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@stratcat3216

2 ай бұрын

Come pet them.. they walk by my back fence daily.

@schrodingersgat4344

2 ай бұрын

Weird coyote story for you. I grew up in the hills of South Carolina. My first experience with them was a few miles S.E. of here. I was living over there and they would cruise through and pick off strays, and the occasional pet.* The things are like ghosts. There one second and gone the next. This is where it gets weird. We had a brief problem {in that location} with feral hogs. You would hear folks shooting, killing them or running them off, most nights. Tha was; before a half feral farm pig, got separated from a herd. He was a big one. 250lds, about 5 ft long. He was still a "pet" in his own head and very friendly. My kids were small. This made me weary of such a large animal. He shocked up in the woods behind my in-law's house. Another neighbor dropped by and looked him over. Healthy, fat and friendly*. He became just another "wild" critter to keep an eye on. It was during this assessment that an event occurred which bewildered me for years. [I'll continue in a reply] *Ours stayed inside at night or just got up high in a tree or a roof. * It let the guy hand feed it.

@schrodingersgat4344

2 ай бұрын

The church across the road was having an event in their detached meeting hall. Some fat kid saw the pig and decided he could just, walk over. He made it across before being called back and scolded by another church member. As he went, he announced "I'm coming back to get that pig." I return home from work to hear about this. Screwing with poachers is {and shall forever be} among my favorite activities. I loaded my pockets with fireworks, grabbed a rifle* and went to get between the pig and the church. A quick scan with the flashlight only revealed one thing to be "odd". You know those "lollipop" reflectors folks put at the ends of their drive? I spied a pair, but they were just inside the edge of the woods. Set about halfway between the inlaws place and the old farmhouse on the other side of the yard. They were oversized, and an amber color, I had never seen before. I planned on asking the inlaws where they got those. They looked cool. The wind was blowing along the road, until I reached the junction of the two driveways. Then it shifted from the church side of the road. Pee! I assumed it was pig pee I was smelling. A scent vial busted to lure the thing over. No sooner had I had this thought than the pig comes trotting by me. His head and tail up in search of a lady pig. I shifted some gravel and he stopped. I scolded him back to the woods. He looked back a time or two. It was kinda sad. I noted the reflectors again. They were good enough to be visible with only the lights from the church parking lot. [All of this was in the space of about 30 minutes.] Something felt "off". I was checking behind myself, in case the pig tried to get around me. No rabbits, raccoons, cats, opposums... ...not in my yard or the neighbor's. Highly unusual. Especially since I had seen the cats and raccoons eating from the same dish as the pig. They weren't bothered by tha thing. This got my hackles up. Everything had gotten dead quiet. It occurred to me that fat boy may be on our side of the road. A hunt was "on". [One more, reply. I promise.] * It's the middle of nowhere, and the middle of the night. We have bears, mountain lions and the coyotes to consider, here.

@schrodingersgat4344

2 ай бұрын

The church across the road was having an event in their detached meeting hall. Some fat kid saw the pig and decided he could just, walk over. He made it across before being called back and scolded by another church member. As he went, he announced "I'm coming back to get that pig." I return home from work to hear about this. Screwing with poachers is {and shall forever be} among my favorite activities. I loaded my pockets with fireworks, grabbed a rifle* and went to get between the pig and the church. A quick scan with the flashlight only revealed one thing to be "odd". You know those "lollipop" reflectors folks put at the ends of their drive? I spied a pair, but they were just inside the edge of the woods. Set about halfway between the inlaws place and the old farmhouse on the other side of the yard. They were oversized, and an amber color, I had never seen before. I planned on asking the inlaws where they got those. They looked cool. The wind was blowing along the road, until I reached the junction of the two driveways. Then it shifted from the church side of the road. Pee! I assumed it was pig pee I was smelling. A scent vial busted to lure the thing over. No sooner had I had this thought than the pig comes trotting by me. His head and tail up in search of a lady pig. I shifted some gravel and he stopped. I scolded him back to the woods. He looked back a time or two. It was kinda sad. I noted the reflectors again. They were good enough to be visible with only the lights from the church parking lot. [All of this was in the space of about 30 minutes.] Something felt "off". I was checking behind myself, in case the pig tried to get around me. No rabbits, raccoons, cats, opposums... ...not in my yard or the neighbor's. Highly unusual. Especially since I had seen the cats and raccoons eating from the same dish as the pig. They weren't bothered by tha thing. This got my hackles up. Everything had gotten dead quiet. It occurred to me that fat boy may be on our side of the road. A hunt was "on". [One more, reply. I promise.] * It's the middle of nowhere, and the middle of the night. We have bears, mountain lions and the coyotes to consider, here.

@schrodingersgat4344

2 ай бұрын

This changed things. If he had gotten in behind me, he was (most likely) posted up in the woods and in a superior position. I began to move the flashlight across the edge of the woods. Sweeping it slowly, intending to get the point across. On about the fifth sweep, I found the small animals. ALL of them were hiding under the old farmhouse. Raccoons, Skunks, stray cats, opposums...ALL staring at the woods. I slow my speed with the sweeps. Only thing that stuck out was the reflectors. I get back to the small animals and one of the raccoons notices me. [I told you it would get weird, here you go.] We lock eyes. His go wide and he looks from me to the woods. He does this a few times. Each time adding emphasis with his head. As if to say " HEY, IDIOT! LOOOOK!" I sweep again, but meticulously. Stopping at every spot that allows some light into the woods. That's when it hit me. Those might not be "reflectors". I give them a harder look. Each has a diameter akin to the size of my own fist. They are 4 feet off the ground. I put my thumb up and out at arms length. They are 50 yds distant. Each is visible on their respective side of my thumb*... then the blinked. Whatever they were a part of was too large to be a black bear. We have no grizzlies or polar bears, and an escaped lion or tiger would have had police crawling all over the area. There would have been a helicopter up to ad the cops. There was none of this. We stared at each other for a while. It looked to its left. Then back. I swung my rifle in the direction that it was looking. It sat back on its haunches* and Rolled its head left and right, as a dog would do. A "puzzled" look. It was too big and way too close for me to be sure I could this "whatever" before it got me. Neither of us was going to see the sun, if either of us made a rash move. I brought the rifle back to its general direction then lifted it up and layed it against my shoulder. Like a bored guy on guard duty. I looked around as if it didn't concern me*. I said, aloud " Nice night. Hope you're having a decent one." and pretended that I wasn't on the verge of urinating and defecating. I watched get back on all fours and turn to leave. Where do coyotes factor into this? After this thing watched me pass up a fat meal, and act as a sort of guardian to same... the coyotes never again came over the hill to take the small animals. They'd make a racket all the way up the creek, to the culvert under the road. Then They'd go quiet until they got well past us. I'll spare you my pet theories. Suffice it to say that I "made a friend". * This meant that (center-to-center) they were 2 ft apart. *in doing so, it gained about 8" in height. * I was V E R Y, concerned.

American here: if you see a coyote with a giant magnet strapped to it's back, do NOT eat the delicious looking bowl of bird seed set out before you. It's a trap.

@rosameryrojas-delcerro1059

2 ай бұрын

And the actual roadrunner (real bird) is an insectivore looking for the maggots at the bottom of the pile.

@schrodingersgat4344

2 ай бұрын

As a representative of the ACME Corporation; I'd like to add that we have sought this coyote for some time. His product reviews have damaged our reputation.

@markvoelker6620

2 ай бұрын

@@schrodingersgat4344Well he is very … Wiley.

@Stand_By_For_Mind_Control

2 ай бұрын

Nah it's fine to eat the seed it's the coyote who endangers himself. I've seen so many wildlife videos on this and I've yet to see a single fed coyote.

@douglasstrother6584

2 ай бұрын

"Coyote" ~ Mark Knopfler

The best bumper sticker I saw as a kid was, "Eat American lamb, after all 100000 coyotes can't be wrong!"

@lexirae7889

2 ай бұрын

I want that bumper sticker! Lol

@daviddawson1718

2 ай бұрын

They can be wrong, and in this case, they are. Lamb tastes like stale sweat.

@jordangouveia1863

2 ай бұрын

lambs are just easier to catch than run runners.

@jordangouveia1863

2 ай бұрын

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@jordangouveia1863

2 ай бұрын

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My grandparents had a large farm when I was a kid, and one day, found a newborn coyote (ki-yo-tee) puppy in their cornfield. They brought it into their barn, bottle fed it, vaccinated it, and it bonded with one of the farm horses. Everywhere that horse went, the coyote, named Suzy, went too. Slept in the barn with the horse, ate dog food and animals she could catch. VERY sharp teeth, occasionally would kill a chicken, but left the cattle alone. As she got older, she could hear other coyotes yipping at night in the distance, and she would howl back. Not a great pet, she was always rather aloof, but preferred to stay in the distance, always watching my grandparents work. She did not care for strangers, when a car would come to the farm, she would usually go to the barn and watch. One day, my grandfather heard her making a lot of noise near the farmhouse, and found her standing between my grandmother and a large gray wolf. Gave my granddad time to get his shotgun. She lived for 7 or 8 years, died shortly after her favorite horse died, and was always a very odd, rather spooky creature. My grandparents had over 800 head of cattle, horses, goats, a couple of bison, donkeys, chickens, all sorts of animals, but Suzy was the strangest.

@schaddenkorp6977

2 ай бұрын

She probably got all kinds of crazy during the winter season too no doubt. What state/region was this?

@laurawendt8471

2 ай бұрын

My grandpa & grandma were WI dairy farmers and they didn’t mind the coyotes as they ate mostly rodents and helped keep the area clear. But if they got close to the house he would shoot close to the ground with his deer shot gun to scare them back. On a whole didn’t have an issue with them except fights with Tom cats. We also had a lot of space for them to roam, fields, pastures, forests. You could watch them move in the dusk across the country road. In urban settings they are pushed into parks and people’s back yards which causes all of the problems for pets.

