Sksman Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 Tonight I had my dogs out on the lawn for their night let out and The dogs were on edge and were looking towards the hill and creek. Then I heard rustling in the old leaves and grass and a coyote chased a rabbit across the grass and almost had it when rabbit went under pool gate. Coyote ran into the gate. It disappeared down the hill for a minute and then came back up and across the lawn a little towards us checking out my 2 miniature Australian Shepard’s. It ran off as soon as I walked towards it. Good thing we keep the dogs on long leads. I guess I will have to go down and search the ravine again this weekend and see if I can find him. Generally if I search for him I can scare him up and move him around the ravine a couple times on a weekend he feels threatened and clears out for a bit. Piss in his bed area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puzzleboy Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 Shoot the fucker. A crossbow should suffice. Canada Goose needs the fur for their hoods anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1trailmaker Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 1 hour ago, Sksman said: Tonight I had my dogs out on the lawn for their night let out and The dogs were on edge and were looking towards the hill and creek. Then I heard rustling in the old leaves and grass and a coyote chased a rabbit across the grass and almost had it when rabbit went under pool gate. Coyote ran into the gate. It disappeared down the hill for a minute and then came back up and across the lawn a little towards us checking out my 2 miniature Australian Shepard’s. It ran off as soon as I walked towards it. Good thing we keep the dogs on long leads. I guess I will have to go down and search the ravine again this weekend and see if I can find him. Generally if I search for him I can scare him up and move him around the ravine a couple times on a weekend he feels threatened and clears out for a bit. Piss in his bed area. I've lost alot of cats over the years, coyotes are everywhere here. Hear them at night loud as fuck and spooky in the fog They don't tend to jump fences good luck scaring him Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Z Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 That ditch dog needs to come down with a sudden case of lead poisoning. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sksman Posted March 15, 2018 Author Share Posted March 15, 2018 All the building around Milton pushed coyotes into ravines like 16 mile creek which runs behind our property. There were a good number of coyotes a couple years ago one neighbour saw 7 in a group fighting just down from our house. Then mange hit them hard and we didn’t see many all last year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
04nightfire Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 Talk to your neighbours, get them on board and shoot the fucker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1trailmaker Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 4 hours ago, 04nightfire said: Talk to your neighbours, get them on board and shoot the fucker Pretty sure he is a city boy, he will go to jail if he shoots one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArcticCrusher Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 17 minutes ago, 1trailmaker said: Pretty sure he is a city boy, he will go to jail if he shoots one Pretty sure the neighbors are the ones leaving out scraps for them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1trailmaker Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 10 minutes ago, ArcticCrusher said: Pretty sure the neighbors are the ones leaving out scraps for them. no doubt pot cookies would be interesting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArcticCrusher Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 10 minutes ago, 1trailmaker said: no doubt pot cookies would be interesting Caught one trying to drink from my pond. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lastzrt Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 (edited) Good snow for running the fence and bush lines at/ before dusk on sleds at home this year. One last trip north to K Lake this weekend, then it's game on for some Wylie's. Edited March 15, 2018 by lastzrt 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2strokemerc Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 Saw a dead one on the side of Hwy 409 a couple nights ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sksman Posted March 15, 2018 Author Share Posted March 15, 2018 I could shoot them from my living room sliding doors some days/evenings. Easily. A little bait and would be even easier. But I am in Milton. Right in town. Not a good spot for gunshots Yes one of my neighbours used to feed them. Even after the coyotes ate their cat. Can’t say all people are smart. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poncho Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 4 hours ago, ArcticCrusher said: Caught one trying to drink from my pond. That is a good looking animal all the same, sure it is not your pet?. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poncho Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 29 minutes ago, Sksman said: I could shoot them from my living room sliding doors some days/evenings. Easily. A little bait and would be even easier. But I am in Milton. Right in town. Not a good spot for gunshots Yes one of my neighbours used to feed them. Even after the coyotes ate their cat. Can’t say all people are smart. Same with me, my yard backs out to fairly large forested area. Some nights the coyote screams are amazing, you sure know when they have a kill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toslow Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 I hear them all the time in Georgetown across the rd at the local farm field, I haven't seen a deer in the area in a couple yrs but have lots of rabbits Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poncho Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 19 minutes ago, toslow said: I hear them all the time in Georgetown across the rd at the local farm field, I haven't seen a deer in the area in a couple yrs but have lots of rabbits Plenty of rabbits means plenty of Coyotes.....rabbits gone, Coyotes move to another area. Its a cycle... