Coyotes-I TOLD you they were vicious!

[Hillsvale]

http://novascotia.com/en/home/funstuff/VideoGallery/skylinetrail/default.aspx

hummm tried to post a hyperlink but it didn't happen.

The trail the girl was hiking is in a remote area of Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island has some of the pretties scenery anywhere. There are only a few towns and one 'city' on the island and the rest of the areas a simply wide open areas...

To correct a prior post, I was told yesterday by a friend that they had caught the second coyote but it appears from the newspapaer that this is not the case... I can't imagine how they would track a wild coyote, I mean lets face it... there would be a few of them and its not like they wear nametags.

 

[juliect]

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Very good point!

Humans have also obliviated all of the apex predators (wolves, cougars, bears) which clears the way for more adaptive, productive predators/scavengers like the coyote. "Nature abhors a vacuum" after all, nature will fill any void the best it can...and coyotes are apparently it's best answer at the moment.

 

[Ladyhawke1]

Oh wow…a - wild - animal - that - is - vicious. Do not lay down and go to sleep in the yard with the chickens.

 

[Hillsvale]

http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotia/1150909.html

So the coyote they autopsied was well fed, was not sick and did not have rabbies.... I think its even more disturbing knowing this!! The fish and game officers wonder whether the coyotes didn't have a taste for human food...

We were out plotting out our property boundaries and made sure we had a weapon with us.. the lady we buy fence posts from indicated she takes her ATV into the woods rather than walking now and she brings a weapon as well.

 

[cmjust0]

Coyotes around here get easily as big as GSDs.. Can I see a single, but especially mean GSD taking down a 19yo woman? Yep. Multiple GSD sized dogs? Easily...no problem at all.

Luckily, the coyotes around here are shy of humans. Some more than others.. I've had them run away at several hundred yards, and I've had others walk away at just a few dozen yards.. They key is that, so far, they always go away.

If ever that changes, I'll go on the offense. We're eat up with coyotes around here.

 

[chickenvirgin]

The attack happened in a national park where visitors regularly feed the coyotoes, so they have lost their fear of humans. Don't feed wild animals!

 

[bawkbawkbawk]

No one feeds the coyotes in my neighborhood, yet they stroll down the middle of the street in broad daylight. They'll run if you approach them, but otherwise they'll stand their ground and stare you down. Lots of "lost cat" flyers . We lost one a few years ago, presumably to coyotes.

I have never seen one on my property - I think having a large dog helps.

While raccoons are likely a greater threat to my chickens, I am personally much more afraid of coyotes. That blood-curdling yip-yip-yipping every night is awful.

 

[ducks4you]

Maybe they'll open up a hunting season for coyotes, just like they started a hunting season for Canadian Geese--We S W I M in Canadian Geese here every Fall.

 

[ducks4you]

OK, I KNOW that we can shoot the ones beyond us, legally, but I guess I was referring to a season of harvesting coyotes with a pelt purpose.

 

[Caincando1]

That's a trajedy!

As for the details, well I think the story needs more. I hunt Coyotes here in MN and I've seen many killed. They average about 35lbs here and are very skitish of people. I think this may be the first ever incident of coyotes killing an adult, but I could be wrong. I think most of the alleged attacks aren't very substantiated. I feel there may be more to this story. Either way it's terrible!