Predators - Coyote's why do the neighbors ???

[Wildsky]

The bodies were still hanging this afternoon when I went to pick up my son from school - the one looks ALOT like a dog on closer LOOK - its a creamy colored dog like animal - I dunno perhaps a coyote mix breed.

Either way - they've been hanging out there for two days now - I told my hubby (he's always the calm one of the two) that I'm about ready to march down there and ask them what they're DOING.....
Luckily the one (second) is hanging away from the street and not in very clear view, but the first one I saw is in VERY CLEAR view when we drive down our street - and if my son was to walk home or walk to school as he does some days - he'd be with in 5-10 feet of the thing.

I have NO idea where these animals were killed, but these houses are IN town, with no chickens or livestock of any kind in sight - they're locked in by other houses so they didn't kill those coyotes from their home turf....

I don't know - I don't want to stir up the trouble in town - heck population is around 200 so I'd be the BAD one no doubt - its just wrong to do that when there are children playing and living right next to them!

Lacy, I do admire your accomplishment I am not sure I could kill to protect my chickens - but you did good, and should be proud, I can't say I would like to see the bobcat hanging either... but I do respect you for your strength! Again it is not what I would do...l but I know there ARE different people in the world and I embrace everyone - its hanging it where my children can see it every day that really gets to me.

 

[lacyloo]

 

[beefy]

well hanging a dead coyote from a tree or on a fencepost IS one way to deter coyotes that are bothering livestock.

and Townies have coyote problems too. they may have eaten the persons dog, cat, or petfood or even gotten after a child or maybe just getting in the trash.

if they are coydogs, coydogs are less skittish than an average coyote and can be more aggressive.

if the Townies are not having coyote problems, then its probably some teenage boys hanging the coyotes to skin and sell the pelts.

 

[lacyloo]

let me rethink this, no thats not right for an animal to be hung" in the middle of town from a tree" because of young children, that could mentally damage the kids probably. There should be a law for city limits and dead animals. Im sure the cops have seen , hopefully it will be down by tommarow. I hope it was a coyote if not , "there sicko's"

 

[lacyloo]

in austraila they hand dead dingos from trees and fences to deture the dingos from getting neat the fence.

 

[PurpleChicken]

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Good conclusion Lacy!! I'm proud of ya kid.

 

[PurpleChicken]

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Beefy, you truly believe that deters other coyotes? Maybe it does but nothing I know
about the psycology of animals backs that up. If anything it should cause others
to move in become coyotes are territorial. I don't get it.

I'm only responding to this because you said it and heck, maybe it's true.

 

[beefy]

well its not a method i practice but oldtimey livestock producers swear by it. it makes sense to me... if i saw one of my own hanging on a post i'd probably feel a little less than safe hanging out there... and coyotes and foxes are relatively smart when it comes to avoiding danger and traps.

another old timey solution-- for crows that kill your chicks-- is to hang one in the yard...(a dead crow)

 

[silkiechicken]

Crows can for sure get the message, when the researchers that do the crow study on campus show up... boy you get angry mobs of crows attacking them!

 

[Yoshii]

Standard 'yes pest control is a necessary evil' clause goes here.

I just gotta throw my two cents it; I can't help but think that it's an old wives' tail that it deters coyotes. Coyotes don't have to cognitive capacity to see a dead yote and think "Oh frack, he's a dead coyote, if I go there I might die tooo". They see a dead animal. And scavengers are drawn to carrion. Yes, they're deterred from rotting carrion (diseases and such) but don't think for a second a coyote won't eat another, readily available coyote.

But, some part of me finds it cosmically hilarious that they might be drawing more yotes there in their machismo effort to 'deter' them.

It's just tasteless. Kill the yotes if you need to, but don't brag about it. No one cares or wants to see it. Heck, there's a pelt there and skinning/tanning is not a difficult process, why let it go to waste?