Coyote's - are they everywhere?
 

I remember when a coyote got Joe Bob's pup.

Two deer hunters "assumed the position" in my shop today with a stocked fridge.

I asked "How far east do coyotes live".

I got sent to school.

They said the Akron area is overrun with coyotes.

Why don't I see them?

They are sneaky, and yes, they are pretty much everywhere, including some urban environs.

When they are in urban areas they are nocturnal.

We have road runners too!

All over the US now. At least they made it all the way to the North East and on down.

I split time between the S.F. Bay Area and the Sierra foothills. See scrawny ones in the hills of the Bay Area and healthy fluffy big ones in the mountains.

I've seen some healthy ones around my hood.
Almost the size of my 90# mutts.

I was the same way as you Bob, I had no idea they were even in our area. I had this customer who was from Alaska, and he was a devout Coyote hunter/trapper . He had this really cool 1980 f 250 that was his hunting rig. We did a bunch of work to it for him He said this place is crawling with them.
I have spent a good amount of time outside in my life, and have never seen one in the area until recently .

I have never even seen a road kill.

I live at the southern most tip of Los Angeles a block from the ocean, lived here 55 years. Never saw them (doesn't mean there weren't there) until a decade or so ago, now they have been spotted strolling down the streets of residential neighborhoods at dawn/dusk.

Technically I still haven't seen one but my wife was pulling out of the garage and saw one in the alley.

I haven't seen any coyotes here. We do have wallabies.

There was a recent deer cull because they were over-running even the downtown neighborhoods. People aren't used to urban deer in the streets.

Saw three rabbits on the walk tonight. They just sit there and my critters walk past five feet away. Lots of them in this neighborhood, starting last year. Haven't seen any raccoons, skunks, or possums but the dog sure is interested in smelling the sewer grates.

When the rabbits start disappearing, I'll start getting worried about the cat.

Probably the coyotes are following water such as a stream or flood channel. Water usually means food. We have had foxes in our area, which I think people may mistake for a coyote. I can hear both at night, but rarely ever see a coyote. A small red fox lives in the field out back. If it was a grey fox, then I'd shoot him with a pellet gun to get him to move away. I have to protect the cats. One interesting thing is that no matter how many owls, hawks, foxes, and cats we have, the dang mice and rabbits never seem to go totally away. The ground dwelling birds have been all but eliminated.

I've see them all the time. Driving at night. I'll see them crossing the road. Down in Tucson you'll see javalina darting out in front of you. I've whacked a few with my truck, but the ****ers roll and start running back to the desert.

Back on topic. I'll constantly warn my neighbors that it's not A smart idea to leave their cats out overnight. Of course Coyotes snagged a few. Best part. Neighbor kept getting a replacement cat for each one that went "missing".

This spring had a couple of rabbits that would sit in the front yard of an evening. Now there is only one.

Same thing with opossum in the back yard. Seen a momma opossum carting around 3 babies along the top of the stockade fence this spring. Lately have only seen one smaller than the Momma by itself.

There is a Great Horned Owl that roosts in the top of the big cottonwood in the middle of the back yard. Haven't actually seen it, but can hear it hooting at about 11pm. While my Golden was a little puppy, always went outside with her at night if she had to go.

Puppy has removed a lot of grass snakes and lizards, but hasn't brought me anything else...Yet. Does a lot of sniffing where the rabbits go thru the stockade fence. Other goldens I've had brought me birds, squirrels, and rabbits. One brought me a opossum playing opossum once. Got it away from her and both of us inside before it came to and ambled off.

Haven't seen any evidence of any other varmints, predator or prey.

Do coyotes interbreed with domestic dogs?

The Wiley Coyote............
 

Yep, we have them down here in South Georgia also. Any area of undeveloped woods is likely to have a few. There have been several killed not far from the subdivision where I live! On the other hand, we also have a family of wild Peacocks that live around here! When they get noisy, it sounds like someone/something is making a child scream! Very spooky when you first hear it!

We've had them in Nova Scotia for about 20 years. When they first moved in, the foxes and rabbits disappeared. They never made a dent in the deer population though.
In the past few years we've been seeing fewer coyotes and are once again seeing foxes and rabbits.

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Les

I saw one in the Boston suburbs one moning while driving to the airport.

We have them in Slidell, LA. as well as New Orleans and adjacent cities.

You probably don't see them because they are nocturnal. I very rarely see one around here (near Dayton, Ohio) but at night when they howl it sounds like there are hundreds of them. Sometimes they sound like they're right outside the house.

