Cool.

How is a home NOT already armed with many devices capable of hurting, scaring, or killing a coyote?

I mean, you have a piece of wood? Got a pair of metal cleats? How about, say, a kitchen knife duct taped to a stick? How about.. anything heavy? Something light and flashy? How about some leather gloves and being a man? It's like a medium sized dog!

If you feel you need a stungun or a sword for coyotes you have problems.

If you're afraid of coyotes you're a pussy.
Feed them small pieces of children.

Wrist Rocket.

LavenderWolf: How is a home NOT already armed with many devices capable of hurting, scaring, or killing a coyote?

I mean, you have a piece of wood? Got a pair of metal cleats? How about, say, a kitchen knife duct taped to a stick? How about.. anything heavy? Something light and flashy? How about some leather gloves and being a man? It's like a medium sized dog!

If you feel you need a stungun or a sword for coyotes you have problems.

I think it's a classic case of "Real-Life Tough Guy". And look on the bright side - if these idiots are carrying stun guns in Flordia, we're guaranteed at LEAST 3 accidental stunnings from this.

All you need is a roadrunner. Actually, a donkey (new window).

You should all be reading and commenting on the Chinese article. Thanks to the Germans!

Oh, and not to hijack this particular thread, I will comment, get ready, here it comes: Look out Tiger Wood's has a new knee!

Maybe, just maybe, we should stop building into nature and stop encroaching on THEIR territory. Build up. You don't need a McMansion.

Calling it a McMansion assumes that Irish peeps are all rich. That's not true, I still drink my Guinness out of the toilet hust like the rest of ya's.

Dear Florida:

Sarah Palin says she has some helicopter you can borrow.

Same thing (new window) is happening in my neighborhood.
We've had some pretty vocal protests against efforts to control the deer population. I can't wait to see what those same people do when "nature's creatures" starts running off with their pets.

I love coyote hunting. Those suckers are fast.

PC TOAD LETTER: Calling it a McMansion assumes that Irish peeps are all rich. That's not true, I still drink my Guinness out of the toilet hust like the rest of ya's.

Do you take the dishes out of the sink before you piss in it ?

dishes? I eats straight out of the take-out containers. Dishes are for you arrogant wealthy types.

Maybe, just maybe, we should stop building into nature and stop encroaching on THEIR territory. Build up. You don't need a McMansion.

A quick read of any article containing actual facts about coyotes instead of anti-human propaganda will tell reveal that coyote is the species doing the encroaching, moving into areas of North America in which the coyote did not evolve and has never lived before. Shooting them is fine. They're just big dangerous rats for all practical puposes.

tonesskin: Maybe, just maybe, we should stop building into nature and stop encroaching on THEIR territory. Build up. You don't need a McMansion.

Actually it's the almost the opposite in this case. Coyotes are not native to Florida.

I've had fried 'gator. Anyone tried fried 'yote? Tastes like chicken?

BrynnMacFlynn: LavenderWolf: How is a home NOT already armed with many devices capable of hurting, scaring, or killing a coyote?

I mean, you have a piece of wood? Got a pair of metal cleats? How about, say, a kitchen knife duct taped to a stick? How about.. anything heavy? Something light and flashy? How about some leather gloves and being a man? It's like a medium sized dog!

If you feel you need a stungun or a sword for coyotes you have problems.

I think it's a classic case of "Real-Life Tough Guy". And look on the bright side - if these idiots are carrying stun guns in Flordia, we're guaranteed at LEAST 3 accidental stunnings from this.

I didn't think about the fark potential here.

I now support all Floridians buying stun guns to protect themselves from coyotes.

neilnole: tonesskin: Maybe, just maybe, we should stop building into nature and stop encroaching on THEIR territory. Build up. You don't need a McMansion.

Actually it's the almost the opposite in this case. Coyotes are not native to Florida.

They're native to North America. Since we don't just transplant predator species for the hell of it, how'd they get there?

/population shift?

As a Floridian with children and a small dog, this concerns me. On the other hand...

COYOTES? Awesome. Florida just got weirder and better. Coyotes howl. They HOWL!

I welcome our new coyote overlords.

