Thursday night, coyotes yipping up a storm.

[EFerrari]

I was half watching television and the dog started barking. It sounded like a siren or something coming from over the hill. When it didn't stop (and the barking didn't stop, either) I turned down the television, and it was no siren. It was three or four coyotes yipping up a chorus out on the hill, somewhere between the horses' water and my neighbor's henhouse. They were LOUD.

It sounded like a mom and at least three. I've never heard any adult coyotes make noise up here, even when they were in pairs. All I can figure is that Mom has a few pups that are too big to leave behind any more and now she has to herd them with her when she goes out foraging.

I've never heard young ones before. They sound a little like Bart Simpson. lol

[panader0]

1. I have coyotes nearly every night

They howl and yelp and come together around dusk and then howl and yelp again when they split up in the early dawn.
I love coyotes-they are very cool wild dogs, very intelligent. When healthy, they have beautiful coats. There's also a lot of javelina here, not noisy but smelly and destructive.

[EFerrari]

3. Do you know where they like to live? Where are their dens?

I didn't hear these guys go up our hill and suspect they're hanging out at a pretty secluded end of our dry creek, where there is a lot of brush and no people to bother any one. I was worried about where they could get water in these arid hills until I realized the horses' water is set up right out there in the open like a no host bar.

[Merlot]

5. I live in greater LA, and they coytes live in the hills behind my house

They start making a ruckus around 11 pm quite often.

Needless to say, my cats are all indoor critters!

[pipoman]

2. We have coyotes

two or three can sound like a large pack when they get going. They decimated our cat population last winter, we had 12 outdoor cats this time last year, this year we have one. I ran them off with a shotgun back in February and haven't had any in the yard since....at least that I have heard. I hear them in the fields around our farmstead, I like them there..

[EFerrari]

4. We've lost too many of our animals to ever have outdoor cats again.

Mom was a Burb when she moved here, and when I stayed here in those days, so was I. They got chickens, a goose, at least one cat.

Never again, sonuvabitches.

But now that they can't actually eat anybody, I don't mind them. Our neighbor has chickens and fighting cocks so I bet they are drawn to that scent as well as to our water.

[safeinOhio]

6. I was deer hunting a few years ago

when a coyote went right by me chasing a fox. The fox tried to jump the creek and didn't make it. Just as the coyote was about to get him, I let loose a slug in his direction. The fox made it out of the creek and the coyote went a different direction. Bet he'll never chase a fox again. It was wild watching it happen. Another time I watched one with the mange for a while. Most of his fur was gone. Found that pretty sad, but it happens when they get thick.

[LWolf]

7. I appreciate coyotes.

I also like good fences between them and my dogs, cats, and chickens.

My senior mare, who is now 21, used to chase coyotes out of the pasture as a weanling. Her adult herd members kept an eye, and an ear cocked, and let her.

Where I live now, they are around, and I hear them every once in a while. When I lived in the Mojave, they were numerous and bold. I saw them all the time, and they regularly came to howl/yip at my fence line, trying to tempt my dogs out.

[EFerrari]

8. There's fencing all over the place here but it doesn't seem to bother anyone.

Not the coyotes or foxes or turkeys or deer. These turkeys, as I understand, originated up in the next country somehow and have made themselves at home here. Only the horses are out at night here. Everyone else has to be inside.

[LWolf]

9. I have post and wire fencing that is tight enough to keep critters

from going underneath. Our soil is so rocky that I don't have to worry about anyone digging under. Climbers can go over, since there are lots of trees, and deer can jump over, but as long as all the gates are closed, the coyotes are excluded.

When I lived in the Mojave, critters easily dug under the fence, so I had a string of hot-wire at that level to deter them.