Look What Showed Up on My Game Cam

[Seahawk]

Welcome to Medley's Neck, Mr. Canis latrans.

We have suspected their presence the last few years, just never had definitive proof. On another game camera, I have a night shot of three smaller Coyotes, too blurry to pic unless Byron posts it



Game cameras are a hoot, btw. Lots of Fox, deer, possums, etc. All the stars come out at night!

[onewhippedpuppy]

That's really cool, I bet you get some interesting visitors out at your place.

[KFC911]

I've seen a coyote first hand at my back fence, and captured a bobcat on my rural property trail cam along with at least 20 different deer....wildlife thrives like never before here in my lifetime....cool stuff

[nostatic]

Well, I'm not riding my moto out to your place...

[Craig T]

Shoot that nasty dog eater!

[herr_oberst]

Good picture!

I live in an old, established neighborhood, and there are at least a couple of skinny coyotes that slink around looking for wildlife or dog food....

[vash]

pretty dog!! good fur.

they are still kinda nasty looking near me. i saw a red fox in the middle of Pleasanton Ca friday. blew my mind.

Friday i set up my game cameras. i get so nervous. i put them up on public land. my friends have had them stolen..knock on wood, i hope i dont lose one.

[oldE]

We seldom see coyotes near here these days, mostly because I have been actively chasing them from the property every time I see them. I started doing that after we realized a young coyote was hunting field mice within 75 yards of the house. I know they're still around, but I do my best to make them feel that being around humans is a bad thing.

The last one I went after turned around and beat a retreat the way it had come, only to run into a female Northern Harrier who gave it a rough time all the way across the marsh.

Best
Les

[Craig T]

Where I live Coyotes are live rats. I rarely go a day without seeing one. They kill and eat any cat or dog under 30 lbs left out at night, and they have zero fear of humans. I had to throw rocks at one to get it to leave the bridal path.

[Rick V]

Originally Posted by Craig T

Shoot that nasty dog eater!

Yes because Paul has to worry so much about protecting his soy beans from this savage creature.

[Craig T]

Originally Posted by Rick V

Yes because Paul has to worry so much abut protecting his soy beans from this savage creature.

My neighbors threw a birthday party for their 5 year old. With 15 kindergartners playing in the yard, a coyote jumped the 5' chain link fence, grabbed their maltese (or laspo aspo?) and went right back over the fence with it in it's mouth. Kinda killed the party mood.

Another neighbor found their vizsla in the back yard missing his internal organs.

Shoot that nasty bastard.

[GWN7]

I have a friend who lives in the Northern part of London, UK and he has documented foxes adapting to urban life for the last 10 years or so. They do quite well.

Ote's on the other hand should be dealt with extreme prejudice. We have a well known member here who lost his dachshund exactly the way Craig T described.

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by Craig T

..a coyote jumped the 5' chain link fence, grabbed their maltese (or laspo aspo?) and went right back over the fence with it in it's mouth....

Happens frequently in my hood.

Often enough now you'd think people would know better than to leave their small animals outside but they still do it.

[Tobra]

I am a leave wildlife alone sort of guy, but any coyote that would do what Craig describes, hop a fence into an area with a crowd of people to take a small dog, needs to die.

That said, anyone who leaves a small animal outside at night in an area with coyote or raccoon, should not be surprised when their pet turns up missing. My brother in law found a coyote that apparently had been sniffing around the wrong hen house and could not take two 90 lb dogs. The dogs were a little cut up, 'yote was in pieces.

[Rick V]

The more we build and decide to live in the areas where the wild life (that has been here longer then us) lives the more these issues are going to happen.
By all means let us shoot the animals that attack us when we walk in the woods.
We have bear, wild cats, coyotes, and all manner of violent animals that use my yard as a thoroughfare, can they do massive damage and kill, sure, are they simply doing what they are programmed to do? Yes. Do I shoot them just because they happen to come walking through? Not a chance.

[ben parrish]

Coyotes are getting to be a real issue all over the country. We have a farm in South Georgia. My dad has spent the last ten years and thousands of dollars developing it from a working farm to basically a wildlife management property. Acres of corn, millet, winter wheat, peas and other grains are planted for the quail, turkey and deer. We hunt the property selectively to maintain a healthy ecosystem. We have resident bobcats, hawks and other predators that help keep the small mammals, snakes and wounded animals in check.
A few year back, the Coyotes started showing up more and more and the small game like rabbits and quail have basically disappeared. We now have a standing rule that all Coyotes are shot on site. We see quiet a few on trail cameras but it is not often that we see them in daylight.
This one was taken by a friend two weekends ago...never saw him before on a cam. For reference, the buck in the photo was 195lbs...the Coyote was a HUGE male.

[fintstone]

I am used to seeing coyotes out west where I lived much of my adult life, but never in the NC mountains or Virginia where I grew up. My wife saw a large one a couple years ago at one our Virginia houses and I was sorta dismissive...and assumed a very large fox. Since that house is pretty close to Seahawk's....maybe she was right. There were few deer at one time as well...and now they are everywhere. I have never seen one as dark as the one in Ben Parrish's photo.

[speeder]

We see coyotes constantly in the Hollywood hills here, crossing Mulholland at night, etc. I've certainly never seen one that looks remotely like the black creature in the above photo, though.

[speeder]

My GF used to walk her dog in the evenings with a 9-iron, up near the top of Beverly Glen canyon.

[Craig T]

Rick V, I was just kidding about shooting them. I've actually made domestic pets out of several. They make great family pets! Here's a picture of one playing with my dog. Here's another of one napping on my patio chair.