Fluffy is missing

Not a day goes by I don't see a poster on a mail box, or the computer. The picture is of a cat, or small dog that is missing. People buy a house behind a brush area. Put up a 6 ft wood, or chain link fence, and think that's a same area for fido. Then along comes mr coyote and goes over the fence like isn't there, and runs off with dinner. I have seen collars while mowing, and parts of a dog, or cat. I keep my cats inside, just because of the dangers outside. My dog is big enough to take care of her self. People want to get rid of the coyotes, but they were their first. I am sure the coyote is a problem everywhere Stan

My animals come in to the garage at night, cat gets fed inside, dog goes in kennel.

Our oldest boy walked out early one morning and their one cat went out also. Coyote grabbed the cat right in the yard in plain sight.

For folks that think they're cute and fuzzy.
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We have cats that run loose and I've seen coyotes close to our house but we have more trouble with neighbor dogs. Anyways my place is heavily wooded so the cats are always close to an escape route. The only cats we've lost where shot by neighbors. On cat had to have a leg amputated because a co2 pellet shattered a bone. Thankfully that neighbor is gone now.

A coyote tried to grab a young child not long ago right in the peoples yard. Also saw where a hawk or eagle tried to grab an infant. So just dont watch your animals. When I was younger we walked all over in the woods and never worried about animals but times are changing. I think they said cougars here have a 2 mile radius when 40 is normal. They quit hunting with dogs and they're way over populated.

Coyotes have wiped out all the cats and small dogs in my area that are not kept inside or in a tight enclosure.They have killed goats,calves and poultry for me.

We have barn cats and coyotes.

Last winter I got up about 4am to answer nature's call and when i looked out the bathroom window in the yard light I could see there were 3 coyotes sitting under a stand of pine trees in the backyard where we winter feed deer, just like a trio of domesticated dogs. They were about 30ft. from a barn where the cats stay under a lean-to on the same side the coyotes were. I got on my boots and coat, then went out on the deck and flung my arms open, (reenacting that scene in Dr. Zhivago with Yuri the wolves at Varykino) whereupon the coyotes scattered. I figured there would be no cats- at least no complete cats- left, and sure enough, when I shone a torch into the lean-to all their straw boxes were empty and straw was scattered about.

Then I looked up on the parts shelves that line the outer wall of the barn inside the lean-to, and up on the top shelf, 14 feet up, were all 8 of the cats, all puffed-up staring down at me! Two hours later, half of them were still up there and stayed put until the sun came out.

Almost every night I hear coyotes behind my house in the woods and across the road in the fields and woods there. Any time a siren goes down the main road at night a few coyotes will join in, howling a backup chorus as it passes by. In the winter I can see where they cross by yard at night and find deer and rabbit kills frequently. My neighbors raise sheep, cattle, goats and chickens and I have a fine herd of fixed, well fed and healthy once abandoned cats (yes, you cat dumpers- those are cows, but the farm across from me is a BEEF CATTLE operation, NOT a dairy farm!!). All those animals running around here making noise and spreading scent must make it irresistible to the pack, but I haven't lost a cat yet to coyotes in 30 years here, but i stay up (and outside) late, and sleep light.

The biggest threats to my pride of cats are hunters who "gotta kill something!", and idiots who drive 60mph+ on a narrow dirt road lined with mature trees and deep ditches.

We live on the edge of town, but still have a fairly large pack of Coyotes that comes thru frequently. Our Dogs are outside dogs (inside a 6' fence). They have the run of our back yard. The dogs are 50% timberwolf. This makes them large, impressive, and lovers. One night when they were about 1 year old, a Coyote got over the gate and into the yard. Our male woke up and sounded off. That woke his sister and she sounded off too. The Coyotes now don't come into our yard. The neighbors cat has figured out that he can set on the fence safely, and the Coyotes won't come close.
Tim in OR

Mr Ruger 270 has eliminated multiple coyotes around my place

Coyotes were not a top predator in the East before 1900. They have only recently begun to expand their range into the Northeast and Southeast. I think some were introduced to help control deer populations, but I really wish they were not here.

I view them like Kudzu, and Chinaberry trees.

Yesterday while waiting for a load of soybeans,i was riding in combine.seen a calf laying by its self.we woke it n a coyote came up out of nowhere n chased the calf.momma came on the run. Wylie decided to go away.
My custom built for me savage 22-250 and my cz 527 in 204 ruger have put many yotes to sleep

According to the Game Dept in Virginia that have done DNA tests the Coyotes here are 60% coyote,30% wolf and 10% dog,they are a lot different animal than the runty
pure coyotes in the Western USA

But fluffy went to the farm to live out it's life chasing lizards and mice.

And now you tell me fluffies fate was death


what kind of monster does that make you?

We saturate small sponges with bacon grease. have found a number of coyotes that choked to death right in the yard.

My son watched a large coyote take down a small doe last weekend while he sat in a hunting blind. The deer was a spring fawn and only about half grown but still surprising that a coyote could take it down. I never thought anything but the smallest baby calf had anything to fear from a coyote but after that display I may have to rethink that.

Here it is a Remington 700 BDL Deluxe, HB in .223

(quoted from post at 08:14:45 11/06/19) According to the Game Dept in Virginia that have done DNA tests the Coyotes here are 60% coyote,30% wolf and 10% dog,they are a lot different animal than the runty
pure coyotes in the Western USA

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The VA studies actually only show 2% wolf DNA. 13% dog, 85% coyote. Still, eastern coyotes are obviously larger than westerns. I hope no one actually believes their dog is "big enough to take care of themselves". Unless a dog knows how to fight and kill, it doesn't stand a chance.

What's the deal with the sponge/bacon grease??!! Never heard of that, might be something to look into where I'm at in southeastern VA. How big of a sponge would be needed? Bacon grease is no problem for us as we go through a pound or so a week.

I don't think that is a good way to die. Better to shoot, and be sure, rather than have an animal to die a slow death. Stan

The percentages I quoted came from an article in VA Wildlife official magazine from VA Fish and Game Dept.Another article in a local paper quote a biologist
as saying the mix was 66% coyote,24% wolf and 10% dog.I'd guess each individual animal would vary some as with any cross breed.There are a couple we now have around my farm we have gotten on game cameras that look exactly like a wolf.My Great Pyrenees are more than up to the task of handling them 1 on 1.Coyotes here don't really seem to want to fight just get a easy meal and take off which is why domestic livestock are often their target.