Foxy Lady, the coyote's after you. Foxy Lady, if he catches you, you're through...

radioman_: Maybe, just maybe, we should stop building into nature and stop encroaching on THEIR territory. Build up. You don't need a McMansion.

A quick read of any article containing actual facts about coyotes instead of anti-human propaganda will tell reveal that coyote is the species doing the encroaching, moving into areas of North America in which the coyote did not evolve and has never lived before. Shooting them is fine. They're just big dangerous rats for all practical puposes.

Thank you.

I woke up this morning to howling near my suburban Atlanta home. These animals need to be killed or relocated before the words "small pet" are replaced by "small child" in these articles.

somedoctorguy: radioman_: Maybe, just maybe, we should stop building into nature and stop encroaching on THEIR territory. Build up. You don't need a McMansion.

A quick read of any article containing actual facts about coyotes instead of anti-human propaganda will tell reveal that coyote is the species doing the encroaching, moving into areas of North America in which the coyote did not evolve and has never lived before. Shooting them is fine. They're just big dangerous rats for all practical puposes.

Thank you.

I woke up this morning to howling near my suburban Atlanta home. These animals need to be killed or relocated before the words "small pet" are replaced by "small child" in these articles.

+2. We have have a coyote that has moved onto our block. We don't live in the country; we're in Arlington, Va., about 5 miles from the White House. Our neighborhood is a dense suburb of .2 to .4 acre lots, built in the 1950's. I promise you, the coyote is the recent invader on our turf, not the other way around.

They're native to North America. Since we don't just transplant predator species for the hell of it, how'd they get there?

/population shift?

They've been migrating for years.

somedoctorguy: radioman_: Maybe, just maybe, we should stop building into nature and stop encroaching on THEIR territory. Build up. You don't need a McMansion.

A quick read of any article containing actual facts about coyotes instead of anti-human propaganda will tell reveal that coyote is the species doing the encroaching, moving into areas of North America in which the coyote did not evolve and has never lived before. Shooting them is fine. They're just big dangerous rats for all practical puposes.

Thank you.

I woke up this morning to howling near my suburban Atlanta home. These animals need to be killed or relocated before the words "small pet" are replaced by "small child" in these articles.

They're not wolves. "Small child" is gonna be children under 5, for a coyote. If your toddler is out in the middle of the night then maybe those are some bad genes anyways because you would certainly have failed as a parent.

somedoctorguy: I woke up this morning to howling near my suburban Atlanta home.

One evening I was at a coworker's house in Sugar Hill a few miles from Buford Dam) and we heard the dam's "gonna release water" siren and some howling. The coworker and her husband both got a scared and concerned look on their faces and said "coyotes."

The neighbor two homes away had a husky in the back yard and like the huskies I grew up with, was howling along with the siren.

What a great danger! OOOoooOooOOh!

StrikitRich: They're native to North America. Since we don't just transplant predator species for the hell of it, how'd they get there?

/population shift?

They've been migrating for years.

Right so how are they not a natural species to the area? If they arrived naturally, what's the problem?


Ohhhh, right, animals aren't allowed to move into areas where we live but we're allowed to move into their areas.

/not an environmentalist, go ahead and shoot them.
//just refuting the idea that they're not natural to the area.

LavenderWolf: neilnole: tonesskin: Maybe, just maybe, we should stop building into nature and stop encroaching on THEIR territory. Build up. You don't need a McMansion.

Actually it's the almost the opposite in this case. Coyotes are not native to Florida.

They're native to North America. Since we don't just transplant predator species for the hell of it, how'd they get there?

/population shift?

Migration. Same way Florida ended up with armadillos. We also have a bird, called the cattle egret in Florida, that is native to Africa. The last article I remember reading about the egret said that biologists think they got blown over here in a storm.

However, armadillos and egrets don't attack and kill both new born fawns or peoples pets so they don't get the same press.

The point remains that in some cases the people and houses were there long before the coyotes. The attacking of pets seems to be a new problem. I used to see a coyote every so often when quail hunting away from any human development, now I've seen them inside the city limits of Lakeland. Florida has always had foxes that often lived right next to humans but they hardly ever posed a risk to pets.

PC TOAD LETTER: dishes? I eats straight out of the take-out containers. Dishes are for you arrogant wealthy types.

