He obviously doesn’t know what a coyote looks like

[Dave Gray]

Rather specious defense

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael...s-connecticut/

[bluedog225]

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[Jim Mahan]

The one time I've seen a coyote in the wild, it was while I was on a lunch-time walk at my job at a commercial printer, in an industrial park in the south of Sacramento, surrounded by busy four-lane boulevards. The animal was loping between the rows of shuttered warehouse type buildings, in that characteristic gait. I was only about forty yards away, and had eyes on it for a good half a minute before he disappeared from view, and it was most definitely not a domestic dog.

In fact, I looked around for a roadrunner, and falling anvils, just in case. Beep beep.

[L.W. Baxter]

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fun with taxidermy, lol

[Dave Gray]

I see coyotes around here all the time. Not too long ago four of them came trotting down the street, with one breaking off, running through my yard, heading for a ravine.

[Canoeyawl]

I see coyotes around here all the time. Not too long ago four of them came trotting down the street, with one breaking off, running through my yard, heading for a ravine.

Hunting house cats

[Dave Gray]

Yep. I see flyers posted all the time offering rewards for a missing cat.

[David G]

Since we live half a block from a municipal golf course, we see more wildlife than you'd expect in the city. Geese, ducks, rabbits, raccoons, possums, and coyote. They have dens in the bluff overlooking the course, and I see them on our street periodically... if I'm up early enough. Yes, cats have disappeared on occasion.

[Canoeyawl]

Coyotes give this place a wide berth, they do seem to know the range of 000 buckshot

[Nicholas Scheuer]

Coyotes are smart; smart enough to accept a ride in the right direction rather than walk.

[Osborne Russell]

We found a possum carcass on the sidewalk the other day, no head, no hindquarters, guts pulled out and piled to one side. Meat still pink and bones still glistening.

From the size of the guts I figured it was a big old possum. I figured it was a possum from the narrow paws, the color and texture of the fur.

[bluedog225]

Fewer cats. Doing god’s work.

[skuthorp]

The result of culling dingoes in parts of Australia to protect sheep has been an increase in feral cats, and a decrease in other small native wild life. Where dingo fences are you can even see the difference in the vegetation.

[David G]

The result of culling dingoes in parts of Australia to protect sheep has been an increase in feral cats, and a decrease in other small native wild life. Where dingo fences are you can even see the difference in the vegetation.

Humans always think they can Solve The Problem with a single, detached, act. Which, of course, creates another problem... or three. Which the brilliant bustards then attempt to correct with yet another 'solution' unrelated to the ecosystem as a whole. Here in the U.S. we have the Corps of Engineers as a shining example.

[JayInOz]

Drive around your farm in the morning and find young calves killed and maimed or lambs with one kidney ripped out and tongues missing and its hard to feel kind towards dingos. My father lost around six hundred sheep to dingo/ dog attacks over a couple of years. Friend of mine rescued a little girl from dingos at Frazer Island- they'd forced her backwards into the ocean as far as she could go without swimming. And despite what the tree huggers say, they're not native. Dingos will kill the occasional cat if they run across one. They will also kill anything else that presents them with an opportunity, including koalas, possums and gliders. F### 'em. JayInOz

[bamamick]

Where I live if you have cows you have to pasture them with a donkey. Coyotes are wary of donkeys, and it never fails that there will be one out there beside the cows (or goats, just down the road from me). I discussed this at-length with a friend of mine who runs a couple hundred head of cattle all the time, and he relies more on the 30/.06 method of coyote control at his place. I told him about the donkeys a hundred times but he refuses to put anything on his land that will take food out of the mouths of his cows, even if he loses a calf or two.

Oh, speaking of which, and this might surprise you: do you know the thing that costs him more cows each year than any other individual thing? Lightning! That's right. He told me that he loses about ten cattle a year due to lightning strikes. Isn't that something?

Mickey Lake

[Rich Jones]

The really bushy tail is the giveaway. We hear them howling at night all the time but seldom see them.

[Rich Jones]

Fewer cats. Doing god’s work.

I just told my wife what you said.
She's headed to Texas tomorrow to "have a friendly chat" with you.
You'd better go into hiding....

[Paul Pless]

too bad joe's not here
he could update us on his coyote girl groomer

[Jim Mahan]

Cows grounded with lightening rods. Ground beef on the hoof. Can you butcher a cow that's been fulgerized?

