But Bare, what if they do come right in the yard and kill a pet as they did with WestCoast Sunshines's friend????

We leave our kitties out on the lanai all the time with the door cracked. Everyone I know walks their dogs.

Skybo, I was asking where it happened for the pure sake of knowing where the packs were spotted. Yes, I personally have seen a lone coyote at dawn on Havana Trail but never a pack. I know they are everywhere, and I know that WCS didn't think I was trying to disparage her. She is a sincere person who is only trying to protect all of our pets.

I don't know what if anything we can do about this. Can you carry spray or something like that when you walk your dog???

No-one loves dogs more than I do. I had a Maltese for 16 years. The thought of what happened to that little doggie is horrifying and extremely sad.

But I think it's a highly unusual occurence for this to happen, especially in daylight. I don't think the solution is to advocate trapping and killing all coyotes and gators. We need to co-exist with these animals.

I think people who walk their dogs on leashes in subdivisons are probably safe. Residents who back on open spaces, farms, and golf courses, or who walk near the Preserves, should probably be more viligant. I'm grateful for this thread because I will take even more precautions, as we back on an open space with some bushes. I'm having a motion-detector light installed on our birdcage. I do not let my dogs out in the back yard at night. I will no longer leave any animal in the birdcage unsupervised.

As Jhooman said, we are the stewards of our pets.

Ditto!!!!!!1

Is there anyway to get the word out to other residents who aren't members of this forum about this danger?

Try reaching pet owners through the providers of services such as:
Veterinarians, Pet Shops, Groomers, Pet Hotels.

things tend to get blown out of control on here. ive lived around the state for 40 years and never heard of coyote dangers. now pygmy rattlers and an occasional 'people fed gator' can be a real danger. but roaming packs of coyotes are not anything to lose any sleep over. id worry more about tee times than coyotes !

Please educate yourself
 

http://www2.journalnow.com/news/2012...gh-ar-1793457/

Your welcome! :)

winston-salem florida ?????

:ohdear:

You just don't get it.

They are out there and people need to protect their dogs. :ohdear:

I would only do this for you red tail
 

Anyone else would have bored me by now.

http://www.bradenton.com/2011/12/23/...sightings.html

Just understand in the future, you will really need to do your own research. I can't do everything for you.

Your welcome! :icon_wink:

Red Tail, things have changed a lot during the past 40 years. As ddan said, we've displaced the coyotes' natural habitat and built homes for 80,000 residents. I think the reason westcoastsunshine initiated this thread was to make us all a little more cautious. Thanks WCS. :ho: I appreciate the information and I will be more vigilant.

I live on the north side of Houston Texas, in a subdivision that borders a high line and then some woods. A few years ago people started hearing and occasionally seeing coyotes in the woods. Over the years they were spotted and heard more often and closer. A couple years ago you could look out across the high line right of way and see up to five coyotes every evening. Next they were spotted in the neighborhood more and more often and pets started disappearing. Finally, if you payed attention you could see them in the neighborhood quite frequntly. People got used to watching them and then a few people started feeding them. My house is on the edge of the high line right of way and I could seen them in my yard and the vacant lot next to us very regularly. Finally, both of my next door neighbors cats disappeared and another neighbor let her little min pin dog out for a couple of minutes early in the morning and a coyote grabbed it. We called animal control and they set traps, but said there wasn't much chance of catching them in a trap (they were right - the traps failed). We have two small dogs and I became very concerned as I watched the cototes sniff around our fence at night on several occassions. Last fall, I finally had enough and purchased a crossbow. I put dog food in the vacant lot next door (the high line area and woods are behind this area so there was no problems if a shot went high). It took a few weeks, but I finally killed all but one of the five coyotes and the one that remained left our area. All of this while sitting in a chair on my front porch 20 yards from the bait. I didn't like shooting them and probably wouldn't of had to do if the neighbors hadn't started feeding them and encouraging them to come into the neighborhood.

It's not just the rural areas. There have been several articles in The Saint Petersburg Times about packs of coyotes in Pinellas County, the most densely populated county in Florida, killing cats and other small animals. Too bad there's not a newspaper to get the word out about this danger in TV.

We live in st. James and hear them often. My husband saw one that had been hit by a car on buena vista...yes, they are here. We won't let the cat on the lanai after dark.

kitties
 

graciegirl, Which door do you prop open when kitties are on the lanai? At first I thought you meant the door to the backyard, but now I'm thinking you mean the doorway into the house. So many things out there at night could grab a cat--including a car.

Now I'm worried about walking the dog after dark. A hungry coyote might become very aggressive, even to large dogs. I couldn't pick up my 85-lb dog to save his life.

We bought in Tamarind Grove, right where the builders are disturbing the habitat. I'm especially glad for this post since we're new and aren't aware of certain problems yet.

