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Aquaticedge · #1 07-05-2011, 10:27 PM

Playing a steve... "Oh he's angry....."

http://www.wimp.com/repelscoyote/

Hatterasguy · #2 07-05-2011, 11:24 PM

They are just playing, beautiful coyote.

elchivito · #3 07-05-2011, 11:54 PM

Just playing? Hardly. That coyote was looking for an opportunity. Alone, they aren't agressive hunters but rather opportunistic sneaks. If he'd managed to bite through that dip****'s boot and tasted blood, in the time it took for the moron to double over and yell ouch the coyote would have come in for a bigger bite..Beautiful animal is right. His nice winter coat would look good nailed to the side of my barn, drying.

R Leo · #4 07-06-2011, 05:07 AM

Something ain't right about that video.

SwampYankee · #5 07-06-2011, 07:34 AM

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Something ain't right about that video.

Yeah, them's Canadian accents are funny!

SwampYankee · #6 07-06-2011, 07:35 AM

The coyotes around here are a lot rattier looking! They obviously eat better up north. Must be all of the free-range critters they eat rather than the fatty housecats and ankle biters.

panZZer · #7 07-06-2011, 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by elchivito

Just playing? Hardly. That coyote was looking for an opportunity. Alone, they aren't agressive hunters but rather opportunistic sneaks. If he'd managed to bite through that dip****'s boot and tasted blood, in the time it took for the moron to double over and yell ouch the coyote would have come in for a bigger bite..Beautiful animal is right. His nice winter coat would look good nailed to the side of my barn, drying.

Yes i figured someone would suggest how they would like to kill this creature...

elchivito · #8 07-06-2011, 04:02 PM

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Yes i figured someone would suggest how they would like to kill this creature...

To each his own. My experience with these vermin is perhaps different from yours. It's one thing to watch the pretty coyotes on the tee vee, and quite another to see them snatch half born lambs or kids out of their mothers' back ends and start munching on them before they've taken their first breath. It tends to cause a bit of prejudice.

WVOtoGO · #9 07-06-2011, 04:44 PM

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To each his own. My experience with these vermin is perhaps different from yours. It's one thing to watch the pretty coyotes on the tee vee, and quite another to see them snatch half born lambs or kids out of their mothers' back ends and start munching on them before they've taken their first breath. It tends to cause a bit of prejudice.

I agree 100%.

My kids (now 11 and 14) Boer Goat herd was taking a pretty good hit by the coyotes and "coy-dogs" we had getting out of hand around here.
Daughter (14) asked for something to better the goats odds.
Now she sports a fully suppressed .223 with a Swarovski Z6&BRT. Sounds like a pellet gun in the back pasture late at night.

elchivito · #10 07-06-2011, 08:06 PM

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I agree 100%.

My kids (now 11 and 14) Boer Goat herd was taking a pretty good hit by the coyotes and "coy-dogs" we had getting out of hand around here.
Daughter (14) asked for something to better the goats odds.
Now she sports a fully suppressed .223 with a Swarovski Z6&BRT. Sounds like a pellet gun in the back pasture late at night.

Good on her. Nothing like a girl who isn't afraid to protect her stock. I have two Anatolians and a Maremma livestock guardian dogs. To watch them systematically trap and take a coyote apart is truly the definition of blood sport. The local coyotes, as well as our neighborhood mountain lion give us wide berth now.

Do you sell your Boers for meat? The market is growing unbelievably around here. I don't have Boers, but have considered it.

Hatterasguy · #11 07-06-2011, 08:58 PM

You guys live out in the middle of nowhere. The closest I get to wildlife is a turkey walking down my street.

WVOtoGO · #12 07-06-2011, 09:36 PM

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Good on her. Nothing like a girl who isn't afraid to protect her stock. I have two Anatolians and a Maremma livestock guardian dogs. To watch them systematically trap and take a coyote apart is truly the definition of blood sport. The local coyotes, as well as our neighborhood mountain lion give us wide berth now.

Do you sell your Boers for meat? The market is growing unbelievably around here. I don't have Boers, but have considered it.

Yes they do sell them. This year so far, they've increased their herd by around 50 head. About 50/50 does/bucks. They seem pretty happy about it. By next April, they'll be cashing in the bucks before they start to stink. Around here too, Cabrito goes up big time for cinco de mayo. The kids know to hold out 'til mid April before heading to the sale barn for the best $$$$.

I'll pass on the mountain lions. We've got a few big bob cats, but thats it for bad cats. They don't bother the kids goats, so we don't bother them.

Her next mod for her AR is a brass catcher. She wants to do some helicopter pig thinning and daddy doesn't want brass getting lodged in places it shouldnt be. Like flight controls !!

panZZer · #13 07-07-2011, 01:55 PM

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Originally Posted by elchivito

To each his own. My experience with these vermin is perhaps different from yours. It's one thing to watch the pretty coyotes on the tee vee, and quite another to see them snatch half born lambs or kids out of their mothers' back ends and start munching on them before they've taken their first breath. It tends to cause a bit of prejudice.

And what else would you expect them to do, settle for bunnies all the time? Thats the reason for their sucess, They dont discriminate. I used to live up over the ridge just outside a little town, called Yucca Valley -on the border of JT national park, every nite I would hear them hunting just outside the house and would go for a walk trying to get as close as i could but they wouldn't let me --That coyote in the video is not rabid, and its not entirely wild either because no coyote would ever try to target a human unless it was either a very small child -or a very frail elderly person ready to fall over dead, and then it would most likely only be in a pack.

davidmash · #14 07-07-2011, 05:00 PM

Were are on their land farming domesticated animals. Coyotes are prey animals. They hunt. They hunt for the easiest thing that can catch. Why expend more energy than one has to in order to obtain a meal.

Seems to me if you are farming animals one should protect them better instead of shooting a predator for doing what comes natural for it.

elchivito · #15 07-07-2011, 05:17 PM

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Were are on their land farming domesticated animals. Coyotes are prey animals. They hunt. They hunt for the easiest thing that can catch. Why expend more energy than one has to in order to obtain a meal.

Seems to me if you are farming animals one should protect them better instead of shooting a predator for doing what comes natural for it.

I agree completely. That's why I have good fences and dogs that are worth more than most of my vehicles. I rarely lose stock to predators. I don't dispute their place in the environment, nor their natural behavior. It's important too that they not dispute my place in this environment. I'm quite pleased we have a lion in our vicinity for example. I have seen her with a cub for the last two winters. I've found her tracks right up against the outside fence to my lambing pen, but she has decided my stock isn't worth the trouble. She's quite happy living off the deer down along the creek and doesn't bother my cows when they're down there. The idiot woman across the creek who feeds the raccoons and skunks will meet her someday, and I won't be sympathetic when she eats one of her annoying little dogs. I have no desire to hunt her or see her gone, as long as we maintain our agreement to not bother each other.
I've provided all the warnings and protections necessary to protect my stock. I understand that sometimes you lose stock to predators, that's part of overhead. Having said that, a coyote desperate, old, sick, unskilled or just plain dumb enough to come within my fences is going to end up either feeding my dogs or nailed to the side of my barn, drying.