Me on coyotes

[Bidin~Time]

Horrible…
After hearing of such stories, my nephew started having nightmares & getting up during the night to check that their dog hasn't gone outside. Cute fella…

Small yippy dogs and house cats don't have a good life expectancy with a pack of coyotes around. But my shepherd and pitty mix won't be allowed out late at night either.

I could do without interacting with either coyotes or wolves. They both had a go at my goat herd and lured out a pup our uncle had into an ambush. With the several runins I had while there, it makes me wary enough to be warning my kids to stick together when out at the farm and stay within visual of an adult as a game trail runs right smack down the Far side of the house through a growth of sumac trees.

You can never be too careful.

Just one? Wait till you hear a whole gaggle of them.

You know how they say a ducks quack doesn't echo? Well coyotes do, three or four will convince you you're surrounded.

Ishmael

If this wasn't a pack, I don't want to hear a pack. No sirree, thank you very much. They were in the yard and on the hill directly in front of my house. Creepy sounding things with all that yipping and carrying on.

Roxie is the one who apparently is related to the Hound of the Baskerville somewhere in her ancestry. Her "alert" bark is unlike anything I've heard before. Not even Walter could make a noise like that and he was a bona fide huntin hound.

 

[Ishmael]

If this wasn't a pack, I don't want to hear a pack. No sirree, thank you very much. They were in the yard and on the hill directly in front of my house. Creepy sounding things with all that yipping and carrying on.

Roxie is the one who apparently is related to the Hound of the Baskerville somewhere in her ancestry. Her "alert" bark is unlike anything I've heard before. Not even Walter could make a noise like that and he was a bona fide huntin hound.

When I was living in the mountains they'd start carrying on around 4 AM. I'd go out with Amo to listen. Amo never made a sound. I'd watch his ears and they were working like radar antennas. They'd rotate individually and finally zero in on the 'yodeler.' Eventually he'd have every one of those critters nailed down.

Ishmael

 

[gypsyTX]

They're regular visitors in our neighborhood. What's scary is that they're quite often around from about 5 pm and I have seen them walking home around 7-8 a.m. when the kids are out and about already. Our neighbor has lost four outside cats since they moved in. I only let the cats outside for supervised outings.

Still, they aren't as scary as the mountain lion that apparently lives nearby and has turned a few mid-sized dogs into chew toys.

 

[Ishmael]

They're regular visitors in our neighborhood. What's scary is that they're quite often around from about 5 pm and I have seen them walking home around 7-8 a.m. when the kids are out and about already. Our neighbor has lost four outside cats since they moved in. I only let the cats outside for supervised outings.

Still, they aren't as scary as the mountain lion that apparently lives nearby and has turned a few mid-sized dogs into chew toys.

Got ya some urban coyotes huh?

We got them here too. Just not as vocal. Up in the mountains the coyotes were mostly dissonant pests. The bears came and went. But the catamounts were treacherous beasts. Their scream made your hair stand on end and sent chills up and down your back

Ishmael

 

[gypsyTX]

Got ya some urban coyotes huh?

We got them here too. Just not as vocal. Up in the mountains the coyotes were mostly dissonant pests. The bears came and went. But the catamounts were treacherous beasts. Their scream made your hair stand on end and sent chills up and down your back

Ishmael

We're pretty far out of the city near some nature preserves. There are more and more developments built and their habitat is getting smaller and smaller. I can't blame them for coming back to their old haunts. Especially if there are cats and dogs left out for coyote food. Seriously. People need to stop feeding them.

 

[Ishmael]

We're pretty far out of the city near some nature preserves. There are more and more developments built and their habitat is getting smaller and smaller. I can't blame them for coming back to their old haunts. Especially if there are cats and dogs left out for coyote food. Seriously. People need to stop feeding them.

Transplants. Came from New York City and were donors to the ASPCA.


Scream

Ishmael

 

[Aphro]

We have had coyote problems around here for several years. People were getting their toy poodles snatched right off the leash, in broad daylight.

They are building behind us now, but when it was field, they used to howl in a pack, the sound was horrible.

 

[Ishmael]

We have had coyote problems around here for several years. People were getting their toy poodles snatched right off the leash, in broad daylight.

They are building behind us now, but when it was field, they used to howl in a pack, the sound was horrible.

Dissonant, coyotes have no sense of harmony or pitch. Wolves are far more sophisticated, Sonorous even.

As irritating as they are they're quite the survivor.

