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Coyote near the house
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I live on 5 acres, of which are woods. I’ve seen coyotes a few times on my land but it has always been when I’m leaving for work early in the morning. I do have a .17 HMR Savage with a scope handy in my home.
I have two acres of woods which I omitted.
Had one kill my neighbors cat in my back yard a few months back. We keep our cats inside.
Rabbits used to be common place here. Saw them everywhere, but no more since the coyotes took over. The same with quail and turkeys. Decimated by coyotes. Rabbits, quail, and turkeys are native species, coyote is not, at least around here. They were unheard of here when I was younger.
we have them all over in eastern Iowa. They are putting in a new housing development about a mile away and posted on our neighborhood FB site they were trapping Coyotes. This time of year and in the fall when we have our windows open at night you can hear the packs of them running and howling. I've seen deer get knocked down and killed by a pack and last winter a pair crossed the road on our street. We live IN TOWN, so beware! Keep an eye on your pets and other wildlife. When things like rabbits and squirrels disappear it's a good sign there are too many around...
Just my $0.02
Just my $0.02
So does everything else, two and four footed.
In Ohio, and elsewhere 'cause they don't stop at state lines, this is supposedly the case for most - they are cross-bred with domestic dogs. This has made them bigger (when I think of a coyote, I think of a scrawny dog or a bigger version of a fox), not as afraid of people, and not as much nocturnal. I have seen coyote in our area multiple times in broad daylight. We also have "coywolfs" - crossbreeds of coyotes and wolves.
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Interesting. Where would the closest wolves be to Ohio that were being naughty with the yotes?
Saw my first coyote in the woods of NW Pa in the mid 90s in deer season. It was a beautiful animal and since I was hunting deer and not coyotes I let it pass.
Losing free roaming pets if you know coyotes are about is on you. They're just making a living.
The prey animals will come back once their numbers get low enough that the coyotes thin out. We had no rabbits or foxes around for maybe 7 years and then a few years ago I started hearing the coyotes much less, and now in the last couple years we have lots of rabbits and a fox family nearby. This winter we have had lots of coyote activity again so probably in a year or two the rabbits will start to go down again. Turkeys here seem to hold their own as do grouse. I still see roughly the same amount most years for whatever that's worth.
Coyotes are spreading rapidly though as they seem to do well near people, but trying to eliminate them is pretty futile at this point.
I thought they were usually in packs, this one may have some age on him, but looks like he is eating ok. From what i read they can survive on anything from berries to prey.
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This one came ghosting through the snowy woods on a fast sneak and stopped once and stood with front legs up on a log looking back. A moment you don't forget.
Here of course in Az they're everywhere including in suburbs with 6' block fences. We're a block away from open land and hear them at night often.
I live in central NJ near the shore. I've seen them a few times in town, once running down a deer. I've seen their prints and scat in my yard. I back up to a protected wetland with lots of dear, rabbits, etc. A couple of years ago, a county park in eastern Monmouth County had a pack of 16 according to their biologists. They're in NJ.
Coyotes are generally loners or they'll be with their mate, not in packs. Wolves run in packs.
Yea, humans can carry a tick, but the human can remove the tick. Dogs and coyotes can’t and they carry them through the winter. Deer do too, and they are the worst carriers. I live on 20 acres and my nearest neighbor is a good half mile away. When it warms up in the spring, ticks appear amazingly quick. It’s because deer and coyotes carry them through the winter. Not because they spent the winter on a human.
Not true. It may be based on region which will cause them to adapt to the environment. I am an avid coyote hunter. We use electronic predator calls to lure them in or simply to see if they'll "talk back" to us...just to see what direction they're in. I'd say they come in groups about 60% of the time vs coming in alone about 40% of the time.
Here they are considered an invasive nuisance animal that poses a threat to live stock. Because of that, there is no "season" for coyotes. We hunt them year round and usually have more success hunting a night. I have farmers calling me and my brother almost weekly to eliminate the troublemakers.
The ones here in the East act totally different than coyotes out West.
They are a constant threat in/around Seattle as mentioned above.
A few years ago I found someone's terrier disembowled as I was riding into a park in Redmond. Had to make an unpleasant phone call to the owner that evening; I buried it as best I could and took the collar so I could call the owners later.
POINT: there's not a lot you can do besides be hyper vigilant with your pets. My parents live on five mostly wooded acres in the general area and coyotes are a constant threat. Some idiot put a bunch (like over a dozen) of goats on a vacant five acre lot not too far away this spring, illegally. Before we found out about that, the number of "missing cat" signs in the area had tripled. A community intervention, and the goats are now gone, and the coyotes howling at night has nearly disappeared.
I have a miniature dachshund and she doesn't go out at night and not w/o me or someone else in the daytime. Cats around here don't stand a chance.
A few years ago I found someone's terrier disembowled as I was riding into a park in Redmond. Had to make an unpleasant phone call to the owner that evening; I buried it as best I could and took the collar so I could call the owners later.
POINT: there's not a lot you can do besides be hyper vigilant with your pets. My parents live on five mostly wooded acres in the general area and coyotes are a constant threat. Some idiot put a bunch (like over a dozen) of goats on a vacant five acre lot not too far away this spring, illegally. Before we found out about that, the number of "missing cat" signs in the area had tripled. A community intervention, and the goats are now gone, and the coyotes howling at night has nearly disappeared.
I have a miniature dachshund and she doesn't go out at night and not w/o me or someone else in the daytime. Cats around here don't stand a chance.
In my area, the worst carriers of ticks are the white-footed mouse, not deer. The mice are killed in great numbers by Coyotes. Even fox and coyotes in the area keep mice from moving around, thus slowing the spread of ticks even more.
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