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zambroski Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 6 hours ago, ArcticCrusher said: Caught one trying to drink from my pond. Looks exactly like my husky. 15 minutes ago, Poncho said: Plenty of rabbits means plenty of Coyotes.....rabbits gone, Coyotes move to another area. Its a cycle... Yep. Slim on rabbits here but plenty of deer so, we’ve got the “upsized coyotes”. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Z Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 2 hours ago, Sksman said: Yes one of my neighbours used to feed them. Even after the coyotes ate their cat. Can’t say all people are smart. That is one good thing about 'yotes - they get rid of domestic cats that ignorant owners let run loose. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArcticCrusher Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 7 minutes ago, Zambroski said: Looks exactly like my husky. Yep. Slim on rabbits here but plenty of deer so, we’ve got the “upsized coyotes”. We domesticated him. Even plays with the cat. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irv Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 We thought we lost our cat last fall. My wife let him out around 6:50 am and and I began calling for him around 8 as he was usually out for 20 minutes give or take. When I was around the front of the house, a city of Oshawa van pulls up to my neighbor's house and proceeds to pick up a half eaten dead cat off his front lawn. When I seen it I knew it wasn't ours but thought it was a cat mine played with occasionally. I called and called for ours to no avail. My wife came home that night and knew something was wrong. We both continued to call/look for him that night and all the next day. I went out Saturday night around 10 for one last futile call and of course, nothing. Just as I was thinking about hitting the sheets, my wife yelled, he is back! I ran upstairs and sure enough, there he was, all soaking wet but no worse for wear, thankfully. We're not sure what happened, whether he got chased or if he just hid seeing the cat getting killed or finding it already dead? Either way, something happened as he had never been gone that long before. For days after he was afraid to go outside and if he did, it was for less than a minute usually. We live near the Oshawa airport and with the ravine/green space around there, it is a great spot for them, but after that incident, and with the amount of rabbits around, my guess is they have moved out. We have noticed in the past, lots of rabbits means no yotes, and no rabbits means they are around. The airport was shut down at that time but with it up and running again, I think they've been spooked and have moved one, thankfully. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poncho Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 34 minutes ago, ArcticCrusher said: We domesticated him. Even plays with the cat. What a beauty! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poncho Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 29 minutes ago, irv said: We thought we lost our cat last fall. My wife let him out around 6:50 am and and I began calling for him around 8 as he was usually out for 20 minutes give or take. When I was around the front of the house, a city of Oshawa van pulls up to my neighbor's house and proceeds to pick up a half eaten dead cat off his front lawn. When I seen it I knew it wasn't ours but thought it was a cat mine played with occasionally. I called and called for ours to no avail. My wife came home that night and knew something was wrong. We both continued to call/look for him that night and all the next day. I went out Saturday night around 10 for one last futile call and of course, nothing. Just as I was thinking about hitting the sheets, my wife yelled, he is back! I ran upstairs and sure enough, there he was, all soaking wet but no worse for wear, thankfully. We're not sure what happened, whether he got chased or if he just hid seeing the cat getting killed or finding it already dead? Either way, something happened as he had never been gone that long before. For days after he was afraid to go outside and if he did, it was for less than a minute usually. We live near the Oshawa airport and with the ravine/green space around there, it is a great spot for them, but after that incident, and with the amount of rabbits around, my guess is they have moved out. We have noticed in the past, lots of rabbits means no yotes, and no rabbits means they are around. The airport was shut down at that time but with it up and running again, I think they've been spooked and have moved one, thankfully. The cat likely hid under the Apex and the Coyotes couldn't move it out of the way to get at him......:) smart cat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoney Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 Pro & cons, they have a purpose, just like most other animals.....and if you live in an area that is known to have them, why let your cat or dog run free or left unattended, just looking for heartache. Usually scare pretty easy, but if become a nuisance, need to take matters into your hands. Around my area, there is a lot of new building going on decreasing the Green space, use to hear them off on the distance fairly often at night, not so much anymore......but the increase in rabbits has been significant - must be a connection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokin george Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 We only hear them yipping once in awhile around here. We've heard the wolves howling quite a few times Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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