@k-tz5jg

2 ай бұрын

They don't get ''pushed'', they can adapt to any environment, and your back yard has the most food in the form of your pets. Tell us you know nothing about coyotes without telling us you know nothing about coyotes @@laurawendt8471 . lol

@zedgathegreat9122

2 ай бұрын

Wow, she stood up to a wolf for your grandmother? That's pretty nuts... That really gave me the shivers. Your grandma very easily could've been dead if it wasn't for Suzy... It's amazing that that creature protected it's "extended pack" to that degree. Coyote's are pretty notorious for not being very brave or daring creatures. Thanks for sharing that story, it was pretty cool! Hope you have a great day!

@WhacAmole

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing, that's so cool. Feel good story of the day.

In this part of the country we have a grocery store chain literally called ACME. My Grandmother had a great sense of humor and one day when I was 10 I accompanied her to ACME and she gave me my own list that started at dairy and worked toward the middle of the store. Grab your own cart and only grab the sizes and brands that match the coupons. There were 10 items on the list 7 of which were regular items. The manager tried to not laugh as he informed me they were all out of TNT, Replacement rubber-bands for size XXL Giant Slingshots, and miniature anvils.

@FreeStatesofKapuska

2 ай бұрын

Maybe I'm slow but I dont understand

@mstieler8480

2 ай бұрын

@@FreeStatesofKapuskaThe things the store "was all out of" are things Wile E. Coyote would order from the fictional ACME in the cartoons in plots to eat the Roadrunner.

@yvonnezolna1453

Ай бұрын

What a wonderful memory!

I am quite fond of their naughty propensity for dropping anvils, painting tunnel themed murals on mountainsides, and collecting exclamatory signage.

@theresap3467

2 ай бұрын

" painting tunnel themed murals on mountainsides" 🤣🤣🤣

@michaelabraham9177

2 ай бұрын

Sigh!!! Another gen x'er remembering the good ole days and Saturday morning hovering over the heat grate in the trailer park with a blanket in our underwear while watching cartoons lol.

@lindahaas385

2 ай бұрын

😂😆😂😆😂😆😂

“As a child, and sometimes later as a human………” Best line ever. 😂

@B30pt87

2 ай бұрын

Agreed!

@georgeb.wolffsohn30

2 ай бұрын

Right 😝🤣😜😂😝🤣😜😂❗

@Foolish188

2 ай бұрын

No human would draw all over my best friend's living room wall while we were outside barbecuing. And especially wouldn't sign it.

@leekelly9639

Ай бұрын

Obviously it’s a joke based on the fact as adults we moan about children completely forgetting we were once children and equally annoying.. 😂🤔👍

Coyote calls are eerie as hell. Especially in the dark, early hours of the morning.

@steggopotamus

2 ай бұрын

And camping... Lordy it's so much worse then.

@Nexalian_Gamer

2 ай бұрын

I live on the edge of town and I hear them almost every night. Shit is creepy as hell, especially when it's close

@k-tz5jg

2 ай бұрын

That's because they are evil creatures from the supernatural world.

@danbellows9529

2 ай бұрын

I'm a light sleeper. There are a bunch out in the field and the damn things wake me up ALL. The. Time. Grew up around them, so not so eerie...just annoying.

@Khvalheim10

2 ай бұрын

@lows9529 I grew up in an area rife with them, too, son. Shit's still creepy when it comes out of nowhere in the middle of the night/early morning.

I am 66 years of age and grew up with the Road Runner and the Coyote. Only recently learned that coyotes are, indeed, fast enough to catch road runners. Another piece of my childhood blown to bits... after falling from a great height ...

I always enjoyed the story of the young lady who was driving across the desert. She spotted a "dog" on the side of the road and stopped to put it on her car. She gave it water and food then took a photo of course which she shared on social media, only to be told that the confused looking critter was a coyote.

Coyote is an important character in Navajo mythology. In stories Coyote is a trickster who also brings wisdom, but with considerably more success than the Warner Brother's Coyote. Coyote is also involved with the creation of the world.

@randlebrowne2048

2 ай бұрын

Sounds, to some extent, like the European stories of the fox.

@absalomdraconis

2 ай бұрын

​@@randlebrowne2048 : Yep, though perhaps a touch more dangerous. In some places Raven is similarly a trickster, and in _some_ places the two of them are rivals with each other.

@solandri69

2 ай бұрын

@@randlebrowne2048 It's a common theme because being smaller and weaker (than a wolf) means they cannot win by strength. So the (anthropomorphic) assumption is that they have to resort to trickery to survive.

@francesmeyer8478

2 ай бұрын

Trickster! Very apt!

@elultimo102

2 ай бұрын

I read that a roadrunner can only achieve about 20 mph. A coyote can do 40---so he'd win the contest, if he stays away from ACME.

Coyotes used to hang out in the open field across the street from my college apartment. I'd see them sometimes when driving to an early class. For those across the pond who are curious: coyotes bark and yip like little dogs, but the sound is deeper so you can tell it's being made by a bigger animal.

@DMZZ_DZDM

9 күн бұрын

They also make a ghostly howl when communicating long distance! It's super cool!

@carlacook5181

4 күн бұрын

To me, the yipping is creepier than the howl.

We had a coyote pack that lived in my neighborhood in a busy touristy part San Francisco. I met them a few times, usually the night before garbage pickup. They’re beautiful and skittish creatures, as you noted. You’d see mom make her way down the street, look around, make a noise and then her cubs would follow a minute later. Was always fascinated by them.

@schaddenkorp6977

2 ай бұрын

Most canine/canids are shy/cautious by nature. It doesn’t mean they remain this way all the time and usually they’re trying to figure out what it is they might be dealing with before deciding to do anything other than maintain distance. They see us with our two sets of forward facing eyes, they realize that this means we could be a predator species and would prefer to stay off its menu. When all we want is to give chin scratches and head pats.

@hockeygrrlmuse

2 ай бұрын

I used to work at the Haight Whole Foods. When they closed the McDonalds across the street, one of the Buena Vista Park coyotes came down to feast on the rats (who were having a feast of their own). Largest canine I've ever seen. I was in complete awe. Glad I stayed so late at the store that day.

In San Diego, an outdoor cat is just a coyote meal waiting to happen. Coyotes live in all our urban and suburban canyons.

@womanishthing1994

2 ай бұрын

Yep. They gotta eat 😂

@ValleyOakPaper

2 ай бұрын

I saw a study from LA that found that 20% of coyote scat contained traces of house cat. One more reason to keep cats indoor-only.

@wolffriendinus

2 ай бұрын

Same in Washington

@Steampunkkids

2 ай бұрын

I’m from the Los Angeles area. We pronounce it coy-OH-tea here. My kids and I have been watching a family of coyotes grow from birth through young adult (that is how old they are now). My “ring” doorbell type camera picks up their activity outside of my front door. They are so cute and floofy!

@suzz1776

2 ай бұрын

Crazy thing is that I haven't really heard or seen them lately, since the homeless moved into the canyons and SD river area. I wonder if they got scared off???

A crazy and very engaged lady in my neighborhood posted a poll on NextDoor saying "Do you want the HOA to do nothing to stop coyotes from eating your pets and possibly your children???" and the poll response was 82% yes.

@Cha-Khia

2 ай бұрын

Illiteracy rates will kill us all.

@benjaminoechsli1941

2 ай бұрын

"I don't want the coyotes to win. I want you to lose" vibes.

@anthonyugarte1072

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, I wouldnt want some jackass self appointed rulers of an HoA handling an issue for real government agencies either. Thats fucking dumb.

@AnimeSunglasses

2 ай бұрын

Coyotes: occasionally steal pets in ransack chicken coops HOAs: occasionally ban pets, ban chicken coops, ban tree houses, ban grass taller than 3 inches, ban letting you park your car in the driveway, ban.... Yeah, can we just have the coyotes get rid of the HOA instead?

@AnimeSunglasses

2 ай бұрын

HOAs: voted less trustworthy than coyotes, by a landslide.

Had a half blue heeler, half coyote mix for a pet. Even the 6' fences never even slowed it a bit after it grew up.

When I was in elementary school in Southern California a pack of coyotes had torn up someone’s cat all over the P.E. field. It was pretty horrific and the teachers kept us jogging around the field. 😂 They said, “It’s just the circle of life. Don’t touch anything.” 😅

@Lemon-Bark

2 ай бұрын

Oh my 😅 Did the science teachers have anything to say or was it class as usual?

@LizzyCat

2 ай бұрын

@@Lemon-Bark class as usual. I’m not sure what it’s like elsewhere, but in the science classes I took the students dissected worms, frogs, owl pellets, and squid. So I’m sure it was chatted about, but dissecting a cat was upper level classes. Definitely not for elementary classes. (And if this isn’t normal anymore- it was the 90s).

@Lemon-Bark

2 ай бұрын

@LizzyCat Ah I was hoping they'd at least get a lesson out of all that trauma! I think I did miss the part about it being elementary school, dissections were more towards middle and highschool for my area

@Scaryandtroublesome

2 ай бұрын

Yup! That’s exactly what it is. 😂 If folks don’t want their cats to be predated on, they should keep them indoors!

@hallaloth3112

2 күн бұрын

@@Scaryandtroublesome While this is absolutely true. . .not sure we need to subject elementary children to that level of gore. That would scar me NOW as an adult, I would have been hysterical as a child.

In Central Illinois we used a donkey to keep coyotes away from our cattle. Another farmer had one with his sheep.Donkeys are very territorial and protective.We stopped losing calves. Worked like a charm!

@gl15col

2 ай бұрын

I've heard llamas work too.

@Hollylivengood

2 ай бұрын

My dad's parents did that!

@KNETTWERX

2 ай бұрын

A close friend I grew up with in Central NY is a horse farmer and trainer. She has a couple of donkeys to keep wolves away. For those a bit squeamish, I do not recommend looking up videos or pictures of donkey/coyote interactions.

@davidkanengieter

2 ай бұрын

My brothers in law have donkeys in with their sheep. Amazing critter control.

