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People around here are freaking out. A small dog went missing and one paw and a collar were found - victim of a coyote attack. Parents have been told to keep their pets and small children indoors. Talk of trapping and killing these dangerous wild beasts in the local paper. Instructions on how to scare off a coyote - "wave your arms, shout or throw a tennis ball at him". You'd think they were facing a grizzly bear or tiger, not a mangy coyote. A mangy coyote was also spotted near a school and all the kids were locked inside. What is going on in the once great country? Most of the rest of the country has been living with coyotes for years but they're fairly new around here. Has anyone ever heard of a human being killed by a coyote? Crazy.
 
Geez, we have coyotes all over the place here! My wife and I hike in the hills/woods near or house all the time and hear them all the time. Very now and then, we see one. I came face-to-face with one in my back yard not too long ago, but he wasn't interested is a fight and just turned and walked off. We had a yellow tabby cat a few years ago who got out of the house one night. We tried to find him, but he was hiding. He would usually reappear the next morning at the back door because it was feeding time. Not this time. We speculate that was probably a coyote victim.
 
Geez is right. I see coyotes nearly daily and certainly hear them nightly. I've shot a couple from my back porch (don't tell the local constable) when they were trying to get into my yard to eat my daughter's dachshund. Coyote can take down pretty sizable game in a pack, but if you are only dealing with a scattered few then they will stick to smaller prey (prairie dogs, squirrels, rabbits, cats, and small dogs). An interesting thing about them is that when they hunt larger prey, like cattle or deer, they try to cut off the prey's escape and attack from the front; wolves on the other hand prefer to chase their large prey down and attack an exposed flank. It may be that wolves are better long distance hunters and so can engage in exhausting their prey and then attacking from the rear. In my experience with them, coyotes are only a pest, not something that is dangerous to humans, unless you leave a baby laying out, unattended, at night.
 
Rabies says it all.
 
A couple of years ago, we had a mangy red fox living on our local golf course. Nicknamed Rascal, he would follow the rangers around on their carts begging for handouts. One of my playing companions fed him some potato chips on the 11th hole. He was as tame as a dog. When winter came, he was trapped and brought to a vet in Greenwich because they thought he would freeze to death because he had hardly any fur. He was treated as a local celebrity. People came to visit "Rascal" . Somehow he escaped and was thought dead, but lo and behold, he showed up on the golf course again. How he found his way back was a mystery. This time, he was again trapped and moved way out in the country and has not reappeared.
 
pdplot said:
A couple of years ago, we had a mangy red fox living on our local golf course.
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100 years ago - OK Late 70's I worked on the Jasper Park Lodge Golf Course - the greenskeeper (who at that point had worked there since 1928!) used to feed the coyotes to keep the Elk off the course. Interestingly they would walk the whole course but never go on the greens.

A friend was golfing one evening and a bear came out onto the fairway coming in his direction - a coyote ran out, nipped the bear in the butt and took off - with the bear chasing it - in the opposite direction.
 
With all the cattle around here, the coyotes and pack dogs get shot, without hesitation! It's just not advertised. Ever since a pack of wild dogs killed one of his cows, my neighbor has a 30/30 resting on the handlebars of a 4 wheeler and an exposed 6 shooter on his hip. PJ
 
PAUL161 said:
With all the cattle around here, the coyotes and pack dogs get shot, without hesitation! It's just not advertised. Ever since a pack of wild dogs killed one of his cows, my neighbor has a 30/30 resting on the handlebars of a 4 wheeler and an exposed 6 shooter on his hip. PJ
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Same here in areas with sheep and cattle.
 
pdplot said:
Instructions on how to scare off a coyote - "wave your arms, shout or throw a tennis ball at him".
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I wonder if Spaulding was behind that PSA.
 
"With all the cattle around here, the coyotes and pack dogs get shot, without hesitation! It's just not advertised. Ever since a pack of wild dogs killed one of his cows, my neighbor has a 30/30 resting on the handlebars of a 4 wheeler and an exposed 6 shooter on his hip. PJ"

Around here some people even take to hanging the hides on their fence posts. I guess some around here enjoy advertising. :playful:
 
Another front-page article in the Stamford Advocate this morning on coyotes. Geez! Maybe anyone interested can check it out by Googling the Stamford Advocate online. You'd think they were talking about Sasquatch...
 
With all the two legged urban wildlife we have to deal with, as far as "disturbing the peace" goes, I don't give a coyote a second thought.
 
GTP1960 said:
With all the two legged urban wildlife we have to deal with, as far as "disturbing the peace" goes, I don't give a coyote a second thought.
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I'm surprised that some nitwit hasn't put them on the endangered species list! PJ
 
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