru the park and coyotes are said to range up and down the bayou. We live about 2 miles west of the park on a ravine that runs to the bayou. I hear that people are losing cats and small dogs to these predators. The only reason I am doubtful is because you never hear these particular coyotes howl. I have heard them in other parts of Texas and I know what they sound like and I have never heard them here. Could they adapt to city living and stop howling because of the proximity to humans?

[SauronOfMordor]

A double-tap to center mass and one to the head should do the trick. JHPs are recommended.

The problem is that NJ is not a "concealed carry" state

[76834]

SSS

[Edison]

I don't know which counties have the largest number of coyotes, but I have noticed several road kill deer eaten in a manner consistant with coyotes in the Scotch Plains, Plainfield areas. If they are in these towns, they are everywhere.

[76834]

One thing for sure, Mother Nature cleans up after herself.

Whether it is road kill cleaned up fast or Really Really fat rats right at the WTC site right after 911 she will clean it up pronto.

[george76]

Anyone seeing signs posted around the neighborhood asking :

Have you seen my cute dog..." Muffin " ?

Coyotes love muffins for Breakfast, lunch, or dinner.

[sam I am]

My friend always took her dogs for a walk in the woods, until one day the coyotes formed a circle around her and grabbed onto of her dogs. She hung onto that dog with all her might.
A man heard the yelling and shot some of the coyotes. My friend almost lost her leg from the bits she took saving her pet.

Be very careful while out walking.

[george76]

Coyote Attacks on Children

http://www.varmintal.net/attac.htm