Coyote problems

[HuddleUp]

Our yard backs up to a wooded area. Our neighborhood is having a growing problem with coyotes. Several dogs and cats have been taken... some right out of the front yard.

We have a couple of smaller dogs and 5 cats that roam around our yard. Anyone know how to keep these away? Our association does not allow fences. They seem pretty fearless. We have an electric fence but I haven't been able to get close enough to put a collar on any of them.

 

[VeloClone]

We have a couple of smaller dogs and 5 cats that roam around our yard. Anyone know how to keep these away?

Give the coyotes a little time and they will take care of your dog and cat problem for you.:v_SPIN:

 

[bos]

Our yard backs up to a wooded area. Our neighborhood is having a growing problem with coyotes. Several dogs and cats have been taken... some right out of the front yard.

We have a couple of smaller dogs and 5 cats that roam around our yard. Anyone know how to keep these away? Our association does not allow fences. They seem pretty fearless. We have an electric fence but I haven't been able to get close enough to put a collar on any of them.

I would get a bunch of people together and have them revisit this.

 

[UNIGuy4Cy]

If you live in the city limits of KC call animal control. If you dont, they are fun to hunt.

 

[CtownCyclone]

Give the coyotes a little time and they will take care of your dog and cat problem for you.:v_SPIN:

Winner.

Do you not want the coyotes to get the kitties and puppies?

 

[CloneIce]

Sounds like your subdivision was built pretty much in their natural area. Unfortunately property lines don't mean anything to them. I can see why your concerned for your pets, that would be awful to lose on that way.

Do you have any rifles? In many places you can hunt coyotes year round. I think you could also possibly place some traps, though you'd have to be careful to keep your pets out of them.

 

[HuddleUp]

Give the coyotes a little time and they will take care of your dog and cat problem for you.:v_SPIN:

Lol. I should have clarified that they are our dogs and cats.

 

[jaretac]

Our yard backs up to a wooded area. Our neighborhood is having a growing problem with coyotes. Several dogs and cats have been taken... some right out of the front yard.

We have a couple of smaller dogs and 5 cats that roam around our yard. Anyone know how to keep these away? Our association does not allow fences. They seem pretty fearless. We have an electric fence but I haven't been able to get close enough to put a collar on any of them.

I can hook you up.

I would say a couple of these would take care of your coyote problem, and possibly a bad neighbor or two.

http://www.cyclonefanatic.com/forum/off-topic/114555-amazing-cougar-mountain-lion-photo.html

 

[jsmith86]

Have your neighborhod build a wireless electric fence and set a big pack of bullmastiffs loose in it This should solve both the coyote and the cat problems. Although it will solve the unwanted visitor problem and the wanted visitor and the neighbor problem as well.

 

[AdRock4Cy]

Sounds like your subdivision was built pretty much in their natural area. Unfortunately property lines don't mean anything to them. I can see why your concerned for your pets, that would be awful to lose on that way.

Do you have any rifles? In many places you can hunt coyotes year round. I think you could also possibly place some traps, though you'd have to be careful to keep your pets out of them.

Why is it that whenever a wild animal shows up, the first thing people do is shoot it? Rednecks, rednecks, rednecks...

 

[Cyhart]

Coyotes in urban settings are becoming more common and more fearless.
They just had a segment on it on Nightline last week. (Nightline is a fantastic program).
I guess a coyote (or plural) attacked a woman in Canada and killed and ate her.
Its the first known case of a coyote(s) killing a human. So.....be careful.

 

[19210]

Depending where you are located and the laws, but I'd be happy to bring a few people down and go on a hunt to try and get rid of as many of them as possible.

Our yard backs up to a wooded area. Our neighborhood is having a growing problem with coyotes. Several dogs and cats have been taken... some right out of the front yard.

We have a couple of smaller dogs and 5 cats that roam around our yard. Anyone know how to keep these away? Our association does not allow fences. They seem pretty fearless. We have an electric fence but I haven't been able to get close enough to put a collar on any of them.

 

[jsmith86]

I can hook you up.

I would say a couple of these would take care of your coyote problem, and possibly a bad neighbor or two.

http://www.cyclonefanatic.com/forum/off-topic/114555-amazing-cougar-mountain-lion-photo.html

Are you going to drive them down to KC Talladega Nights style?

 

[BoxsterCy]

It is getting to be an issue here in the Twin Cities urban area. I live in Golden Valley and am only about five houses away from Minneapolis and we had a coyote try and nab one of the neighbor dogs. The dog survived but I am not keen on these newly arrived predators. Not much I can do about them legally here in the city. I do wish they would spend more time hunting some of the eight million rabbits in the neighborhood rather than trying to snatch little dogs.

 

[Al_4_State]

There was a healthy coyote population in the woods behind my home farm, but they were total chicken *****. Never bothered our dog at all, except they would all howl at nights sometimes.

I'd always thought they were scavengers and almost never attacked other creatures.

 

[tazclone]

Our yard backs up to a wooded area. Our neighborhood is having a growing problem with coyotes. Several dogs and cats have been taken... some right out of the front yard.

We have a couple of smaller dogs and 5 cats that roam around our yard. Anyone know how to keep these away? Our association does not allow fences. They seem pretty fearless. We have an electric fence but I haven't been able to get close enough to put a collar on any of them.

Get bigger dogs. :smile:Hard for a coyote to get a German Shephard or even a big lab and they tend to stay away from the larger dogs. Our development in Colorado had a coyote issue with dogs and cats but they never bothered larger dogs.

In city limits call the city and see if they can trap them/eradicate them Out of limits, you are free to hunt them.

 

[Irresponsible]

From my experience, you are out of luck. I've seen a coyote on TV who falls off cliffs, gets run down by trucks and gets smashed by falling rocks. Yet he survives! I think they are indestructable.

My suggestion is to try and eliminate your road runner population. That should drive the coyotes away.

 

[c.y.c.l.o.n.e.s]

Our yard backs up to a wooded area. Our neighborhood is having a growing problem with coyotes. Several dogs and cats have been taken... some right out of the front yard.

We have a couple of smaller dogs and 5 cats that roam around our yard. Anyone know how to keep these away? Our association does not allow fences. They seem pretty fearless. We have an electric fence but I haven't been able to get close enough to put a collar on any of them.

Some farmers use hourly cannon blasts set to a timer to keep them away from livestock. You could do that until the association got organized enough to add "No cannon blasts in the middle of the night" to the bylaws. :twitcy:

 

[CivEFootball]

How does the Assiocation define the word fence? I have a lenghty solution depending on the wording of fence in the assiocation contract.

 

[SenorCy]

Why is it that whenever a wild animal shows up, the first thing people do is shoot it? Rednecks, rednecks, rednecks...

If a wild animal loses its fear of humans and starts attacking pets or livestock than that animal should be removed. Even if you miss, they will at least get a healthy fear of humans.