Coyote Attacks !

Yote's

Maybe the Coyote finally realized that most humans are an easy meal and is trying to pick off the weak. WOW that is a crazy thought they might just have a new way of thinking, attack the two-legs with no bang stick.
 
I got a cousin that would get off on, evening up that score. He's a coyote shootin fool. I have shot a few but not like this situation, jeeze what a bad deal. :mad:
 
I've killed something like 1500+ coyotes over the years (conservative estimate). I don't find them all that hard to control.

I have a couple of places with chickens that I do some ADC type work on, and I can eliminate a problem coyote in short order. At the first sign of digging or tracks around the pens, I solve the problem. No muss, no fuss, and nobody's the wiser. I find that's usually the best way to solve it.

And I don't even have access to many of the tools used by government professionals.

It really isn't that hard.

Daryl
 
I wish it was still legal to poison these things!

I get up early and watch the chicken from my back deck. I have my coffee and a .243 sitting on the back deck with me. This year I have only gotten four coyotes, but it was nice.

Part of the problem is people want these animals re-introduced to their native habitat. We get all kinds of assurances from the department of conservation that they will not be a problem and people believe it.

Their native habitat is no longer as native as what people think it was. These animals have to eat, so when they can not find the natural food, they come looking for something else.

I have an eco-friendly, tree hugging neighbor that abhors hunting of any type. She thinks it is so wonderful to watch them play in the same field as her horses. She also has a horse that is almost 23 years old and is going lame pretty fast. I wonder how cute she'll think they are when they kill her horse, or she finds them eating on the carcass?
 
Gotta disagree on the poison thing, my person ecological beliefs. These things need to be controlled I am waiting for the day I get one down my way and I will terminate. I think I should one of them callers and remove a few from the food chain.
 
Yeah, the problem with poison is that it is too indiscriminate. Too many non-targeted animals/species will die as well, either directly or by ingesting the remains of poisoned animals.
 
They still use poison here in Texas. We've had a state trapper on our lease using them for about a year now. He uses them attached to marshmellows. When the yote tuggs on the marshmellows, it shoots off in there face. I was talking to him one day and he said he hasn't found one that has made it further than 15 ft. He said that is pretty much all he uses now. He felt they are much more humane than any other method. But, you have to be careful with them around domestic animals. This idiot on our lease we've been trying to get rid of for a couple of years now brought both his labs to the lease. Took all of about 30 minutes for one to end up dead and the other at the vet for a week. It has also put a real dent on the hog population.
 
controling the problem

i lived in the everglades for long time and can remember the eco freaks from new york who had never stepped off concrete before, complaining they didn't see enough gators for their liking so as you can guess they outlawed gator hunting . five years later and population explosions [both people and gators] these same snow birds started losing their poodles and cats and you guessed it, started complaining again. but rather then opening gator hunting again, they took tax payer money and hired fed hunters and sold the meat to resturants. personally living so far in the glades on the big cypress south of alligator alley i never paid any attention to the bru haha and in 15 years i'm sure i've taken gators in the thousands.
 
The general advice is that after ANY bite by a wild animal of whatever sort, get the rabies shots if the animal is unavailable for testing.
 
I work at a childrens enrichment camp not too far from the location of the attacks this summer. The first two attacks were the weekend we opened up the camp which caused quite a stir among the NYC counselors. We immediately had a counselor training session on how to deal with wild animals and coyotes specifically.

We ended up buying more bear spray, changing the rules for nature hikes, and everyone got training with an 870 12 ga.
 
A coyote that was killed by a policeman after attacks on several humans in a New York suburb was rabid, health officials said Wednesday.
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Only heard of one other yote attack on that singer gal. Was that yote rabid too I wonder? They usually shy away from people, least they do so around here. Maybe it is because I kill them when I see them.....
 
Yeah around here they usually shy away from people too. It's usually because they see people and they realize 60 grains of lead is headed their way. Not a real loved creature around my parts, they have there place in the wild but you have to keep them in check or it's not good for anyone.
 
Only heard of one other yote attack on that singer gal. Was that yote rabid too I wonder? They usually shy away from people, least they do so around here. Maybe it is because I kill them when I see them.....
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That was Taylor Mitchell, 19, who was killed by coyotes in Canada.

While coyotes usually shy away from people, what you have to understand is that just because they engage in a behavior that we don't consider to be usual does not mean that they necessarily have rabies. There are a whole host of environmental and biological factors that may place coyotes in close proximity to humans and as a result have humans being bitten, attacked, or killed. Habitat loss, starvation, pups, biological illness other than rabies, and others can result in what we think isn't normal behavior.

Mitchell was attacked by multiple coyotes. One or more of the coyotes could have been rabid, although being rabid does not usually work out well for pack behavior. If one or more were rabid, then it is likely that it wasn't an advanced case that would affect neurological function.

More often than not, animal attacks on humans do not involve rabies and in many of the cases, the "attacks" aren't actually attacks at all, but the animal engaging in defensive behavior because it was threatened, surpised, cornered by humans.

Many coyote attacks are on smaller individuals and especially children. These may be actual attempts at procuring food as often those attacked are within the size range for animals hunted by coyotes.
 
Taylor Michell yote attack

My good friend Jim Lucio was mitchell's first cousin,and Jim being from Canada,acts as though he wont ever need a gun,and wont touch one,Ill bet Taylor wishes she had the chance to protect herself,as every person has the god given right to self defence,I saw a cougar in mi. last season chaseing a turkey,I wasnt worried as I had pair of ruger old armys on my hip, and the animal had his paws full with that turkey.vasillis,aim for the eye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!kkkkkkkaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaapppppppppppppooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:cool:
 
Ill bet Taylor wishes she had the chance to protect herself,as every person has the god given right to self defence
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Taylor did have a chance to defend herself and had it in numerous manners. How many did she exercise? Other than her biological weapons (hands, feet, teeth, etc.,) clothing, and cell phone, what had she done to make sure she remained safe?

She, like so many, either didn't think it necessary or never really considered the issue. Even if she wasn't going to be armed, her first line of defense should have been not being alone on the trail. She may have figured like many other lone hikers and park visitors that there are enough people around to be as good as not being alone. Sure enough, others chased the coyotes away, but it was too late.

She could have had on her person several types of items that would have been legal to have in Canada and that could have been used for self defense, but did she have any?

How much self defense training did she have?

A firearm isn't the only means by which people can exercise their God-given right to self defense. All too often I hear and read gun people saying how they are defenseless without guns and consider gun possession and self defense synomymous. If you think you are prepared to defend yourself because you have a gun and consider yourself unable to exercise a God-given right of self defense without one, then you are anything but prepared.
 
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