Saw a coyote last night

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I am thinking that cayotes are just like foxes? We have alot here, I have seen quite a few, we live in a suburban area although some rural parts, foxes don't bother me, our rabbits are foxed proof and the cats are in at night time. Next doors cat killed my guinea pig though last year(before we completely foxed proofed the hutch), its a menace !
 
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Coyotes and foxes hunt similar prey, but a Coyote is larger than a fox and they have been known to kill them. Coyotes are also sometimes referred to as "prairie jackals".

Here are a few pics of coyotes, foxes, then wolves so you see the differences:
http://www.statesymbolsusa.org/IMAGE...astern_380.jpg
http://blog.seattlepi.com/capitolhil...ry/coyote2.jpg
http://www.twainquotes.com/coyote2.gif
http://images.teamsugar.com/files/up...2008/fox_4.jpg
http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~eswalker/GreyFox.jpg
http://members.home.nl/a.greve/image...rey-wolves.jpg
http://wol4ica.com/two-wolves.jpg

Poor Everest...lol. I mentioned earlier in the thread I was watching some videos on You Tube of these critters and played some clips of howling and barking coyotes. Those didn't phase him much. I played a clip of wolves howling and my little buddy went and hid under the bed. I'm so mean...
 

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You know Coyote's are so cute when they don't look vicious. I'd be the type of person to mistake one for a stray dog too jcat!

Though the other night I knew it was a coyote that we saw, my heart just gets the better of me when I see something that is hungry. I would prefer to not have coyotes in the cities though, it is scary to think of all the poor stray cats that are out there and are hunted.


For the record, I don't bring stray dogs into my home, as much as I'd sometimes like to... I'm absolutely scared of dogs, unless the dog is one that I've known for a while.
 

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A coyote is in the wolf family, and is sometimes referred to as a prairie wolf. However, they normally hunt in a solitary fashion. They are extremely oppotunistic and will eat anything they can kill or find.
 

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Originally Posted by Nekomania

I just don't think it's right to kill something just because you don't like it. I am sure there are other measures that can be taken to protect your animals and keep them out of your garbage. =/

But like I said, I have a hard time killing things.

The hiker that was killed I am sure knew the risks of the area, we take risks every day. Just getting into the car could kill me, but does that mean I'll never drive another car again? If she hadn't been killed by a coyote, it would have been something else eventually. When you live a risky life, you are bound to face death in what most people would consider an odd way, at least one time or another.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...in-Canada.html

And I'm sorry if this offends anyone at all, but it's fairly dangerous to go hiking alone. I highly doubt she would have been killed if she had had a companion or two.

The bottom line is, they're just trying to survive like any other animal would. It's sad because more people are killed by other people than by coyotes. So why don't we just shoot every person that walks up onto our lawn?
I think your heart is in the right place, but coyotes are a problem where there is livestock and as we humans take over more and more space that the wildlife used to roam, they are becoming a problem in urban areas. I live in a small town on a quiet street and this past spring there was a coyote walking down the road in front of my house. That is scary. They are looking for food and are a threat to livestock and smaller animals so if you are a farmer it is a very real concern. I almost interpret your post to mean that when the plague was rampant in London that you would have felt they should not have been killing those rats that were spreading it.

As for the hiker, that was not a usual occurrence and not something anyone would ever believe would happen. And no, just because she was hiking alone does not mean she should have died for it. For what it's worth there were 2 coyotes that attacked her so I'm not sure if having a companion would have made a difference or not.

As to shooting people that come onto your property, that is not even comparable.
 

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Originally Posted by Essayons89

Coyotes and foxes hunt similar prey, but a Coyote is larger than a fox and they have been known to kill them. Coyotes are also sometimes referred to as "prairie jackals".

Here are a few pics of coyotes, foxes, then wolves so you see the differences:
http://www.statesymbolsusa.org/IMAGE...astern_380.jpg
http://blog.seattlepi.com/capitolhil...ry/coyote2.jpg
http://www.twainquotes.com/coyote2.gif
http://images.teamsugar.com/files/up...2008/fox_4.jpg
http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~eswalker/GreyFox.jpg
http://members.home.nl/a.greve/image...rey-wolves.jpg
http://wol4ica.com/two-wolves.jpg

Poor Everest...lol. I mentioned earlier in the thread I was watching some videos on You Tube of these critters and played some clips of howling and barking coyotes. Those didn't phase him much. I played a clip of wolves howling and my little buddy went and hid under the bed. I'm so mean...
Thanks for the pics, especially the third one
. I think it was a coyote I saw standing in the field that day. As for the one in my neighborhood, he could have been a chupacabra. I'd have to see some comparrison pictures before deciding.
 

