AAAGH! Coyote in our yard!

[rcraw45425]

This is the second time in less than a week, we are in the city limits, live on a lake, lots of woods around us. This is very frightening, I walk the trash can to the street in the mornings (today is trash day, it ain't going down there now!), I often take the dog out on the leash to do his business. This guy was very healthy, a beautiful animal, but scary to look at.

 

[Toby'sFriend]

I finally saw a pair last week. We live on the edge of a forest preserve and we've always known they are back there because they can be really noisy on summer nights.

I'd never seen them until last week though. They were MUCH bigger than I thought.

 

[jann1033]

don't see the photo but in our area at least if you call the game warden they will come trap coyotes due to overpopulation...and they will eat cats and small dogs( coyotes, not the game warden )

 

[rcraw45425]

Yeah, I may have to call the fish & game. Our animal control dept is city run so they don't get in a hurry. It took me a half dozen calls and three hours to get them out here years ago to catch the possum on our screened porch. In the time it took them to arrive he shredded porch furniture cushions, relieved himself on the floor and bedded down in a chair.

 

[trulygoofy]

We have some come right outside our fence, and we hear them howling/barking. I thought it was just neighborhood dogs when I first heard them, but DH and DD saw them. They never have bothered anyone. The critter that freaked me out was an armadillo walking up and down our fence. I remember when we did not have armadillos in central Arkansas, and we are seeing more and more of them. I just did not expect one in my yard.

 

[meeskamouska]

When we lived in southern CA they would just walk down the streets in the neighborhood!!! They usually avioded people but there were a few instances where they tried to attck people walking dogs along the desert paths!!!

 

[KristiKelly]

Coyotes have been on the rise in our area. I've heard if you have them to get a donkey, they will kick them. We have some rather persnickety people in our development, I wonder how they would react to a donkey in my backyard.

 

[rcraw45425]

OMG, a donkey! Our neighborhood is also kinda upper middle class, our next door neighbor actually has a chicken coop in her front woods, rooster and two hens (I posted about this a few weeks back ). The coyote is probably looking to score a chicken dinner . I could jsut hear the talk now if we built a donkey pen out towards the lake!

 

[LukenDC]

The last time I saw coyotes I was walking along the edge of the UC San Diego campus. We were only a few feet away from a busy street and an urban commercial district. The coyotes were chasing a rabbit and I was amazed to see them existing in "civilization."

 

[Minnie824]

We saw one behind our fence in the neighbors yard on Friday...it was 7:30am...kids out for busses and everything. Its really scary. They've already killed a dog in a fenced in yard in our neighborhood. We have a small tree area near the park that I assume they live in, but I don't even want to take the kids to the park now if they're near there, and roaming around in daylight. Its scary...we have to carry something with us to let the dog out now. And the city here seems to think nothing can be done either.

 

[rcraw45425]

The funny thing is I always regarded them as animals of the Southwest, not critters of West Central Georgia! Of course around here, someone will probably kill it and stuff it for display!

 

[Trish Bessette]

We have them around our house too. Big ones!! They haven't bothered us so we just let them be.

We have a shed with three bunnies in them which are in cages. Something got in there last week and opened the bucket and ate all their food plus ate a bunch of their hay. One of the cages were moved a bit and let me tell you those cages are very heavy. DH said it was probably a coyote. Thank god my little bunnies are secure in those cages!