Wolf on 30A

Only cougars.

Only cougars.

:nono1: Bad Kitty!

Are you sure it wasn't a coyote?

Thanks NoHall...I think you may be right... it probably was a coyote...and I wasn't even drinking tonight.

We nearly ran over a coyote right in that very spot a couple of weeks ago. He ran out across 30A.

Coyote. On the prowl for cougars Friday/Saturday nights...

Haven't seen one personally but the person that does our whiskers program said that there's been quite a few and she thinks we've lost several cats to them

I saw a coyote about a year ago on 395, just south of the Regions bank and north of Canal St. It was about 10:30 at night.

Coyote. And they do eat cats. Everyone on my street in Seagrove has lost cats to the coyotes.
Best to keep your cats in at night. You could still lose one during the day but it is less likely. Actually we have seen fewer coyotes this spriing than last spring, when they were really thick and I lost two cats.

Come to think of it, we haven't seen as many either this spring. From our experience with them in Kentucky, they "hunt out" an area, then move on to another, so they may have just moved around SoWal, but not really left.

I saw a coyote on 98 near Watersound North a couple of days ago.

Wait till ya see the peacocks on 83 in Blue Mountain!

Did it look like this

Maybe it was a fox. They seem to be getting ran out of their territories by new housing developments.

Come to think of it, we haven't seen as many either this spring. From our experience with them in Kentucky, they "hunt out" an area, then move on to another, so they may have just moved around SoWal, but not really left.

Love you're sig line. It's so toots :rofl:

Maybe it was a fox. They seem to be getting ran out of their territories by new housing developments.

Look like this

Saw a small coyote between 395 and Bay Dr last night. It was so scrawny. No wild wolves in the area that I know of.

Coyotes are sort of scrawny and tan and more foxlike, wolves are bigger, more of a grey color and are much more doglike.

I've seen/heard coyotes all over the area (including trotting down 30-A in daylight), but I don't think wolves are a local animal.

Cool to see neat animals whatever it was!

Some of the coyotes in the area are a mix of red wolf and coyote, or possibly dog and coyote. We had a family of nine living behind us for a spring and summer. They were definitely a red wolf/coyote mix. Only a couple of the pups looked like coyotes. They started traveling once the pups were grown enough. During that winter we saw them occasionally in just groups of 3 or 4 at a time. Since they each had such distinct markings we could recognize them, especially when reviewing video footage. We haven't seen any of them now for a year and a half.

The US Fish and Wildlife biologists were really excited about my video footage, but informed me that the only full-blooded red wolves are radio-collared and living elsewhere.

There are several gray wolf packs up in Chipley, but they're fenced in at the Seacrest Wolf Preserve. If you like wolves, I'd recommend a visit to Seacrest. Sitting in the middle of a pack of howling wolves is an awesome experience.

There is so much open land around that the coyotes aren't stuck in one place. They can raise their pups in one area and then move on to greener pastures. That way they don't have to rely on the local cat population for food. I just wish there was an easier way for them to cross hwy 98.

In more congested areas you'll either find coyotes or foxes, but not both. They don't share territory well, and the fox ends up dinner for the coyote.

Another thing to note: Coyotes (and wolves) mate for life, and only have a short breeding period during the winter. So in most cases your female dogs are safe.

I've seen what look like coyote tracks in the woods of NoWal. Keep your kitties inside at night!

It's not just your kitties that could be in danger...
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I have probable proof of coyotes in the back corner of my yard. There's a disemboweled racoon in my yard. Not exactly something a dog would do. A lot of it is gone...

Blech...

That kind of thing does happen, but dog attacks are a whole lot more common. I've been growled at by a coyote, licked by a coyote, but it's the loose dogs that I have trouble with. I've been attacked by way to many dogs. I must look like a hoodlum or something. Relaxing bike rides in the country just don't happen for me without being chased down by a group of wandering dogs. I need to keep a billy club strapped to my bike.

I learned to pedal faster. About 15 miles into my usual bike ride, I used to always get chased by two dogs, one pit bull. I quickly learned that no matter if I was tired, I needed to get a second wind when riding up that long hill where the dogs lived.

Around here, riding through the neighborhoods, if a dog comes out running at me on my bike. I stop the bike, get off and introduce myself. I am amazed at the difference a shift in my attitude makes. The dogs are much happier when I stop to visit. Some, even follow me around for a while when I get back on my bike.

Coyotes are sort of scrawny and tan and more foxlike, wolves are bigger, more of a grey color and are much more doglike.

I've seen/heard coyotes all over the area (including trotting down 30-A in daylight), but I don't think wolves are a local animal.

Cool to see neat animals whatever it was!

And foxes are more feline in the way they run. Much smaller than a coyote or a wolf.

Sometimes cats and coyotes get along just peachy ...