Sad but true Coyote's over populating

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memike

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Good morning follks, after a late night of fun around the pool tables I went back and snagged another hour or 2 of sleep :happy1: MeMikeJr. called and got me back on track and checked on me this morning :coffee2: Thank you for the wake up call son :colors:

I hope all my friends, family and members understand that I love animals and I hope this post does not upset anyone here :happy1:
Mike reminded me of this and ask what I did with this Redwolf/Coyote breed so I thought this would go good with my coffee and get me started this morning.
Coyotes are naturally shy animals that usually hunt at night, but they occasionally become fearless when surrounded by non-aggressive humans. If a coyote comes at you, wave your arms, yell and take stamping steps toward the animal. Do not turn your back or run. A coyote understands this as fear and will be much more likely to attack.
There have been only a few cases of coyotes attacking people. Most of the time it’s small children who are quiet or moving only occasionally.
A coyote will usually bite where the head and neck join. Last year, a unique attack happened in Canada. 19-year-old songwriter, Taylor Mitchell, was hiking alone in Cape Breton Highlands Park in Nova Scotia, and a pair of coyotes attacked her. She died from blood loss.

It's hart braking when you see a child's pet get's snagged up right in front of there eye's, I seen this first hand while bush hogging a friends land behind there house about 10 years ago :( MeMikeJr. remembers this happening to Burleys daughters dog and she was about 12 years old :( )
My little dog and granddaughters are safer today, I live out in the sticks and I am thankful to be here, I gave the coyote to the Arkansas Game and fish to use in a possible mount and gone to Little Rock Arkansas along with a big BIG lower Deer jaw bone that some one ells shot, It was a big jaw heading to Little rock and he put the Coyote in the pig box/cooler , The AG&F was good enough to meet me half way in town, there main training/Office was another 15 miles out.
He was a very young officer :blob: looked to be only 20 years old, But very informative and did not have a blown up head and treated me with respect :colors: We all know how cocky a badge and a truck can make some folk's :wack:

But my Quail and Turkey and most of all Boogy will be safe to walk and do her duty :D (poo) on the hill.

Here you go Mike. She hit the scales at 41 lbs.
Stay safe out there folks :glasses7:
 
Well memike good job there most people don't realize how much of a predator a coyotes are. We have a rancher behind our house they seem to have put a RV in the field for a farm hand to live in to protect his cattle. there are all kinds of small dogs around here along with small children.
 
We have a big population of them in the Avacado groves surrounding our house. They disappeared for a while because there was a lot of construction going on back there, but now that it's quieted down, they are returning. One thing I noticed is that when they disappeared, the rabbit, rat, and mouse population exploded. I'm hoping they take care of that.
 
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My Sisters little dog was attacked by them and managed to get away. Poor little guy was pretty chewed up but did survive. They have a pack of about 8 or so that have a den around their place.
My brother-in-law has tried to find the den but hasn't been able to locate it. They come right up to the house at night and howl. I'm guessing to try and get the dogs to come out.
 
I had a brazen "coyote" following me as I bushoged my back field a few months back. The critter was in the freshly harvested wheat field next to my place and travelling parallel to me a few feet into the wheat stubble. I drove the tractor to my hangar and got out my little mini-14. Sitting on the tractor, bush-hog still turning, big cup of beer between my legs, broken seat wobbling I looked through the scope and saw a big coyote with reddish hair and long legs. The ears were also pretty large. Took a shot from the wobbly seat and it dropped, rolled, and ran away bouncing through the field. Must have just grazed it.

Little background... I have an older wolfdawg who was really moping when her mate kenai (the mighty wolf) died. Si I got what was supposed to be a younger wolfdawg but turns out to be a wannabe wolf - probably a wolly malamut. He wants a girl of his own and was going back into my woods for a while each evening. When the incident happened he was laying on my gravel road which is on the oposite side of my property from where the mowing and wheat was. I think he was making friendly with the thing but who knows.

Being a wolf kinda guy I felt kinda guilty when a guy at work suggested it may have been a red wolf. I didn't even know they existed as I am used to grays. No way will I let a wild younger female wolf into our "pack" as my female is getting too old to fend a younger challenge off. I found a pic on the internet of a red wolf that looked just like the one I shot. Guess now they are breeding with coyotes.

My friend called me this AM to tell me his roommate heard a ruckus in his front yard and there was a coyote harassing his dawg which they keep chained in the front yard - a very viscous acting but really OK dawg who woulda torn up a coyote if he could reach him. The guy shot it but only had birdshot in the gun. Damn coyotes need shooting IMO. We've had dawgs stolen from our yard by them back in CA.

Pool player Memike? me too.
 
Up here in WI they are fair game you can blast them anytime you want, my boss has a .223 he uses on them and he has one mounted in his office, they say that they carry Mange and rabies, not sure about that but they are a pain, especially with the farmers.
nice story Mike.
 
The state of New Jersey released some here a few years ago. We now have 37 (their count) ranging the ridge I live on. I have seen 5, but they are very shy and hard to see at night. We had been over-run by deer and wild turkey (counted 13 in my yard one morning) and thought the coyote would level the playing field, and it seems to have cut the turkey count down. We have a guy in the valley with a wolf farm, now that's eerie on a full moon night. All in all, it's been a good thing to have a few around.
 
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