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I hear them all the time at night but I saw one today out hunting.The little guy in my avatar stayed under close supervision.I lost one last year to one and don't plan on losing another...russ

We have a real problem with them (them and wild dog packs). Wild dogs 'round here are considered coyotes. Even in Liberal NY......they're [coyotes] always in shotgun season.....just gotta report 'em and tag 'em.........

ANYTHING that goes after my dog is "open season" !

Don't mess with this face!

LEGAL STATUS: The coyote is legally classified as a nuisance
species and may be killed at anytime, except coyotes may not be killed
with a gun, firearm, or other weapon on Sunday. {from DGIF Virginia}

There are coyotes around my place in Cleburne County (AL) and I did see one last fall. It was a beautiful animal and I didn't consider it a threat to either me or my dog. It was pretty small -- I couldn't imagine it attacking a German Shepherd Dog. They are considered nuisance animals -- may be hunted year-round.

Two-Stroke said:

There are coyotes around my place in Cleburne County (AL) and I did see one last fall. It was a beautiful animal and I didn't consider it a threat to either me or my dog. It was pretty small -- I couldn't imagine it attacking a German Shepherd Dog. They are considered nuisance animals -- may be hunted year-round.

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Have lived in this same rural area for 21 years now but have never seen a coyote, but others I know tell me they have. Our four cats are never out unsupervised and never after dusk, period. IN all the time I have lived here I have seen only one fox, which surprises me. I would think there would be lots more of them around. To those who say they will kill coyotes, GOOD FOR YOU SO WILL I...if I ever SEE one.

JDgreen said:

Have lived in this same rural area for 21 years now but have never seen a coyote, but others I know tell me they have. Our four cats are never out unsupervised and never after dusk, period. IN all the time I have lived here I have seen only one fox, which surprises me. I would think there would be lots more of them around. To those who say they will kill coyotes, GOOD FOR YOU SO WILL I...if I ever SEE one.

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I've heard from my neighbors in Cleburne County that small pets are highly vulnerable to bobcats and coyotes but that something like a German Shepherd Dog is big enough to make them afraid to attack.

JDgreen said:

......IN all the time I have lived here I have seen only one fox, which surprises me. I would think there would be lots more of them around.....

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Only seen a few in my whole life, but I heard a momma fox calling her young one night.....it is the most blood-chilling sound you'll ever hear. Sounds like a woman screaming in terror.

I had several pair of fox around my part.better make sure pets are up to date on rabies shots.also BK what kinda law says anything goes on coyotes except on Sundays?..russ

173abn said:

I had several pair of fox around my part.better make sure pets are up to date on rabies shots.also BK what kinda law says anything goes on coyotes except on Sundays?..russ

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I don't know -- Just one more stupid govt. regulation. No hunting on Sunday in VA, but I don't understand if you are protecting your pets or livestock. I also don't understand why they needed to say gun or firearm. :confused2:

BKBrown said:

I don't know -- Just one more stupid govt. regulation. No hunting on Sunday in VA, but I don't understand if you are protecting your pets or livestock. I also don't understand why they needed to say gun or firearm. :confused2:

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Maybe, if you get close enough, you can beat 'em to death with a Bible.........

BKBrown said:

I don't know -- Just one more stupid govt. regulation. No hunting on Sunday in VA, but I don't understand if you are protecting your pets or livestock. I also don't understand why they needed to say gun or firearm. :confused2:

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On sunday you are supposed to pray they don't com back....maybe.

I understand the no hunting on Sunday -- what I don't understand is a restriction on dealing with a predator that is attempting to harm pets or livestock. :confused2:

twall said:

Maybe, if you get close enough, you can beat 'em to death with a Bible.........

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Just start preachin'. You'll never see 'em again except maybe on Christmas Eve and Easter Sunday.

Coyotes are very common around here, i see them daily and hear their chorus almost every night and morning.
A single coyote almost never poses a treath but for small children and little animals.
Some times in winter they run in a pack,that's when they can get dangerous and will take on any dog or other animal,or man for that matter.
I had a big lab killed by them a couple years ago out in the field under my very eyes.
The snow was to deep to get to the resque.
I usually carry a rifle in the tractor,but not that day

One also killed my Wife's little doggy a couple years ago.

off the topic of coyotes,one night going to work a fox ran in front of me and in it's mouth was a kitten.Also a month ago the county right north of me a farmer sees a cougar,his neighabor had 2 900lb horses killed that week.there are so many deer around here that I expect to see one before long....russ

173abn said:

off the topic of coyotes,one night going to work a fox ran in front of me and in it's mouth was a kitten.Also a month ago the county right north of me a farmer sees a cougar,his neighabor had 2 900lb horses killed that week.there are so many deer around here that I expect to see one before long....russ

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So much wild nature around us, and here we are with our tractors trying to tame our little piece of it.