@LemonbreadSC

2 ай бұрын

I've seen a single donkey drive off 4 coyotes and 2 stray dogs who were all teamed up. I say seen, but it was more like heard...it was the loudest cacophony I ever heard around here. Donkeys don't mess around.

In the tradition of "keep Portland weird," a young coyote boarded one of our light rail trains, curled up in one of the seats, and rode to the end of the line where it was escorted off. That's Portland, Oregon, where we have a deluge of rain nine months of the year and drought the other three.

@ANPC-pi9vu

2 ай бұрын

What a well behaved passenger, more so than a lot of the humans in Portland these days. lol

@TheFuriousScribbles

2 ай бұрын

For some reason, I thought that it left the train on its own. I could be misremembering though. I do recall two facts though-- It was the Red Line, and the Sleater-Kinney song Lightrail Coyote was a reference to the event.

@FYMASMD

2 ай бұрын

Portland is being ruined by people like you moving here. It rains more in NYC.

@racheljensen1823

2 ай бұрын

That's awesome The coyote part - not the drought part Greetings from Tacoma :)

@geargeekpdx3566

2 ай бұрын

@@FYMASMD POrtland is not being ruined by anyone. There are just as many homeless here as in any red state city with the same population. Stop being a shill for lying fascists.

Coyotes trapped my cat in a window well. I went outside with a rifle to scare them off but they ran like hell as soon as the door opened slightly and made a small noise. I've seen very few things run that fast and be that scared of a human. It's surprising how fearful of humans they can be.

@thejustlawofshamash

2 ай бұрын

I've had to run coyotes out of my campsite before, and usually they're a quarter mile away by the time I even get out of my tent. These days I don't even bother getting up, I just yell at them from inside the tent. A hearty "oh FUCK off!" does the trick.

@missano3856

Ай бұрын

They are scared shitless of people, especially in places that people shoot them.

@TheGrinningViking

14 күн бұрын

They're a problem in California because of the gun laws, take your dog right off the leash if they get a chance. I wish we could just have sensible gun laws instead of "all guns are bad and the same" and "a breach loading rifle and a semi auto with a 50 bullet quick swap magazine are the same thing and neither should be restricted" but it is as it is.

@jeffcauhape6880

12 күн бұрын

Coyotes are smart enough to recognize a bigger predator.

Southern Californian here and I've lived around coyotes all my life and just love them. I live now at the base of the San Bernardino mountains and there are so many coyotes here that the near by college has them for a mascot and there are several streets that bare their name. I love hearing there yapping and howling echoing in the nearby canyon at night. There is a generational pack that lives in my neighborhood and I love seeing them silently glide by a few yards from me late at night sometimes when I'm taking out the trash, and always the alpha male will stop for a few seconds to acknowledge me before catching up to his pack. I always feel so privileged when this happeneds. By the way coyote's main source of food are rodents, so they provide a valuable service in keeping them under control. 😉

They prefer Acme products almost exclusively.

@Daphne-tm5lg

2 ай бұрын

Haha

@martinricardo4503

2 ай бұрын

Anvils are prized.

@nellgwenn

2 ай бұрын

Such rare brand loyalty. Especially with Acme's wings that make them able to fly. I guess it's Acme's ability to deliver in extreme remote locations.

@Mike-xi4zt

2 ай бұрын

Meep Meep🐦🔥

@merylbonderow5993

2 ай бұрын

Team Ajax.

All coyotes have an ACME TNT carrier license. I think it’s issued after the first road runner encounter. 😊

We used to have a lab-chow mix, 50-60 lbs of pure muscle covered in thick black fur. I caught a coyote contemplating her one time in the backyard, thinking about taking his chances. And there's our dog staring right back, slowly wagging her tail at it like she might make a new friend. Fortunately the coyote thought better of starting anything and ran off, because our girl outweighed him by a good margin and could hold her own. But I remember my dad going around to warn the neighbors with smaller pets or little kids - if the coyote was desperate enough to size up our dog, he might be sick.

British people are sometimes surprised our pet cats often live inside. Coyotes (and the other predators you mention) are a big reason why! Also, way more cars on the road, warm temps that help disease thrive, and hawks who will strike at small animals. The lifespan of an outside cat is significantly lower over here than an inside cat. That being said, some cats will never be happy inside so it’s quality over quantity for them. If you ever make it down to Southern Illinois, check out the Treehouse Wildlife Center over the border in Missouri. They rehab local wild animals. You can see Coyotes, various birds of prey, raccoons, opossums, snakes and more. It’s a beautiful campus and a great learning experience.

@everydaychemistry6231

14 күн бұрын

I know it's normal in a lot of areas but I think it's incredibly irresponsible to get a pet of any sort only to leave it to roam outside, as a pet owner you are responsible for that animal's safety. Not only that but that's how feral populations start

@hallaloth3112

2 күн бұрын

@@everydaychemistry6231 Not only that but you're responsible for any trouble that animal may cause too. In generally we don't let dogs roam because they can be a danger to people, and cause all manner of trouble. . . just because they are smaller doesn't mean cats don't cause their own sort of trouble. On top of generally turning people's yards into litterboxes, tearing up gardens, and leaving small corpses strewn everywhere. ..there's also the chance of them getting INTO other people's homes/properties and causes injury to a person or that person's pet. I know a lot of indoor cats can get incredibly upset if a roaming cat harasses them through a window for example. . .and stress like that can lead to a host of problems.

I lived in Florida and saw a german sheppard trying to get a cat that was taking refuge on our car. I yelled and started chasing it... it ran but turned around and growled at me. I was shocked when I saw it was a coyote!!😮

@thoughtfuldevil6069

2 ай бұрын

I'm glad the cat was alright :'(

@Og-Judy

2 ай бұрын

​@@thoughtfuldevil6069 Interesting. I thought they look more wolf than ever a German Shepard

@celesteredding1550

2 ай бұрын

​@Og-Judy 👍🏾they do but many ppl don't take time to know the physical difference

@markloveless1001

2 ай бұрын

@@Og-Judy Wolves are hella bigger - skinny dude vs Schwartzenegger. German Shepard with ribs showing, more like.

@prestonestes1388

2 ай бұрын

It could also be a coydog.

I'm in South Dakota. I've had countless encounters with coyotes. They're extremely cautious of people. Many times I've been in the backcountry in the Black Hills or fishing on the Missouri River reservoirs and come evening it's a neat experience to have coyotes seemingly in all directions and very close start to sing. It amazes me how they can be so close making a racket and I can't see them. It never gets old.

@morebirdsandroses

2 ай бұрын

I briefly lived in the desert near Salton Sea before it was quite wrecked. At night the coyotes sang; it was the call and response from different directions that was unsettling but you're right about it being pleasurable to hear otherwise. 😂

@goma3088

2 ай бұрын

I live in suburban Colorado near a small park and some relatively open space where I see the occasional coyote and, less often, foxes. I probably hear the foxes more that I hear the coyotes but I know I have heard both. At night they are sometimes so loud that I still hear them through my sound cancelling headphone while listening to something else.

@MonkeyJedi99

2 ай бұрын

Here in New England, we see packs with "coy-dogs" the offspring of stray/feral dogs and the coyote packs that adopt them. I've been told that the coy-dogs are more people-aggressive.

@derpyeh9107

2 ай бұрын

They're not bothered by people in the slightest in suburban Colorado. They just look at you like "get tf off my prairie, you pest."

@kenhoyer8601

2 ай бұрын

Not so afraid of people in the city.

in my experience, the best way to make a coyote want to get as far away from you as possible is to walk towards it shouting "OMG puppy hiii!!! 🤩"

I like this channel. Finally a British comedian laughing with us instead of at us. :D

In August 2022 I was sitting in the back yard of an acquaintance who resides in central Massachusetts. We were chatting when a coyote strolled through the yard. He was about 20 feet from us and he was a big healthy fellow. What really impressed me was that he didn't even deign to turn his head and acknowledge our existence. He was so accustomed to humans -- and regarded them as such a trivial threat -- that he ignored us completely. For our sake I would prefer that coyotes demonstrate at least a little shyness around us humans.

@kathywiseley4382

2 ай бұрын

I live in Central Illinois. A few years ago, I was out at night with my husky when I saw a pair of eyes glowing in the distance. So I went back in the house and got a flashlight. Shined it that direction and sure enough, there was a coyote. The thing was - with the size of my husky - and me being out there - neither one of us actually scared him off. He just stood there and watched us for a while. Then he trotted on down the line in the direction he had been heading to begin with. They are getting just a little too comfortable with us.

@craigsurette3438

2 ай бұрын

That lack of fear of humans probably means you met a Coy-dog. When they interbreed with dogs, the get bigger, and they often loose their fear of humans, making a very bad combination.

@rachel4483

2 ай бұрын

I hear you. While living in north central mass around that time one came after my children in our yard in broad daylight. Mass coy-wolves/coydogs are BAD.

@seanlanglois8620

2 ай бұрын

I'm in Massachusetts a few miles from Boston and I saw a Wolf it could have been a coyote but this thing was larger then my buddies St Bernard

@userequaltoNull

2 ай бұрын

​@@seanlanglois8620 Almost certainly not a wolf, its much too built up over there. Although, there are black bears living on reservoir land west of Worcester, so who knows?

We still laugh over when I first moved from Chicago to New Mexico and met my first wild coyote. We were having a particularly bad drought at the time and the news was warning that coyotes were coming down from the mountain into the city. I was walking some pizza boxes out to the dumpster and saw what I still swear to this day, looked like a really skinny dog. I baby talked to it and threw it some pizza crusts while it stood there looking around like it was expecting a hidden camera stunt. I threw out the boxes and on my way back to my apartment, my neighbor informed me that 'we don't feed coyotes'. I couldn't believe it was a coyote, but it was. I kept expecting over the next few days to have a pack of coyotes show up wearing signs stating 'Not a coyote, Am a skinny dog, feed me'.

