I thought they were talking about these coyotes for a second. 
Posted on 06/08/2005 12:47:58 PM PDT by ZULU
I thought they were talking about these coyotes for a second.
We have them here in the hills. I carry when I am on the hiking trails just in case.
Read "Death in the Long Grass". Its a great contemporary hunting book about huntng man-eating lions in Africa. In game parks where they are not hunted, they loose any fear of man and can become maneaters.
Tests have been done on caged coyotes. They took some food item and added something to it that made the coyote who ate it very sick. That coyote would then avoid that food item. But the curious thing is that when then put that coyote in a pen with other coyotes who had never eaten the drugged food, and then presented THOSE coyotes with that food item, they ALL refused it.
Animals can learn, some can learn better than others and in the intelligence area, predators, especially hgiher predators like Cougars, wolves, coyotes, etc are smartest.
After all, aren't humans the greatest predator?
The good old days, when they were scarce and wary.
When we stop hunting them, they start to hunt us, or our pets and infants at any rate.
SO9
It seems the coyote was going after a small dog in the living room!
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And it's close relative
I love Irish Setters and English orange beltons - really beautiful animals.
If you want REAL brains - get a German Shepherd. They can think - really.
BRING BACK 1080!
Skip the 22. Grab your compound bow with a 90gr muzzy broadhead and bring 'em in close.
Within that round's effective range, yes. Just make sure you hit 'em good and solid. Some of the newer .22WMR loads are supposed to be really good (CCI's "TNT" ammo seems appropriate, since we're talking about coyotes.)
Some people have had good luck with the .17HMR, too - that little bullet really makes a mess. Personally, I've never dropped one with less than a Hornet.
That's pretty cool... so if we passed a few laws that everybody who goes outside has to be covered in DEET, we'd all be safe after a few predators learned some taste aversion! Safe from mosquitoes AND from coyotes! Just kidding, I'd rather we go with the hunting option- much more fun.
How sweet of the government MouthPerson to volunteer to take all attacks herself, 'cause people don't get "seriously hurt".
As always, her government job is all she is worried about. Coyote are varmints. Allow the citizens to treat them like varmints.
Here in the Sheeples Republic, the Possum Police are talking about going to a "no take" policy of fish and game management.
Since they both write and enforce game laws, it is about time to do to them what is being done to the California Coastal Commission. Or was that Kalifornia Koastal Kommission, a.k.a. the KKK?
Let's Sue!
Whoa, that's really scary. Where was that?
I am caring for my son's Husky/wolf male, 7 year old. Best dog I've ever been around!
Hey - I have no problem with hunting. I just told that story as an example of the critters' intelligence and ability to communicate with each other. If they can do that with food, they can also do that with people shooting at them.
Is Ruy Dias de Bivar the brother of Rodrigo Dias de Bivar?
As Curtis, the Cornell wildlife biologist, noted,
"Hearing [coyotes] howling in the woods at night
is a wonderful thing. And that's where we want to keep
them—in the woods, away from people."
Problem solved...
Already here! Morehead City- on the coast. Look like big, mangy german shepards. Out in broad daylight. Course, the "experts" say they can't be.
Even more brazen are the Brat Castards holding agency jobs who made the following statements complied from just this one article.
1. "We've had quite a few attacks," she continued, "but people don't typically get seriously hurt." Allow citizens to shoot coyotes when and where they wish before someone is killed. What's hard to understand about that, SpokesPerson Bernard?
2. "That's the last stage before a human attack," Curtis said. "And we're at that stage in New York now." Why haven't you allowed NY citizens to shoot coyotes as they see fit? Or are you planning on a bureaucracy to "control" coyotes?
3. "If they persist in aggressive behavior, the ultimate solution would probably be to remove problem animals," Curtis said. "Nobody is happy about that." Spoken just like a PETAPerson or an animal rights 'activist.
Happiness of such trash be d*mned - classify 'em as varmints and shoot them.
By the way, a friend tells me that when some 50 coyote were mouthing off around their ranch house one night, her Irish wolfhound finally was irritated enough to give one very loud bark - and silence reigned the rest of the night.
Moral: Wolfhounds cure coyote problems.
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