Comments on: Predator-Prey on Parade: Troubles in Paradise

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:55:03 +0000

Interesting Fred. While deer hunting last year, I heard that coyotes were in Floyd. After shooting a deer in Floyd on Thanksgiving, I checked the gut pile the very next morning and it was completely consumed. It could have been dogs, but the locals were telling me of coyotes. I believe coyotes were the consumers.

I have purchased a manual predator call that should sound like an injured rabbit. I’ll try it out this fall on the farm and will let you know how it works.

And yes, I have noticed a bumper crop of late born deer this year from NJ to IA. Would like to know why this happens. Jim

By: dog-geek

dog-geek — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:44:00 +0000

Yikes! I never like having the coyotes get too close. The neighbor’s livestock guardian dogs seem to do a pretty good job of keeping them away from here, but it would definitely make me nervous for my dogs and cats to have a pack running around nearby!

By: Elizabeth (Beth) Westmark

Elizabeth (Beth) Westmark — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:05:50 +0000

I’m sorry to hear that, Fred. You will remember that awful time in 2003 when Buck and I lost our young lab pup to a coyote pack we didn’t know had moved into the ridgetop when we were living in Rice Cove. Our older lab was nicked but not killed.

By: fred

fred — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:34:25 +0000

UPDATE 9:30 08-18-2008 Ann called me out back where she was hanging clothes: Look at that.

Blood there. And there. Is it deer? The doe, or her fawn? or is it coyote? Guess we’ll never know.

By: chris youngblood

chris youngblood — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:15:54 +0000

My dogs have a distinct bark for coyotes. I wrote about it in my blog some time back and have heard it a few times since. We’ve been hearing coyotes at night for a while now. So far, we still have all our cats.