Ishmael

 

[Bidin~Time]

Now that the SB is over. And btw the halftime show was the epitome of suckage


apparently, eastern coyotes are larger than the western coyotes due to them crossing with wolves and even dogs. I have never found this particularly comforting as both wolves and coyotes are cunning creatures.

 

[Ishmael]

Now that the SB is over. And btw the halftime show was the epitome of suckage


apparently, eastern coyotes are larger than the western coyotes due to them crossing with wolves and even dogs. I have never found this particularly comforting as both wolves and coyotes are cunning creatures.

One the first point, once again age and cunning win out over youth and exuberance.

Coywolves. Big issue in Canada, and the eastern states. That and they inter-breed with domestics yielding animals with surprising abilities.

Ishmael

 

[Bidin~Time]

I was coming home one night last spring and saw one on top the mountain. It was a big sob, almost as big as my shepherd.

Oh and the way it held its head as it walked was creepy

 

[Ishmael]

I was coming home one night last spring and saw one on top the mountain. It was a big sob, almost as big as my shepherd.

Oh and the way it held its head as it walked was creepy

Coywolf?

Ishmael

 

[Bidin~Time]

Coywolf?

Ishmael

I don't honestly know. The BIL shot one a while back that was every bit 60 pounds; does that qualify as coywolf? I've always had a live and let live attitude towards them until last night. The ball is still in their court if they continue to disturb my sleep I may become their nightmare. I'm old, ya know, and I get grumpy as all hell when I don't get my sleep. I won't be responsible for what might happen...jus sayin

 

[Ishmael]

I don't honestly know. The BIL shot one a while back that was every bit 60 pounds; does that qualify as coywolf? I've always had a live and let live attitude towards them until last night. The ball is still in their court if they continue to disturb my sleep I may become their nightmare. I'm old, ya know, and I get grumpy as all hell when I don't get my sleep. I won't be responsible for what might happen...jus sayin

Oh yeah. Coyotes are meejum as dogs go. 44 lbs is big for a male. Could be a domestic cross. Obviously NOT with a Yorky.

Ishmael

 

[Vagina_Dentata]

My dad was a coyote hunting guru.

 

[Bidin~Time]

Oh yeah. Coyotes are meejum as dogs go. 44 lbs is big for a male. Could be a domestic cross. Obviously NOT with a Yorky.

Ishmael

Oh we don't want 'em crossin with yorkies, or dachshunds either for that matter. those little ones got way to much ego to be permitted a body that big.

 

[Ishmael]

Oh we don't want 'em crossin with yorkies, or dachshunds either for that matter. those little ones got way to much ego to be permitted a body that big.

We need a good artist to portray those crosses.

A coyote/yorky cross? A coyote that yaps 24/7.

Coyote/Dach cross? A coyote that can't be housebroken and can make it through any doggy door?

Cats are looking better day by day.

Ishmael

 

[Ishmael]

My dad was a coyote hunting guru.

Whoa, coyotes in jolly ole England?

Ishmael

 

[Bidin~Time]

Whoa, coyotes in jolly ole England?

Ishmael

Migration routes through Greenland and Iceland. <nods>

 

[Ishmael]

Migration routes through Greenland and Iceland. <nods>

Ice Age? *chuckle*

Ishmael

 

[Bidin~Time]

Ice Age? *chuckle*

Ishmael

tenacious and cunning. I bet they were stow aways

 

[Ishmael]

tenacious and cunning. I bet they were stow aways

Frozen semen perhaps? The inventiveness of tenacious and cunning has no end.

Did we just 'out' a litster?

Ishmael

 

[tmmmbrrr]

We have had coyote problems around here for several years. People were getting their toy poodles snatched right off the leash, in broad daylight.

They are building behind us now, but when it was field, they used to howl in a pack, the sound was horrible.

In their wisdom, coyotes understand that a world with fewer toy poodles would just be a better place.

 

[Vagina_Dentata]

Whoa, coyotes in jolly ole England?

Ishmael

I wouldn't know about that.

 

[Bidin~Time]

Frozen semen perhaps? The inventiveness of tenacious and cunning has no end.

Did we just 'out' a litster?

Ishmael

always ahead...no not ahead of, them danged critters are creating the curve


I dunno, but does it really matter??

In their wisdom, coyotes understand that a world with fewer toy poodles would just be a better place.

<looks at AV>

could ya tell your relatives that keeping me awake is bad for their long term health outlook? thnks.