Posted on 08/07/2022 10:19:13 PM PDT by xxqqzz
Coyotes have become practically ubiquitous across the lower 48 United States, and they’re increasingly turning up in cities. The draws are abundant food and green space in urban areas.
At first these appearances were novelties, like the hot summer day in 2007 when a coyote wandered into a Chicago Quiznos sub shop and jumped into the beverage cooler. Within a few years, however, coyote sightings became common in the Bronx and Manhattan. In 2021 a coyote strolled into a Los Angeles Catholic school classroom. They’re also appearing in Canadian cities.
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Saw a show once where they went searching for city yotes- they went near a park, and r3corded the howls and yips from a good number of coyotes living right on edge of city. I suppose the garbage situation, plus the abundance of rats draws them in.
I worked on small bison ranch, and when. They had calves, the coyotes would show up and try to kill the claves- efen during daylight hours- but mostly at night- they never did manage to get any- shot one, another died of mange near the corral, likely trying to “get an easy meal” but finding out bison aren’t pushover lol
Foxes love cats I’m told. Might been a fox, or another cat (male cats will fight for territory and can kill their competitors. Had a family cat, male, got in fight, b got castrated, and crawled up under hood of camper and died we foundit later, and it looked like it had been through hell and back.
I learned that there is a stoat living in the stream behind the house I bought, the month after kitty vanished.
Methinks kitty became stoat food, since I was staying within sight of this house.
Yep,could well be- stoats are viscious little critters.
“I love all animals but I love my animals, more.
“They kill dogs.”
They’re the reason we got five cats — rescued ferals. Coyotes and raccoons were threatening. Couldn’t imagine finding one of the kitties killed. Like you, it works break my heart to kill any animal, but would if necessary.
When we lived in Simi Valley, our land was next to the Reagan Library. The ridge that ran between us was full of coyotes. That noise they make is a bit chilling, but I kind of liked it, too.
When I owned acreage in the Sierra foothills, a group of 3 or 4 stalked my son one evening at dusk. Now I sometimes see them and hear them screaming in the open area adjacent to my office in the city. What I “appreciate@ about them is the effectiveness of a round right between the eye
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