Karrie72

We live in a rural section outside Portland. I see them slinking about from time to time but they mostly keep to themselves. Once a hot a fright while walking in the woods with my little son, we stumbled across what looked like a huge thigh bone from a deer or moose, all knawed up.
I do love the sound of them all howling together on these cold nights though...eerily

ottotheboar

We have plenty here in Virginia, particularly as dusk they start howling.
They will clean up the entrails of a field dressed deer overnight.

Mrs Danvers

Yeah, we have them on the open spaces in town in Colorado. We have signs up during breeding season warning us that it is a coyote active area. Have seen them in the neighborhoods late at night and on the golf course. They tend to bother dog walkers and have even gone for a small child playing alone in a yard.

Our town has done various scaring type things where the animal control people go out and scare them so they don't get too used to humans. It's a "coexistence policy"

WEBlue

Our town recommends keeping noise-makers on your deck or porch, like a pot or pan to bang on whenever you spot one on your property, so they get the idea that human gardens are annoying places.

I have never seen one in this country, but a neighbour has spotted one on a bike path outside our town at dusk. And we certainly have deer...which I assume are the reason the coyotes are here.

Mrs Danvers

Ha ha...........the "scaring type things" is called hazing

http://www.humanesociety.org/animals...uidelines.html

Couldn't remember the correct term.

ottotheboar

They are not easy to spot, I see them from time to time on our trail cameras but not often, bears are the same they wiped out our corn patch but it was hard to get a picture.

Yorkieabroad

Same problem with Bigfoot....

WEBlue

That's interesting! I would say 'scaring' is a better word for it, given Google's definition of hazing:

Quote:

Imposition of strenuous, often humiliating, tasks as part of a program of rigorous physical training and initiation, or humiliating and sometimes dangerous initiation rituals.

Example: "Army cadets were hospitalized for injuries caused by hazing"

But you're right--that's the term everyone here uses for trying to get rid of coyotes. The minute I plugged 'hazing' into a search, a dozen Youtube clips of people shouting, banging, and spraying pepper spray came up....

A friend with a farm in rural PA has major worries about her hens as well as her pet dog and cats. The coyotes swoop in silently as night falls and carry off any creature not securely locked up.

Ozzidoc

Old thread.

We have them in San Diego and have seen coyotes at both of our urban properties, one of which backs onto a canyon and the other is about 3/4 a mile from a canyon.

Yorkieabroad

Its funny, as soon as I read "hazing" and saw the link was to the humane society, I automatically assumed that they would be criticizing the practice! Far from it, they had some great ideas

ottotheboar

We do get a few pictures

Boomhauer

There is a sort of county protected nature area behind our property, and there are coyotes there as we hear them from time to time.

When my cat (deceased now) went missing around this time 2010, I feared cotoyes got her . I ended up hiring a pet detective ($2000) whos seatch dogs kept specifically going to the backyard and the nature area where coyotes move through. I feared the worst but a week later I got a call about a cat that matched the description of my cat; turned out to be my cat.

I am generally sympathetic to coyotes or any wild animal as we are intruding on their habitat, so I wouldn't attack them unless it was a life or death situation involving a person or pet.

Lord PercyPercy

Allrighty then.

Used to see a lot of them in Pinellas county, in Clearwater. They've become very urbanized in that area, like foxes in London one suspects.

jeffreyhy

I understand that young men are falling prey to them in an increasing number of cities across the country. (In some areas they may also refer to them a cougars.)

Regards, JEff

Rete

We have had them in the New York City area as well. Woodlawn Cemetry just five blocks from me as several coyotes residing there. Lots of deer, racoons and now beavers from the Bronx River to keep them feed.