Coy dogs.

JayinNY · Dec 15, 2010

Every now and then I go out my basement door at night and hear coy dogs yapping, like a whole pack of them. I never see them, but I was wondering if maybe they kill something and that makes then bark and yip like that, they may be coyotes I dont know. Gonna start cutting firewood tomorrow at a differnt place , so I wont have time to go down and look for tracks, fur, feathers, ect.

Husker44A · Dec 15, 2010

Those are coyotes yippin......just talkin to one another. If you like to hunt those are a blast very easy to "call" em in. Use a rabbit in distress call sounds like a squeell. You have a deer rifle or shotgun ? Dont take very much to get em to come a runnin right to ya. A lot of fun just gotta be very still. No sudden movements. Once ya try it you"ll never go back..Oh ya call during daylight hours and make sure you are downwind of them so they dont smell ya. They have very keen eyes and one heck of a nose. They can spot and smell ya a mile a way. Thats no joke either..

Mark - IN. · Dec 15, 2010

If they are yotes, by the time you hear them they have come and gone. I saw a good sized one yesterday crossing some train tracks, but company truck, no rifle to grab and load.

Mark

Richard from SE AZ · Dec 15, 2010

As a younger man I liked to call in coyotes. There used to be lots of them here and when you called them in, usually 3 or 4 would come charging in. I had a couple come in from behind me and run right over the top of me before either one of us knew the other was there. One of my favorite tricks was to get on the platform of a windmill and call them in. I used a 30 carbine with FMJ ammo. It didn't damage the pelt at all. I made a lot of extra cash selling the pelts back then. Not worth much now. We still have quite a few here now because the rabbit population is way up. At night when a couple or three come by it sounds like a hundred of them. They make quite a racket.

Dave 2N · Dec 16, 2010

Jay-

It"s been pretty much established that they are Eastern Coyotes--they share DNA with westerns that moved here and I think it"s some sort of Canadian Wolf. The "coy dog" idea has been proven to be less likely.

We have them all over down here in the southern Tier. Sometimes when I go out of the house in the AM to do chores when it"s still dark, I"ll catch a glimpse of them heading across the pasture into the woods.

Traditional Farmer · Dec 16, 2010

Yea we have them around most people call them Eastern Coyotes very efficient livestock killers.
Several have been shot here on my farm that scaled over 50lbs and vary in color from brown to nearly black.

4 bottem · Dec 16, 2010

We are also loaded with them in Maine. Its been my experience that when I hear them yipping in a pack Ill usually find a fresh kill somewhere close. (Usually a deer). My dog will usually start dragging in bones in a few days. Use a old fire truck siren to locate them. They can't resist answering that.

Anonymous-0 · Dec 16, 2010

I just drops a anvil on them, it works for me!

hayray · Dec 16, 2010

We used to hear alot about coydogs back in the 70s here in Michigan, now just Coyotes. DNA studies show that Eastern yotes have a little percentage of gray wolf DNA, that may be why the Eastern coyotes are a little bigger then western animals. Some of the largest Michigan coyotes are within 10 lbs. of the smaller sized gray wolves we have. Not that easy to hunt around here. Lots of people try hunting them and if they have ever been called before chances are you will never get them to come in again. In the East it is way harder to hunt them then out West were you can see so far.

JDemaris · Dec 16, 2010

We get them often. Only takes one or two to sound like a bunch of drunken fools yipping and hooting. They're eastern coyotes though, not "coy dogs." Eastern coyotes are part red-wolf and native to central and northern NY. And yes, there are dog-mixes around, but why suspect that instead of the many native coyotes?

They've left tracks in front of my open barn many times, when there were baby goat kids inside - and they didn't bother a thing. I suspect they shy away from the human smells.

Wilson · Dec 16, 2010

25 years ago I had a pet coyote (born in a cage, taken from mon at 2 days) one of the most faithful animale I ever had. He ever led us to a lost family shelty once.

mmidlam · Dec 16, 2010

There was a group of coyotes making a lot of noise a few weeks ago. One of them had a deep, long wolf like howl instead of the coyote yeps. I have never heard one sound like that before. Maybe it had more wolf or dog in it.

buickanddeere · Dec 16, 2010

Eastern Red Wolf.
Makes for the best and worst of both species when crossed.

JayinNY · Dec 16, 2010

I heard them again tonight, they sure are kinda erie sounding, I might try to go down tomarrow and look around.

Coy dogs.

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