coyote attack in Cape Breton
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coyetes have made rural Canada their new hunting ground
I have been hunting coyotes for local farmers for many years and have seen these creatures do some very interesting things.
http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php?t=416368
IMHO, they are no longer those rogue creatures and opportunity feeders. They have become pack animals that also co-ordinate their hunt. They are not the same creatures they were 50 years ago. Their numbers have increased dramatically and continue to do so. Thet have made rural Canada their new hunting ground. They are not to be trusted and they will attack if hungry and in numbers.
Yes their numbers need to be culled.
IMHO
Robert
I have been hunting coyotes for local farmers for many years and have seen these creatures do some very interesting things.
http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php?t=416368
IMHO, they are no longer those rogue creatures and opportunity feeders. They have become pack animals that also co-ordinate their hunt. They are not the same creatures they were 50 years ago. Their numbers have increased dramatically and continue to do so. Thet have made rural Canada their new hunting ground. They are not to be trusted and they will attack if hungry and in numbers.
Yes their numbers need to be culled.
IMHO
Robert
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There have been other attacks as well,they seem to like young girls:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story/2010/08/09/ns-coyote-attack-cape-breton.html
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story/2010/08/09/ns-coyote-attack-cape-breton.html
In our governments ample great and powerful intellectual ramblings that is the unfortunate yet "more socially acceptable" outcome rather than someone being able to carry a "dangerous firearm" out in the woods ..
Pretty sad.
Sure its proven culling coyotes increases their litter size but what they don't say is this keeps the population of coyotes relatively young and with that you get less occurrences of "bold" coyotes. They will be more timid of humans and have a healthy fear of the TOP PREDATOR!!!!...
Coyote fur is flying in Antigonish County
If coyote snaring were a professional sport, Charlie Landry of Pomquet Point, Antigonish County, would be one of its stars.
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/1221926.html
If coyote snaring were a professional sport, Charlie Landry of Pomquet Point, Antigonish County, would be one of its stars.
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/1221926.html
Halifax, NS | Fri, January 14th, 2011Coyote fur is flying in Antigonish County
Trappers, hunters catching creatures by the dozens
By BILL SPURR Features Writer
Fri, Jan 14 - 4:16 PM
Trapper Charlie Landry holds coyote pelts in his shed at Pomquet Point, Antigonish County, on Wednesday. (Peter Parsons / Staff)
AS LAWN ORNAMENTS GO, there’s no disputing the eye-catching value of a trio of skinned coyote carcasses.
If coyote snaring were a professional sport, Charlie Landry of Pomquet Point, Antigonish County, would be one of its stars.
Apart from the slightly off-putting display of bodies, his backyard is also strewn with live traps and other tools of the trade for a "nuisance wildlife operator," and when he opens the door to the biggest of three sheds, you’d better watch your step.
On the floor of the ripe-smelling building are a dozen or so freshly killed coyotes, along with a couple of raccoons, a fox and a beaver.
"There’s a freezer that’s full, there’s another freezer in the other shed that’s full of animals that are all skinned, and now they’ve got to be processed, scraped and dried," said Landry, who delivers most of the carcasses to a biology professor at St. Francis Xavier University who feeds them to eagles.
Landry has killed about 60 coyotes this season, and pelts pay three ways: $20 apiece for the provincial bounty, a negotiated fee for each one with a fur company, and as prize winners at a local hunting and fishing store.
Last year, Dan Kulanek, the owner of Leaves and Limbs Sports outside Antigonish, had an idea. He’d organize a pool for his customers, with all the money in the pot going to whoever shot or snared the biggest coyote.
The Great Coyote Shootout was such a success that Kulanek brought it back this year, with a few tweaks.
"It’s $10 to enter, and as soon as you enter, you get a ballot which entitles you to the door prizes, including a new rifle, a deer call, boxes of ammunition," Kulanek said.
"Once you bring in a coyote, you’re put in a separate draw for the cash, because all the money we take in in tickets, we’re going to give it all back out, every bit of it."
By the middle of this week, the pool amounted to $2,630 and not a day goes by that Kulanek’s parking lot doesn’t get a visit by at least one pickup with a dead coyote in the back.
"A lot of guys are pissed off — there’s no deer, there’s no rabbits," Kulanek said.
"Guys are coming in and telling me they’re following deer tracks and right behind the deer tracks are coyote tracks. I couldn’t say for sure coyotes are at fault, but they’re getting the blame for it.
"I don’t want to kill every coyote in the country either, but if you ever hear a deer get caught by a coyote — horrid. They start chewing at the back and the deer’s alive the whole time they’re . . . chewing and chewing. And people say, save the coyote?"
