Discouraging coyotes hanging around the house?

[rooter]

I don't have a strong feeling about it one way or another. As I posted before, the OP asked for help with yotes. Poison kills them. It's legal in some places. I wouldn't use it myself, but others have - and do.

I would add that there's nothing "indiscriminate" about poisoning these varmints. The poison would be on his/her own property. It would very specifically poison only trespassing animals.

Marksman13 again:

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I can tell you now, if you set out poison and killed my dog in the process, you would get a very loud, unfriendly knock at the door.

I can tell YOU now, that if your dog were in my yard, you would get the very loud knock first. You'd only get one chance to keep it off my property. I have kids that have a right to play in their own yard. I have my own dog. I clean up my dog's poop - not your dog's poop.

Before we start chest-thumping, we need to think about what we're implying. Does your love for your pet, or for wild yotes, trump U.S. property rights?

Thanks. My point exactly. I did not want my post to begin an ethical debate, which, inevitably gets threads closed on this forum.

And in response to the poster who promised a loud and unfriendly visit to the house. I wouldn't recommend a tough guy approach in dealing with any conflict. There are some folks who might make you leave faster than you came.

I know a guy who visited his neighbors trailer in that fashion over some loud music (ongoing problems between the two) and wound up getting shot in the back with a shotgun as he walked away. He lived and the guy went to jail for a few years, but the guy has since been released and my buddy still has medical problems, some lead in his body, and a rather large and deformed looking divot in his back from the incident.

I wonder if he would have gone over and been polite if things would have turned out differently.

 

[marksman13]

Rooter, show me where I said I would be the one doing the knocking........ I think Bensdad and I have moved on. We're pretty much on the same page. We've reached Zen if you will.

 

[Savage Shooter]

this may or may not be an option for you being as you live in an urban area mix fly bait in with ground hamburburger. In my rural area this what my neighbor does when coyotes attack and kill his calves when they are eating the kill he puts the baited hamburger balls in the carcass and around them the coyote won't make is 5 feet not even kiddin you, coons wont even move a foot. fly bait is found a various farm stores it is VERY POSIONOUS use at you're own discretion it is DEADLY.

 

[Savage Shooter]

Oh I just thought of the perfect thing a crossbow we have one its a cross bow pistol its relativly silent and works good cost about 100 bucks now bout 50 when we got one and after you killed the coyotes you would have something fun to traget practice with.

 

[rooter]

Rooter, show me where I said I would be the one doing the knocking........

Why? Just hoping to save you a divot. Looks just like a 8X8 sinkhole actually. Deep enough that a drunk guy drank beer out of it at a party on a dare. Something you definitely do not want to see before, during, or immediately after a meal

 

[Beagle-zebub]

As to the paintball idea, a guy once told me that he and his friends shot each other with ones that they had coated in lacquer, and then maybe frozen. Whatever the case, they seemed to indicate that it hurts like the dickens.

 

[T.R.]

Check with your local BATF office first.
TR

 

[Dksimon]

A coyote dieing after taking a hit from a cross bow or a typical bow is not exactly going to be quiet. Then after your neighbors call the cops you will have a dead coyote in your backyard with an arrow sticking out of it that you will need to explain.

 

[BSlacker]

We had the coyote problem here in my HOA awhile back. Animal control here doesn't do wild animals unless they are confined. Like you trap it then they will take it and release it right back in your neighborhood. Good luck with that approach.
Over a couple of years the packs grew untill they reached six yotes. Well the city was not much help and the yotes were coming from city property.
Until one bright sunny day a pack eat Sparky while he was on a walk in the park and he was on the leash with Betty his 94 year old owner. Then the city cleaned up the weeds and cover on the city yard property they were living on and the yotes moved downtown to the city hall area. Cleaned out all the cats, people went nuts, newspaper wrote stories took pictures, big deal.
The University of California at Davis web site has some of the best info on urban yotes out there. I followed the progression just like they laid out.
BTW I have a good video security system and saw most of the area cats in my neighborhood get hauled off. The funny part was the next day the cat owner would put a picture of the cat with its name on the community mail box. So I could put a name to a cat in the video.
The only way to rid coyotes is to get rid of their food and cover or make them food for a larger animal. They will eat themselves out of house and home and move on if you reduce the food available. That simple.

 

[JesseL]

The only way to rid coyotes is to get rid of their food and cover or make them food for a larger animal. They will eat themselves out of house and home and move on if you reduce the food available. That simple.

