Walking your dog in coyote areas

[Gilroy]

Yeh Doug I agree I like the coyotes in the City taking out the free rooming pet cats where the owners let them wander everywhere and they are killing tons of birds.One of the few benefits of coyotes in the city.

[Cass]

I don't really worry about them other than when they're having pups. I routinely have them in my backyard and I walk the dog in the woods out back. Never ran into any while out. Not that it couldn't happen but most will avoid people just like any other animal. Always surprises me how many people on forums worry about running into coyotes or bears. Seems odd to me. I've wandered the woods alone since I was probably 8 years old. Wild animals do not seek out humans.

[Ontariofarmer]

Coyotes like easy meals. Fast food so to speak

But if they are hungry and desperate they will attack a farm dog. During a severe Mid winter usually
I am aware of Bigger coy- dogs killing a large dog locally
Small dogs and cats are fast food


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[ninepointer]

https://urbancoyoteinitiative.com/wh...PAe-NL9opN0Fts

Anyone know what dem small lanky critters in dose pitchers are?!

[Snowwalker]

Anyone know what dem small lanky critters in dose pitchers are?!

Don't look like any Coyotes I have seen around London or the TO.

[rick_iles]

Don't look like any Coyotes I have seen around London or the TO.

We’ve killed a pile of them. I’ve not seen one like those around here.

[jaycee]

Don't forget. that all those pics are taken in summer , they look different in their heavier winter coats.
Especially during the early years when they were true coyotes, now with a lot of wolf DNA in them , some look a bit different.
Been hunting them for over 40 years, with many many killed, some looked like those depending on the time of year they were shot.

[terrym]

I don't really worry about them other than when they're having pups. I routinely have them in my backyard and I walk the dog in the woods out back. Never ran into any while out. Not that it couldn't happen but most will avoid people just like any other animal. Always surprises me how many people on forums worry about running into coyotes or bears. Seems odd to me. I've wandered the woods alone since I was probably 8 years old. Wild animals do not seek out humans.

No. No they don’t but never underestimate coyotes and their capacity to kill your dogs. My Britt and I got followed right to the truck in a county Forest I train in. The dog is the one who spotted him first. If I had a gun it would have died about 100ft from my truck when I spotted him. Those county forests are full of trail walkers with dogs.

[Snowwalker]

Wild animals do not seek out humans.

We'll just let your generalist statement pass for now, but remember there are animal species that do see humans as food.

[trimmer21]

I don't really worry about them other than when they're having pups. I routinely have them in my backyard and I walk the dog in the woods out back. Never ran into any while out. Not that it couldn't happen but most will avoid people just like any other animal. Always surprises me how many people on forums worry about running into coyotes or bears. Seems odd to me. I've wandered the woods alone since I was probably 8 years old. Wild animals do not seek out humans.

I'm sure that you've just been lucky. The Law of Averages will surely catch up,eventually.

No. No they don’t but never underestimate coyotes and their capacity to kill your dogs. My Britt and I got followed right to the truck in a county Forest I train in. The dog is the one who spotted him first. If I had a gun it would have died about 100ft from my truck when I spotted him. Those county forests are full of trail walkers with dogs.

Just before Christmas,I was sitting atop a CA high steep hill in a coyote hide when several horse riders came up the trail 100 ft below me at a fast canter trying to keep coyotes from nipping at the horse's fetlocks. There were five of them with the alpha male in the lead causing all the trouble. As soon as the riders got by me,I dropped the alpha,re-chambered and dropped the closest behind it. The rest scattered. I got two more shots off,but,missed both. The horse riders kept on going without sticking around,but,there was a trail of blood all the way up the trail back to the trailer park area. I hope the horses weren't hurt to bad.

We'll just let your generalist statement pass for now, but remember there are animal species that do see humans as food.

....and alive and well and living not too darn far away,either. If conditions are just right..............