Coyotes

[TheSitcomGirls]

I live on a farm that has been one since the 1700's. The coyotes have been here a lot longer than I have. It's their home and I don't want them killed. So I protect my chickens and lock them up at night.

Every morning I walk my dogs, two goldens, in our woods and we have perhaps a dozen times met a coyote, usually a single, one time four of them. Most alarming was a coyote that barked and followed us for quite a ways. Stranger still was that my dog, who chases coyotes out of the horse pasture, just trotted next to me without a word.

I guess the coyote finally got too close and my dog turned in an instant and chased her over the stone wall that borders our property with the next. Since that wall is as far as my dogs are allowed to go, she turned and came back to me. Then the coyote followed us for another couple hundred feet, but stayed on her side of the wall, barking. Perhaps she had puppies.

But whatever that coyote was barking about, my dog understood. She didn't try and kill the coyote, she just claimed her personal space, her territory and then we moved on. So that is what I do. I protect my yard, my pasture, my chicken coop, the rest they can have as nature intended it.

 

[sourland]

Sitcom, the coyote may very well have been trying to lure your dog away so that the pack could kill and eat her.

 

[mulewagon]

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Yep - coyotes killed and ate my FILs herding dogs. Our dog, a very large and canny vermin killer, never leaves the yard when the coyotes are running. He stops right at the edge of the trees and bellows at them, which is probably why we still have him. And he's why we still have chickens...

 

[WillieBoy]

Oswegoscott...the child attacks mentioned in the article i posted were not on "unattended toddlers" and it did happen under "watchful eyes " as you put it. One child was grabbed by the head in a sandbox with the mother in attendance only several feet away.Another child was attacked walking to a school bus stop like millions of kids across America do everyday, without a parent.You don't know as much as you think you do and you are wrong..Were not talking about human molestors stalking children.Were talking about deadly predators getting in human beings faces on their property.They should stay in the woods and hunt rabbit an other prey, not terrorize humans and pets 6 feet from someones front door...I'd shoot it dead...

 

[herfrds]

Sitcom I have no problem with them eating vermin. The huge gopher towns are pretty much gone, just wish they would get more prairie dogs.

When they are 6 feet from my front door I have a problem with them.

mulewagon had one try to get my Corgi a couple of times. It caught a bullet.

 

[oswegoscott]

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IF true--they were rabid

 

[WillieBoy]

If it were true...? read for yourself, rabid or not, its a problem...

http://varmintal.com/attac.htm

 

[TheSitcomGirls]

"Sitcom, the coyote may very well have been trying to lure your dog away so that the pack could kill and eat her."

OMG...I never thought of that. You just gave my National Geographic moment a whole new meaning! She does stay close to me when we meet more than one. I guess I'll be thankful we have a million deer...they catch a few every winter and make quite a racket. Luckily not near the house!

 

[herfrds]

DS discovered why they were so close last night. They were looking for a secure place to be.

Uh Breezy correction the wolves were 150 yards from our house last night. DS took a picture of the tracks he found in the snow. He wears a size12 mens shoe. This track is half the length of his shoe.
Only trouble is trying to figure out how to get the picture off of his phone. It is a Tracfone.

 

[aprophet]

I trap and dispatch the fewer preds there are the healthier they are the fewer preds there are the easier it is to defend against them oh yeah my traps do not require dog food

some of which I have used the last 42 years they have payed for themselves in that time .