Discouraging coyotes hanging around the house?

[Pilot]

The smell of a dead coyotes hanging from trees aparently scares them away, PO'd the wife too.

Was POing the wife a collateral benefit?

I would check the laws before shooting anything even pellet guns, crossbows, wrist rockets, paintball guns, etc. As someone else said, a lot of municipalities define firearms very broadly.

Trapping and calling animal control for removal would be one of my first choices. We have coyotes behind my house were there is a power line easement and walking/jogging/bike trail. Its is pretty dense suburbia though and they haven't become a problem, but I have a fenced in yard. I occassinally see them outside the fence looking in at my dog, but he's pretty big so I'm not really worried. They have never been agressive.....yet. They do keep the cat population down.

 

[cassandrasdaddy]

thanks art i got a box or 2 of 4's just like to know rather than make a guess. my code of morals and ethics has some funny peaks and valleys. kill em no prob . but whine like i'm in peta at the idea of being what i was taught is a "slob hunter" causes me issues when i think they have pups in a den. i don't want to let pups starve but will cheerfully kill same pups if i get a shot

 

[mgregg85]

A big +1 for a paintball gun or a cheap bb gun. I have used both to get rid of squirrels and an oppossum once. Won't kill them but I'm sure its awful painful and should send a message.

 

[packnrat]

ANYBODY who choses to use poison should try some first, to see if it works.

very bad deal and not the way to get the problem taken care of.


and yes it is a very sore spot for me.. rip holly, a very good 8 year old rott. from some snail bate.

shooting just to harm is also wrong, a festerning would is not a good way to die.

clean kills only.

no gun,
no poison,
no pelet gun,
no sling shot.

talk to the loacal pest control people...and i do not mean the roach patrol.

there is a group of people in your area who can shoot to kill pest yotes, dogs, etc.

are m-80's or bottle rockets allowed in your area?

try blasting some off close to the yotes.

think first.


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