(VA) New Kent man battles coyote 'tooth and nail' (and 12-gauge and .40-cal)

[Hardtarget]

I saw my first coyote this year while deer hunting. Could have(should have?) shot him, but...I was deer hunting. There was a spot on the news tonight about the increasing population here in Mid. Tenn. I remember a photo of a coyote in the flood drainage system of L.A. and you could see downtown in the background. They seem to live almost anywhere!
Mark.

 

[TexasVet]

And around big cities, you end up with a more serious problem eventually. They interbreed with dog variaties about the same size and litter the area with Coydogs. Who are NOT nearly as shy as the coyotes are.

 

[Dogsoldier]

Who are NOT nearly as shy as the coyotes are.

There is indications that coyotes living in or near cities are actually losing their fear of people. I can't give the exact citation, but a year or so ago, I read where a small boy in California was attacked by a coyote while on the street of his subdivision. The coyote was scared off by neighbors before the kid was hurt.

Naturally the blissninnies declaired that it wasn't the coyote's fault for attacking the child. It is OUR fault for building houses and subdivisions crowding out the coyotes. And that coyote was only doing what it had to.

This usually confuses me...

A wild animal attacks a child. So the wild animal should not be held accountable for the safety of the rest of the people...:banghead:

 

[Dogsoldier]

Just on more thing. As I said earlier, there is acoyote that runs by my house just about every morning. If a kid in my neighborhood is attacked by this animal, it will be made to go away. No matter what the city ordinance's or bliss-ninnies say.

 

[12.7x99mm]

The way I see it is 99.9% of the time nothing bad will happen. Being a victim of random violence two times in my young life of 35. That .02% or so, something will happen.

It will be so random its kinda freaky.

Being prepared is the only thing you can do.

There for..I have made up my mind that I will never leave my house with out some sort of protection. I might never need it but if I do. Ill have it.

 

[Kahr carrier]

Yikes

 

[joeislove]

Coyotes shouldn't be a problem unless they're sick or rabid. Otherwise, they should mind their own business.

However, this gives me another reason I can tell people when they want to know why I feel the need to carry my Glock with me wherever I go. I live in Athens, GA, which isn't a real big city, but it's not a small village, either. One night, as I was driving home, I saw the weirdest looking dog I had ever seen running down the middle of Milledge Avenue. As I got closer, I realized that it wasn't a weird-looking dog, but a perfectly normal-looking grey fox. I followed it for a couple blocks, trying to figure out where it was going, before it gave me the slip.

As long as they stay shy, no problem. That fox will just keep eating trash and dog food and the occasional squirrel or stray cat. However, if one goes rabid, they become highly unpredictable and dangerous.

Have we had a "what caliber to use on rabid coyotes" thread yet?

 

[chicago jerry]

I live in Indiana and work in Chiacgo and I've seen dead coyotes along the Highway in the Chicago city limits. We can hear them howl some nights within 1/4 mile of the house. I've heard of them taking dogs right out of peoples yards. We have 2 dogs a little Yorkie and a large Cocker mix, I don't let the little one outside in our fenced yard without the larger one. The Yorkie has that big dog attitude but I think it would make a nice snack for a hungry Coyote.

 

[cuchulainn]

New Kent is way far east near Virginia Beach, right ... almost to the Atlantic (relatively speaking). If so, wow.

 

[p35]

Gotta remember that they work in packs and can pull down even a big dog using teamwork- my neighbor almost lost a pit bull that way before he broke it up with a shotgun.

Also check your target ID- a guy I knew in high school shot one while deer hunting, only to be confronted by a very POd individual yelling "YOU SHOT MY DOG YOU STUPID SOB!" He felt terrible but you can't take back a .308 bullet.

 

[BerettaNut92]

Where I used to live, it was illegal to discharge so much as a BB GUN in city limits.

I think it's illegal to cap critters, too.

Then they use taxpayer dollars to chase after them, and not sure if they deport them or just kill 'em.

I wish I could start a business where they tell me where the thing is, and me and a pack of skunks and a bloodhound would chase them coyotes down with impunity.

Too bad it's illegal to take care of your own critter-related problems now.