@cogforreal5952

2 ай бұрын

There’s coyotes in Chicago but they are used to urban life

@barbie3sunset

2 ай бұрын

😂🤣😂🤣 That coyote was wondering what you were doing.

@cycleboy8028

2 ай бұрын

LOL city folk. Yeah, rule #1 with wildlife, if you feed them, they will come. And next is knocking over your garbage cans cuz you proved to them that you put eats in there.

0:34 They also try to make off with toddlers/small children too. Where my family used to live people had to watch over the preschoolers. Coyotes were sometimes spotted near by watching.

@laurie7689

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, I read about some young children being attacked by coyotes at a playground in a Texas park. Ambulances were called for a couple of the attacks. In at least one attack, a father had to rescue his 4 year old girl from being drug off into the woods by a coyote.

There are large packs of them that live around my property here in Oklahoma. One of the creepiest things I've ever heard was a pack of about 12 of them woo-oo-wowing (talking/greeting) to each other as they walked down the street in the middle of the night. And then there's also all the howling they do but that's not nearly as off putting as the chatter between them. Very eerie. Cheers! 🍻

@ZeroTolerance-tk9ce

2 ай бұрын

When you hear a pack of them yipping and running they are usually after something.

Interesting about the origins of the word Coyote is that it is of Native origin. Coming from the Nahuatl word Coyotl. Coyotl became Coyote through Mexican Spanish. The original English/American common name was prairie wolf or brush wolf. Once the Americans came into contact with Mexican ranchers they adopted Coyote.

@vailpcs4040

2 ай бұрын

I've heard Koy-yoh-tay pronunciation from Apache, Navajo and Pascua Yaqui people I've worked with but I have no idea if that was for my benefit or not.

@billolsen4360

2 ай бұрын

In New Mexico, many older houses have Coyote Fences, which usually surround the back yard and are built out of rows of pine tree trunks lashed together, all between 9-10 feet tall that are sharpened to a fine point at the top.

@absalomdraconis

2 ай бұрын

​@@vailpcs4040 : Probably for their own benefit as much as yours. The Apache (I think there's at least 3?) and Comanche languages aren't particularly related if I understand correctly (apparently Apache is related to Aztec, and Comanche to Shoshone, so that's a pretty wide geographical divide), so using English with each other will usually be easier than learning each other's languages.

@naughtiusmaximus1811

2 ай бұрын

Beagles '24!!!🐶🇺🇸

Some ranchers use llamas to protect their sheep from coyotes.

@grmpEqweer

2 ай бұрын

Apparently donkeys are even better.

@JuggoJuggo

2 ай бұрын

Most use donkeys or dogs.

@SonoraSlinger

2 ай бұрын

Here in Arizona many ranchers keep donkeys for coyote defense. Donkeys hate dogs and will flatten an entire pack if they can.

@grmpEqweer

2 ай бұрын

@@SonoraSlinger Can a few donkeys handle wolves? Just curious.

@JuggoJuggo

2 ай бұрын

@@SonoraSlinger They are just about as funny, playful and affectionate as any pet if you want to socialize them.

Me and my friend once stumbled into a group of 1 to 2 dozen coyotes. It was bizzare. it was at 3AM at an abandoned mine in a forest. We picked up rocks for weapons and had to find our way out in near complete darkness. Their loud yapping following us was surreal. I wrote the entire night down as a short story when I got home.

Your ability to hide sarcasm in any situation is an Olympic feat and most people I know have no sense o this sublime talent

Here on YT Timmy MC has a "pet" wild coyote named Weave that hangs out with his dog and cat and wild racoon that shows up for handouts. Weave showed up on his deck as a young pup starving and eating his cherry tomatoes right after his old dog died and he missed him so ended up taking care of Weave, a couple of years later Weave eats dog food and hot dogs, plays with his new dog and gets viciously ambushed by his new cat. Weave generally hangs out on the deck but does come inside especially when the wild coyote pack howls and scares her.

@herbwitch5681

2 ай бұрын

Yahrr! I wondered if I would see Weave’s name come up! 😂

@w.reidripley1968

2 ай бұрын

Seen the cat business on Tube: a) Weave _loves_ bouncing on the rumpus-room sofa. b) like many of the small to medium wild canines, Weave is hyper like a fennec. c) The cat loves to wrestle with Weave, and Weave vice versa --- they are absolutely having a blast!

@thisistherevolt

2 ай бұрын

Timmy MC is a Disney Princess. Also, when his dog Duck got stolen so many people recognized him the people that stole him were yelled at and shamed by their church and family. Yarrrrrrrrrr

@RoseNZieg

2 ай бұрын

I didn't hear that his dog was found.

@thisistherevolt

2 ай бұрын

​@@RoseNZieg Yeah Duck has been back for a couple months now.

Some guy kept adopting cats from the local shelter for his daughter but would allow them out at night. Well the local coyotes would get the cat and he would go back and get a new cat. The shelter staff saw him coming back and asked why. He told them what happened and how he wanted a new cat for his little girl and the staff member said something like "it sounds more like you are feeding the coyotes"

@Wolfie54545

2 ай бұрын

This was a twitter post I think.

@bushcraftbasics2036

2 ай бұрын

@@Wolfie54545 I am sure it made its rounds, I heard it years ago (before Twitter) from my father. He would have heard it from someone else, who also likely heard it from someone else. I do get a kick out of seeing "new" stories and jokes on social media I remember hearing growing up in the 70's and 80's.

@aquachonk

2 ай бұрын

@@bushcraftbasics2036 Try this: Replace every mention of a cat with the words "cute little puppy" and see how the joke lands. Oh, you mean it's not funny when a cute little puppy has its tail set on fire by idiots and it runs across a yard burning and crying, a cute little puppy is run over by a golf cart by drunken teenagers, or a cute little puppy is torn apart by coyotes, terrified and screaming in pain? Maybe it's not funny, then.

@ericweston7353

2 ай бұрын

​@@aquachonk Nah, it's still funny

@angrytheclown801

2 ай бұрын

​@@aquachonkIs your real name TNT? Because you sure love blowing everything out of proportion.

I love listening to the coyotes singing at night. And the yip-yapping between different family groups. They are shy but very smart. A family member once watched from his tractor how two coyotes (Kai-OTES) were sneaking up on the farm dog, one from the left, the other from the right. The dog was oblivious until the very last moment and then he ran for his life! He made it safely back to the tractor but it was close.

I listen to them howling at night. There is something comforting about it.

As an American who grew up in Massachusetts I can actually say that coyotes have become more abundant in residential areas in recent years than from when I was a kid they have always been there just not as frequently as we do now

@LindaC616

2 ай бұрын

We had 57 on the island 20 yrs ago. Now it's.up to 100

@dakotatodd5168

2 ай бұрын

Exactly my point they have always been there but they have become more abundant in recent years in the case of my hometown in Massachusetts over development of wooded land is taking away there habitat forcing them onto the streets of town

@TanyaQueen182

2 ай бұрын

Grew up in Woburn, MA. We had a coyote run through our backyard while we had about 15 people there for a BBQ. Was crazy.

@wren7195

2 ай бұрын

I live in Southeastern Ohio. When I was a little girl, EVERY bus ride to school we'd see several bunnies, groundhogs out doing their things. Many possum and often raccoon and skunk roadkills. Saw my first live coyote in daytime in 99, and then only saw two over fifteen years, now the last two years I've seen seven roadkill coyotes. What I've noticed most though (live in Ohio, was raised in the mountains of east Tennessee by my fur trapper grandpa... no I kinda wish it was a joke, but I learned) is that now, there are no rabbits, I've seen one groundhog in six years, only two possum roadkills in five years (they'll take to the trees but they're scavengers, so when looking for food on the ground they're very vulnerable and NOT FAST...), mostly the roadkills now are skunk and young raccoons. Our groundbirds like kildere and pipers are mostly gone too, but I'm sure they've just moved for obvious reasons. Foxes and hawks will track and hunt voles, field mice, rats, all prey coyotes typically rely on also. What we're seeing now are actual "packs" of possible coy-wolves, or at least adaptive behavior, because there's more of them and they're going (successfully) after larger prey. Not that a coyote couldn't kill any of the above animals easily... but that without a partner, that kill isn't guaranteed. Working together for such prey also obviously requires more of it, too. Be safe guys, keep your little critters in doors. Our DNR here is *FINALLY* recommending folk keep an eye on their smaller pets and even children, *sighs putting away her frying pan she's been hitting for six years* damn arthritis.

@Svensk7119

2 ай бұрын

The coyote never crossed the Mississippi. Until we built bridges, and all but destroyed the American gray wolf.

Arizona native. We live in coyote territory and they are part of our culture. They appear, real and artistically, everywhere. We love them and embrace them metaphorically. Sitting on the porch listening to their howling is a lullaby to our ears. We take our daily walks in their company. We grow up knowing how to live with them and they allow us to exist around them. The only problems that arise are with individuals that move into our cities and do not know how to live or interact with them. We love our coyotes and above all else respect them.

@lcvb1624

2 ай бұрын

😂 Only God can fix brain damage.😉👍

@aaronbosen6743

11 күн бұрын

So you're going on public record you've never seen one or visited Arizona. Arizona literally has a paid bounty program to wipe them out kid.

content creators like you make learning fun

Rural west Kentuckian here. Lost a Jack Russel terrier to coyote's about 9 years ago. Our Russel was big of heart and small of brain, and took the fight to them. His throat was punctured and he made it home, slowly drowning in his own blood. Vet ended the suffering. I still have hard feelings for coyotes.

@mlebrooks

2 ай бұрын

I’m so sorry

@justaride1366

2 ай бұрын

When I was a young teenager, the coyotes got my dachshund. He was a scrapper, and probably challenged the coyote. We found his collar. Life on a farm is not always idyllic...

@DonnaBarrHerself

2 ай бұрын

Well, they're the Natives, and we invasive pest species take their food and homes. They gotta eat something.

@wizardsuth

2 ай бұрын

@@DonnaBarrHerself They're not indigenous to my area, but I've seen a few around, and found their tracks in the snow.

