Letting in the dog this morning and just at the edge of the yard was a fairly large coyote coming towards him but it veered off when it saw me.

The neighbor has a sled dog team in a fenced in area and they have taken to startled barking and some howling in the middle of the night so I imagine this coyote has taken up permanent residence nearby.

Anywho, I am guessing that this thing might smell one of the neighbor dogs in heat and see mine as a rival, or as food. Therefore, does anyone know how to make these things move along with benevolent means? I am in a developed but wooded suburban area. I am not into shooting or poisoning, just want it to not harm my dog.

 

give him something else to chase:

 

I see a few around my yard and the woods around here sometimes. They've never tried to hurt my dogs or cats, just relatively calm from my experience.

 

the only coyote i know is Wile E. just make sure he's using A.C.M.E. products and you'll be fine.

 

Maybe it was just looking for a buddy to hang out with. I don't know what kind of dog you have, but I doubt the coyote would be looking at it as "food", especially if it is about the same size. I grew up in Texas, and there are tons of coyotes and foxes living in a wooded park that had multiple houses backed up to it, and nobody in the 7 or so years I lived there had any problems with any getting into fights with their dogs...

 

Coyotes have a fairly large range. But they pattern and will return to any potential food source. Where there's one there's more. The love eating cats and small dogs. They're very fast and very smart.

We used to shoot them on sight. If you've ever seen what they do a newborn calf you would too. We used wolfhounds on them in the winter. They also make a cyanide gas trip set for them as well but may not be legal anymore. They're hard to trap, that takes skills, skunks, sugar and a double spring set or a conibear in a skunk hole.

If you see him consistently shoot him. That's the easiest way.

Have no sympathy for coyotes.

fltsfshr

 

If there's one, then there's moar. If/when they get hungry enough there's a high chance they'll eat your dogs.

I recommend putting your dog in the house for a few days, and pour some anti-freeze on the ground near your yard.

No moar coyote.

 

oo.
Coyotes.. scared the living shit out of me one night.
was @ my friend's place about to leave and a pack of those ****ers came out of nowhere start howling and oh man.
I dipped, lol.

 

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=coyote+trap

 

Also keep in mind they may have rabies.

Had to put one of my ex girlfriends down beacuse she got bit by one that had rabies. She thought it was a stray dog.