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[ParadiseFoundFarm]

Karl that's just mean!

That coyote you shot had mange. It was a mercy killing. I'm glad it's out of it's misery and yours. Is mange contagious to your barn cats? I know it is to other dogs. Your barn cats will be bad off it they end up with no fur like that coyote.

 

[bayvistafarm]

Alot of the coyotes running around have it. I just hope no others take up residence in the barn. Our idiot dog ran up against this thing, trying to play with it, when it ran out of the barn to get away. It ignored the dog, and got away that time. I put ivomec on our dog just in case. She never did come down with it.

 

[ParadiseFoundFarm]

Alot of the coyotes running around have it. I just hope no others take up residence in the barn. Our idiot dog ran up against this thing, trying to play with it, when it ran out of the barn to get away. It ignored the dog, and got away that time. I put ivomec on our dog just in case. She never did come down with it.

Good idea!

 

[oesdog]

I guess I am an old softy at heart - poor critter. Mange is treatable! Being born a coyote sadly apparently is not!
I couldn't kill one - too much like a dog. Not in me. I know it is important to keep the chickens and other livestock safe. Here we have Foxes not unlike wild dogs. I couldn;t kill one of them either - I always wanted to rear a fox cub. Though Foxes and chickens like your coyotes don't mix. I love nature and I love to watch these creatures. I have a shed full of mice right now - this is how soft I am this morning a little fat thing was looking up at me when I opened the door and I know she is heavily pregnant. So I threw some chicken food on the shed floor as I went about my rounds and told her she has to get the kids born and raised before spring cause I am evicting anything in the shed then! Then I stand back with the door adjar and hold my breath to watch her steel yet more of my chicken grain and I can;t help but smile at her cheek. I now make sure all the buckets are turned sideways or have something in them since one little one died getting caught in a bucket. - I felt bad for it. I have however done several culls to keep the numbers down. When one ran along the top of my bed and kissed DH on the forhead I thought it was about time to umm urrr think about a cull! I am a despirate softy when it comes to critters of all kinds. Sorry but the photo of that poor old wild dog who was just trying to keep out of the cold and his belly full just makes me want to weep. I am way too soft. Doubtless if I found one in my yard it would have a full belly of food by this stage! oh and I don;t do mange so I guess it would have plenty of baths! See I am just a daft old hen and then I would be trying to get it some place safe to live out its life away from chicken lovin hunters with big guns. -

Yes I know what they can do and how bad they are but I simply can;t help it. THey are all Gods critters just trying to survive.

Oesdog

 

[Wisher1000]

Oes - I am an old softie, too. Really I am, but you can not, under any circumstances give a yote a bath. They simply will not cooperate.

 

[oesdog]

Oes - I am an old softie, too. Really I am, but you can not, under any circumstances give a yote a bath. They simply will not cooperate.

Oh your thinking all soap bubbles and doggy towels and hairdryer arn't you! There are ways and means to wash any animal if one so wishes! It just offers up additional challenges! If you can wash a wolf, Tiger or a lion I bet you can wash a coyote - he might not be your friend and might not like you but getting him wet wouldn;t be that hard!!!!!!! I was thinking more big long wildlife restraining pole, a pair of gauntlets and a sheep dip! Sorry no fluffy towels out for that pup for sure! - you don;t think I am that soft do you!

Trouble is you would have to do it quite a few times to get the mite killing treatment to work! He sure might wish he was dead by the time I finished with him! Yeap am pretty sure he wouldn;t like me much.

Ha ha - fluffy towels and pretty scented soap bubbles!

Oesdog

 

[Wisher1000]

How about a drive through car wash? That is, if you could get him to stay in the back of the truck.

 

[oesdog]

How about a drive through car wash? That is, if you could get him to stay in the back of the truck.

Yeah but then how would you get the car wash to put in the treatment in the water????? Could be a problem for the next customer??? Though their car would be Miteless!