@SpeakerWiggin49

2 ай бұрын

You're terrier could have easily been bitten on the neck by another dog, or even have it's spine broken by a deer. Just because it was a coyote doesn't mean the situation your dog found itself in was anything other than bad luck.

While living in Massachusetts in 2010 I was attending a summer party at a friend's home not far north of Boston. As we were all sitting in the back yard drinking and conversing, a coyote stepped out of the bushes on one side about 50 feet away, proceeded to the middle of the yard, paused to look at all of us as we stared back, then continued on through the bushes on the other side of the yard. Wasn't my first or last coyote encounter living in New England, but perhaps the most memorable.

8:32 - The Dog was looking very alarmed as if it had heard you.. 🤣

I live in a forest in the country, and I LOVE to hear coyotes howling and yipping in the night. I don't own chickens or other livestock, but coyotes are often around my property. They are usually big scardy cats. If I turn my outside lights on, they run away. If I clap my hands they run away. So this is one American who doesn't mind coyotes at all.

I can verify that coyotes do not make good household pets. My sister/BIL adopted a "puppy" from a shelter. It was OK until it hit maturity, then it was totally uncontrollable/trainable. She (coyote) had a strong nesting instinct and turned stuffed furniture into nests. She ate a whole chicken my sister left to cool, including most of the bones. She ate a whole loaf of bread, which they did not figure out until the plastic bag/closure tab was excreted from the tail end of the "dog." My sister refused to believe it was a coyote, until I read from her encyclopedias (yes, this was a while ago) the description of a coyote, which word by word exactly fit her "dog." They gave her back to the shelter.

@Mokiefraggle

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, coyotes are definitely not good pets. I worked as a volunteer at a wildlife rescue/rehab clinic, and we had a coyote who was a non-releasable as a result of a human taking her as a pup in hopes of making her into a pet. When she started showing her wild instincts, particularly getting super aggressive when she came into heat and generally being uncontrollable, the people who "owned" her chained her in the back yard. She had all the instincts but none of the socialization or skills needed to survive in the wild, hence why she was part of our non-releasable collection, so you had to be _incredibly_ careful and observant of her behavior if you were going into her enclosure. You never knew if she was going to suddenly go from shy and stand-offish to aggressive, especially when she was in heat. The only person who could really go around her casually then was our clinic director, because she associated him as something like her pack leader, though that had its own inherent problems as well.

I grew up in Northern California. We had Coyotes, Cougars (The Cat and the Woman), Wild Turkeys, and Rattlesnakes (Rattlers, we generally called them in my household). Although they did avoid humans in my area, local stray cats were definitely on the menu. I still recall the Cat Massacre of '03 when we woke up to find our yard had been the scene of a brutal battle between the twenty-or-so strays of the area and a pack of Coyotes whom usually hunted across the tracks. The Coyotes won.

@nneichan9353

2 ай бұрын

the turkeys are darn scary if they get worked up, and LARGE, too.

@littlebitofhope1489

2 ай бұрын

So Cal here. We lived in an area with all that, except replace the Turkeys with Bobcats.

@80sGamerLady

2 ай бұрын

Yeah I live in Florida and I don't understand how people let their small dogs outside without leashes just to let them wander or their cats be outdoor cats. So stupid. Their lives are shortened so significantly compared to them being indoor pets.

@80sGamerLady

2 ай бұрын

Or just being a round their small dogs while they use the restroom and not let them wander the front yard.

@westzed23

2 ай бұрын

Great scene to wake up to. Famous Battle of No Cal!

Next up…the Roadrunner! They are actual birds, tough little critters, they eat snakes! They are common in the Southwest, really interesting birds. I grew up in TX and Oklahoma, we went with the “oat” sounding end of coyote.

@janharris8672

15 күн бұрын

I can attest to this. When I lived in Oklahoma, I called them "ki-yotes". After I moved to Arizona, I had to start calling them "ki-YO-ties" so people wouldn't look at me funny. I think your earlier pronunciation map is reversed. But it's the only mistake I've found in your videos.

The bald eagle also ranges into Southern Alberta. Also, while the wolf is a predator of the coyote, it also sometimes hybridizes with coyotes. They can also hybridize with domestic dogs, someone I worked with knows a farmer who's retriever was bred by a coyote.

I lived many years in southern Arizona where none of the wildlife seems to care that we're there at all. Just walking around my neighborhood you could see rattlesnakes, every lizard, rabbits, roadrunners, owls, vultures, falcons, javalinas, and coyotes. Every once in a while even a cougar might come down from the mountains and wander the suburbs after dark. So even during pleasant winter weather people don't often leave their pets outside 😁 I watched a coyote chase a rabbit once, but to my everlasting sadness I never saw a coyote chasing a roadrunner.

@zammyb4535

2 ай бұрын

Yes to all of this! I’m a Tucson native and still live here. We just cohabitate with our wildlife and inform others who transplant here.😉

@libbylandscape3560

2 ай бұрын

Beep beep!😂

@erakfishfishfish

2 ай бұрын

I’m in SoCal and the coyotes here stroll the sidewalks in the mornings like they’re just another pedestrian. I quickly learned if you leave them alone, they leave you alone.

@miriamrobarts

2 ай бұрын

Arizona also has scorpions in the suburbs. (But you can hire exterminators.)

@jenniferpanther2979

2 ай бұрын

​@@zammyb4535Yep, not native, but have been here ten years. Just this past Friday I picked up my dachshund while on a walk and waited for two coyotes to meander their way down the sidewalk and back into the wash. Had to wait for one to stop and have a poop. 😂

I think Laurence’s “deer caught in the headlights” default look is apt for a videos about coyotes! 😂

Just love your content. I moved to Delaware about 16 months ago. Before that I spent over 20 yrs in the Phoenix AZ metro area. My home backed up to “open” land. Coyotes, along with deer, javelina, various snakes & lizards, were everywhere. I used to walk my retired racing greyhounds on the golf course and sometimes we would encounter coyotes going back home after a night of hunting. As you said, they are more afraid of humans and will avoid them. Neighbors would let you know that they saw a coyote here or there. My next-door neighbor was concerned for my hounds since the coyotes roamed the land behind our homes. I had no concern since coyotes here are mostly nocturnal (due to the heat) & about 45 lbs and most of my hounds were 65 - 80 lbs & are mostly in the house, sleeping.

In my childhood, there was a coyote that lived in a nearby wood for a time. I loved hearing its howl at night, which also both fascinated and alarmed my Siberian Husky.

We live in a very rural area of Missouri. On our small acreage we've seen many coyotes, bald eagles, a black bear and her cubs, and one time we even saw a pair of wolves passing through our northern pasture. We've also had cougar tracks in our garden, and I've heard them scream on numerous occasions. We've lost barn cats to coyotes, and chickens to foxes, raccoons, and possums (probably known as opossums across the pond). Fortunately our dogs are too big to be bothered by coyotes.

@aff77141

2 ай бұрын

terribly tragic that your animals were dragged into natures order, but I hope you don't hold it against all those amazing creatures and keep an appropriate awe for them, blessing and a curse that they're not too afraid of your land

@superman9772

2 ай бұрын

yep... i live in mid mo north of the river... coyotes every night...

@TiredMomma

2 ай бұрын

Last year we had an unidentified creature, and we only saw its color of fur and its rough size as it darted toward the trees. It was kinda a darkish brown color, short stubby legs, short neck, flat long tail but the height of a large dog and just shorter than a white tail deer. This was like late fall last year. Haven't seen it since.

@westzed23

2 ай бұрын

You might need to get a Guardian Herd Dog if you keep losing livestock.

@TiredMomma

2 ай бұрын

A mountain lion or bob cat gifted us some raw partially digested meat on a deck of a place we used to live at. I could tell there was rabbit fur, dead mice and owl parts. The amount would've been too much for a bob cat to hold in its stomach, so not sure which, but there was a reported sighting of a mountain lion just a few months prior, and I know I heard one when I was in the woods but thankfully at the edge, so we ran to go back inside. Mind you, we had an acre of backyard space still to run up and it sounded like the mountain lion was close 😬

Georgia here. We call them " ky-odies".. as a teenager I would walk my 100lb rottweiler at night with nothing to worry about.. until the night on a desolate dirt road my dog ran behind me and whimpered. I was frozen with fear! I stood very still and quiet,wondering what would upset my huge friend, until I saw the mother coyote and her 2 pups cross the path in front of us... Somehow he knew not to get involved.

@Mick_Ts_Chick

Ай бұрын

Smart dog!

Well, Lawrence, you would DEFINITELY hate it out here at our mountain home. We've got a mountain lion we can't get to go away. Will often get on the porch and look in our window after dark. Only runs off when a bear goes lumbering by. Coyotes?--all over the place. They're after the wild turkey (non-bottled variety). These vids are always good for a laugh or three!

@danbellows9529

2 ай бұрын

Had to snort at the "Non-bottled variety." Then again, maybe they're after some of that too! Sounds a lot like my place. Except the looking through the window...wait! Would that be a peeping TOM?!? (Oh I kill myself sometimes.)

A very entertaining delivery… cheers

I remember as a kid there was a bounty on coyotes. In the evenings you could hear them howling. It was an unwritten rule that if you saw one and you had a gun, you were required to shoot it.

@Razor-gx2dq

2 ай бұрын

Some people still do that especially out in the sticks

@SadisticSenpai61

2 ай бұрын

I think studies have shown that hunting them actually leads to them breeding more than they would otherwise. Ofc where I live, they're not really much of a problem. They're the largest predator around, but there's so much prey for them (rodents and other small animals), that they prefer to hunt solo. It's kinda rare for them to hunt in a group, although it's definitely not unknown for them to take down deer in particularly cold years. The only (regular) predator of deer around here is humans. And frankly, our DNR should probably extend the hunting season and issue more deer tags. It's not as bad as it was back in the 50s, but the deer population is still much bigger than it reasonably should be.

