Comments on: Confronting a coyote

By: Gordon Scott

Gordon Scott — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 07:18:48 +0000

I see a coyote, in daylight, at least twice a week around the Mesa area. Of course, we have problems with javalinas also, but they probably won’t eat your cat, just your young yucca plant.

We tried to kill them off for decades. We failed, but you find water towers in the countryside in Iowa and South Dakota because we did manage to get arsenic into the ground water. So these places have piped water to farms.

They’re in every state except Hawaii.

Others here have said they don’t see them but they hear them at night. I see them often, but have not heard them howl in Arizona. I did hear them in Minnesota, and saw perhaps one or two in 20 years.

Gotta love the bitch coyote luring dogs to death by pack. It sounds exactly like a scene from the Tom Cruise Jack Reacher movie.

By: Foo

Foo — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 22:23:10 +0000

Yep, socal suburban guy here:

Coyotes have attacked and killed small dogs on leash in San Diego, bitten kids and I tell people looking for lost cats to look for coyote scat with fur in it…

They are very smart and most well adapted urban predator in North America, expanding range greatly.

There’s packs in Chicago tracked and studied 20 years. A pack of coydogs killed a female singer a few years back in eastern Canada.

They can go over an 8ft fence with prey in jaws. I had two coydogs from a GSD in heat. Smart as a whip.

By: om

om — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 14:34:42 +0000

Coyotes in Florida:

https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2020/01/16/interactive-map-find-the-coyote-sightings-in-your-florida-neighborhood/

UFOs are easier to spot? (not)

By: om

om — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 14:31:11 +0000

Coyotes don’t need caves.

By: ObloodyHell

ObloodyHell — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 14:24:25 +0000

I can’t recall having ever seen a coyote in FL, offhand. Might be here, but the area is probably not very hospitable, as there aren’t any caves or anything like that to use for dens. Lots of deer, hawks, etc, however. There might be some in the deeper woods (less and less of that, in FL, any more) — there are bear in the Ocala National Forest, so might be some coyote there. And I do know people who hunt feral hogs, so, again, might be some in that kind of area. But they aren’t very common near (e.g., within about 20 miles) any major inhabited area.

By: Wendy Laubach

Wendy Laubach — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 03:50:24 +0000

In Coastal Bend Texas, any time the weather is nice enough to sleep with the windows open, we hear the coyotes when they gather in the evening and again before dawn. We very rarely see them in the daytime.

By: buddhaha

buddhaha — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 22:11:37 +0000

Out here, a mile down a dirt road I hear yips every night, but, for some reason, the locals don’t howl very often. I see one occasionally, going away at a trot, for good reason: Constitutional carry, which means that about 30% of the populace is armed, and coyotes are good moving target practice.

By: Cornhead

Cornhead — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 20:24:10 +0000

You are supposed to “raz” the coyote. The WI Department of Natural Resources has a video.

By: Chases Eagles

Chases Eagles — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 17:58:20 +0000

Re: cougars, when I lived east of Cougar Mt and south of Tiger Mt, got that call from the school to meet my kindergartener at the bus as a cougar was roaming the neighborhood. I wonder where those names came from.

By: Steve57

Steve57 — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 17:04:11 +0000

I know that coyotes have been documented killing deer by themselves. I know about half the time I used to see coyotes back in San Diego they were in packs of 4 to 6. The other half there was only one. Of course, just because you only see one doesn’t mean what looks like a single coyote isn’t working with others you can’t see.

That tale of the pack sending out the female (my over riding impulse is to use the proper word for a female canine) may seem far fetched but I lived where I lived so I could be close to the national forest in order to hunt. I was on good terms with the game wardens. When I told one about what I thought was inexplicable and unusual, a coyote trotting right down the middle of the street, he filled me in on what was happening. Others confirmed it.

That to me seems almost primate level planning and organization. But they’re capable of it.

Here in Texas I haven’t seen the same pack behavior I did in Kali. But I’ve seen a behavior I’m familiar with from Kali. A coyote sitting in the grass outside a schoolyard during the noon hour, watching elementary school kids play.