Thanks to the pet forum, I've already learned that to be considerate I will never, ever let my dog so much as sniff a blade of someone's grass (even though he's not a marker) or poop around the mailboxes, and now I will be more vigilant about predatory wild animals.

Lets see this is about the seventh thread regarding coyotes. In each one somebody heard of a dog being taken by a coyote. Then follows all those who have seen a coyote in TV. Then follows all those who are so sorry that the dog was eaten. Then follows all those who advise to keep you dog in sight, in your yard, behind you villa wall, don't take your dog out at night, etc...........................
Will say this one was somewhat more interesting since it was a "pack" rather than just one.
I'm really sorry I stated reading this thread.

Coyotes will leave an area if there are “no attractants,” such as food, said Gary Morse, spokesman for the Fish & Wildlife Commission.

Read more here: http://www.bradenton.com/2011/12/23/...#storylink=cpy


Sort of weird that Gary Morse works for the Fish & Wildlife Commission too.


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This is a different Gary Morse. Its a fairly common name. The CEO of the Villages is H. Gary Morse.

We're really sorry you stated reading this thread too!

In fact, there are three threads about coyotes and not seven, Are you stretching Bogie? Something you seem to imply the posters are doing?

Not to worry tho, I hear coyotes don't like Bogie Shooters. :)

We"re really sorry you started reading this thread too!----Who is "We Are"?. Maybe its time to retire this?. Agree with Bogey.

Not how it works!
 

A post is closed,

1. The OP closes it
2. People stop posting
3. The Admin closes it

Them's the rules! :laugh::laugh::laugh:

coyotes
 

you guys want to see coyotes? you should come to sun city! we have them all over the place. just be careful with your pets and all will be well.

Boring,Boring. Think enough been said.

Geeze...then just stop reading the thread.:undecided:

:popcorn:

Bill :wave:

I need to eat more popcorn and type less. How do you spell impulsive?

c o y o t e !

Did you rely on the search function to arrive as three threads? Its not that accurate. I am not implying, no one has posted they actually saw a pack coyotes in TV. Seeing a pack of them in Texas has nothing to do with TV.
BTW where did you read the rules about closing a thread??

Oh, and I want to add; sorry for the loss of any dogs that have been eaten by roving packs of coyotes and please keep those little doggies locked up at all times.

OK. Maybe it was not a coyote,just a large dog.

or a small wolf

or a sheep in wolf's clothing

Now that wouldn't be any fun!

S-K-Y-G-U-Y-7-9

Might you be Fumar incognito?

Our new neighbors moved in and saw a coyote on the golf course last night behind their house at Bonifay.

Critters
 

Well, I can't say what or who carried our garbage bag from one end of our yard clear across to the next door neighbors yard on Sunday evening, tearing it open and flinging garbage everywhere, but it definitely happened. We live in the Village of Sanibel. Some have suggested it may have been a weasel, a fox or even a coyote. Your guess is as good as mine.

Well if the Dingo ate her baby.........

When Bill-n-Brillo were last here, we all saw a coyote standing in a farm field near cattle in broad daylight on 466A. That was about three weeks ago.

I live in Calumet Grove and a few months ago, I saw a coyote crossing Bueno Vista by a golf course near Lopez. One of the vets from Mulberry Grove Animal Hospital jogs in the area and has seen them. I am from a rural area in Michigan and I know what a coyote looks like. At the Outdoor Expo in The Villages this year, I asked the ranger from
Griffin Park in Lake County about them. He said the they have become a problem in the park and they encourage anyone who lives on "shoot'-able property" to dispatch them. I live on a golf course 4 houses away from a wooded horse farm area. I have a small dog (always on a leash). In the evening before dark I take him on his "long walk" and later I turn on all the front lights, close the front door so it can be heard, and talk to him. I am not paranoid, just cautious because one can't predict what a wild animal would do if confronted with a tasty dinner.

According to the University of Florida, coyotes are in Florida.

I believe it...
 

My daughter lived in the country = rural area for a short time while her house was being built. Often she would see cars pull up and let out a cat or dog that they did not want anymore and then later she would hear and or see Coyotes killing it. Very sad. I wonder if the owner ever thought of that. Of course that all occurred up North but it was in an area with homes. I am sure that behavior on the part of Coyotes is not limited to the North.

Last night we heard a crashing noise outside the front of our house. This morning we found the drain pipe disconnected and teeth marks where it was pulled out from the house. Once again TOTV saved the day and solved the mystery; a while back there was a story about people's drain pipes being chewed up and the problem was solved when it was discovered that small animals running from predators were trying to escape into the pipe and the nasty predator chews the pipe trying to disloge the critter. Sad story.....By the way the teeth marks were not small.

Our village is approximately 8 years old and only recently have I seen rabbits and one lone squirrel. The other day I opened the hose box and saw a possum sleeping in the bottom. My garbage has never been touched which I find surprising but now I can see that the critters are moving back into this area. Coyotes are everywhere, they had a couple of them in Central Park in NYC.