Coyotes in my neighborhood are bold AF

[cantdrv55]

Two coyotes just walking past behind my back fence. This one stopped for a photo opp. They’re baiting my 70 lb Great Pyrenees/GSD mix. My dog’s a princess so I doubt she’d be able to hold her own against two big, hungry coyotes. I’m going to buy a pellet gun to scare these guys off. They come around every morning when my dog goes out to do her thing.

[Bugsinrugs]

When I get down to Walnut Creek I usually take my dog for a hike at Briones regional park. Always seem to encounter a coyote or two. Bay Area coyotes look kind of scraggly compared to the ones around my place in Nevada City. Coyotes have taken the place of the Wolf in the food chain. Had a pack of 4 take down a deer right outside my kitchen window. It was pitch black but when I scanned the area with my flashlight there were 5 pair of eyes looking at me. Kinda creepy.

[varmint]

coyotes are smart. a couple .308s an inch in front of their noses and they'll get the message.

we have them around here sometimes, then once a year the wolf pack south of town comes up and eats them all.

[pwd72s]

Funny, Coyotes are very shy in my area. Could it be because people keep shooting them?

[Superman]

Coyotes are target practice. I'll kill them every chance I get.

[pwd72s]

Does anyone else know that a single shot rifle with a .22LR sub sonic round sounds about like a balloon pop?

[LWJ]

They are thick here. Saw one bite a doe on the chest 30 feet up a hill from me a month ago.

[Jim Bremner]

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[Arizona_928]

Pellet gun might piss off the yote if you don't kill it.

Maybe go snag a roman candle, snare or foothold trap. Well, and a method to dispatch it.

[Bill Douglas]

Google trip wire alarm, something like this https://shomer-tec.com/products/alarm-signaling-device

Legal, and they will think they are veing shot at.

[LEAKYSEALS951]

Call Amantine. He's on the bolt train

[porsche tech]

Nice view (except for the coyote)…scarey! Like stepping out your back door and seeing an alligator. We have both around here but I’ve never seen a coyote (yet).

[oldE]

When coyotes moved into the area about 45 years ago, they were a novelty, then we lost one of our cats. I made a secure kennel for the cats and instituted a policy that any coyotes spotted on the property could be expected to be chased. I would grab a baseball bat or whatever and start after it/them. They caught on very quickly and avoided the place in daylight hours. They are still around. We find tracks and scat, but if they see one of us, they move on. That's what I wanted. They see the humans here as a threat, not a source of treats.

Best
Les

[mjohnson]

Here in the NM mountains - at some point if you keep adopting cats at the shelter, you get cut off as "clearly just getting coyote food".

They're smart AF. Will sit on the curb and look both ways before crossing traffic - and, at least here, will gang up on a dog and hiker and get on it. Naive me would have thought that a human would deter them, but - nope. They don't care.

Mountain lions and bears in the 'hood don't bother me. They have their spaces and their times. The 'yotes however are a real problem. Like the mule deer that shred every bit of all of our landscaping - I'm pretty sure nobody would hear a .223 or .308...

[wswartzwel]

My sister in law lives in Nahant, Mass. The coyote problem there got so bad the city hired assassins to cull the pack.

https://www.wbur.org/news/2022/12/16/nahant-massachusetts-kill-coyotes

[billybek]

My community backs onto a pathway/natural greenspace area that follows the river valley. Lots of critters live down there as well as a number of homeless folks in tent encampments.
A few years back the coyotes were getting so brave that a few of them were showing up in the school field when the kids were getting out of classes.
Mysteriously, they all disappeared for a while before the population has recovered to the numbers there are now.
The early morning dog walkers encounter them on a regular basis.

[cantdrv55]

We have a Facebook page for the city and on it people post pics of coyote sightings to warn residents to keep an eye on their children and pets. Every time someone makes a post, two or three people will get on to sermon us not to harm the coyotes because this is their land too. Eff that.

[Scott Douglas]

From what I've read about GP's, I think you may be under estimating your dog's willingness and ability to defend her territory.

[craigster59]

Here and I'm sure in other areas, the Yotes will send out a female in heat to draw in the family pet only to have 5-7 of their pack waiting to pounce and kill.

[jyl]

OP, if I lived there I’d have great fun with wrist rocket, paintball gun, etc - then if they don’t get the idea, 22 short.

Don’t like coyotes and if you look at a map, they have plenty of non-developed areas to live in.