New to us Coyote problem

If they aren’t being threatening or aggressive, then it doesn’t sound like you have a coyote problem at all; you just have coyotes.

I live in a heavily populated suburban area, but one with lots of woodlands, parks and trails and we have a large coyote population. Some people feel the need to post alerts on social media every single time they see one, and I don’t understand why. We share the same habitat and we can co-exist just fine 99% of the time.

In 20 years I can think of two cases where a coyote aggressively approached humans and / or bit someone in our city. Since that is highly unusual behaviour, animal control did locate and kill those animals, in general the city does not hunt, trap or relocate them. Coyotes do not stalk children and / or randomly attack them. If that was the case there would be kids getting attacked in urban parks every single day in large parts of the continent. They really don’t pose much of a threat at all, and tend to just keep their distance from people.

They are opportunistic hunters, so don’t make it easy for them. Don’t leave food out and make sure any garbage is secured in an animal-proof bin.

They get quickly accustomed to people so our city council does recommend hazing them by throwing rocks, yelling, using air horns, etc. so that they associate humans with negative things.

Cats who roam freely will likely become a coyote’s dinner some time; such is the circle of life. Very small dogs need to be closely supervised at all times, particularly in spring mating season and summer hopping season. Twice people in our neighbourhood have had a coyote jump their fence, snatch a toy-size dog out of their backyard, and jump back out with the dog.

If you’re really concerned about the coyotes, get a donkey. But it doesn’t sound like you have much to be concerned about.

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Lol no. That’s not a thing.

Yup to all of the above. If you like your cats, don’t let them roam loose.

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I’ve only seen a couple coyotes since moving into my house a year and a half ago. This one from last night has me stumped. What the heck is this thing?

@endlessclimb is your video from Instagram?

I ask because I can not see it and I am assuming that is why.

It’s straight off my phone, downloaded from my cam system. I don’t know where else to upload it, I only have a facebook?

Two coyote stories. When we lived in Southern Ca we had coyotes every day around our property but they ignored the horses (even the minis). What they would do, however, is steal the minis’ toys and take them back to the creek area where they had their dens. Took us forever to figure out what was happening and it wasn’t until they literally left a trail of toys across the neighboring field that we figured it out.

We’re now in the foothills of the Sierras with lots of wild animals. I have a habit of hanging my lunge line over the side of the arena. I couldn’t figure out why I’d come down in the morning and find the neatly hung lunge line dragged all over the ring. The lunge whip, too! Finally used the tracks left in the sand footing to figure out coyotes were grabbing the line and the whip and playing with them.

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I can download it right from this post. It isn’t visible but you click the 3 dots on the right hand side you can download.

It looks like a dog to me. A rangy hound mix, for example. Too leggy for a coyote, in my opinion.

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The curled tail as he zips past looks not-coyote to me either. You can see that it was chasing something, then mills around (you can see its eyes).

If it is a coyote, that marks 3 that I’ve seen on that camera for a year and a half. Beyond the “wall” (which is really a metal berm to keep a creek under control) is several hundred acres of forest preserve, so I am always surprised how few coyotes I have. Very rarely do I even hear them.

I agree, too lanky, moves over it’s back, rounded hind end, more like a lighter hound dog with a long stride, not like a scooting off, low to the ground coyote running style.

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Sounds like a great dressage prospect!

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