Anyhow was looking at treatment for coyote just incase I ever needed to bath one - this is kind of a nice story -
http://fundforanimals.org/wildlife_center/stories/Coyote_Pups.html

See it is possible to bath coyote! Just not big ones! That could be a bit more problamatic! I am still going with the sheep dip and long gripper rod.
- you make me laugh better than that sad old wild dog poor chap. I simply couldn't do that and yet have no sympathy for Dogs that worry sheep and get shot. But then those dogs are not wild animals these poor critters are and we humans invaded their space not the other way round. I can;t help but feel a little sad for it trying to find a warm dry place and get food and fight off those terrible mites who were torturing him. He didn;t have a very good time in the end. When humans and nature collide it is always nature that comes off worse in the end.
Problem solved - found out they can treat adult coyote for mange with injections - http://livingwithwildlife.ca/2011/09/22/caring-for-a-coyote/
So no bathing involved which of course is even better! Also these folk used a catchpole / Wildlife restraining pole too! Ha at least I got that bit right!
The fact that our mite ridden coyote on this thread happens to be also dead may be a bit more difficult to treat though! - Ummmm ?????? Tricky one ( God - little issue here???

found out how to treat the mange but the bullet holes are a little beyond human intervention)
Oesdog

 

[ParadiseFoundFarm]

Oesdog, I am in a situation, and many are also, it's not just our chickens - it's ourselves too. I don't know if I wrote on this page what hapened to me.
Last February I was threatened by 2 just 7 feet away from me and I had no where to turn or run, I could have reached out my hand and touched the side of the house - that's how lose to my home they come. I couldn't make myself garden all summer long and it showed.
I don't go outside in the dark anymore. I roll my windows up before I leave the garage so 1 can't jump in my window. I carry mace with me whenever I go to the mail box or outside to walk between the house and outbuilding.
Last month my dog was going nuts while I mopped outdoors on the porch. I saw the yotes and came in, what I didn't see, other than the 2 yotes walking up, head down in a predatory stance and approaching from the East and within 150', was the one that had circled behind me and was coming from the West within 50'.
Those were 3 healthy yotes. They did not look like the one that was shot in the previous photo. They were not suffering. They wanted to eat me.
Yes, I too have fed mice, stupidly thinking they keep the yotes full and away from my birds, dog and me.
GOD has made enough earth for us all to share. But they cannot threaten me. My shooting them is and eye for an eye.
I don't know if I will ever feel safe again, especially since I was amazed at how fast they can run - faster than any dog I have ever witnessed move. I was letting mine live even though I was deathly afraid for my life. Not any more.

 

[oesdog]

Oesdog, I am in a situation, and many are also, it's not just our chickens - it's ourselves too. I don't know if I wrote on this page what hapened to me.
Last February I was threatened by 2 just 7 feet away from me and I had no where to turn or run, I could have reached out my hand and touched the side of the house - that's how lose to my home they come. I couldn't make myself garden all summer long and it showed.
I don't go outside in the dark anymore. I roll my windows up before I leave the garage so 1 can't jump in my window. I carry mace with me whenever I go to the mail box or outside to walk between the house and outbuilding.
Last month my dog was going nuts while I mopped outdoors on the porch. I saw the yotes and came in, what I didn't see, other than the 2 yotes walking up, head down in a predatory stance and approaching from the East and within 150', was the one that had circled behind me and was coming from the West within 50'.
Those were 3 healthy yotes. They did not look like the one that was shot in the previous photo. They were not suffering. They wanted to eat me.
Yes, I too have fed mice, stupidly thinking they keep the yotes full and away from my birds, dog and me.
GOD has made enough earth for us all to share. But they cannot threaten me. My shooting them is and eye for an eye.
I don't know if I will ever feel safe again, especially since I was amazed at how fast they can run - faster than any dog I have ever witnessed move. I was letting mine live even though I was deathly afraid for my life. Not any more.

I Am so sorry that you have had such a bad experience. it must have been a very scary thing for you indeed. I do hope that you can get over that in time and work a way to keep you and yours safe from harm. All dogs can be harmful wild or the one at our harth. You have to do what you need to do for you and your folks on your land. No one is judging your way of dealing with that issue at all. We have animals here too that can do damage to folk though not like you in the states. However we all have our own thoughts and feelings on certain subject that doesn;t mean it is wrong just different. - And I do feel for wildlife that struggle to survive around us blundering humans. That is who I am. However if one was threatening my children or had Rabies then I would be the first one to put a bullet in him. So don;t think I am that soft! Do enjoy the wildlife about though it would be such a shame if your experience robbed you of that. Also I think if the coyote were going for you - you would be correct and right to shoot it as you would not have much choice if it was intending you harm however - I am not into the eye for eye or we would all be blinded.

Oesdog