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Coyote attack...again!

Bailey's Mom

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We recently watched a documentary about beavers. They are amazing! Maybe the same one you are referring to. They turned a desert land into an oasis.

Yes, I've seen both of these, several times. You can get them both on Youtube, I think. I have them saved on my PVR and marked for keeping, otherwise husband would delete it for space.

If you haven't watched the one about the Coy-wolf, look it up, Dr. David Suzuki on the Nature of Things. It's a real eye opener. Most of it was shot in Toronto and followed these urban Coy-wolfs.
 

Bailey's Mom

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The Parks and rec of Ontario had the discussion a couple years back.... Coyote was protected and they were going to higher trappers.....because they believed that was more humane then shootting them. Dumb asses if you ask me.... Then they found out the cost and decided to lift the band and allow us framers to deal with it..... And we do

The hunters that come in the store have told me it is a shoot-on-sight situation with Coyotes. One recently told me that a group of them hauled away his friend's deer kill before he could get his ATV in to pick it up.

At any rate, it is pup season and I've explained to the staff that any coyotes they come across now will likely be more aggressive especially if they come near their dens. Best not to try and get that "selfi" if you want to avoid getting bit...and the subsequent rabies shots!
 

Nik

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The hunters that come in the store have told me it is a shoot-on-sight situation with Coyotes. One recently told me that a group of them hauled away his friend's deer kill before he could get his ATV in to pick it up.

At any rate, it is pup season and I've explained to the staff that any coyotes they come across now will likely be more aggressive especially if they come near their dens. Best not to try and get that "selfi" if you want to avoid getting bit...and the subsequent rabies shots!

Geez who would be dumb enough to try to take a selfie with a coyote???? And in that case I sort of believe those individuals should be allowed to self cull for the benefit of our species.
 

Sheila Braund

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The hunters that come in the store have told me it is a shoot-on-sight situation with Coyotes. One recently told me that a group of them hauled away his friend's deer kill before he could get his ATV in to pick it up.

At any rate, it is pup season and I've explained to the staff that any coyotes they come across now will likely be more aggressive especially if they come near their dens. Best not to try and get that "selfi" if you want to avoid getting bit...and the subsequent rabies shots!

My husband carries a can of nails and if he hears them while he is walking to the house he shakes it and it makes enough noise to give him enough time to get into the house from his shop
 

April Nicole

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Geez who would be dumb enough to try to take a selfie with a coyote???? And in that case I sort of believe those individuals should be allowed to self cull for the benefit of our species.

I was thinking the same thing, but people are crazy w the selfies. I saw a lady posted on a blog about visiting the Grand Canyon. She said no one was actually looking at the Canyon. Their backs were toward it as they got selfies. She said some young men were dangerously close to the edge, and her 8 year old son was scared to death that they would fall off!

So yeah I could see some idiot trying to catch a selfie with a coyote. What's really scary is these people are going to be our future!
 

Nik

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I was thinking the same thing, but people are crazy w the selfies. I saw a lady posted on a blog about visiting the Grand Canyon. She said no one was actually looking at the Canyon. Their backs were toward it as they got selfies. She said some young men were dangerously close to the edge, and her 8 year old son was scared to death that they would fall off!

So yeah I could see some idiot trying to catch a selfie with a coyote. What's really scary is these people are going to be our future!

They won't be our future if we let them take those selfies. ;-)
 

Sheila Braund

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https://london.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1386411

Sorry, can't edit out the commercial....

Hope this clip shows this coyote attack info from this week. Poor puppy! It's a really nice area where this family lives, lots of emphasis on natural areas spared from construction (Warbler woods) and near Springbank Park which is a sprawling riverside park full of wildlife. But this is becoming common here! Something needs to be done.

I have a friend I used to join for morning walks, he goes farther than I do, and part of his walk takes him through a local cemetery, which backs onto a small Wooded lot (which has a public school on the other side...yikes) and he tells me he sees coyotes there all the time. He sees them skulking on the fringe of the trees, and they follow him and his dog Doc. One of the Clerks from work said he encountered a pack of them near a railroad track near our work. They didn't attack, but they were very interested in him. And a few years ago, they wiped out the goose and duck nest area along a stream near me. They killed everything...a really depressing spring.

I get it that they are a top predator and that there is a balance in nature, but this lady is right, small children and even larger pets like my Mastiff may be next unless they bring in a cull. They aren't afraid of us anymore and sooner or later Someone is going to die. Add to that that local populations are now (according to a program I saw with Dr. Suzuki) Coy-wolves....larger and more deadly, we need answers, not more troubling journalism.

If you hit search on CTV, you'll see several other incidents.

Ok like wow! :eek: I send corrected regarding these Coy-wolves.... My uncle lives up north past Barrie Ontario. He tells me he's seen these Coy-wolves around his home! He said he didn't know what their were until he spoke with a local hunter.. he tells me they have the look of the coyote but the size of a timber wolf!

I guess Mother Nature figured this was the best way to have these species survive was by joining them together o_O