@oldnumber5866

2 ай бұрын

@@SadisticSenpai61 I normally hunt nowadays on my daughter’s land. Use to be a lot of elk and deer there but now wolves are moving in. My son-in-law says they’re up by Hangman’s Creek now and deer, elk, and coyotes just aren’t seen much anymore.

@whatabouttheearth

2 ай бұрын

They tried to kill off the wolf and they almost did... they tried to do the same to the Coyote and the Coyotes range and population expanded greatly. The clever trickster of the Americas ain't nothing to fuck with

I love it when I'm sitting outside and sirens start blaring and the coyotes start howling with them. Southeastern Wisconsin here.

The coyote is fascinating. I hunt them as often as I can primarily as herd protection for local ranchers during the calving season. Something amazing about them is that they are almost immune to eradication because of their pack habits. Unlike wolves they don’t require a pack to survive, they’ll do just as well solo or in a pair. Also unlike wolves their howl is a cry to “rally the troops” but more like a roll call in the area. If there’s a low population density then they’ll increase their breeding and populate that spot. High population and they’ll move to a new territory. Trapping statistics during the times of wolf bounty’s show that every year there was a population decline in all other predatory species but a population increase in coyotes despite heavy trapping and hunting. The only reason a person such as myself has to hunt them in an area is to keep the pack sizes small and broke up because a single or a pair is unlikely to try to take a newborn calf from a healthy cow but the extermination of them is impossible.

When I lived in Oakville, Ontario, I once had a coyote pass by 30 feet away from me while I was out riding my bike. I had to do a double take as I initially mistook it for a loose dog. There were plenty of wooded areas around there, and coyotes were quite common. I even had a friend tell me that sometimes at night they could hear coyote packs hunting dear in the ravine near their house. Apparently coyotes aren't as good at killing deer as wolves, so it takes longer and is... louder.

Speaking of coyotes as pets, this channel has probably the best example of the closest you can get to have one as a pet: Timmy mc. For a while, he had just the coyote that he rescued, he named her Weave. Then, he also had a raccoon friend he named Johnny Ringtail, who has sort of disappeared now. Then he got his dog, Duck Holliday, then a cat, and now another dog, that he's introducing to Weave. They all get along so well. Weave has a couple dens near the house, so she very much feels safe with him nearby.

@minagelina

2 ай бұрын

I love his channel! He's from southern Illinois a few hours from me.

@simonesmit6708

2 ай бұрын

​@@minagelinaditto

@rekkariley652

2 ай бұрын

Cat’s name is Howie (“Howie Dewitt”) and the new dog is Schteeve.

@katieme7165

2 ай бұрын

In a town in Massachusetts, actually close to Boston we have huge blond coyotes! They are beautiful , and cause no harm. The reason they cause now harm is because in my town, chicken and pet owners are smart enough to take precaustions

@butterbeanqueen8148

2 ай бұрын

I watched Weave being brushed. 😂

We currently have a fairly large pack of coyotes around our housing development here in Southwestern Arizona. We ( neighbors) all notify each other if we see them but usually we hear the pack “talking” to each other before we’ll see them. As many here have small dogs we all go outside with them. You must remember if the coyotes are hungry and hunting in a pack a large dog is at risk too. Go out with your dog no matter what size he or she may be. The coyote standing in front of your dog is not the one you need to worry about so much as the 2 or 3 on the sides in the shadows

@jayerscios

2 ай бұрын

Yep, I live in a complex where they have signs that say Beware of the coyotes. It's like our own little ecosystem. There have been several small dogs who have been taken. You're right. You have to be aware that there is more than one. The first one is to distract. The others are to take the pet dog. Especially if they're off leash.

@SadisticSenpai61

2 ай бұрын

Interesting. Ofc coyotes rarely hunt in packs where I live (Northern Midwest). They typically hunt solo and go after rodents and small animals for the most part (which does include cats). The vast majority of dogs are pretty safe from coyotes around here. Especially the ones that bark a lot - barking tends to get humans coming to see what's going on, after all. Occasionally, they'll group up and take down a deer. But that's usually only in winter when food is scarce. They will definitely scavenge any dead animal if given the chance. And they will happily break into a chicken coup if they can (but so will a ton of other predators which will probably get there before the coyotes).

@ANPC-pi9vu

2 ай бұрын

You are exaggerating. They don't go after large dogs. Large dogs do go after them to guard property or livestock, however, understandably so... but coyotes do not see large dogs as prey. They also only hunt in packs if they are desperate due to depletion of smaller prey in an area.

@TheAttacker732

2 ай бұрын

Generally, they scatter after buckshot, er... *Scatters* the first one.

Iowan here. In the fall/winter especially, you can hear the packs of them yapping and barking up a storm when they've caught something on the edge of town. There is a sheep field near where I grew up, on the edge of town (all towns are surrounded by oceans of corn, soy or pasture, webbed with narrow bands of trees along the many creeks and rivers), and every few years you'd see a big bloody trampled spot in the snow when a pack of them would come in and take a sheep down.

Gotta go out at night to possibly see one. Definitely hear them all the time.

When I lived in my old house, when you heard an amulace with it's siren on go flying by on the nearby highway after it started getting dark, you could hear the pack of coyotes living in the woods out back freaking out and yelling back at it in the same tone. It was amusing at first.

@AlyKatKitty

2 ай бұрын

My German shepherd used to do that, as well.

@cbpd89

2 ай бұрын

The first time I heard coyotes (a pack liked to congregate in the parking lot of my apartment) I thought it was a bunch of young girls heading out for spring break or something. The "wooooooo" had such a human quality to it. Then a bunch more joined in and no other human sounds followed, so I figured it out. 🤣

@strawman6085

2 ай бұрын

Ahhh, nothing like the sound of young women full of hormones and howling at the moon.

@mrychards6682

2 ай бұрын

The coyotes near me hang out along the railroad tracks. Their yipping starts when an approaching train is getting closer.

Coyotes are very very opportunistic. They will take anything they think they can. Wolves are for more manageable.

@westzed23

2 ай бұрын

Yes, coyotes can adapt well to living in cities.

@kbm2055

2 ай бұрын

Yes wolves live in packs and generally require a large amount of prey. Coyotes are individualistic and can adjust to about any situation.

@christineperez7562

2 ай бұрын

If you are looking at them they will not.

@christineperez7562

2 ай бұрын

Put food out and they won't bother you or your animals. They run away from bobcats

@dogf421

2 ай бұрын

wolves are much less annoying, you dont wanna be caught in the wrong place at the wrong time by a wolf pack because they will actually try to kill you and can succeed but most of the time they are pretty chill from what i know

I live in the Southeastern region of the USA. I saw my first wild coyote (as in Not in a Zoo) just this past November. My home sits on a heavily wooded hillside and there is a drainage ditch that runs from the roadway to the back of my property down the hill. I was outside with my dog (who was on a leash) when I thought I spotted movement. I expected it to be a bird, but the head of a coyote popped up out of the ditch to take a peek around. I yelled at it. Besides my large dog that I had with me, I also have a small dog and a cat (indoor/outdoor). Having a coyote around is bad news for their safety. After yelling at it, it took off running across several yards and streets. I've noticed an uptick in coyote sightings in my area. I've started paying more attention to both the reports and my woods.

The sign that you showed is located at Clutter's Park in El Segundo, California. This park is noted for being one of the premier commercial aircraft spotting locations in the United States as it overlooks Los Angeles International Airport. I was walking to my car one Thanksgiving weekend at 10 pm by Avis Rent a Car for Los Angeles Internationa lAirport, when I saw what looked for a strange dog. I remembered that exat sign you showed in this video, and I made myself look large and yelled loudly. The coyote ran off going Sourh with a second coyote following hot pursuit. I had a neighbor who took a photo of a coyote within four feet from my garage door.

I remember as a kid in the 70s there were reports of coyotes in our area. The local wildlife folks dismissed the sighting, saying there were no coyotes anywhere near us. About a week later, the local paper ran a collection of photographs people sent in. They were coyotes.

@user-jn9gv9ve6e

2 ай бұрын

they said the same thing about mountain lions in the u.p. of michigan. until some were hit by cars.

@sapphossmalldog228

2 ай бұрын

Same in Massachusetts. They said there were no big cats in Massachusetts. Then a bobcat showed up hit by a car on a university campus. Whoops. ​@@user-jn9gv9ve6e

@elonever.2.071

2 ай бұрын

The same with mountain lions in New York State. The DEC and rangers say there aren't any and I have seen their tracks in the dust of an old cement plant I use to ride my quad in.

@absalomdraconis

2 ай бұрын

​@@elonever.2.071 : Try setting up a game camera, you might get some nice shots.

@hollyheikkinen4698

2 ай бұрын

​@@user-jn9gv9ve6eMinnesota DNR has had the same answer that cougars aren't in the state for decades - but lots of people have seen them here in Northeastern Minnesota on the Iron Range (me included). They used to always say that the person who saw one misidentified them & it was a bobcat instead. Umm, there's quite a difference between the two felines. In recent years, they admit that there have been sightings - but that it's a lone one or a couple males that roam a large multi state area & that we don't have any breeding pairs. Who knows how accurate the state's official answers are.

I used to live in a close in suburb of Madison Wi. there was a coyote who kept coming in to "play" with a young ( but full sized) female lab; about 1 3/4 bigger than the coyote. What he was really doing was trying to lure her out to his pack ( they used to be relatively solitary, but more food has made them live in lose family groups) He wanted to have her for a family dinner.Coyotes ,wolves ( yes, I know their track from a big dog and I followed them in the snow) eagles and great horned owls would swoop in and take cats and dogs up to 20 lbs. I did NOT take any risk with my 30 pound dog. I could see the eagles come down from riding the currents to check him out and after sizing him up, they would go back up higher in the sky.

@LindaC616

2 ай бұрын

I live in Rhode Island and I have heard similar stories here. I used to live in madison! I still miss some things about that City but not the snow

@patmanchester8045

2 ай бұрын

@@LindaC616 I now live in North East Wi. Every day I turn to the west and bow to Madison. I really miss it.