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Originally Posted by Yosemite

I almost interpret your post to mean that when the plague was rampant in London that you would have felt they should not have been killing those rats that were spreading it.

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When the plague was rampant in the middle ages it was because millions of cats were killed because the religious people thought they were evil. This caused an imbalance in nature. They shouldn't have been killing the cats who were killing the rats.
http://cats.suite101.com/article.cfm...e_black_plague

I live in rural Nebraska where people have not moved in and pushed out the wildlife. I have never seen a coyote in town going through the trash. This is because they still have their natural food sources. My husband and I went spot lighting one night to check out the wildlife(I'm not a hunter). I wanted to see a bobcat in the wild. We called in a coyote from a field who came up to the truck and sat down.
 

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Originally Posted by Essayons89

I've lived in this same township for most of life and saw my first coyote last night. I called the police department and the person I talked to said they have been around for a number of years, but that their numbers have been growing the last eight years or so.

This is the first coyote that I've seen I was stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas. The little buggers were all over the place out there. I remember when we would go out to the field and groups of them would be running around our bivouac area looking for scraps of food. You could hear them scurrying around and making howling and yelping noises. To be honest it was a little unnerving when you are out in the middle of the night by yourself pulling guard duty along your platoon's perimeter. We had blanks, but I always carried boot knife when we went out on field training exercises.
Don't mean to scare you, but be careful with your pets, espeically if they are outside pets, coyotes will kill and eat small dogs and cats.
i had a friend of mine loose one of her dogs to coyotes a few years ago.
 

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We have coyotes that visit the park in the winter when we have long term guests (more trash), and in the late fall when the dates fall from the trees, and of course any time the feral cats have an abundance of kittens the coyotes are here.

I had some Canadian guests (Victoria BC area) who called me over to watch a coyote with them.
It wasn't a coyote at all.
I pointed out how very, very lucky they were to have been watching one of our rarest predators, the desert kit fox.
Admittedly, they do look more like a coyote than a fox with their sandy coat and stilt like legs, but they are only the size of a house cat.

Out here we enjoy our coyotes, foxes, bobcats and ringtail cats.
In recent years though coyotes have been attacking children in the Phoenix area and rabies is a huge concern.
While it is a shame, I can fully understand bounties in areas where they have become a problem.
 

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Originally Posted by Arlyn

In recent years though coyotes have been attacking children in the Phoenix area and rabies is a huge concern.
While it is a shame, I can fully understand bounties in areas where they have become a problem.
I'm surprised that they're not vaccinated against rabies. Our county in Germany regularly puts out bait with an oral rabies vaccine and wormer (fox tapeworms are really dangerous to humans and pets). People are warned in advance so that cats are kept inside and dogs on the leash. It has really cut down on rabies around here.
 

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Originally Posted by jcat

When my family first moved out to the Midwest, one of my nieces coaxed a "hungry stray dog" into the house that followed her home from grade school one day. My sister fed the poor thing. Her then-husband, a native of Nebraska, almost had a coronary when he came home to find a pregnant coyote in the kitchen! They didn't let him shoot the "varmint".
OMG!! I can only imagine!!! This has stuck in my mind since I read this!
 

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I've never seen a coyote here in Chicago, but researchers who did a long study on them here recently estimated there are between several hundred and several thousand coyotes living in Chicago, and they said coyotes are everywhere in the city. They are very secretive so most people never see them. I have seen one a few times out in the far suburbs though.
I have a neighbor who saw one in our neighborhood when she was walking one of her dogs (she walks them at about 4am) so I know they're in this neighborhood. Several years ago a woman's miniature Poodle was attacked while walking on leash in a mall about a mile from my house! Luckily she was able to fend off the coyote and the dog was injured but ok.

If anyone is interested you can read about the urban coyote study here:
http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/urbcoyot.htm


Then of course there was the coyote who sauntered into a Quiznos in the middle of the city and hopped in the drink cooler to cool off:
http://cbs2.com/watercooler/coyote.C....2.281889.html

 
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