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Almost every day in the fall and winter they can be heard as they bunch up in our timber right at dusk. They have stood right outside of our basement door and peered in. During February when the bitches are in heat it gets crazy. I have a six inch Taurus Judge loaded with the buckshot shells that I keep handy. I have killed 13 of them in the fourteen years that we have lived her with various guns .
They do try to get single dogs to follow them back to the pack. There is not a domestic dog in the world that can take on a big group of them.
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Heard them again last night close to the NM Turquoise Trail. About 3 am, then nothing.
Believe me, if they get closer than 1/2 mile, I will be looking of them. They are not going to mess with my dogs.
One of my neighbors had one kill his small dog right in front of him. Broke its neck and it died two days later. i do not plan for that to happen with mine.
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Heard them again last night close to the NM Turquoise Trail. About 3 am, then nothing.
Believe me, if they get closer than 1/2 mile, I will be looking of them. They are not going to mess with my dogs.
One of my neighbors had one kill his small dog right in front of him. Broke its neck and it died two days later. i do not plan for that to happen with mine. I had a house at the edge of town in NM. Last count of coyotes I shot off the porch was 10...More than a couple of those were after the wife's Corgi. They are emboldened close to towns, or in town.
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Since I moved to the hills east of Albuquerque two months ago, the neighbors warned me about coyotes' killing the small dogs and cats.
I've put my four Jack Russell Terriers in their cages in the garage every night before sundown and they seem happy to go. I have about an acre fenced in, but the fence is only about four feet high, not enough to keep out coyotes or mountain lions. Maybe because of their upbringing in Japan, the dogs spend most time on the one-story elevated patio, not in the scrub away from the house.
In the past two weeks, I've heard coyotes howling three times between two and 4:30 am and I may have slept through others. Clearly they are here.
The problem is proximity of other houses, as most of us have only about 2.5 acres. I'd pop the 'yotes, but one has to take care not to disturb the neighbors. I've considered .22 target loads and 12 gauge turkey loads, but either of those seems very loud in the quiet nights here, Thoughts? not sure about your backstop, or local ordinances, but a 22 air rifle might be what you need. If you are truly surrounded by 2.5 acre lots with houses, probably no safe backstop. Not much chance of "thinning out" the coyotes, as there is too much opportunity at every other house. Silencer, or CB caps might help, if/when you see them. My guess is you won't get much time to make a shot. Sycamore
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Here's my pack. Seventy yards from the patio door. My dear sweet cat has thus far been lucky. I popped a couple of shots at one of the small ones last week when I caught him on the patio. ![[Linked Image]](http://i723.photobucket.com/albums/ww235/JohnnyLimbo/STC_0356_zpsgnkzneyo.jpg)
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I've never heard them at my house here in SE Georgia, but I have seen them crossing the front yard a couple of times at night. We don't have too many in this neighborhood evidently, but they do pass through. It would probably take more than one to want to give my dog much trouble.
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Hear them most nights by my house but reside 30 miles outside of the nearest small city I enjoy listening to them but when they start hurting the local deer I take a few out. This guy used to sleep in my drive way during the day while at work He is hanging on my sofa now ![[Linked Image]](http://i862.photobucket.com/albums/ab186/ribka123/yote5.jpg)
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Mostly hear them a little before sunrise around here. Two dens, one northwest somewhere and another off to the east. When I take the Aussie for a walk, she shows me all the scent stations and marks them for herself.
They were pretty scarce during the drought, but like everything else, they are rebounding as the prey base recovers. You can't kill enough of them the make a difference, so take the ones that are causing a problem and leave the rest alone...
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I don't hear no steenkin coyotes
but I can see Russia from my porch
if I'm lookin at the world Atlas
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i here them just west of us
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Does it count if I can hear them from my camp?
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Never heard one from the house as we live in the 'burbs but had a large one run down the street in front of the truck a while back. It ducked down a highly traveled exercise path along a gully.
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We hear them frequently here. Shoot every one that sticks its nose out. Heard wolves yesterday at 9a.m.
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I don't hear no steenkin coyotes
but I can see Russia from my porch
if I'm lookin at the world Atlas  I got a porch, I just have to invest in an Atlas! Sycamore
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things i've seen and heard in town, south side of corpus. coyote's, foxes, javilina, hogs, coons and bobcats. south side of corpus butts up to the king ranch out in the bluff. oh and deer my brother use to kill a couple nice bucks every yr with his bow in back yard.
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![[Linked Image]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v503/ranger1/005-1.jpg) I can hear coyotes, antelope, meadowlarks, some owls, and not much of anything else. Absolute silence 99% of the time when I sit on my porch other than the occasional critter making noise. Pure heaven!
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Since the Wolves moved in you rarely hear Yotes.
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I live in town, and we hear them every so often.
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Right now, I live on an island with no coyotes.
That allows the free ranging of hens all day long.
But they must be cooped up at night, or the raccoons will get them.
In the past I have lived with coyotes.
#4 shot 12 gauge works better than #00 buckshot at 40 yards on coyotes.
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I literally live right on a creek and hear them most nights. Rarely see them unless I shine a light. Have seen cougar in daytime and the usual local predators..bobcats, etc.
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