How dangerous are the coyotes?

[AAbsolute]

I can hear the coyotes talking it up in the woods at night near my latest crib. I have been watching them an hour before daylight scurrying to there hideouts. The other day it looked like a small pack took a rabbit as a group.

Are they dangerous at all to small kids?

 

[Lake Eastern]

I'm not sure about small kids but they did get one of my beloved cats a couple of years ago.

 

[Funkyard Dawg]

Dingos eat babies...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGxP...ww.julialouis-dreyfus.com/seinfeld/dingo.html

 

[NotDeadYet]

What neighborhood are you living in?
The coyote population seems to wax and wane. I personally don't care for them - they do not belong here. Coyotes have expanded their range, which formerly was only out west, to the entire country. They have filled the niche here left by the demise of the natural predators the red wolves and panthers. :angry:
Very occasionally you hear of a coyote attacking a small child, but it is rare. Small pets are another story though. Cats are one of their favorites.
Coyotes are not just nocturnal. They can and do hunt during the day if they are hungry.

 

[AAbsolute]

What neighborhood are you living in?
The coyote population seems to wax and wane. I personally don't care for them - they do not belong here. Coyotes have expanded their range, which formerly was only out west, to the entire country. They have filled the niche here left by the demise of the natural predators the red wolves and panthers. :angry:
Very occasionally you hear of a coyote attacking a small child, but it is rare. Small pets are another story though. Cats are one of their favorites.
Coyotes are not just nocturnal. They can and do hunt during the day if they are hungry.

Cypress Breeze Plantation. Cypress Breeze is on hwy 393 South a couple blocks from the beach. We are bordered by thousands of acres of State Forrest. I regularly see deer in groups, foxes, owls, osprey, hawks and coyotes. There are wild hog tracks all through the edge of the forrest too.

Some people tell me that a couple coyotes can take a dog. Does any of this sound accurate?

 

[NotDeadYet]

Some people tell me that a couple coyotes can take a dog. Does any of this sound accurate?

I have no doubt they can, but I never heard of coyotes taking a large dog. They have been known to take small ones, though. Lap dog size.
Over here in Seagrove we had lots of coyotes last winter, but I have not heard any for quite some time. Typically they hunt out an area and move on. Not long after they moved out of here, I saw the first fox I had seen in years. Back in the 90's coyotes were rare and I saw many more foxes and raccoons.
You can keep the hogs, thank you very much.

 

[Franny]

There is a large pack in the Pt. Washington area over by the concrete plants. They have really been howling the last few nights. Whether they 'belong' here or not, they are here and my belief is we should respect all animals, domestic and wild.

 

[Smiling JOe]

To say that coyotes don't belong here, perplexes me. It would be just as accurate to say that we don't belong here.

 

[wrobert]

There is a large pack in the Pt. Washington area over by the concrete plants. They have really been howling the last few nights. Whether they 'belong' here or not, they are here and my belief is we should respect all animals, domestic and wild.

Eradication of non native species of animals is a pretty easy thing to accomplish. I wonder if there is a recipe for coyote soup.

 

[Matt J]

Eradication of non native species of animals is a pretty easy thing to accomplish. I wonder if there is a recipe for coyote soup.

Got kudzu?