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Originally Posted by LeeH
The bulletin board at our vet's office is filled with 'missing cat' notices. Outdoor cats in our neighborhood quickly become missing cats.
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Same here. I'm in what used to be rural Snohomish County, and have been for 22 years now. We have been engulfed by suburbia, but there is still a lot of open, undeveloped space around us. Some of it is protected wetland, so it never will be developed. It's great habitat for suburban coyotes, and the occasional mountain lion or black bear. I've seen coyotes around our place the whole time we have lived here. I've heard mountain lions crying in our woods behind our place. The WDFW trapped a black bear within two miles of us just a couple of years ago.
Some one in a neighborhood to the north of us, one of the new ones, has gone around and posted signs on the telephone poles. "Coyotes in Your Neighborhood" in big bold letters at the top, followed by admonitions to not leave pets or food outside (it doesn't say "pets" and "food" are more or less interchangeable. Maybe I'm the only one to pick up on that...). It goes on to explain what to do if confronted by one, but leaves out the obvious - shoot the little bastard. All this rot about "looking big", not making eye contact or running, etc. Oh well.
Maybe I should set up and call a few in my 'hood. I could use the old Snoopy doll very effectively, methinks. Of course lighting off the old .220 Swift in a residential neighborhood might not go unnoticed. I'd bet they would all know who, as well. Hmm... maybe time to put up some more of my "silent" .45-70 loads...