Coyotes normally hunt alone or in pairs. Dogs run with their tails up; coyotes run with their tails down. These animals are very vocal. The coyote has few natural predators. In captivity, a coyote can live up to 20 years. Coyotes are very good swimmers. Coyotes will eat just about anything. And, Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself.
Coyotes are tricksters...clever dogs. I hunted them when I was young one time and had a blind and waited for hours...gave up, turned around and a steaming pile of Coyote shit was about 3 ft behind me...I figured he was laughing all the way down the hill....never did catch that Coyote
I was once hunting for deer with two friends. We were going down a draw. One buddy went down on the left, just out of sight. The other went down on the right, just out of sight. I went down the middle. I got down first. The other two followed. We all had no luck. The guy on the right stayed on my right all the way down to our stopping point. The one on the left said he came to a point where he could no longer continue on my left and shifted over to the middle, a ways behind me. When he got down to our stopping point he mentioned that he must have been about five minutes behind me. He also asked me if I had seen any coyote or coyote tracks. I had not and told him so. He then said he say coyote tracks right on top of mine meaning that a coyote, totally unbeknownst to me, had been following right behind me. Sneaky little devils. I never worried about coyote because of the large caliber hunting rifle I carried.
I keep my cat indoors at night. There haven't been any coyotes in my immediate area but some spotted a few miles away. I have seen foxes where I live.
We back a wooded area. I don't let me Shorky out without a leash at night. I'm not even sure I should let my Sheepadoodle out without one.
We have lots of coyotes down here...though we can hear them at night time we seldom see them...very smart and elusive creatures.
We live in a classic SoCal cartoon neighborhood - tons of Coyotes and roadrunners (seriously). They (Coyotes) can jump over tall fences - so they get just about anywhere. Our neighbors had goats in their yard, and that fence did not help. They heard that Coyotes are afraid of llamas - so they got a llama (Matilda) to stay with the goats. Unfortunately, the llama was lonely and depressed, so they got an alpaca (Nelly) to keep her company. As it happens, the goats were not friends with the alpaca - so they gave them away to a shelter, got miniature goats and chicken instead. At some point - they also got miniature horses - which did not get along with the alpaca - so the alpaca was also given to a shelter. In other words, if you got alpaca problems I feel bad for you son, but if you got a llama - the coyotes are done. (I still see them - the coyotes - every morning when I run our hill, which is not an issue - the ones you have to be worried about are the mountain lions - but they rarely get into the neighborhood), and the good news is that Matilda and the miniature horses are friends.
Over the last couple years there have been several sightings of coyotes around the Mt. Tabor area and a couple years ago my wife was over at our sons house babysitting our grandson and she spotted a coyote wandering down the street and this is in NE Portland right smack middle of the city. I had a mother raccoon that took up residence in my garage in the rafters and actually had babies and then moved into my boat by putting a hole in the boat cover. We actually lost our Yorkie to a raccoon several years back in our backyard.
When I was in high school we had a racoon who lived up a very large fir tree near our back yard. I didn't know he was even there until I heard a clatter every night around 10 pm. The next morning I would find all the garbage all over the place. It was my job to take care of the garbage which meant also cleaning up any spills. So one night I stayed up late leaning out an upstairs window to see what the heck was going on at 10 pm every night. I was pleasantly surprised to find a racoon going through our garbage. Next step was to feed the critter something. We didn't have anything that I thought he might eat. Then I spotted some crunchy chocolate chip cookies. At first I left a cookie lying on the ground. He picked it up and seemed to enjoy it. It wasn't long until to my great delight he was eating cookies out of my hand. I even gave him an egg which he took under the back porch to eat in private. Since those days I've learned more about raccoons until I no longer encourage them in any way.
Correct. They do not usually show themselves in areas with people, unlike Coyotes. I believe the last couple of mountain lion adult deaths were actually in Oregon in 2018, one around Mt Hood, one around Bend. However, if you do see them - they are a lot less willing to acknowledge adults than Coyotes. When I do my morning route - I do not care about the Coyotes (and I see them at least once a week), but if I see one of these guys - I am trying to turn around and disappear, I will ensure you that (only happened once in our neighborhood). FWIW - I know of a cougar attack on a boy in Poway (not too far from us) last May.
One of my favorites as a child. Read it several times. Right up there with Call of the Wild and Where The Red Fern Grows if you ask me.
Since I don't care about the subject, I decided to post this. I read this book like 15 years ago (actually never finished it). But it was a great read. A Train to Potevka will take you on an incredible winter's journey across Great Mother Russia along the 6,000-mile Trans-Siberian Railway. This fascinating story about an American intelligence agent from a small town in the Rockies, is a tale of failed espionage, escape, and second chances. Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself, but I just saved 5 bucks by switching to RonCo.
