Coyotes are here to stay in North American cities – here’s how to appreciate them from a distance

KTLA ^ | August 7, 2022 | David Drake, Bret Shaw, Mary Magnuson

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Coyotes have become practically ubiquitous across the lower 48 United States, and they’re increasingly turning up in cities. The draws are abundant food and green space in urban areas.

At first these appearances were novelties, like the hot summer day in 2007 when a coyote wandered into a Chicago Quiznos sub shop and jumped into the beverage cooler. Within a few years, however, coyote sightings became common in the Bronx and Manhattan. In 2021 a coyote strolled into a Los Angeles Catholic school classroom. They’re also appearing in Canadian cities.

[Salamander]

Yep.

[Varda]

They spread to a point and then a speciation event occurred. Most of the animals called coyotes in the east are coyote/wolf hybrids which orginated in Canada.

Why the eastern coyote should be a separate species: the ‘coywolf’

[Chickensoup]

Filthy creatures.

They are open season here. And if you cut off a right ear and send it in the state will pay a bounty. However as a hunter friend told me...coyotes are so vermin filled that as the hunter approaches the cooling body to get the ear the vermin will jump onto him. Not worth the 25 bucks.

So now they just shoot and leave them.

[Chickensoup]

Gun with silencer?

Crossbow?

[mosaicwolf]

They are perceived as bad actors to my Great Pyrenees. If they come in my fence line my 125 lb. Pyr will run them down and viciously kill them. That is his job. He is a livestock protection dog and it does not take long for the word to spread in the Coyote community not to go on my property. He is on patrol 24/7. Guess that is not a good solution if you live in a city. But then again, who wants to live in a city?

[exnavy]

In michigan, it is legal to shoot to kill, if done safely, no seasonal restrictions.

[CodeToad]

I've got a dog who is a Cayote Killer. She grew up on a cattle ranch and her father taught her to kill cayotes. She's never barks, and is the biggest fluffball snuggler you could ever image. She looks like this. (Not mt dog by nearly identical)

[CodeToad]

Somehow my editor thinks ‘cayotes’ and not ‘coyotes’. Weird.

[jjotto]

No restrictions on hunting coyotes 24/7/365 in Iowa beyond having a generic hunting license. Trapping is a little more restricted.

[Billthedrill]

I was a big .223 fan for canids until a dear friend who was a custom gunsmith gave me his coyote gun. .243 Winchester with an old Nikon 4.5-18 x 40 scope. If I do my part, good night.

[Right Brigade]

.22cb or crossbow.

[TStro]

In Texas we kill every one we see. Killed one of my friends’ dog. Nasty and mean. Local lady lost her pug, and is blogging people to watch for it, but I’m sure a coyote(s) got it.
Also wild pigs. Sometimes my friends kill thirty a night in a single field of cotton (they pull the plant up and eat the root) or other crop. Guys that work for farmers near me hunt with night vision.

[TStro]

We have had special deer seasons to thin down the does. Friend and his wife (farmers) were in separate stands. She had 31 in front of hers and he had 4.

[TStro]

.223. 22-250. These and a lot more will work just fine.
Get a silencer, so you don’t disturb the neighbors at night, and a night vision scope.
Any of the loadings. 218 Bee works well. 22 Magnum will bring one down.
I have a Ruger Mini-14 (.223). Haven’t converted it to an assault rifle (pistol grip stock) yet. Also have an SKS.