Awesome and Sad trail cam pic

[7 Lakes]

Lot of little foo foo dogs are disapearing out of the yards here in 7 Lakes.  Had 3 surround my GSP one night.  One held her attention while the other two tried for the hamstrings. I keep the Winchester by the door now.

I still love to hear them yip and run at night.

[Sean B]

Cool Picture.  We have a ton of 'Yotes around here.  Every day walking my dog in my back yard, Id find parts of fawns, a woodchuck face and lots of tracks from coyotes.

Cool thing at work last night, I watched a fox kill a rabbit, and 3 kits came in to feed on it.

[Hoyt]

When I was coming up in the South we never had coyotes..got plenty now.

I've seen quite a few from my tree stands but never shot one..not because I like them, I don't. Just don't want to mess up a deer hunt or see their reaction to being shot. Too much like a dog for me to witness.

[Onestringer]

Posted that pic and went on vacation.  Yep it's a fawn.  I actually trapped 2 coyotes on that farm last winter.  On another farm I hunt I trapped another 10 coyotes.

[Wudstix]

Yotes are very efficient for sure.  In Texas leavig a deer overnight usually ends up with no deer.  Even waying a couple hours has resulted in a coyote dinner.  Also, loose a bunch of dogs and cats in San Antonio city limits due to coyotes.

[kill shot]

We love to hate coyotes.

[johnnyk71]

they're like most other small mammals. if you put a dent in their numbers, they just increase the number of offspring to make up for the losses. the carrying capacity of the land and competition hold them in check better than hunters can. biggest problem is that we removed all the bigger predators first. they were the coyotes' competition. they've just moved in (albeit at an astonishing rate!) to fill the empty spaces we created.

I took one out last fall to do my part, though. made a beautiful rug.

[joe ashton]

man that coyote won the lottery...

[ChuckC]

Did you guys see the recent you tube of the coyote out west somewhere grabbing someones little dog. .  I think they called it a Chaweenie.  It was caught on a security camera.

  The coyote was carrying it away into the brush. .  until the dog's neighbor friend (a big ol Rotweiller) decided he wanted to play too.  What was the game  . . .  roll the coyote?
ChuckC

[Kevin Dill]

What a dichotomy...

Popular opinion has it that I should like deer and dislike coyotes. After hitting 3 deer in vehicles I feel different. After seeing thousands dead on the road over my life, I feel different. After having deer come in my yard and do hundred of dollars in damage to trees and landscape, I feel different. In terms of adverse impact on human lives and economic losses, the whitetail deer is a far more destructive creature in Ohio than is the coyote. All the coyotes that can breed and reproduce over the past 25 years haven't dragged our deer herd into danger here. Humans are more threat to our deer. Cars wipe out pregnant or nursing does...there goes 2 or 3 deer at once. Coyotes take the small...the young...the weak. That's what they're supposed to do. I think the picture shown is a happy one which demonstrates the natural world doing what it's supposed to do.

Lest you think I'm a lover of 'yotes, think again. I live amongst them out here on a farm, and I have watched them do their work. They are predators...real ones. So are mountain lions, wolves, bobcats, bears and a host of other neat animals. I like them all, but I don't particularly want them in my yard.

[LookMomNoSights]

Ahhhhh......we are blessed to be able to HUNT!!!!...and have animals to HUNT!  Deer, coyotes...and a long list of others.  Thank the Lord for that!  

[halfseminole]

I hunt coyote more than deer around here.  we have problems with habituated and dangerous coyotes.  We lost three dogs (these were not foo-foo dogs either) and my first self bow has coyote bone tips as a payback.  When they yip and yowl and stay away from our animals and keep from causing my property damage (neighbor has chickens, try to dig under the fence) I'm not going after them.  It's only when they become a menace (like how they will hang out on my front porch in the winter) that I remove a weapon from the wall and do something about it.

I love the balance of nature.  I do not love having to my mother-in-law go on about dead dogs.  If you have a mother-in-law, you know what I mean.

[Scott357]

I was berry picking a few weeks ago. I had a scrawny coyote follow me through the brush and then it decided to charge me. That mutt was lucky that I am not an old west style quick draw shooter because I had my .357 out pretty quick. My sudden movement must have changed his mind about charging me because it stopped in its tracks and turned and took off without me firing. I used to not care much about them and let them be but after that I may think more about shooting them when I see them

[TRAP]

A coyote suffering from sarcoptic mange will usually go blind as the condition worsens. When the mange mites eat the hair follicles around his eyes he has no way to keep infection from getting in his eyes.  This may explain a "scrawny" coyote charging a human sized animal.

Desperate times call desparate measures. Just a thought.

DD