5 year old escapes coyote attack

[370bc]

https://www.kmov.com/news/caught-on...cle_3e86b90e-df94-11e9-907d-a7d8e9eab989.html
More reason to keep blasting them!!

 

[JayHHI6818]

Saw this in the morning news! Thank goodness the coyote didn’t attack the little girl.

 

[Lone Hunter]

Poor ole coyotes. They don't deserve all us bad people trying to kill them. I look for what happened to the little girl to happen more and more. We're loosing more hunting ground and hunting rights but the liibtards can't see that until it happens to them. I will run out of the road to kill a coyote. When I kill one I feel like I have saved several animals. The little girl and her family were lucky. I've got to the point that I would rather kill a coyote than a deer unless the deer is pretty good sized. One thing that makes me mad is I'm pretty sure coyotes are smarter than me. It shows every time I go out hunting them.

 

[mike a]

That's why when you send your kids out to play send them armed!

 

[jimcasey01]

I live in Florida. I constantly see on the news how bears are going into people's yards, getting into trash cans, gators eating dogs, etc. I live on the NE of corner Lake Apopka. I am the one encroaching on the homes of the gators, coyotes, bears, pigs, etc. Who am I to complain if a snake, gator etc show up at my door. It pisses me to no end that people who want to live outside of the city bustle, complain about the local residents that have been there for hundreds or thousands of years. It is not like they just moved in and should come as no surprise that they are there. The new-comers want a sterile lifestyle as though they live in town, but with the rustic part of being in the country with nature. I am lucky enough to see Bald Eagles almost daily, hawks daily, owls, gators mul-times daily, snakes weekly. My family has lost dogs to both gators and coyotes. We were raised in the country, and realize the price we have to pay for the surrounding beauty. We are the new-comers, I can understand that possums, racoons, coyotes, gators, etc, live here, and were here long before myself. I can not expect the critters to move, because I moved in. I can not blame it on the liberals, but rather the uninformed who move to the rural settings, be they liberal or conservative. Hell, I am lucky enough to be able to stand in my yard and fire a rifle or pistol, without law enforcement being called.

PS I did raise children in this environment, they all made it through unharmed with a healthy knowledge of nature.

 

[fyrewall]

I surrounded my property with 6 foot chain link to keep the coyotes out so our cats could play in yard and enjoy cat stuff but then a huge owl killed Sarah, my wife's personal pet. We were all sad but only could have a memorial service as there was no body, only some blood, a few feathers and signs of a fight. It is against the law to shoot owls. It was all my fault because I saw the owl perched on a neighbors roof the week before and he/she was about 28 inches tall.

In the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (liberal) coyotes may only be hunted during certain months but where I been living for many decades it is - shoot at sight.

 

[mike a]

There for sure was a gaurdion angel involved there. She is very very lucky.

 

[46and2]

I've got to the point that I would rather kill a coyote than a deer unless the deer is pretty good sized.

I say the exact same thing all the time!

 

[SSL]

A California friend of mine (an excellent tracker and outdoorsman) is retired but does handyman work for a school where his wife teaches. He told me of having two mountain lions haunting the edges of the playground for almost a week when children were playing. He said that they would drop to pre-attack stance until he would shoo the kids back inside. Local authorities didn't seem concerned and game agents just passed it over. Parents were furious but could get no action taken to at least relocate them. They finally moved on, but he still occasionally sees lion tracks and it isn't uncommon to see coyotes trot across the grounds.

 

[370bc]

A California friend of mine (an excellent tracker and outdoorsman) is retired but does handyman work for a school where his wife teaches. He told me of having two mountain lions haunting the edges of the playground for almost a week when children were playing. He said that they would drop to pre-attack stance until he would shoo the kids back inside. Local authorities didn't seem concerned and game agents just passed it over. Parents were furious but could get no action taken to at least relocate them. They finally moved on, but he still occasionally sees lion tracks and it isn't uncommon to see coyotes trot across the grounds.

I would at least try to pop them in the A$$ w/pellet rifle! Yikes that’s scary!

 

[fyrewall]

Of note:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/coyotes-kill-toronto-singer-in-cape-breton-1.779304

Reading into this, I see the writer or other suggests "carrying a knife". Our standing household protection policies (HPP's) require either a Ruger LCR .357 or 1911.

