Posted on 05/21/2018 12:55:57 AM PDT by Pontiac
One night last winter my neighbor and I killed 3 in the woods at the back end of my property, but we still see them on our game cameras. They are depressing the Whitetail population, and need to go.
If they don’t carry deer ticks, I’d rather have the coyotes!
Our deer population could use some depressing quite frankly, it’s scary driving at night in certain areas sometimes to the point that I drive with my left foot on the brake through anywhere they typically run and always look for eyes glowing in the headlights.
Coyotes are so infested with vermin that SOP here is to shoot and walk away, do not get near them or you will pick up their vermin as it leaves the cooling body.
“My wife has finally stopped debating whether to get a gun or not. Of course now it is “I’m not sure what I want to buy?”
Buy a freaking leash already!
Sos anychance i get. Leave to rot.
Have you seen the modern coywolves?
Often a lone coyote is bait for am ambush.
400 ft away? I’m surprised she even noticed it. I doubt she judged the distance correctly
More lying headlines.
One coyote at least 400 ft (her measurement or the real measurement?} away. That’s farther than a football field. At that distance, the animal could have been anything from a poodle to a squirrel. She sure didn’t care about her dog. Noticed none of the other hikers had to climb trees. Lemme guess, she voted for Hellary.
We live in the western burbs of Chicago in DuPage County. Coyotes are common around here. I’ve seen a couple that were nearly the size of a German Shepherd. They stroll right down the middle of the street at night.
More than a few pets have been snatched from backyards. A friend of ours was 10 or 15 feet from her dog when it happened. One morning our neighbor looked out the window to check on her son who was waiting for the school bus.
A coyote was within arms reach trying to take his lunch. The boy was a 2nd grader at the time. Needless to say we don’t walk our dog without at least one of us being armed.
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I prefer to depress it myself
I call bullshit on her whole account. At 400 feet away, how in the hell did she know it was a coyote? Does she have bionic vision like the six million dollar man? Did she have binoculars? Did the coyote self-identify as a coyote from that distance? Or did she just assume the creature's species?
Inquiring minds 'n all that ....
The coyote's are out of control here in Illinois. I moved from Homer Glen in Will County to just "down the road a bit" to Orland Park a few weeks ago. I used to occasionally see a coyote in my back yard in Homer Glen. Didn't take much to run them off, I'd let the dog out and the coyote would run off (dog was far bigger than the coyote.)
Here in Orland Park by Route 6 and Wolf Road I've seen packs of coyote's walking down the middle of the street after sunset.
It's bad enough that when I take the dog out for a walk I go out armed too. The coyote's seem to be bold enough that they'll not just attack dogs, they'll attack people here too. They sure don't scare off too easy here....
They are more active at night. I only see one at a time but I have heard several of them both in the same location together and separated by several hundred yard many times. Last time was the other night about 2:30 am. One night right after dark they were about 100 ft from me or less down in the woods.
For what it's worth they are invading densely human populated areas now as well. I chased one through Oak Ridge, Tn one night trying to run over it and it was a Yote. It held 30-35 mph for a quarter mile then jumped a concrete median about 4 ft high.
Why didn’t she just shoot the coyote?
Maybe because she was in the People’s Republic of Massachusetts?
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