Coyote on the move in The Villages

[alemorkam]

Just passing through.

[JRcorvette]

He looks well fed

[Taltarzac725]

I hope he was moving away from the alligators you often photo.

[fdpaq0580]

He looks well fed

What he looks like is the "lost dog" I found when I was 8 and brought home because Dad wouldn't buy us a dog.

[Chi-Town]

Too bad that there are no roadrunners in Fl.

[Velvet]

He’s on a mission!

[Boomer]

Great picture! Thank you.

Coyote mating season is right around the corner, so they will be running crazy — and hungry. Then will come the babies and Dad will be doing the hunting while Mom stays home. Busy times.

I know people already know to be aware and careful with their pets, but I can’t help saying it again……..

Several years ago, there were two incidents that I heard about in TV. Small dogs were taken by coyotes who were waiting. Coyotes can tell time and they knew the dogs’ schedules.

Dog owners should never let their pets out unattended, even though the pets might be really good about staying in their own yard for a quick doing of their business.

Urban coyotes are sleek, well-fed, stealthy, smart, and are thriving among us in every state, including the big cities.

Gotta give ‘em credit, but be careful with your pets.

Boomer

[Taltarzac725]

Great picture! Thank you.

Coyote mating season is right around the corner, so they will be running crazy — and hungry. Then will come the babies and Dad will be doing the hunting while Mom stays home. Busy times.

I know people already know to be aware and careful with their pets, but I can’t help saying it again……..

Several years ago, there were two incidents that I heard about in TV. Small dogs were taken by coyotes who were waiting. Coyotes can tell time and they knew the dogs’ schedules.

Dog owners should never let their pets out unattended, even though the pets might be really good about staying in their own yard for a quick doing of their business.

Urban coyotes are sleek, well-fed, stealthy, smart, and are thriving among us in every state, including the big cities.

Gotta give ‘em credit, but be careful with your pets.

Boomer

Had a dog park friend whose dog Jon Snow got taken by a coyote several years ago. It had been let out to pee around 3 AM in their backyard and some coyotes took him. Before that I would often greet her with "Jon Snow lives!" Especially after a certain episode had been on HBO. We were fans of Game of Thrones.

Jon Snow used to break up fights between big dogs even though he was a chihuahua -minpin mix.

I have heard of a few other small dogs being taken. Two near Southern Trace. Jon Snow lived south of Sumter Landing.

[Two Bills]

Since hunting foxes was banned in UK the place is over run with the £*****'s
They have spread to all cities, and have adapted to the new environment to the detriment of pets, and other wild life.
They have no fear of humans because idiots feed them.
When they were hunted, the balance was always good and controlled.
Another victory for the anti-hunt, and bleeding heart brigade!

[Chi-Town]

Since hunting foxes was banned in UK the place is over run with the £*****'s
They have spread to all cities, and have adapted to the new environment to the detriment of pets, and other wild life.
They have no fear of humans because idiots feed them.
When they were hunted, the balance was always good and controlled.
Another victory for the anti-hunt, and bleeding heart brigade!

A victory for the alligators here. Same story, different player. Not sure about the bleeding heart brigade aspect.

[coconutmama]

What he looks like is the "lost dog" I found when I was 8 and brought home because Dad wouldn't buy us a dog.

Good story. How did that end?

[Sgt Ed]

Great picture! Thank you.

Coyote mating season is right around the corner, so they will be running crazy — and hungry. Then will come the babies and Dad will be doing the hunting while Mom stays home. Busy times.

I know people already know to be aware and careful with their pets, but I can’t help saying it again……..

Several years ago, there were two incidents that I heard about in TV. Small dogs were taken by coyotes who were waiting. Coyotes can tell time and they knew the dogs’ schedules.I

Dog owners should never let their pets out unattended, even though the pets might be really good about staying in their own yard for a quick doing of their business.

Urban coyotes are sleek, well-fed, stealthy, smart, and are thriving among us in every state, including the big cities.
Gotta give ‘em credit, but be careful with your pets.

Boomer In the rest of Florida they are open season, if there is one in TV can you shoot it safely.

[Marmaduke]

Since hunting foxes was banned in UK the place is over run with the £*****'s
They have spread to all cities, and have adapted to the new environment to the detriment of pets, and other wild life.
They have no fear of humans because idiots feed them.
When they were hunted, the balance was always good and controlled.
Another victory for the anti-hunt, and bleeding heart brigade!
Oh my goodness, it's so refreshing to read this post and the one a few posts ago!

