https://www.wistv.com/story/63...-by-chicago-quiznos/

They like sandwiches.

There's a lot of them here in Chicago.
There used to be a den between the south end of Soldiers Field and the parking lot. They're at Northerly Island, Lincoln Park and in the South Loop. I'm in the south western corner of the city, there's a few golf courses, forest preserves and cemeteries in the area. Havens for Coyotes. I know that there's a pack of them in the cemetery about 5 blocks from my house. You can hear them at night when they get an animal (unfortunately, probably someone's house pet).

https://www.wistv.com/story/63...-by-chicago-quiznos/

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Originally posted by urbanwarrior238:
Coyote That's a good one. We have Mountain Lions.

We had one of those too...

https://abc7chicago.com/archive/6080893/

There was another one spotted in the far western suburbs about 2 years ago.

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Originally posted by flashguy:
clubleaf206, your picture is WAY too big!

flashguy

MASSIVE Coyote problem in the untamed wilds of Kansas!

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Originally posted by 1s1k:

That is one big coyote. The ones around here have long skinny legs and thin.

Coyotes are a common sight around and in Chicago.
We had a Mountain Lion here a few years back, CPD quickly killed it.

Not tolerated around here by me or the state. There is no closed season, no closed day, and no bag limits on these in PA.

Coyotes? I'll have you know I live less than 5 miles from the last verified Chupacabra sighting. Why, I'm lucky to still be alive! That being said, about 5 miles away from me are some seriously strange folks that still believe that a mangy coyote is a Chupacabra.

If I see that road kill deer & I’m in the mood, feeling tough. I’ll get it for the back field.

We were driving home the other nigh. When we were within a block of our house, about 10 of the buggers flocked across the road in a low spot. One was waiting on top of the hill for a guy walking his dog. I sped up and hazed the coyote down the road. I could tell the guy was nervous.

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Originally posted by urbanwarrior238:
Coyote That's a good one. We have Mountain Lions.

We do too. And now it's official.

Hundreds of Mountain Lions apparently used to inhabit the mountains of Arkansas, though they all supposedly died out by the 1920s. But there had been semi-frequent reports from folks of seeing or hearing mountain lions throughout the latter half of the 20th century. However, a parade of biologists and zoologists and game wardens over the past many decades had scoffed and chuckled, calling it old wives tales or overgrown bobcats or hallucinations or weather balloons reflecting swamp gas or whatever. The state even hired trackers to attempt to find evidence of these supposed mountain lions, but came up empty, increasing the skepticism.

Then, just within the last 10 years or so, there have been increasing numbers of mountain lions actually caught on camera in Arkansas, and even one shot and killed when it threatened a deer hunter. The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission finally relented just a few years back and now confirms that mountain lions do exist in Arkansas, and there are estimated to be a population of around a 20-30 mountain lions roaming the mountains of Arkansas.

So all those people over the decades weren't seeing/hearing things after all. (Well, not all of them...)

I know our daughter and her husband in San Francisco have seen them both in the street and on a golf course near their home, and they live near Lands End trail.

Now at our home in OK, we are surrounded with dens in all directions. Quite a chorus when they all start to sing. I don't imagine the cattle ranchers around us like their presence much.

It’s when you seethe Roadrunner Kev, watch out for falling safes

^Hah! Well, I do admit checking that my .357 snubnose had ammo ready to go (didn't really want to walk around with a deer rifle).

They did issue a coyote alert for my condo complex.

Coyotes are extremely successful infiltrators in both urban and suburban areas. There are a myriad of food sources such as the afore mentioned pets, outside food bowls, vermin such as rats, food trash, etc.

I live in semi-rural suburbs and it’s not uncommon to hear a pack yodeling not terribly far from the neighborhood. Lots of deer and other critters in addition to what we provide them.

 
We, of course, have them in spades here in AZ. Ours are a bit smaller, as are most species that live in our arid environment. Besides scavenging, which they do in urban areas, they are also very successful pack hunters, employing a variety of pack hunting techniques. Another species we have that exhibits pack hunting traits are the Harris Hawks.
 
But the most beautiful and successful hunter we have around here is the Great Horned Owl. They are a sight to see, silently gliding down on their 5ft wingspan to swoop up a snack.

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Originally posted by kkina:
Was pulling out this morning when a damn coyote runs across the blvd and through the parking lot. Too fast to snap a picture. I live in a condo complex a couple blocks from SF Bay.

There have recently been more and more reports of coyote sightings, even in neighborhood and business areas. And of course there's been sightings in San Francisco for quite a while, but seems like more and more down the Peninsula. Some pets have been taken.

They were always there but you just never saw them but now since their habitat has been demolished due to development coyotes and other critters are being seen in urban areas. I live just outside of Philadelphia and a few summers ago snapped a picture of a coyote in my backyard.

Loss of habitat, reduced numbers of apex predators (wolves), high intelligence, and adaptability to varied environments and food sources means that they are living amongst us and surviving well. I just finished reading "COYOTE AMERICA', by Dan Flores. It included the picture of one riding on a train in Portland.

Stacks of ACME boxes are also a danger signal

Here in East Tennessee…they are rarely seen but I can hear them howling from time to time when a Emergency vehicle sounds a siren…with that being said I have seen one lazily trotting down the street in front of my house stopping to raid a garbage can before it was to be picked by the city…I’ll have say I thought it was sorta kool (I did go out and pick up the scattered garbage for my neighbor…but several neighbors have also have had their cats go missing about the same time…probably falling prey to “God’s Dogs”)

There'll be wolves up and down Lombard next.

I live in the middle of four "green pockets" - a couple of parks, a drainage area and the back yard of an old folks' home. Coyotes go trotting up and down my street regularly to get from the park where they hole up to the drainage area where they go hunting at night.

My cat was out one evening (there's still sunlight at 8PM in the summers, so it was technically evening, I guess) when I was fiddling around with something in the garage. A coyote traveling up the street zeroed in on her and was casually trotting her way when I came roaring out of the garage after it.

That night, my cat and I bonded by chasing off a coyote together on a hot Texas summer night. There are guys who can't say they've done that with their dog, so I figure that qualifies me to keep both the cat and the Man Card. The cat's been a bit cocky ever since, though.