Unfortunately it's not that simple here. This is a heavily forested area (north-central Arizona) that's probably had coyotes (and the critters they eat) longer than people.

I know I probably can't eliminate them. I'll be satisfied with just putting them back in their place - i.e. afraid of people.

 

[stevelyn]

Subsonic .22 fired from inside your home out an open window, very quite I have done this to keep things from alerting neighbors with ALOT of sucess.To kill a coyote you will need a bullseye shot though.

Yes, this works extremely well. I've done it several times.

I also recommend it to friends and neighbors who have pest problems and may not want to bring attention to themselves.

 

[Beagle-zebub]

Good crossbows are surprisingly cheap, very powerful, and very quiet. (Especially if it isn't a compound.) What a bow will do, a crossbow will do better.

Oddly enough, they sell them on Amazon. Go figure.

 

[koja48]

Well, if you can't shoot them without getting in a bind, disturb them as often as possible . . . yell, blaze away with a wrist rocket . . . the goal is to make your particular area of the neighborhood less desirable than other locales to frequent (coyotes are smart; humans are smarter . . . use that to your advantage). I persuaded one this morning to stay away from a coworker's calves (but it was outside of town, relatively sparsely populated, and this 'yote will NEVER be back.). Good luck.

 

[Owen]

the problem with poisons is that the posion doesn't stop at the first animal. everything that eats that animal may also be poisoned...

 

[m4coyote]

I have read over the posts here and have not seen this suggested. Why not an "electric" feeding station. You should easily be able to discriminate between a yote and a pet. AC electric power can be your friend in this instance, and the yote will not be able to utter a sound. ANY yote will drop where he stands if you correctly apply enough amperage of 120 volt house hold current through him. It is very difficult for anything to detect or smell voltage that is not there - until you decide to switch it on.

I have firsthand knowledge that this works, and will be glad to tell you how to do this through a PM. You can even control this handy appliance by a remote control clipped to your belt - if you wish. If you have yotes that are coming for food, this will work.

I love wildlife as much as anyone here, but I refuse to be bullied by anything - coyotes included.

 

[Dakoma]

I have read of baits for coyotes made from Chocolate not sure of what else was mixed in with it to make a coyote eat it.As many people know cocolate is poison to dogs it would also kill,you would have to make sure pets could not get to it.

 

[ADKWOODSMAN]

Snares work fine, you can release any dog or cat caught, hit the coyote with a baseball bat and problem solved.

 

[paintballdude902]

migh wanna get a cheap red rider bbgun thing that will shoot like 300fps

not enough to break the skin but but will give it an not so nice love bite

 

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

I wouldn't poison - too much risk of harming domestic animals; besides it's inhumane, IMO.

I'd trap them (followed by killing or re-locating many miles away; your choice). OR, some of the mentioned ideas like slingshot, baseball, rocks, fireworks, etc.

 

[Viking88]

I have had some past problems with yotes. The answer was trap one, kill it, hang it from a tree. After 2 of these I had no more problems. The smell of a dead coyotes hanging from trees aparently scares them away, PO'd the wife too.

 

[marksman13]

M4coyote might be on to something with that electric feeding station. Sounds promising anyway.

I can tell you that shooting a coyote with a bow will not be a quiet proposition at all. A friend took care of a feral cat with a bow a couple nights ago. Caused enough ruckus to cause every light in the neighborhood to come on. A coyote yelping will definately get you some extra attention.

 

[JesseL]

A coyote yelping will definately get you some extra attention.

I don't know that it would be as much a problem as you might suspect. The coyotes raise a heck of a ruckus nearly every night just being coyotes. Just a couple of them can sound like an army of banshees.

 

[cassandrasdaddy]

the kill em and hang em to discorage the others worked for me. i need another pony to keep the foxes and coons away though. my husky lab mix hates coyotes. killed a few getting too old to catch em now unless i slow em down a lil first.we had one right throuh our yard and neighbors a 4 in the afternoon 2 days ago. her pitbull was upset.

 

[cassandrasdaddy]

i don't hunt much what size shot is smallest that would be effective? i used 00 till now but neighborhoods getting built up

 

[Art Eatman]

"...what size shot is smallest that would be effective?"

Depends on the shotgun's choke. Full or extra-full, even down to 7-1/2 high-brass will work to around 25 yards--but I'd probably stay with, say #4.