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Originally posted by gearhounds:
Be very careful; coyotes are very clever and will use “bait” to draw domestic dogs into pack traps where the breeds size and fighting prowess makes no difference.

Casper the Great Pyrenees said hold my beer.

https://www.11alive.com/amp/ar...47-a6c6-f7cbe34e43d5

We are landlocked with a state park surrounding us and these things have been hollering and carrying on since the moon has been full over the last week.

They are really neat when you are in the pool or hot tub to listen to.

I live right across the fence next to a golf course.

We have a cycle. First, we see bunnies around, lots of them. In a few weeks, we start to hear the coyotes, always at night, potentially several times a night.

It seems terribly obvious that they start their noises up when they have prey that they are tightening the snare on. The whole packs starts yelping and making weird noises. I can only imagine what this does to the prey psychologically. They sound different once the prey is dead.

There is a brief overlap period and then the bunnies disappear. The coyote noises are soon gone again too.

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Originally posted by Prefontaine:
Not my current Mal but my previous GSD..trained her to go after the fucking things. They’d sneak up from the creek in my neighborhood, into the park, and try to intimidate. Not a whole pack mind you. 1, 2, or 3. She’d look at me like “please daddy” and I’d say no, so she’d look at me again “pleeease”. Ok then “FAAS” and she take off after the little fuckers. She chased one into the creek, did a look back and said it again and she swam a 1/4 mile through the creek. Coyote was swimming for its life. We have multiple packs here. You can hear them at night doing the same thing, yelping and going bat shit. They try to intimidate but get scared easily. Only thing that worries me is a full pack of them and you notice they are all super thin, starving. That’s when they are dangerous. Rest of the time fuck em.

Nice.


Took the dogs out the front door (along the driveway instead of in their DG “business” yard as it was wet & messy) one night to do their business. The Aussies and the Heeler came when called, but the wife’s pet Anatolian/Great Pyrenees cross took off and wouldn’t come back. Went in and reported to Mrs. slosig that Jackson had decided to sleep outside since the jerk wouldn’t come when called. She insisted that we go find him. We went out and found him an eighth of a mile from the house on the base of a knoll sprawled out, panting, with more tongue hanging out than I ever imagined he had. On the way to him I startled a coyote hiding behind an avocado tree, but he vamoosed too quickly to get a shot off. In the process of getting him up and going heard two other coyotes on opposite sides of the knoll. They likely kept him running chasing one, then another in a relay until he ran out of gas. I suspect it would not have gone well for him had we not collected him.

Put me in the “Just put a hole in them.” column.

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Originally posted by Icabod:
We have them move through every few years. The move down the green belts hunt through and move on. Outdoor cats are a favorite. Had a neighbor that had his cat hunt my bird feeder. One day my daughter called and said the cat was gone. A coyote carried it off. Never did tell the owner what happened.

We had the same problem. One day my daughter called and said the cat was no longer a problem. She seen a coyote carrying it off.
We said nothing but the cats owner suspected me.like Cassandra I had predicted what could happen to a free range cat.

I have seen one in my yard and I am only few miles from DC. I haven’t seen my neighbors cat for a while.