Coyotes-I TOLD you they were vicious!

[bargain]

About two years ago, we had boer goats, A coyote came within 20 feet of me charging toward that stinky boys pen. Billy got away and it took 2 hours to convince him to come home. The coyote was huge I got a photo of him....Obviously he was dog mixture....Scary....I called hubby on cell phone but all I could say was help,,,,,mad coyote...billys out....I was totally in shock.

Hubby walks armed and I walk more alert....This attack was at 1:00 am - full daylight.

 

[ducks4you]

I had one of those experiences. In the early 1990's, when I rented space for my horses, the owner had a black lab that started running with a mutt and with a coyote. It was definitely a coyote, NOT a coy-dog. That nasty thing came within 5 feet of me, and I was stranded on a turnout fence until it got bored. DH asked me where my gun was when I came home?

 

[ellieroo]

The one I squared off with was very brazen and here at anytime of day.he came around the corner of the barn just as I went around the same corner carrying a bucket of water. He left very wet and surprise with an old lady yelling and banging on the bucket! He got my SLW roo not 20ft from me.The big beautiful roo just stood there and all the girls made it back to safety.After that I carried a gun instead of a bucket!

 

[keystonepaul]

Talk about scary-five 75-85 pound "dogs" having a screaming, rip-roaring fight for about 10 minutes before my husband found the shotgun shells and drove them off. It was an awe-inspiring display. I never knew coyotes got so big.

coyotes don't get that big as a rule. The biggest I've seen from a reputable source was 71 pounds. (kinda like seeing the 800 pound man on the discovery channel) I've never seen anymore greater than the low 50 pound mark and we've never taken one that big ourselves. The coyotes we've taken with our hounds have been about 10% 40-48 pounds,75% 30-40 pounds, and 15% under 30 pounds. Coyotes in the midwest, west and Southern States are even smaller than that. I worry more about strangers, drug addicts, pedophiles, etc than I do coyotes when it comes to my family. I'm much more on alert when a stranger appears in the driveway than I am when a yote crosses the property. Experience has taught me that my insticts are correct on this. Treat coyotes with respect, but don't be afraid and don't let them hold you hostage on your own land so to speak. Good luck, Keystonepaul

 

[gottsegnet]

After confronting a pack on our property that was very nonchalant and unafraid, I've had a bit of an education in coyotes.

In most places, they aren't really a threat so long as people continue to be a threat to them.

They cause problems in urban and suburban areas where they are used to people and have connected them with food. In areas where attacks have occurred, there has generally been an increase in sightings and bold behavior first.

It gets to be a real problem where people are feeding them. Check through some of the stories out of California. Neighborhoods and whole organizations are upset about coyote removal even after an attack because officers can't always prove definitively which animal did it. They are asking for trouble with that kind of attitude!

In rural areas, where people tend to chase them and "haze" them, they are rarely a threat to anything but livestock.

 

[gsim]

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Lol Godzilla Coyotes..

Maybe Godzillyotes ?