Nah, I'm shanty Irish too


Have the cartoons taught us nothing ? You simply can't kill a coyote with these or any weapons. Wile E. was tough.

"and two coyotes chased a woman with two Huskies to her door"

Wait, what? Have you ever seen a pissed off husky? I can't see them running from a pair of coyotes.

Coyotes aren't that big. Get a bigger dog next time, not a rat.

Where I grew up the ranchers would PAY you for coyote and ground hog carcasses. No, shooting them in 1/2 with a .306 does NOT count as two. I tried LOL

Guns are not the problem. It's the id10t behind the trigger. Never had a 'hunting accident', never 'accidentally' had my weapon go off, never shot nothing I was not aiming at, NEVER pick one up in rage. LOL

Sticks, golf clubs, stun guns, and sword canes?
Excuse me, I thought every true Floridian had at least 2.5 guns.

GaryPDX: I love coyote hunting. Those suckers are fast.

I hear if you shoot with a can they will keep coming toward your call even after you've shot 4 of their buddies. Apparently the sonic crack doesn't spook them like the muzzle blast does.

Any truth to that?

radioman_: Maybe, just maybe, we should stop building into nature and stop encroaching on THEIR territory. Build up. You don't need a McMansion.

A quick read of any article containing actual facts about coyotes instead of anti-human propaganda will tell reveal that coyote is the species doing the encroaching, moving into areas of North America in which the coyote did not evolve and has never lived before. Shooting them is fine. They're just big dangerous rats for all practical puposes.

Why the fark are they moving to areas they never were before? Dear lord.

tonesskin:
Why the fark are they moving to areas they never were before? Dear lord.

Free lunch, almost no competition.

tonesskin: radioman_: Maybe, just maybe, we should stop building into nature and stop encroaching on THEIR territory. Build up. You don't need a McMansion.

A quick read of any article containing actual facts about coyotes instead of anti-human propaganda will tell reveal that coyote is the species doing the encroaching, moving into areas of North America in which the coyote did not evolve and has never lived before. Shooting them is fine. They're just big dangerous rats for all practical puposes.

Why the fark are they moving to areas they never were before? Dear lord.

Coyotes have figured out the next step in their evolution. To quote Sam Kinison : "MOVE TO WHERE THE FOOD IS". Coyotes aren't encroaching on people they are following us and eating our trash. This is pretty much how the wolves did it and became dogs. Man did not domesticate the dog they volunteered.

Just shoot them with a Hastings barrel extension on a shotgun with subsonic loads. It works like a silencer for shotguns. Better yet just buy a katana. I got 2 from The Last Samurai for $19 each and sharpened them up. I bought a surplus Victorinox Swiss Army bayonet for $9. Coyotes tried to pull a guy off of a horse in Griffiths Park in LA back in the 90s so that standing up crap isn't going to do much especially if they're in a pack. We have a shiatload of liberturd dumbasses in SoCal so you're on your own dealing with coyotes and even lions.

One Bad Apple: tonesskin: radioman_: Maybe, just maybe, we should stop building into nature and stop encroaching on THEIR territory. Build up. You don't need a McMansion.

A quick read of any article containing actual facts about coyotes instead of anti-human propaganda will tell reveal that coyote is the species doing the encroaching, moving into areas of North America in which the coyote did not evolve and has never lived before. Shooting them is fine. They're just big dangerous rats for all practical puposes.

Why the fark are they moving to areas they never were before? Dear lord.

Coyotes have figured out the next step in their evolution. To quote Sam Kinison : "MOVE TO WHERE THE FOOD IS". Coyotes aren't encroaching on people they are following us and eating our trash. This is pretty much how the wolves did it and became dogs. Man did not domesticate the dog they volunteered.

My point exactly. What the hell do people expect them to do? It's just like people in Montana who get pissed off about bears in their yards. Of course you will have bears, you stupid farker, you moved into the bear's territory!

OscarTamerz: Just shoot them with a Hastings barrel extension on a shotgun with subsonic loads. It works like a silencer for shotguns. Better yet just buy a katana. I got 2 from The Last Samurai for $19 each and sharpened them up. I bought a surplus Victorinox Swiss Army bayonet for $9. Coyotes tried to pull a guy off of a horse in Griffiths Park in LA back in the 90s so that standing up crap isn't going to do much especially if they're in a pack. We have a shiatload of liberturd dumbasses in SoCal so you're on your own dealing with coyotes and even lions.

