Ok, so who here knows about coyotes? I thought they were "pack" animals, but this one was alone. Dogs were going crazy this morning just before 7:30, and when I looked out the patio door, there was one sitting about 25' away from the door. It didn't budge, so I walked out the door and tried to scare it, but it just sat there looking at me like it didn't have a care in the world. Is this a sign it's sick, or are they always that aloof? It ambled away a couple minutes later into the power line field. To prove it was here............
It seemed a bit odd that it didn't run off when I went out the door, waved my arms and yelled. No, there's no video of me doing that. Sat down in the yard, then went out in the road and sat down in a couple places.
The ones around here would have run off if I went out yelling and waving my arms, but they are curious like dogs. Someone may be feeding her, so she might be losing her fear. I think they are pretty fascinating animals. We often hear them in the night or catch glipses of them in the day. The pups are fun to watch, and they tend to be braver/ more foolish. They do kill larger animals in packs, but I think outside of that they are mostly solitary, or in pairs.
This seems to match what I've been reading. When the dogs go out late....about 11:00-ish.....our larger lab sometimes takes off in that direction like a bat outta heck, and I always wonder if he's going after a deer. Guess I should revise my thinking now. Not sure anyone here would intentionally feed coyotes, but ya' never know. Open season on them in Mi if they're on your property creating havoc. We have a couple chickens with another couple about to be put out. They're in a coop, which is inside a 5-6' fenced garden, but I've read coyotes can jump that pretty easily. Thanks for the input Greg.
papadave here we have coy dogs. If it isn't a female, it could be an immature male or an older male that was kicked out of the pack. We have one older male that's very respectful obviously been in many a battle.. When we have to thin them out is because they have run out of food. And are starting to be aggressive towards pets.
I hope I get to see some coyotes while I’m visiting the US. We have dingoes up north and they will follow 4wd’s down outback tracks. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Watch out that it is not trying to lure your dogs away and out of sight for the rest of the pack to get them.
You are liable to hear them at night while you are here but it is rare to see one. As far as papadave's coyote, I've never seen that but have heard of it.
We had a good size pack here for a while. I found their den. They don't necessarily all go hunting or even travel around together. The pack we had here for about three years would get together and howl at sunset. Just about every night in the same place for a weeek or two, then they'd be meeting for a week or two about a mile away. I would find deer parts. I had a "pair" that came by the back of the house at about the same time and place every morning for a month or so and their traveling "together" they were about 100 to 200 feet apart. You'd see the first one coming up and across the hill and about a minute later, sure enough, along came the other one. I never saw a pack, just heard them.
Wife seems to think it may come back after the chickens tonight. The yard light makes it easy to see back there, so I'll have a clear shot out the back door if it does.
We have a bunch of bunnies and black squirrels that hang out around the house, so it may have been waiting for one this morning. Probably smelled the chickens first though.
This is a great point and very true! It still seems a bit odd that it didn’t run off when you went outside. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
When we're at the cottage, sometimes a coyote will shadow us as we (99 and me) are on our walks. I have never had incidents with them but they sure are curious opportunistic buggers and I won't trust them. Every now and then, we'll see one patrolling back and forth along a highway for a couple miles....its like clockwork. They know (like a crow) that there is an opportunity to scavenge along the roads. We'll see them for a few weeks and then that's it..... probably end up getting hit.