Nature: red in tooth and claw...and plated.

I had the same reaction to that remark about cats, BTW, but I ain't goin' back to Texas without bein' drug.

[Ralphie Boy]

I read a research paper that described the Coyote species’ response to being hunted (by humans): they increase the size of their litters and spread into new areas of habitat. Not saying they should never be killed, but it seems to have the opposite of the intended effect.

[Paul Pless]

drug?? or drugged?

Cows grounded with lightening rods. Ground beef on the hoof. Can you butcher a cow that's been fulgerized?

Nature: red in tooth and claw...and plated.

I had the same reaction to that remark about cats, BTW, but I ain't goin' back to Texas without bein' drug.

[Garret]

Posts 1 & 2 prove that there are plenty of idiots out there - as if we didn't know that.

Like Rich, we hear plenty but seeing one is rare. Also rare is family dogs or cats getting attacked - but roadkill is cleaned up lickety-split.

And... Where were all the coyotes when I was in my 20's?

[leikec]

Drive around your farm in the morning and find young calves killed and maimed or lambs with one kidney ripped out and tongues missing and its hard to feel kind towards dingos. My father lost around six hundred sheep to dingo/ dog attacks over a couple of years. Friend of mine rescued a little girl from dingos at Frazer Island- they'd forced her backwards into the ocean as far as she could go without swimming. And despite what the tree huggers say, they're not native. Dingos will kill the occasional cat if they run across one. They will also kill anything else that presents them with an opportunity, including koalas, possums and gliders. F### 'em. JayInOz

Most “treehuggers” would be extremely reluctant to characterize the Dingo as native, but in real terms they are a heckuva lot more native then most non-aboriginal Australians, having arrived on the island some 3500–8500 years ago.

What this means in terms of management of the animal in Australia is certainly open to debate, but the fact remains they were there long before the cattle and sheep operations…

Jeff C

[bluedog225]

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[JayInOz]

Most “treehuggers” would be extremely reluctant to characterize the Dingo as native, but in real terms they are a heckuva lot more native then most non-aboriginal Australians, having arrived on the island some 3500–8500 years ago.

What this means in terms of management of the animal in Australia is certainly open to debate, but the fact remains they were there long before the cattle and sheep operations…

Jeff C

It's interesting to me that the people here who want dingos protected all seem to live in the cities and have no connection to farming or the land. They are unique in being the only destructive, invasive pest not brought here by white man. Something else I find interesting is the Bradshaw Paintings. The old traditional aborigines don't know who did them, but are dead sure it wasn't aborigines. Wouldn't it be a hoot to find out that they displaced a previous culture I used to spend close to half my working life trying to control various introduced pest plants and animals. Dingos, dogs and crosses weren't particularly common where I lived, but they were the critters that hurt landowners the most financially- such as losing forty six superfine Merino ewes in full wool in one night on our place. JayInOz

[wizbang 13]

My sons poodle tangled with a coyote awhile ago.
bunch of stitches , lucky to still have two eyes

[Gerarddm]

Where we are, coyotes have free range run all though the neighborhoods and up into the hills into Sandia Crest ( no fences ). We have basically two packs in the general area. A male-female pair habituates our property as we border an arroyo that they use as a highway. Love to see them.

[Mrleft88]

Coyote or German Sheppard?

[L.W. Baxter]

this snap from the tractor seat contains a coyote. yep, that's what they look like according to iphone se.

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[ron ll]

Coyotes are as common as missing cat posters in this neighborhood.

And I was raised pronouncing it KY-oat, as opposed to ky-OATie, Anyone else?

[Jim Mahan]

If you can't tell the difference between a coyote and a german shepard, especially if you're close enough to skin one, you're too dumb to own and use any weapon, or be in the woods unsupervised, or own any dog, for that matter. The guy in the OP prolly has a dead guy in orange plaid flannel buried in his backyard, too. "I thought it were a deer, honest. I heard it rustle and it were dancin' to some country, so I know'd it. I seen a bear in the QuickiMart, too. Buyin' a lotto. But I dint have my gun."

[L.W. Baxter]

yes, KY-oat.

but sometimes i say ky-OATie because of the bill staines song.

that's alright ky-OAT-ie my old friend....

[Jim Mahan]

How do you pronounce what they call the people who smuggle illegals across the border?

[L.W. Baxter]

koy-YO-te