To take the black yote or not?

[dak109]

Shoot it. Man is the only predator the coyote has in this area. They are highly adaptive. If left unchecked their population will continue to grow until they run out of habitat. Then they start moving into ares of more population and cause problems.

Give them an honorable and quick death. Beats the Hell out of starving.

 

[Indy_Guy_77]

Seems to be an awful thick critter...

Positive ID on it being a 'yote?

Really doesn't matter except for semantics, though. A roaming dog is a roaming dog...

-J-

 

[yote hunter]

That black one is very cool and would make a very nice mount..... Kill'm and mount him/her....

 

[Zoub]

Not defending the coyote, but the ground nesting bird problem probably has more to do with coons and snakes than coyotes.. Possoms are egg eaters too.
Black coyote is still a coyote and the only good one, (like starlings) is a dead one.

They did a study years ago and where there were wolves the ground nesting birds did much better..................because they kill the coyotes who in fact do hit the nests fairly hard. Wolves don't generally mess with nests. Coyotes do hit deer fawns fairly hard in spring.

The other side of the coin is he keeps rodents and rabbits out of your garden. I have cats and dogs for that.

 

[flashpuppy]

1. Go get your .
2. Then you go and kill dat dirty varmint.
3. Next you round up a bunch of old meat and stake it down under some chain link fence. When the rest of 'em start comin in you go and kill some more.
4. Repeat.

 

[flashpuppy]

The other side of the coin is he keeps rodents and rabbits out of your garden.

They also keep my calves out of my herd numbers...

 

[Cameramonkey]

That black one is very cool and would make a very nice mount..... Kill'm and mount him/her....

Reminds me of an old joke...

A hunter is out with his two best dogs. long story short he takes a bad shot and accidentally takes out both his dogs with stray pellets from his shotgun.

He loved those dogs so much he called a taxidermist. After a long discussion the taxidermist says "Its clear you loved those dogs. I know you want them stuffed. Do you want them mounted?" To which the owner replied. "Nah, just shaking hands is fine."

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

Like the one guy said, if you do shoot it, there will be another one to take it's place. One of the proudest days of my young life was in the early 70's when I was 13 and caught my first fox with a leg-hold trap in a "dirt hole set". I still like to look at that picture of me holding it up, with a big goofy smile on my face. Anyway, back in those days there were no coyotes around and now they are in every county in the state.

The thing I respect the most about Mr. Coyote is that for well over a hundred years, he's been public enemy number one; hunted, trapped, and poisoned. Heck, some western states PAID guys to kill as many as they could, and yet, there he is and there he will continue to be. Living on little to nothing when he has to, avoiding trouble when he can and breeding more than enough to fill the voids caused by hunters, trucks, and cars. I've hunted them and killed them, but I do have a lot of respect for them.

 

[CBR1000rr]

Years ago they used to have an annual "Fox Drive" as a fund raiser for the Losantville Vol. Fire Dept. Back in the day, they'd only take foxes, but along into the late '80s they started taking Coyotes. One of the last times I participated, somebody took a beautiful black Coyote, looked a lot like your pic.

I live outside of Modoc (between modoc and lynn) on 10.5 acres. I would put my money up 10:1 that I watched a black yote run across the back of my property. By the time I seen it, there wasn't a safe shot available.

 

[.452browning]

Dispose of him. Turn his hide into something cool.

In my experience, coyotes are nothing but trouble. It may not be taking pets or livestock yet, but it's only a matter of time...

 

[Hookeye]

I'm a bit concerned..............as to why there even is a thread about this.

 

[Leadeye]

Didn't know those were rare, they are everywhere around here. I just figure they were some mix with dogs as they are larger.

 

[hammer24]

...waiting for the hero shot...

 

[ljk]

DON'T KILL!!! Trap them.

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then drop them off in Bloomington and Carmel.