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These guys are hungry.  They are out in the daylight hunting for food.  I've had two cats get eatten, and one of my neighbors lost a cat too, all in the last 2 weeks.  They have the mange so bad that they are nearly hairless.  Two grown ones were in the pasture the other morning looking for mice/rats...the horse just stopped and grouped together and watched them. 

 

Jody

Barbara McCrary <bigcreekranch@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Interesting....the coyotes out west are not nearly that brave, at least not on our ranch and its environs.  They aren't easily frightened, but they are wary.  And I've never had one threaten me or my horse.  I've seen one chasing around, playing so to speak, with one of our dogs, many years ago, as we were out for a ride.  I called the dog back to me, as I understand that a couple of coyotes will gang up on a dog and attack him.  Coyotes work well in packs, or at least in pairs.

 

Barbara

----- Original Message -----

From: Jody Rogers-Buttram

To: Truman Prevatt ; rides2far@xxxxxxxx

Cc: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 6:43 AM

Subject: Re: [RC] coyote threat

Well, I have more than my share of them.  They are so bad at the house now, that Joni is not allowed to ride on the trails and fields in front of the house alone.  This is where we usually condition and she rides during the day while I'm at work.  But the coyotes are too visible and too brave.  You don't go back there in the daytime without seeing at least one, and she has had one grown one, that stood in the trail and growled at the horse.  Brego (the horse) was scared and didn't want to go past where the coyote had been.  She said that she can see and hear them running thru the woods on the side of the trail.  We have called some neighbors to come in and hunt them (we don't have time)...Joel has shot at some of them off the tractor, but missed.   Joel was afraid if she were to get dumped back there, that they might attack her.  So, she is riding in another field that is closer to the road and is totally open.

 

Jody

Truman Prevatt <tprevatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The coyotes are also breeding with the Eastern Red Wolves that have been
reintroduced - which probably dooms the Eastern Red Wolf reintroduction
program. The half Eastern wolf and half coyotes has resulted in a half
wolf/half coyote that is not near as shy as the Eastern wolf.

I wonder where the coyotes have come from in the East. Back in the 60's
we never heard of coyotes in Western KY. When I lived in Maryland and
Virginia we never heard of them. I never saw them in the wild except in
the Rockies until the mid 80's when I saw on in Florida. The population
in the East has seemed to literally exploded. Of course the deer was
reintroduced in Western Kentucky about 1968 so I wonder if there might
be a correlation.

Truman

rides2far@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>> > cyotes or cyote dog hybrids
>> > very hard to find actual cyotes anymore
>>
>
> I read a book about the Eastern Coyotes...they are *all* bigger. The
> author's theory is that there's a tad of wolf that mixed in at some point
> and they are filling the void left by the Red Wolf in the Eastern
> forests..nature fills a void with the sized creature it had adapted for
> the job. Forget the details but it was pretty persuading argument. The
> ones I've seen were very consistent...and very shy. Saw 3 pups on the
> trail at Biltmore the night before the ride last year...have seen one
> within 20 yards of my back door. It was chasing my Australian Shepherd
> home but when my dog saw me on my horse she seemed to think
> *reinforcements!* and turned and chased it back over the ridge.
>
> Angie (headed out to pick up my new 7 year old barely halter broke
> stallion this morning...details pending!)
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