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Oh sorry. I misunderstood you.Nope I didn't hear it or see anything on the news or FB.
Oh sorry. I misunderstood you.Nope I didn't hear it or see anything on the news or FB.
Coyotes maybe. Wolves are creatures of the forest and plains, but coyotes will live anywhere. Maybe she has a family living under her shed or something like that. They yip and yodel more than howl but they can howl too. At that close range it would probably sound pretty scary once they started going off!Anyway to anyone the wonders, no Wolves do not form packs in someone's backyard in the city, they do not lay around college campuses or grocery store parking lots. They also do not stalk humans as they try to get as far away from us as possible. This woman is still insisting a pack of wolves is in her tiny fenced in backyard.
She said it wasn't a coyote. Said the it had a reddish colorCoyotes maybe. Wolves are creatures of the forest and plains, but coyotes will live anywhere. Maybe she has a family living under her shed or something like that. They yip and yodel more than howl but they can howl too. At that close range it would probably sound pretty scary once they started going off!
I understand that but she lives in my general area and we do have red foxes. I saw them with my own eyes. The coyotes here stay mainly in the parks. But that's neither her nor there, the banshee sound that I heard was the red fox which is the title of this thread.Coyotes commonly come in red tones, and not just the eastern coyote, which is considered a hybrid between wolves and coyotes.
Eh. . .coyotes and foxes can both get pretty brave, especially in cities, where they know people won't shoot at them. And they almost never attack humans. I've seen pictures of urban coyotes and foxes just sitting calmly and letting people take pictures from 5 or 10 feet away. Kind of like urban feral cats, really. So could be either.I doubt that a coyote, wolf or red fox would just lounge around in someones back yard and not either run or attack if someone goes outside.
But a coyote would not run scared of a cat. Most cats are dinner for a coyote if the coyote feels like chasing a cat. What we have has been confirmed as a red fox, which is awesome. Yea that sound that morning I started this post was really creepy. I know it wasn't one of the bald eagles that is migrating into our part of the suburbs as I used to watch bald eagle cams until they all started killing each other and I just couldn't take it anymore.Eh. . .coyotes and foxes can both get pretty brave, especially in cities, where they know people won't shoot at them. And they almost never attack humans. I've seen pictures of urban coyotes and foxes just sitting calmly and letting people take pictures from 5 or 10 feet away. Kind of like urban feral cats, really. So could be either.
But yeah, people can be weird about wild animals, especially if they don't have a lot of animal experience. I'm sure every animal control officer has answered a call about a giant vicious beast and found a young possum looking confused, lol.
There are a bunch of Youtube recordings of fox sounds, some of them are really creepy!