We have them here in Western NY, Hear them howl all the time. Love to hunt them at night. Shoot quite a few every year with no dent in the population. Saw one last summer that was the size of a big German Shepard! They say some of the ones around here are mixed with red wolves from up north in Canada. They come south in the winter over the ice on the St. Lawrence river.

If you do a google search, you'll find 2 slightly different maps. The main difference is how much of Canada the maps say have them.

http://extension.usu.edu/wildlifecon...search_com.jpg
The main difference is if they put the coyotes all of the way up to Hudson bay or not.
http://www.cfr.msstate.edu/wildlife/...s/coyote_3.jpg

We have had them confront people just before dusk in a local dog park. No attacks but they were sizing up the dogs for a meal. Out at my other house the neighbours get together and make sure the numbers are kept down. All I know is you have to leed them quite a bit when they are running flat out.

not routinely

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coydog

I saw a very healthy one this week trying to cross I-20 in western South Carolina. Walked out of the brush, looked at the rush hour traffic, turned around and went back.

Thirty years ago when we moved into our neighborhood, I would hear them all the time when I went out jogging in the evening or early mornings. Since then, with all the urban sprawl that has inundated the county, I no longer hear them. Still plenty of other critters like deer, bobcats, cotton tails, raccoons, possums, alligators and recently, feral hogs.

Just spent the weekend in Pedro at wife's parents house. We had our little maltese/terrier mutt with us in the bedroom and about 2 in the morning she started freaking out. There were two big coyotes right outside the bedroom window prowling around.
Scott....this is on Santa Cruz just above Western and they are coming down from PV and are NOT afraid of humans at all. They have been spotted on Gaffey and 1st street!

We live in the desert and see them here all the time but there is definitely a problem when they are everywhere in the city.

May not be relevant, but prevalent in Oregon and Washington...

I was sitting outside with my parents eating lunch on their patio set in Scottsdale a few weeks ago and I heard footsteps in the gravel. I looked up and saw a good sized Coyote just basically trotting on by. I didnt even see him look our way but he was no more than 20 feet away from us. He just kept on going cutting through backyards until I lost sight of him.. Very common in those parts to be seen at any time of the day!

On the trails behind my I haven't seen any coyotes, even though there are large numbers and packs in my area. I'd walk on the trails with my dog and seen mountain lion tracks many times, and one evening I heard the loud screeching sounds of two large cats mating. Last spring there were a half dozen deer kills thawing from the winter. But, the year before there were a dozen. Also, on on creek a moma bear has a couple cubs each spring and a large handsome male is occasionally, seen near another creek. But, I haven't seen any coyotes until this summer when I spotted one leap from the sage brush on to the trail in front of Katie my 3 year old Carolina Dog. I was afraid the coyote would lure her to the pack and I yelled at her. But, she took off like a bolt of lightning and attacked the full sized coyote, about her size. And as I got about 10 yards away, the coyote escaped. Then she got him again in the sage and was destroying him. I ran into the sage and as I got close the coyote escaped. Katie ran through the sage brush, leaping over the brush with her ears pointed and head high above the brush looking for the coyote which was long gone and I was able to catch and leash her. She was wouldn't calm down so, I took her back to the house. Anyway, Katie is my second Carolina Dog. My first one would destroy full sized raccoons.

I figured the reason why there were no coyotes was because of the mountain lion. Late last winter a rancher had one kill some sheep and shot one. I'm thinking that might be why there was a coyote on the trail. However, I' m sure there are more mountain lion.

At least a dozen live in my backyard. 18 acres, butt up against another 1,000 acres of wild lands. Moving in two days.

I hear em' nightly and sometimes I hear their meal crying and screaming as the coyotes are having their dinner. They come up to my backyard sometimes. I'm start to see big ones around here. The one I saw was about 3/4 the size of a German Shepard.

Went to visit my g/f in Phoenix one dark night last year...a condo complex of 12 units with a driveway down the center.
Trotting down the driveway was a long legged Coyote...I sped up a bit and it ran to the back dead end where the dumpsters are and I watched it scale a 6 foot cinder block wall.
Saw another a few months ago in a Scottsdale dog park at 10 AM...just standing there in the open...looking around.

They are everywhere around here. Where once in a while I would pass one on the road just before dawn I now see them 24/7. We keep our Maltipoo (Scout) close in hand these days.

Hell if I'm not mistaken a yote took out Todd and his Multistrada. Todd went on but the bike didn't survive the encounter.