@LindaC616

2 ай бұрын

@@patmanchester8045 A few years ago a friend that I had met there in grad school lost her husband, so I went to visit her. We drove down from Minneapolis for the weekend for old times' sake; it has changed quite a bit. It was good for me to go because I had for many years been pining over the life that I had there and it made me realize that it's not the same now as it was. Many of the unique restaurants on State street are gone and there are mostly chain restaurants. I'm sure housing is expensive, and as we walked to dinner one night, we had cops running up-and-down the street with a dog searching for someone. And they went into the alley with their guns drawn. That would not have happened in the days I was there.

@johnsmith-js9nv

2 ай бұрын

I live in Madison too. SW suburbs. I have game cam pics of three coyotes and later seven deer in the same night. In the previous year I have personally taken iPad photos of an eleven point buck and some of his harem in my back yard. I can’t describe how much I wanted to get the crossbow and harvest him. I live in the ‘burbs with some light woods nearby. Wildlife is EVERYWHERE.

@seameology

2 ай бұрын

I'm in northern Minnesota. My sister lives on a swampish lake that eagles like to nest. Every time I bring my dog there, they swoop down to look. She's too big. I saw one try to fly away with a roadkill fawn. The fawn was too heavy to fly with. I wish I had a photo.

Atlanta has a bunch too. Crazy to see them inside the asphalt mote that encircles the city.

The best way to protect your pets from coyotes and other predators is to keep them inside. Unfortunately my cat disagrees, and she frequently runs out of the house when I open the door. Fortunately, she's got super sharp claws, and anything she can't outfight she can outrun.

I grew up mostly in the rural midwest. Coyotes, and thus a need for a good "varmint rifle" were a fact of life.

@GeseppiOoodblast

2 ай бұрын

I'm from rural Ohio and yeah you're right. My 10/22 scared off a lot of them during my childhood never needed to actually shoot them though. They know what a gun sounds like and does. Raccoons however were not as lucky. Entire flocks of chickens were lost to raccoons

I live in greater Los Angeles, on the foothills of the San Gabriel mountains, and we see coyotes quite frequently. Summer mornings when I go for a jog/walk I encounter them several times during the season. What surprises me is how fast they are. You see them go down the middle of the road or on the sidewalk doing that little trot they do and you think they're going as fast as a human walking at fast pace. But no, they leave on the dust. It's also amazing how they can just disappear behind a bush and you'd never know that they were there.

@toomanyjstoomanyrs1705

2 ай бұрын

Hello neighbor, I concur and verify your claim.

@ireneparrish3070

2 ай бұрын

I once clocked a couple coyotes loping at 35mph. An easy lope.

My husband and I were standing in the backyard of our big old house/apartment building in Muphy, NC known as The Gateway to The Smokies. (Many old houses there still have outbuildings that were once stables.) The back of the yard sloped steeply uphill and was mostly covered in low grass and other plants that made good cover for the grounding colony there. On this particular day we were looking at a juvenile groundhog sitting above the cover on a relatively level spot where the colony's inhabitants often sat to look at their surroundings. We were talking about the coyote we had seen emerge from the cover the day before. I had just finished saying it was a good hunting place as groundhogs are not very bright. Just as the words left my mouth and for no apparent reason the little groundhog plummeted downhill, rolling over and over again for 25 ft until it hit the heavy cover at the bottom of the incline. Yep. That's a groundhog.

Tacoma recently lost jawless jerry, a local icon who was a coyote who manages to survive, hunt, and eat with the loss of her jaw. Unfortunately she was hit by a car, some community members gave her a beautiful funeral. Coyotes are often associated with trickery and nuisance but theyre an incredible and resilient animal that adapts to its environment. I love them so much

Tucson, AZ native here and we just cohabitate with our wildlife and do our best to inform transplants. I live in the middle of the city right off one of the busiest six lane streets and I’ve heard packs yipping excitedly very close by the last three nights in a row, had neighbors see packs of them very close by in recent days, had them walking on top of my 6’ cinderblock wall, etc. They are just a part of our existence here and traverse the arroyos that run through our neighborhoods. My mom lost a dog to a mountain lion in her urban neighborhood and AZ Game and Fish had to tranquillize a bear that had been in a large public park less than a block from her house. For the most part we embrace and respect our wildlife here. The wildlife that makes me panic and run away are javelinas!😆

@ben8147

2 ай бұрын

lol, I've never seen a Javelina, but I can attest that even being in an area rumored to host javelinas is enough to get people nervous.

@thejustlawofshamash

2 ай бұрын

I've never run into a javelina before, but I have run into wild hogs while hiking around the south. They're the only animal that lives east of the Mississippi that truly inspires fear in me. I watched that hog hook it's tusk around a pretty well established palmetto bush and tear it straight out of the ground like it was nothing. I just crouched down and stayed as quiet as I could. Felt like I was one of the hobbits hiding from the hunting ringwraiths. I figure I can't possibly fare any better during a confrontation than ol Robert Baratheon.

@glyniscoleman4813

2 ай бұрын

Javelinas are extremely dangerous as well as the wild hogs in FL run into both

@smmar194

Ай бұрын

*Sees a coyote walking down the same sidewalk as me in the middle of the night* "Ah! A fellow Phoenix pedestrian. Well met, stranger." *Sees a javelina doing the same* "I wonder how fast I could climb that tree..."

I live on the northwest side of Chicago. While coming out of an alley with my large but friendly dog, we spotted a coyote directly across the street. We stopped, he stopped, looked at us for a bit and continued trotting on his way. We ran a block home, fumbled to put the key in the door just like in a horror movie, opened it, and breathed a sigh of relief. Later, I read up on them and found that they can run up to 40 mph. We weren’t even close.

@JPMJPM

2 ай бұрын

You were never in danger. They’re not like wolves.

@Og-Judy

2 ай бұрын

Live in northern suburban Milwaukee metro area. Un nerving they trot through neighborhood backyards hrere. I would never let a small dog out on a leash alone. 😦😬

@harleyanne3720

2 ай бұрын

@@JPMJPMread up on the aspiring singer who was jogging and attacked by a pack of coyotes. I encountered one and he ran away. Never know.

@celesteredding1550

2 ай бұрын

​@@JPMJPMif a single coyote is hungry or feels threatened, it most certainly will attack.

@JPMJPM

2 ай бұрын

@@celesteredding1550 It will attack something small, yes, but very rarely a human.

I lived in Arizona, and we'd often hear the coyotes on the prowl. My cats would look alarmed for a second, then go back to sleep. When I got chickens, until I sealed up all the access holes, the local coyotes, owls, skunks, and bob cats, thought that I ran a mighty fine chicken buffet!

I live in Texas near a big park. I see coyotes multiple times a month. I hear them frequently at night especially in the spring (maybe they mate then?). They are very smart. One trick that they are known for is having a single coyote bait a dog into chasing it only for that coyote to lead the dog back to its pack. Coyotes have been interbreeding with wolves and some larger domesticated dogs. I saw some stat about most of the eastern coyotes having at least some wolf blood (which apparently makes them larger and more aggressive). In 2022, a coyote mauled a 2 year-old human on a porch in Dallas - the child survived.

I love coyotes but their mating howls can be bloodcurdling.

@SodaMehPop

2 ай бұрын

Their howling isn't always for mating necessarily, it's often a sort of "roll call" which is used to measure their numbers. If a lower percentage than expected number of coyotes respond to the howling then the females will actually produce more pups during pregnancy. It's one of the reasons they're so populous. And annoying🎉

@littlebitofhope1489

2 ай бұрын

In addition to what Soda says, they can also do that when they make a kill. That is actually more likely what you are hearing.

@BrianRRenfro

2 ай бұрын

The howling is a lot more loving if you take em to dinner and buy em a few drinks first.

@user-jn9gv9ve6e

2 ай бұрын

i love their howls which start as the sun goes down into the night. they are very smart. while bow hunting, sitting in a stand in michigan you see them. as soon as they see you they head the other way. and yes if you have cats or small dogs don't leave them unattended.

@SodaMehPop

2 ай бұрын

@@BrianRRenfro 😆

I live in Metro Atlanta. I have a family that has lived in my neighborhood for years. I walked up on one that was resting on the street by my yard as I was walking to the bar across t Lawrenceville highway in Tucker. It got up startled and I thought it was a cat,then a fox, but when it got to it's feet and trotted I realized it was a coyote. It took a right behind a building as I got to the top of the street and joined it's family under a security light where I saw them all clearly. I hear them all the time and recognize their calls. Each family member has a unique call and they comminicate with it in order to locate eachother. They never bark and they rarely make it more often than once. Every member of the pack will also sound off. I had to remove a planting container that I had emptied because it had rained and while I was on my porch they all came up within 12 feet of me while the porch light was on and I was having a beer in my rocking chair. I often hear them in the bushes lining my yard or in the drainage ditch which is rather deep that runs along the highway and is lined with tall trees. They whine, make sounds similar to an owl, sometimes cackle like a crow. They never bark and they never howl.

@ULTRAOutdoorsman

2 ай бұрын

Haha. It just kept getting up and up and up. I have seen a few coyotes walking nonchalantly around SE Decatur/Belvedere Heights area.

@donnaguy9057

2 ай бұрын

And they don't sound like they're portrayed on those old Western movies! I managed to record them one night from the park across the street from my house in Wheaton, which is a western suburb of Chicago. Creepiest sound ever. Raises the hairs on your arms.

@Lornicopia

2 ай бұрын

@@donnaguy9057 Yeah. It's very unusual and sounds nothing like a dog or a wolf. I think their calls are much more individual you can tell which one is which even in the dark.

@vmitchinson

2 ай бұрын

With those guys around, I bet there are not many mice.

@Lornicopia

2 ай бұрын

@@vmitchinson I'm pretty sure they hunt rabbits. Which I rarely see but have seen occasionally. The squirrels seem to be largely unaffected.

