OT - How to Scare Off Coyotes?

Remove the coyotes food sources (outdoor petfood, food scraps, garbage cans, cats, dogs, etc)

One dead coyote will scare hell out of the rest of them. They'll come howl one or two nights, then vacate the scene for a year.

LLoyd

Are your friends unwilling to harm the animals or are they just without resourses or the ability to apply them?

dennis in nca

Since this is r.c.m, I suggest lead, jacketted in copper, sent thru a rifled barrel, at 2800fps.

Once they have overcome the natural fear of humans, we need to re-aquaint them to the fact that we are a predator that is higher in the food chain. Otherwise they will continue to harrass small animals and can move up to small humans. Not a good situation.

Sorry if this seems to be a bit too much of a dose of reality...

John

Get bigger dogs....

Worked for my brother.

Anvils and wooden crates stencilled ACME prominently displayed around the property.

Ned Simmons

Don't be sorry. Your comments are right on target. As much as I like those little wild dogs, they're a serious threat. There was a report recently of one attacking a child. It may not happen often, but it's a reality. They're smart and cunning animals that should be respected, and feared under the wrong conditions.

Harold

12 guage shotgun and rock salt. If that doesn't work, substitute buckshot. *** Posted via a free Usenet account from ***

There's fellow who crosses wolf hounds with grey hounds in this locality. It's said his dogs are hell on four legs to a coyote.

ED

Excellent ....Non-lethal but very painful. Although the ACME idea is pretty good also.

Lloyd: You just failed the r.c.m reading comprehension test.

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We had this issue come up in our neighborhood recently. We're in a suburban community which happens to not be in city limits (thank God). Coyotes have been coming into backyards and making a racket, probably thinning the cat population. At a neighborhood association meeting we asked the sheriff's deputy attending, for advice. "Shoot 'em. They aren't protected, they will eat your pets and they can threaten humans".

Nope, the OP's friends didn't want to hurt them. A clean kill doesn't hurt, and it's the best aversion therapy for coyotes. They're smart enough to pay attention.

Sometimes, the best solution ignores some design parameters.

LLoyd

Right. "I'm not answering the question you asked, I'm answering the question you _should have_ asked."

12-Ga Sting-ball rounds or rubber baton rounds would be perfect, you want to get their attention and let them know that hanging around where people live isn't safe. But you may have to go through your friend at the Police or Sheriff Dept. to get them.

They have some nice 40mm and 50mm rubber riot rounds with a CS or Pepper Gas payload that releases on impact, and I'd think that would make a much more lasting impression... But if you want to try that route you need to borrow the grenade launcher to go with them.

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IMHO I could care less if it hurts a coyote or not, as long as it kills the SOB's........and not just scare it away.preferably a long slow death....well not realy long and slow and quick would be best, but I really hate those bastards with a passion. This area is loaded with them. Even the state bombs them with poison baits from aircraft and they stillmultiply like crazy. One year I shot 14 of them without even trying. The kills were all accomplished on my way to or from work or just by happen chance to see them when I had a gun handy.....I imagine if I hunted them with a predator call etc I oucl deaily have more than doubled that number.......

A few years back I found 3 little coyote pups in a den. Gave two away and kept the third, a female.....it was not like a wolf or fox by anymeans, and no matter how kind it ws treated, it wsa just as unreuly and mean as a wild reared pup would have been. I gave it to the wildlife officer up the road, who shot it in the end. None of the other two pups were able to be trained either, and were also destroyed......Its not uncommon to see them setting along the interstate watching cars go buy without a care in the world.

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Many, many times in my career I've faced the task of guiding a client through 'refining' his/her specifications on a system until they came at least diagonally consistent with physical reality.

LLoyd

Hmmmmmmm I think something along the lines of a M-79 grenade launcher with HE or WP rounds as a minimum, or perhaps a 81 mm mortar with HE or WP........preference would be call in an airstrike of my old buddies in the 187th FW and let em put some JDAMS on target......or the U S Army guard and their Apaches and lay down a barrage of hellfire's.....Close would be close enough I would suspect ;-)

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nod-nod yup. Even better if you can get them to do this and think it was their idea all along.