There is no pack of thrice damned over grown rats that I couldn't take on with a decent weapon. But with a 20 dollar katana? Hell I'd rather take em on bare handed.
You can't by enough good steel and labor to make a decent sword for twenty bucks. What you have, if you sharpened them yourself, is now a one off cutting edge on a piece of fragile metal coated in chrome. If there ever comes a time in your life when you need one of those swords to be more than a toy, pretend it's made of glass because that's how it's gonna break.

tonesskin:

My point exactly. What the hell do people expect them to do? It's just like people in Montana who get pissed off about bears in their yards. Of course you will have bears, you stupid farker, you moved into the bear's territory!

No. Coyotes are vermin so think of them as large hairy, flightless mosquitoes. You don't have to encroach on them. Coyotes are encroaching on us instead of earning an honest living. Think about pigeons, seagulls, roaches and squirrels and how they now pretty much depend on man for survival (in their current populations).

Crosshair: GaryPDX: I love coyote hunting. Those suckers are fast.

I hear if you shoot with a can they will keep coming toward your call even after you've shot 4 of their buddies. Apparently the sonic crack doesn't spook them like the muzzle blast does.

Any truth to that?

When I've hunt them, it was out in the wild. These are not afraid of people apparently. I would have been lucky to get a bead before the little bastards noticed me and start running away. Then I'd have to blast away and zero his movements..usually over 100 yards. (the fun part)

These that are coming into populated areas are not afraid of people, or most of their noises.

LavenderWolf: neilnole: tonesskin: Maybe, just maybe, we should stop building into nature and stop encroaching on THEIR territory. Build up. You don't need a McMansion.

Actually it's the almost the opposite in this case. Coyotes are not native to Florida.

They're native to North America. Since we don't just transplant predator species for the hell of it, how'd they get there?

/population shift?

1) Coyotes have been spreading east since the extirpation of the Gray Wolf (and Red Wolf in the southeast, for that matter) which was its main predator and competitor

2) Coyotes WERE imported into Florida, probably several times, by hunting clubs that thought they were buying fox pups and got gipped.

One Bad Apple: You don't have to encroach on them. Coyotes Mexicans are encroaching on us instead of earning an honest living.

Just say what you mean, you racist.

neilnole: Actually it's the almost the opposite in this case. Coyotes are not native to Florida.

This. Unfortunately, whenever a pack of feral dogs starts becoming a pest to the area, they are (mistakenly) referred to as coyotes. Maybe these are the real McCoy(s), and I didn't RTFA, but I doubt these are examples of Canis latrans.

Sutpen's Hundred: LavenderWolf: neilnole: tonesskin: Maybe, just maybe, we should stop building into nature and stop encroaching on THEIR territory. Build up. You don't need a McMansion.

Actually it's the almost the opposite in this case. Coyotes are not native to Florida.

They're native to North America. Since we don't just transplant predator species for the hell of it, how'd they get there?

/population shift?

1) Coyotes have been spreading east since the extirpation of the Gray Wolf (and Red Wolf in the southeast, for that matter) which was its main predator and competitor

2) Coyotes WERE imported into Florida, probably several times, by hunting clubs that thought they were buying fox pups and got gipped.

so, what you are saying is that this problem is man-made. Sounds better than the "damn dirty coyotes stealing our land" arguments that are dominating this page.

It's nice when some smart is flung at the pile of dung that is a typical FARK thread.

tonesskin: One Bad Apple: You don't have to encroach on them. Coyotes Mexicans are encroaching on us instead of earning an honest living.

Just say what you mean, you racist.

I wonder how many coyotes it takes to pull a lawnmower ? It's gotta' be even cheaper.

neilnole: Migration. Same way Florida ended up with armadillos. We also have a bird, called the cattle egret in Florida, that is native to Africa. The last article I remember reading about the egret said that biologists think they got blown over here in a storm.

However, armadillos and egrets don't attack and kill both new born fawns or peoples pets so they don't get the same press.


Armadillos didn't migrate to Florida, they were introduced when they escaped from a circus in the 1920s.