My son is in Norwalk, CT; < 1/4 mile from a busy downtown and I-95 is right over the hill. He sent me a short video of Coyote tracks in his backyard and then down the stairs and headed down the driveway. Last night this racket drove his little dogs crazy and his wife wouldn't sleep after this.
Mating season ir meal time?
We have them within the city limits here in Easton PA, and they are so endemic in the state that there is no limit on the season or the number taken.
We have them here in Dallas. They eat the rats. That's a good thing.
Bunch of them here.
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We have Fox and deer, Bald Eagles, and Blue Heron, I live where homes are 10 feet or less apart. And 23 minutes from downtown.
Traffic stops for a flock of giant wild turkeys walking across a busy road, Loons cry for their mates and geese honk to command attention in the lake in front of my house, Giant fish swim under the docks and in the fall ducks fill the bay's. Owls sitting in my Apple trees hoot up a storm deciding which bunny or chipmunk will get their attention. Turtles climb my bank and find the same spot to lay their eggs they laid them in the 35 years I've lived here.
Coyotes all over our 'hood. The four legged variety and the DOHC variety.
If you have 'yotes you might want to keep your cats inside. My understanding is that cat is one of their favorite foods.
Around here there's no license needed or limit. And the county will pay $50 per head. Also that why I don't have chickens.
Saw a mountain lion in the driveway shortly after we moved in, and we hear coyotes pretty much every night on our property. I'll take that over people.
Coyotes have been urban for a long, long time.
I was parking one night on Sunset Blvd in Hollywood and four coyotes crossed Sunset to go up the hill.
They're pretty urban.
There was a officer within city limits of columbus ohio that got bit a year or two back.
M2Pilot said:If you have 'yotes you might want to keep your cats inside. My understanding is that cat is one of their favorite foods.
Little dogs too. A solo coyote will egg a small dog into chasing it into the trees. Two more coyotes waiting past the treeline will get the dog as soon as it passes, one from each side. My parents almost lost their Yorkie a couple of times.
psteav (Forum Supporter) said:Little dogs too. A solo coyote will egg a small dog into chasing it into the trees. Two more coyotes waiting past the treeline will get the dog as soon as it passes, one from each side.
Yep. They'll eat the little dogs and the cats, and fornicate with the dogs closer to their own size.
Correct about coyotes and cats. Studies show that their preferred prey is rabbits, cats are second.
A few years ago we had a decent snow here in OKC, I'm in the NW side almost out of Oklahoma county.
I typically wake up pretty earlier, opening the blinds, making the missus a cup of coffee, etc, I see a Coyote just tearing down the street in our subdivision.
This is a metro area approaching 1.5 million people.
We had one one chase a rabbit right past our front window into our bushes a few nights ago at about 7:30 PM. We were sitting at a table a few feet away.
Recently in my town, someone called the cops on a guy because he was cooking a dog in his backyard. On further investigation by the police, he had killed a coyote and was cooking it to eat. They are in season and there's no law against eating them, but I can't imagine they taste very good.
psteav (Forum Supporter) said:Two more coyotes waiting past the treeline will get the dog as soon as it passes, one from each side.
That happened to me once in Virginia when I thought I was buying a pound of pot....
At my parents' place in the Boston MA suburbs, they used to have tons of raccoons that lived in the woods behind the house. After a few years, they were chased out by a bunch of feral cats. A few years later, the coyotes came and chased them out. There are still some around, but most have been replaced by the huge flocks of angry turkeys and deer.
The coyotes were not as bad as the turkeys. Seriously. Those things come out during the day and are complete jerks! They will chase you around if they feel like hanging out on your property, and if one of the flocks decides to hang out in the street while you are driving, just turn around and go the other way. They WILL attack your car! My wife made the mistake of stopping once when I was on the phone with her, and I could hear them pecking her car! Someone else pulled up behind her and decided to get out and chase them, and that was a bad idea. The turkeys ended up chasing HIM! They cleared the street and she decided that it was literally every man for themselves and took off.
C/N: Turkeys are way meaner than raccoons, feral cats, coyotes, and deer. At least around here.
Yah, there has been much chatter recently about coyotes in our small semi-rural central Virginia neighborhood. They are getting pretty comfortable with being seen in broad daylight, and from what I hear, there's a fair number of them. We had a good crop of bunnies last year, so they're probably here for the cuisine.
Connecticut is really bennefiting from our conservation efforts in the past 100+ years. In the early 1900's the state was effectively barren of trees and there wasn't a white tailed deer left roaming.. Nearly extinct "https://portal.ct.gov/DEEP/Wildlife/Fact-Sheets/White-tailed-Deer"
now CT has seen bears, the errant moose and even this guy.. https://www.connecticutmag.com/the-connecticut-story/there-are-no-mountain-lions-in-connecticut-so-why-do-we-keep-seeing-them/article_c03d308a-f52a-11e9-9a84-5ba07033defc.html
It's a good story, we should all be proud of this effort. Long story short, I'm not surprised by coyotes...
I could remember the coyotes used to watch us from the trees when we used the White Rock Lake Dog Park at night. Our doggie play group included an Alaskan Malamute, an Akita, several huskies and a German Shepherd, and our guys liked to play rough so we avoided bringing them during the day.
Needless to say the coyotes stayed clear of us.
Tony Sestito said:The coyotes were not as bad as the turkeys. Seriously.
C/N: Turkeys are way meaner than raccoons, feral cats, coyotes, and deer. At least around here.
No kidding. Everybody bitches about canada geese, but wild turkeys are multiple times worse.
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