Posted on 10/28/2009 12:33:10 PM PDT by Borges
“The Western Coyote is a small critter and lives a solitary lifestyle.”
You’ve been misinformed, all coyotes run in packs. Evenings and mornings you can hear a chorus of them near my house. Most that I have seen are about the size of a medium shepard.
I do agree that I would be much more concerned about cougars than coyotes, or even wolves for that matter.
See:
http://wildbunchrehab.org/encore_coyote.html
and
http://www.westmorelandconservancy.org/CCWolfCoyote.html
My feelings about wolves are conflicted. I actually like them, but I realize that they have a proper place and that proper place is not in densely populated areas or in areas where they pose a significant threat to livestock. Like all predators, they are highly intelligent, learn from experience, and allowing hunting of them, by those so inclined to do so, habituates them to the idea that humans are to be avoided and are not a potential food source.
Personally, I would only kill one in self defense, to protect my animals, or to protect another person. They are too much like dogs, which I really love.
Hating an animal that is just doing what it is designed to do is unfair and stupid. Rather hate the kind of fawning pandering politicians who oppose carrying firearms for self defense or oppose hunting, and the morons with a Disneyesque view of animals as large warm and cuddly stuffed animals that can talk.
Or Canadian firearms laws. Private ownership of handguns there is impossible. If that somebody who heard her screaming had picked up a gun instead of a handphone, she might be still alive.
If that person was a guy, he should have picked up some rocks and sticks or even used his bare hands and saved the 9-11 call for later. That might have saved her.
Where we live, coyotes are seldom seen during the day except for a sighting of what appears to be a underfed/mangy Willie Coyote gene pool. Night time is a different situation.
Less than a half mile away, we have a couple of packs of aggresive coyotes. They like to lure unleashed dogs over various stone walls or into small arroyos and then attack as a pack. There is a strict lease law in this area to protect livestock from feral dogs and “my dog won’t bite you, your dog or your sheep” vicious dogs.
So in the past few years when it is dark early like now, when I take the garbage haulers out to the curb, I turn on the outside lights to drive any legged critters away. Most of the neighbors do the same. One opens his garage doors and turns on a very loud ghetto buster tuned to a hard rock station to clear out the critters.
Another neighbor takes his huge Great Dane out with him to roll the cans to the curb. One night his Great Dane took off after a group coyotes. A couple of minutes later she ran back up the trail with a female doe chasing her.
No, if you search there is at least three or four stories on the net. I had to search a while back to argue with my local warden about the coyotepack all over my yard.
There is a great bear sign about pepper spray and bells.
Wiki lies...continually.
Never be a Wikipedophile!
LoL - yes, I remember that one -
I haven't seen them on my own property, but they are around. I saw one in Ann Arbor city limits.
Maybe I should have said,”they will continue their attempts to get the geese.” Obviously geese have been coexisting with all kinds of predators forever. It is possible that a goose might flog the bejezus out of a coyote also and get away.
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