Coyote visit

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Coyote visit

Post by lucky1 » Mon Oct 24, 2011 8:28 pm

This youngster showed up today, certainly not shy.

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Post by TerdalFarm » Mon Oct 24, 2011 8:33 pm

How did your dog respond?
When coyotes would come to the farm to eat chickens, my dogs would be afraid unless I was outside to encourage them. Then they would run the coyotes off.

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Post by lucky1 » Mon Oct 24, 2011 8:44 pm

My dog was sound asleep inside, under the desk. :lol: :lol:
But she was quite the drama queen hours later when we walked past that area...sniffing every blade of grass, hackles up.
dogs would be afraid unless I was outside to encourage them.
Pets must know instinctively not to spar with a hungry wild animal.

Or they've heard 30 of them howling at night and don't want to mess with the other 29 later.

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Post by Okanagan desert-palms » Tue Oct 25, 2011 12:34 am

Barb we get the odd Coyote here. They come down the dry creek bed from the upper mountain areas. You probably have many more being that your property borders rangeland. Five years here now.I always know if there is a racoon or coyote near as my rottweiler goes ballistic that they have been or are near. They best move on to another area or she will deal with them!





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Post by DesertZone » Tue Oct 25, 2011 6:16 am

Beautiful, I love yoties. But I prefer they stay out of my yard.

I had a husky/wolf that would play with them when he was younge, but as he got older would fight with them. :?
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Post by hardyjim » Tue Oct 25, 2011 6:37 am

Mountain lions are the problem here,it gets
so bad sometimes you have to stay inside! :wink:
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Post by TerdalFarm » Tue Oct 25, 2011 8:15 am

Those are cougars knocking on your door, Jim :wink:

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Post by igor.glukhovtsev » Tue Oct 25, 2011 8:23 am

DesertZone wrote: I had a husky/wolf
May we see a pic?
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Post by lucky1 » Tue Oct 25, 2011 9:50 am

Those are cougars knocking on your door, Jim
Four-legged cougars. :lol:

John, yes you're just close enough to wilderness that you see them on their paths to the lake.
I'm sure that spawning fish would be a real attraction for coyotes, but there's not much unoccupied lakefront left.
We have literally hundreds of Quail wandering around, all summer nesting in the junipers, etc.
They roost in our 8 foot high Fir hedge.
They'd make a good meal for a coyote, better than a puny mouse.

Wow, Aaron a husky/wolf, tell us more please.

I used to be a coyote, but I'm all right noowwwwwwww! (singing) :lol:

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Post by hardyjim » Tue Oct 25, 2011 2:35 pm

TerdalFarm wrote:Those are cougars knocking on your door, Jim :wink:

That was funny :shock:
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Post by DesertZone » Tue Oct 25, 2011 5:54 pm

igor.glukhovtsev wrote:
DesertZone wrote: I had a husky/wolf
May we see a pic?
I don't know for sure what kind of dog he was, but husky/wolf like.

This is when he was older, and yes my wife is going to kill me for posting this pic. I love this pic and I miss him so much. :cry:
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Post by lucky1 » Tue Oct 25, 2011 9:09 pm

He was a gorgeous dog, Aaron.
Look at that smiling face!
Love it when a dog leans/sits on their owner, so cute.

W won't kill you, that's a great photo!
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Post by DesertZone » Wed Oct 26, 2011 8:18 pm

Thanks Barb

Every time I see that pic it brings a smile and a tear. :)
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Post by lucky1 » Wed Oct 26, 2011 10:13 pm

Great memories, I bet, Aaron.
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Post by DesertZone » Thu Oct 27, 2011 11:41 am

lucky1 wrote:Great memories, I bet, Aaron.
Oh ya. :D

Can't get enough of my dogs, closest thing I have ever had to children. :D
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Post by lucky1 » Thu Oct 27, 2011 4:27 pm

Cheaper to educate too...
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Post by DesertZone » Fri Oct 28, 2011 5:31 pm

lucky1 wrote:Cheaper to educate too...
:lol:
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Post by TimMAz6 » Fri Oct 28, 2011 6:16 pm

great photo. We get them here every now and then. I have not seen any for about a year now. Our area is not know for wildlife.
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Post by lucky1 » Fri Oct 28, 2011 9:04 pm

Maybe your pointy fence keeps 'em out, Tim :lol: :lol:
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