So many people just do not get it! It's quite maddening.

Turkey populations are way down too. Most hunters believe it's due to coyote.

We have another home that is in a community that abuts cattle farms and vast ranches.

The ranchers are often out at night protecting the calf's from preditors on their land, which is often exacerbated by the loons that fed the coyote and say they were 'here first', and we pushed them out of their natural habitats.

These people actually call the police on the ranchers for shooting these coyote who are aggressively after their $5000. Calves on their own land.

Then they go back to posting pictures of the "HUNGRY" scrawny Coyote or the CUTE WILD PIGS. Ugggg!!!!

People really need educated
We have women that constantly feed the ducks and there's nothing you can tell them to get them to cease. IDIOTS!

Exactly right tho, do-gooders that do so much harm and will NEVER understand that nothing is wasted in nature and hunters are their best friends, the ultimate conservationist, long before Earth Day 1970 was created.

[Boomer]

In the rest of Florida they are open season, if there is one in TV can you shoot it safely.

You quoted me, so I feel like I must address your question before this thread goes haywire.

First of all, my point was to be aware of coyotes and not to put your pets in danger of becoming dinner.

AND before you write me off to being anti-hunting, that is a wrong assumption. There are reasons for hunting that I respect, like to put meat on the table or in the freezer or a farmer needing to protect livestock. I have a friend whose dad owned a big farm and pastured a lot of livestock. When he was in his pastures, he always carried a gun. He had no mercy on coyotes because coyotes were a real threat to his livestock. (The area also had coydogs show up once in a while. Those critters are rare and have no sense, at all, no fear of humans. He took out a couple of those, too. But he was a farmer who farmed two thousand acres.)

You see, I have common sense UNLIKE someone who wants to hunt coyotes in The Villages.

“Open season”? HAH! That statement is misleading. You left out the part about “private property” or “permission of the land owner” and “checking with the authorities” — and the type of weapon to be used is also specified — but none of those things would be allowed in this highly populated, densely built TV. Even asking such a question reveals a lack of thought.

So? There would be no permission ever given in TV. That would be insane. AND the other obvious take on this is do Villagers have bullets or arrows that stop at the property lines of our postage stamp lots.

You have hit a hot button with me. Some friends of ours built a house on 5 acres about a half hour from the city. One day she looked out her window to see 4 trespassing morons clutching their shiny new guns while walking abreast — hunting birds……

This kind of thing happens, rather often, in areas near a city where idiots live and think they can get guns and drive less than half an hour to areas that are developed but the homes are on properties that look big to them. These are the people who call ponds lakes, too.

And don’t even think about bow-hunting. Arrows do not belong in developed, populated areas either.

I was not intending to start my day (year) today on TOTV. But when I saw this post, and it quoted me, I had to respond and make myself perfectly clear. Do not even think about hunting coyotes in The Villages. This is exactly the kind of thinking that gives a bad name to actual hunters who know what they are doing and why.

Boomer

PS: I apologize to our OP, our wonderful, gifted, resident photographer who so generously shares his work with us. My post about pets who had been caught by coyotes in TV was intended as a reminder to pet owners to be careful. I am so sorry I brought out the idiotic idea of hunting in TV.

[DonnaNi4os]

Great picture! Thank you.

Coyote mating season is right around the corner, so they will be running crazy — and hungry. Then will come the babies and Dad will be doing the hunting while Mom stays home. Busy times.

I know people already know to be aware and careful with their pets, but I can’t help saying it again……..

Several years ago, there were two incidents that I heard about in TV. Small dogs were taken by coyotes who were waiting. Coyotes can tell time and they knew the dogs’ schedules.

Dog owners should never let their pets out unattended, even though the pets might be really good about staying in their own yard for a quick doing of their business.

Urban coyotes are sleek, well-fed, stealthy, smart, and are thriving among us in every state, including the big cities.

Gotta give ‘em credit, but be careful with your pets.

Boomer

Thank you for the reminder to all pet owners. Even if you live in a courtyard villa, please be aware that coyotes can scale those walls and enter your yard…bobcats too. Keep your precious pets close.

[Chi-Town]

Thank you for the reminder to all pet owners. Even if you live in a courtyard villa, please be aware that coyotes can scale those walls and enter your yard…bobcats too. Keep your precious pets close.

Don't forget raptors.

[Nell57]

It is illegal to discharge firearms in The Villages. .