In the east, the "eastern coyote" is actually a coy-wolf that hybridized in Quebec before spreading south to New England.

I live in the mountains along Colorado’s front range. When my hubby and I bought our home back in the late 80’s we often heard packs of coyotes (I say it with three syllables) howling at night, especially during the summer. As our area developed over the next few decades we saw them less and less. I haven’t seen a coyote for at least 5 years now, and I really miss seeing them. I remember once walking with my two dogs in the woods when a mated pair followed us for nearly an hour. I suspected they had a den in the area and we were in their territory. Their taking us finally culminated in the male running up to my larger dog ( who was the most timid) and nipping her in the hind end. She took off for home like a shot, and when I later arrived home, she was sitting on the front porch waiting, hanging her head in shame 😂, presumably, because she abandoned me and my other dog to our fates! Coyotes are beautiful and resilient animals.

Here in Georgia, the first time I saw a coyote was on the University of Georgia campus when one jumped out of a dumpster and ran off into the night as I pulled into a dormitory parking lot to drop off a friend after a party. This would have been in 1976-77 or so. Having grown up on a farm about 25 miles from downtown Athens GA, I had seen foxes and deer roaming around, as well as heard coyotes howling at night. I now live within 3 miles of the family farm, in a spot where the woods are just 20 meters or so from the back door of my house. There are coyotes in the woods, as well as foxes, bear, deer, wild boar, pheasant, quail, dozens of species of snakes--including 3 of the 4 venomous species in the US, feral dogs, feral cats, and it wouldn't surprise me to find out there were cougars too--although they would have to be very rare because the area has too many housing developments scattered about for the comfort of big cats. One night, our dogs were barking up a storm--interesting turn of phrase, that--so I grabbed a headlamp and a pistol and went outside of our backyard chain-link fence to see if I could spot whatever the dogs had heard. I got to the edge of the woods, switched the headlamp to its red lightbulb, and spotted a small pack of coyotes about 20 meters deeper into the woods. The wind was in my face, so they hadn't scented me yet, and I stood quietly observing them for a moment or two. I counted 8 of them, their eyes reflecting the dim light from my headlamp, before the wind changed direction and they caught my scent. Their heads turned towards me, then they bolted off into the night, not wanting to be anywhere near a human. I stood still, listening to them running away across the leaf-strewn forest floor, until the night was quiet once more. Then I turned and walked back to my house.

@pinchebruha405

2 ай бұрын

You’re a writer ❤😊

@danhollifield

2 ай бұрын

@@pinchebruha405, indeed, I am. I've a pair of books out, short stories in three anthologies, another pair of books at my publisher awaiting editing and formatting, and about five unfinished books on the back burner. I'm also a composer with nine albums on Bandcamp, a painter with a few works in private galleries, and I run a creative writing website that's been online for 27 years. I don't normally mention all that in comments on someone else's channel, though. You simply caught me out, LOL!

@Scruffi

2 ай бұрын

Interesting - I spent (misspent?) a lot of time in Athens in the 90s and I don't recall ever running into Coyotes there. Maybe they had gotten shyer by then because of the increasing population? Weirdly, later when I moved to LA, I saw them regularly in the Hollywood neighborhoods. Also, Go Dawgs :)

@danhollifield

2 ай бұрын

@@Scruffi, that would make perfect sense. More people in an area means more danger for a coyote. Even the ones who have adjusted to surviving in urban settings might judge when an area has gotten too built up, and move into quieter, less people-y areas.

@AndrewAMartin

2 ай бұрын

​@@danhollifield The modern Eastern Coyote has changed, genetically, due to interbreeding with dogs and wolves, and become less afraid of humans. They're bigger than their Western cousins, and less pack oriented. There are occasional reports of them in neighborhoods here in Harrisburg PA, and I saw one awhile back running across the road (ironically, just a mile or so from the headquarters of the PA Game Commission) on the north side of town.

Props to the coyote method actor, that was topshelf work.

So when i was a young man still living at home in Rural Georgia, we had an indoor/outdoor cat, a Persian. We had 4 acres of land, mostly woods. Well one night a Coyote figures that cat is next meal...what it didnt count on was our large German Shepard who loved that cat..and wasnt too fond of a predator in HIS yard. We could hear the barking, snarling and the fighting from the house, my father quickly ran out with the shotgun...but he didnt need it. Old Max took that Coyote apart in less than a min. Max was covered in blood, none of it his. We had the vet check him and give him a rabies booster the next AM just in case. The entire time of the fight, the cat was watching from the porch...i dunno what black magic that cat had to tell Max what was going on, but he knew.. Max got a big steak for dinner the next day, and the Persian was now an inside only cat after that. That cat was my moms pet, a little too snooty for us, but she loved that cat. Max, on the other hand, was my best boi. I miss him to this day. His big ears and big old snoot. Id give anything to give him and his grey mustache a hug again.

Florida: Covid lockdown. I'm standing in my driveway in small town America. It's a beautiful night, soft breeze. I can smell orange blossoms miles away. Then I heard a sound, a huffing sound, rhythmic and coming closer. I quickly check my perimeter, trying to determine where the threat is coming from. I turn back to the street and there's a Chihuahua at top speed and a pretty darn fast coyote a few yards behind. It was a tight race, but my money was on the Chihuahua. I knew him. He only understood Spanish, he often tried to block passing cars, he could climb a chain link fence and he was called Diablo. I saw him after that night, making a fuss out in front of my house as a car tried to get by. Tough Little Bastard.

Great video! It's very accurate. I live in suburban Houston and coyotes roam our streets at night. They are shy creatures and will leave a kill if they sense a human around. So, other than sometimes leaving a gory mess, they aren't a threat to humans

*I love hearing coyotes and wolves do their nightly howlfests. Lived in Arizona for 32 years now back in New Jersey..but in Arizona, we just said 'yotes {as in yo-tees}.*

@ndfnq7811

2 ай бұрын

We say coyote in Arizona too but we're not talking about wild dogs

We use both forms of coyote where I'm from. The three syllable version is the standard but the two syllable variant is a slightly abbreviated version that can be used interchangeably.

I live in a pretty forested area and I’ve only seen a handful of coyotes (I always say kai-ote) but fairly often if I’m outside around midnight I can hear em in the nearby fields. It’s pretty cool ambiance for a late night toke

The dubbed "6 times" at 3:03 cracked me up. It's the subtle humor/ deadpan goofiness he brings that keeps me watching 😂

@mgelliott86

2 ай бұрын

And the follow-up showing it was great as well, i love his writing lol

Desert SW here... Rescued a Great Pyrenees Tues afternoon, and have him in the yard, since he must be at least semi quarantined until I can have him seen by a vet. Coyotes aren't coming up to my door at night and howling like they were a week or 2 ago, but I know he's sad. I've had his photo and location found up on the county animal control lost and found section, but the post expires on Mon. Looks like he was also abandoned. He was in the middle of the road (55-60mph) and nearly got creamed by 5 cars. I couldn't just leave him there to die. If anything could take on a coyote or pack of them- it's a Great Pyrenees. They were bred to protect herd animals such as sheep and goats, my biggest concern is how he'll survive July- when it's 128F in the shade, though I do have a perfect size trough he's fond of. I don't dislike coyotes, I'm humane enough to keep vulnerable animals indoors exclusively, and I respect coyotes as being the wild animals they are that belong in this environment probably more than I do. Coyotes aren't the problem, urban areas are.

@mbryson2899

2 ай бұрын

My better half works in a rural area just north of a large CA city. She rescued an Anatolian Shepherd who was apparently bored because her owner had become too old to continue keeping aheep and goats. He surrendered the dog to my better half's employer, who lives in a nearby rural area. Employer's neighborhood had had problems with coyotes dining on chickens, pets, et cetera. Anatolian Shepherds were bred to run down predators like coyotes. Soon Employer's neighborhood was coyote-free, they knew they were outmatched.

@rachel4483

2 ай бұрын

You need at least two pyrs to take on a pack of coyotes, with three better. Pyrs like to wander. Their programming is to scope out a huge territory around where the "herd" that they are bonded to lives and clear it of threats as a pack (ie, go on coyote killing sprees). Anatolians are a harder mannered (and harder headed) breed but they and meremmas are supposedly better at staying home. I prefer pyrs to anatolians, but regardless, any coyote would be coyote confetti before it could let out a breath on my side of the pasture fence so I am happy. Urban areas are a huge boon to coyotes. Food everywhere and no one can shoot them. And no LGD's.

@FallacyBites

2 ай бұрын

I wonder what kind of creatures you Pyrenees is bonded too, and hope all goes well for you guys

I knew a girl who was attacked by a coyote. The circumstances were super specific, so its absolutely not a common thing, even if its tecnically possible to occur. Basically, her family lived in a small town on a mountain range. Their back yard wasnt completely fenced, and opened out onto a hillside at the outer edge of town. They had a dog that was fed exclusively in the unfenced yard where he was kept on a line. One day, the girl was playing by herself in the yard (family dog was inside) when the coyote grabbed her by the head and dragged her out of the yard. She was rescued and survived with many stitches to the scalp, but was otherwise ok. Wildlife officers investigated and found that because the family dog was tethered and the fence incomplete, the coyote would enter the yard to steal the dog food, and on the fateful day the girl just happened to go outside when the coyote was already nosing around, looking for food. Its the only case ive ever heard of like it, and ive lived in coyote country my whole life.

I grew up in Idaho. My dad grew up on a farm and hunted coyotes for the bounty to put gas in his street racing car. He had two coyote skin rugs in his home. I've seen them plenty often alive while out doing the outdoorsy things, rock hounding, hiking, hunting, camping, all that stuff. They're just animals doing what animals do even if my dad is stuck in his ways. You can hear them howling after dusk at his new, more rural home. Outdoor cats and small dogs would definitely get snatched by them now and again, but they don't bother people. My husband had a malamute when we first got together that was very likely mixed with a coyote too. Miss him sometimes.