Does anyone have any experience with urban coyotes? I have met up with one the last 3 mornings. He kind of set the rules. We can share the park but keep your dog on a leash ..I’m listening but not happy.
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Having done my time living in the L.A. area. (Augura Hills, Westlake Village, Thousand Oaks) I have had numerous run ins with these pests.
When living on a golf course there would be packs of them that would come down and ravage local pet populations. There were signs posted that you should not let your pet wander at night.
Having the GSDs there was never a problem, but more than a few times they all wanted to go run off and do who knows what evil to the local cyot pupulation.
I think that generally they are harmless. Here in P-town I've seen them a few times and only for a brief second. Dogs didn't even notice they were there in the distance.
If you have a little dog you might have a problem in the wrong circumstances. I also hear that some farmers/livestock folks have problems with predations.
Don'l let anybody lie and tell you that they never work in packs either, I've seen it.
My two dogs at night will go crazy when the coyotes are yipping. Only thing to quiet them down is to go outside with them for a few minutes. After they check out the area they come back inside happy as can be. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
Until those da-m coyotes start again. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />
Coyotes inmy area usually keep their distance, urban coyotes my be a different story. My Akita sure wants one or two.
My Dad's old doberman in Klamath Falls, OR used to go and kill coyotes for fun. He said she wouldn't mess with anything else but coyotes. Said she would run up to them grab then by their neck and break it. I wouldn't really worry about them much because coyotes are really timid, and chances are if your dog barked at the coyote it would run away.
My sister lives in Saskatchewan and generally their 3 GSD farm dogs kept them chased away. One winter when the MNR made all the farmers tie up their farm dogs(they were afraid of them running deer) the coyotes got very bold and were coming right up into peoples dooryards and chewing the. tails off of calves and snatching small pets and stuff. Her dobe/GSD cross got its neck quite badly chewed up once also. We have coyotes here but no problems with them, just fishers which clean out the cat population.
Coyotes are pack animals. They will prey on small easy to catch/kill animals but have also developed taste buds for the contents of trash cans. As their domaine has shrunk with urban sprawl; they have adapted well to "sharing" their world with humans. A true bred coyote is skiddish around humans.
What has evolved in most urban settings is the breeding of coyote to dog resulting in a Coy.
The Coy resembles a coyote; however, the Coy is much larger, has no fear of human and can be a dangerous animal. Coys usually run in packs which makes them that much more dangerous.
Urban, what's urban? Street smart desert dogs? We have a lot of them, but we are not, by any means urban. We deal with them one of two ways; .223 or 22-270. Sheep herders and ranchers still put bounties on them from time to time out here. No BS, there was a wanted poster for a three legged on in our post office.
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