More stuff:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Mitchell

As far as the "behavior" stuff, all coyotes are rotten actors and are into more bad stuff than "just earning a living"

 

[K22]

They are coming more prolific here in eastern PA. I spend a lot of time in the field hunting ground hogs and deer. While I consider myself humbly a master ghog and deer hunter I'm a novice predator hunter. - still learning.

I've seen some amazing coyote action in the field. Just a few weeks ago I saw two of them working a doe away from a fawn - it was amazing to watch. One finally took the fawn down. I couldn't get a shot at the yotes, for one thing they were over 500 yards away - way beyond my ability and there wasn't any adequate back stop for a shot.

I've take a few and I've been impressed with the size of their canines - I wouldn't want to get bit by one for sure.

Several years ago I got one about 250 yards while hunting ghogs. It was a large male going after the farmer's cat. The cat was sitting at the edge of a just harvested corn field presumably after birds. The yote was creeping up behind the cat - the cat totally unaware of the yote's approach. When the yote raised up I took the shot - nailed him behind the shoulder - dropped immediately.

A few years back I took one that went after a ground hog I had just shot in a tree line. The yote grabbed the hog - tossed it in the air. I nailed the yote at about 180 yards, small male - ugly coat - full of mange.

I haven't been too successfully calling them in with my Primo's Electronic Predator call. Usually they hang up on me staying in the brush. The guys I know that are real successful around here hunt them at night.

 

[Schandler]

I think all this was taken care of long ago when the big man said somewhere in genesis that we would rule all living things. That’s good enough for me. I’m positive a coyote would be sentenced immediately - but Mr hawk well he might be allowed a chicken or two a year . Since my fruit and nut trees have gotten big enough that deer are not killing them anymore I’ve even laid off of them lately - and Mr owl i just hear him but have never bothered anything that i know of. Wondering if you did the deed and went to court how it would come out on shooting something that was killing livestock ? Anyone chime in on that. Game warden around here used to be really strict.

 

[Randall Hardy]

In my area of Michigan a farmer is allowed to protect his livestock. Dogs are about the only domestic animal they have trouble with. Yotes etc. are shot on site

 

[fyrewall]

Some years ago while fishing for striped bass' & blue fishes we saw some dead canine awash in the surf. I found a piece of drift wood and pushed it up onto the beach. I thought it was a smallish to medium size German shepherd dog and that I would get the tag ID and report it to local animal control. The beast must have weighed close to 50 pounds. No dog tag - it was a big yote. I buried it in the sand.

Two weeks later, at a tidal river emptying into Cape Cod bay, at flood high tide, we saw a medium size yote on the beach; he/she was carefully watching us and seemed unafraid. I had a can of bear spray for possible use during night time fishing at the canal (yotes & other predators in a gun free zone) and thought the yote might be rabid. It slowly sulked away and peered at us from the side of a sand dune about 300 yards away for a long time. My thoughts are that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts yotes are emboldened because nobody shoots them. It was a perfect shot for my .22-.250 that was about 2,700 miles away in my gun safe.

 

[JFW]

7 years ago my son was coon trapping in central ohio, this was on a friend's farm and i had told him always take a gun. He had caught several coons one morning and had no time to reset the traps before work, work won't allow guns on premises, so he left gun at home with the coons. After work he decided not to come home and get his gun, but went to the farm and reset the traps. He was in a small run between 2 fields right before dark making a set and using canned salmon for bait when 4 coyotes came in growling and didn't want to back off. All he had was a hammer, he yelled at top of his lungs but they kept coming. He finally charged at them yelling and they took off. When he got home he was in tears telling us what happened. He always has a gun when he's in the fields or woods now. I've had as many as 7 come in to call at one time and I'm damn glad to have my ar when hunting them. You wouldn't stand a chance if they attacked. A person would be easier than a deer i think if your unarmed.
I do enjoy hunting them.
One lucky little girl!

 

[longtrapshootn]

Her Parents need to me more careful.

 

[284winner]

Shoot Shovel Shutup. That's the only way you will beat the system and keep your pets safe regardless if it's a coyote or owl. We had grouse, pheasants, rabbits and our hawk population is tremendously high. All those game animals were gone from Hawks feeding on them. Who manages the Hawks. Remember Shoot, Shovel, Shut-up. We now have rabbits and grouse. Pheasants are much less populated but some did come back. Hawks...not so much. Everything needs to be managed. Hell, even in Detroit the gangbangers are managing each other. Now that's sensible city management.

 

[longtrapshootn]

Some fence would definitely be needed to keep them yotes out. but you also need to hunt them, they stay away from area they go down IMO.