How to kill determined Foxes

[centrarchid]

Cant say if this is right or wrong, my daughter n law was telling me her grandparents control coyotes in their area by soaking sponges in bacon grease and placing in woods around their wooded property. She said that the animal eats it and dies. I guess old timer method of ridding the area of predators. We have a pack of coyotes around my place, seen on cross road and go into woods 1/8 mile down the road and my neighbor 1/4 mile down same road in woods has recently lost 4 dogs to coyotes. ( pet dogs )
Haven’t had any issue with my secure run or coup- yet....

Dogs could also have been lost to someone using the old time method you described.

 

[mowin]

Cant say if this is right or wrong, my daughter n law was telling me her grandparents control coyotes in their area by soaking sponges in bacon grease and placing in woods around their wooded property. She said that the animal eats it and dies. I guess old timer method of ridding the area of predators. We have a pack of coyotes around my place, seen on cross road and go into woods 1/8 mile down the road and my neighbor 1/4 mile down same road in woods has recently lost 4 dogs to coyotes. ( pet dogs )
Haven’t had any issue with my secure run or coup- yet....

As a hunter, my goal weather it's going after deer for meat or a predator after my critters, is a fast humane kill. Soaking a sponge in bacon grease is a horrible, and painful death. It blocks the digestive system, causing a long slow death.
Every critter, if being trapped, hunted for whatever reason, should be dispatched quickly.

 

[varidgerunner]

As a hunter, my goal weather it's going after deer for meat or a predator after my critters, is a fast humane kill. Soaking a sponge in bacon grease is a horrible, and painful death. It blocks the digestive system, causing a long slow death.
Every critter, if being trapped, hunted for whatever reason, should be dispatched quickly.

Well, if it did work, that is how it would work, but it doesn't. But I agree, anybody that would do that is sick. All of the wive's tale remedies for coyotes are painfully ineffective and more likely to harm someones pet dog than anything else. I could list more of the gems of the internet, but I'm not going to. Coyotes are easy to catch. Once you have trapped 15 or 20 years it's like child's play. Don't waste time and money on stupid stuff like sponges soaked in bacon grease, either gain the experience needed or call someone who has the experience needed. If your sink leaks do you pour butter down the drain? Or do you fix it yourself, or lacking the knowledge, call a plumber? Animal control is very much a trade and profession, but it's cheaper for most folks to just gripe about coyotes while feeding them chickens and put out some silly thing that has more chance of killing the neighbors dog than even having a coyote cock his leg on it. Coyote coughs up and poops out much worse things than a sponge, but dogs are bred with all kinds of gut deficiencies.

 

[mowin]

Well, if it did work, that is how it would work, but it doesn't. But I agree, anybody that would do that is sick. All of the wive's tale remedies for coyotes are painfully ineffective and more likely to harm someones pet dog than anything else. I could list more of the gems of the internet, but I'm not going to. Coyotes are easy to catch. Once you have trapped 15 or 20 years it's like child's play. Don't waste time and money on stupid stuff like sponges soaked in bacon grease, either gain the experience needed or call someone who has the experience needed. If your sink leaks do you pour butter down the drain? Or do you fix it yourself, or lacking the knowledge, call a plumber? Animal control is very much a trade and profession, but it's cheaper for most folks to just gripe about coyotes while feeding them chickens and put out some silly thing that has more chance of killing the neighbors dog than even having a coyote cock his leg on it. Coyote coughs up and poops out much worse things than a sponge, but dogs are bred with all kinds of gut deficiencies.

I agree the sponge trick probably won't work on coyotes, but not aware of any study showing otherwise. I do believe pets are a different story.

I know of one old timer technique that is effective, but would never recommend or even post it.

 

[varidgerunner]

I agree the sponge trick probably won't work on coyotes, but not aware of any study showing otherwise. I do believe pets are a different story.

I know of one old timer technique that is effective, but would never recommend or even post it.

I know I've probably heard of it, and probably seen pictures of the disastrous results on a human a dog or livestock, but never a coyote. In my career with a wildlife agency, we saw some real doozies. I'm sure it is even worse now, the internet being what it is.

 

[mowin]

I know I've probably heard of it, and probably seen pictures of the disastrous results on a human a dog or livestock, but never a coyote. In my career with a wildlife agency, we saw some real doozies. I'm sure it is even worse now, the internet being what it is.

I'm sure you seen some interesting things working with a wildlife agency.
Sometimes people's remedies to situations are less than stellar. Lol.

 

[cmom]

I used leg traps. I tried live traps but they wouldn't go in even though I had them baited with live birds.