Saw two today, one this morning crossing road on way to work, another dead on expressway,
West Ga, Villa Rica/Six Flags area.
Were the coyotes rabid? Any wild animal that is acting strangely may be rabid.
The mexican coyote is worse.
Funny that New Jersey seems to have worse trouble than anywhere else.
We had a pack of coyotes up in our woods about five years ago, howling at the moon every night, but they never bothered any people or pets, and they moved on after a while.
The only problem we have in this part of Vermont is fisher cats, which have killed several of our neighbors’ cats, and mauled the dog next door a couple of months ago. They are pretty fierce for their size. We also have black bears passing through, but no trouble in this neighborhood, at least.
On the harmless side is a flock of about 25 wild turkeys, which spent the year before last in our woods before moving on to another feeding ground.
I haven’t seen any Coyotes where I live in NJ but I’ve seen a roadrunner meep meep
They’re pretty close to our place in Central NY, too. Saw one carrying something in its mouth a couple of weeks ago. We have a stream in back of the house on the marshland and geese and ducks land there. You can hear them screaming some nights and the coyotes barking. Brrr. Scary.
The coyote is one smart animal.
Club ‘em over the head at the right time of year and you can get a nice pair of slippers out of ‘em. And sell the carcass to the local chinese joint to boot.
That was either a daddy long legs coyote or senior citizen munchkin...
Hunting license, 22 magnum marlin bolt action rifle, good scope..some practice, go hunting, no more coyote problem.
8-)
Now why did the reporter quote this engineer who is not referenced anywhere else in the article? Is she a “wildlife engineer”?
And by the way we humans may not be the only animals on the planet but we are the dominant species on this planet.
Shari Sokolowski, 49, of Jackson Township, who works in Middletown, said the coyote problem "has to do with development. They're losing their habitat. These are wild animals. If you affect their prey, they will look for food somewhere else."
They may be loosing their habitat but they are as much an invasive species in New Jersey as the Japanese Beatle.
The only reason that they are there is that the wolf was wiped out in New Jersey about a hundred years ago.
This is actually a very easy problem to solve. I can’t remember what state this happened in but the insurance companies all got together and sued the state for the number of vehicles damaged because of the insane number of deer being struck on state roads. In order to avoid a gigantic financial penalty the state basically instituted a “shoot as many deer as you like” policy for a year or two. Deer population dropped dramatically, vehicle damage claims dropped dramatically. It’s like freakin’ magic!
The state could pay a bounty for coyote pelts to guys that buy a yearly hunting license and pay for a coyote tag. Win Win situation all around. Unfortunately this makes too much sense and is contrary to liberal thinking.
We have had Cayote’s in Rock Creek Park in DC. Wish we could figure out how to lure them further south into Georgetown and Capitol Hill where they might actually due some good preying on the weak and feeble political class.
I thought mother nature would have better taste than to reclaim New Jersey.
I don’t know whether this information is correct or not but I have read that there are coyotes in every county in the USA.
We must sacrifice a certain number of our children each year to appease the Environmental Gods. They know What is Best for all of us, and we must not question their judgment. As I write they are teaching children in public schools that being food for wild animals is the highest calling a human being can aspire to. Timothy Treadwell will be canonized soon as the first Environmental Saint.
.44 Henry Big Boy, shoot, shovel, shut up.
We have the same problem here in Massachusetts. Coyotes come into our yard quite often, and almost made off with the little dog next door. We have a six foot high chain-link fence and large dogs, knock wood.
Very strange. Must be a severe shortage of their natural food to make the coyotes do this.