One of Kulanek’s customers has already earned 34 entries in the ballot box and expects to get at least 40 more before the contest closes at the end of March. About half the competitors are shooting coyotes and half are snaring them.
Brian Newell of New Glasgow was making a delivery to Kulanek’s store earlier this week and said a friend had served him coyote pepperoni over Christmas.
"The meat was right white, like pork," Newell said. "It tasted fine."
With 50 years of trapping and snaring experience, and from what Landry sees and smells when he dismembers them, he wouldn’t eat any coyote meat.
"When I started getting coyotes in the ’80s and ’90s, you’d skin a coyote and after it was done you’d clean around the ears and that was the only place there was fat. The last couple of years, they’re just loaded with fat.
"I had some with almost an inch of fat on ’em," said Landry, who thinks coyotes are eating the leftover scraps of butchered cows and chickens that have eaten feed loaded with hormones. "That’s why I’d . . . leave that pepperoni there. I wouldn’t touch it."
It takes him about half an hour to skin a coyote and turn the pelt inside out to dry for a day or two. He then turns it right side out to let the fur dry, and then it’s ready for market.
"I sell to North Bay, the fur company, and they come and pick the furs up two or three times a year," he said. "Then they go to auctions in Montreal or Toronto, and all the different countries’ buyers are there. One country might want coyote, another’s going to go for otter, or bobcat, or fox.
"I got up to $65 for one, I got as low as $2. It’s based on the quantity of the fur; it’s based on the market."
Landry is good enough at what he does that he’s trapped as many as 180 skunks in one summer around Antigonish and trapped 260 raccoons in a year. These days, there’s nothing easier to find than coyotes, including the 25 he’s snared inside the fenced NuStar terminal at Point Tupper.
He’s also snaring them on the outskirts of Antigonish, just behind the hospital.
"They’re really aggressive. One evening a month, month and a half ago, the nurses that work there went to work for the night shift. And when they got (to) . . . the main entrance, there was three coyotes, right in front of the main entrance."
When one of the nurses tried to enter the hospital "one of the coyotes turned and made right for her. She ran back to the car, and they couldn’t go to work."
It was suggested that the woman must have been crazy to get out of the car.
"Yup," said Landry, who was joined in his shed about then by his next door neighbour Lawrence Hudson, who also has decades of experience in the woods and is concerned by how common, and how aggressive, coyotes have become in Nova Scotia.
"You go in the woods, and there’s four or five of them in a pack? You better have a gun in your hand," said Hudson, who related the story of a friend who had a close call recently.
"He saw this big buck, so he started following it. He got in the woods . . . and there was six coyotes all around and they started coming for him. He dropped a couple of them, then they took off."
Landry, who was stalked by four coyotes while he walked on a nearby frozen lake last year, managed to scare them off by using a snowshoe as a club.
"I didn’t have a gun but I had my snowshoes," he said. "The biggest one was showing his teeth at me. Then the others started to circle around, and I figured there was only one chance so I grabbed the showshoes and I hollered and I made for them, and the first step I made toward them, the three small ones just went. The other stayed 30 or 40 seconds and then went into the woods. Now, if I had ran, I wouldn’t be here to tell the tale."
Landry thinks green bins full of compost are luring coyotes into residential areas and that ready sources of food make them so big. He worries that the coyote population hasn’t peaked, since a farmer in Heatherton killed a pregnant female and cut it open to find 14 pups inside.
"The western coyote, what they call the regular coyote, a big male will go 30 pounds. Maybe. Twenty to 25 pounds is the average. Here, I got one that was 72 pounds. They’re part wolf, that’s the reason. Your smaller coyotes, they hunt mostly by themselves, like a fox. Here, these coyotes are running in packs, same as a wolf."
Landry says there’s no reason to think Antigonish County has more coyotes than any other part of the province, and he often gets calls from homeowners asking him to thin out the coyote population near their residence — jobs he has to turn down because he’s already too busy.
"There’s thousands of ’em," he said. "Tens of thousands, I would say."
( bspurr@herald.ca)
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Well I guess I better pick up an SKS and do my now seemingly moral duty as should all of you. I'm not sure what kind of logic leads biologists to believe replacing an old coyote with a young one is equal in the eyes of the people who have been attacked or killed. Coyotes just like other animals die before, during, and shortly after birth rather often and even if they live a young coyote who is not fully grown is not as much of a threat to a human.
Pick up your guns and put the fear of God or rather humanity back into the coyotes if not for the young woman who died or for the men, women, children, and pets attacked then for the possible future attacks you may be preventing.
Pick up your guns and put the fear of God or rather humanity back into the coyotes if not for the young woman who died or for the men, women, children, and pets attacked then for the possible future attacks you may be preventing.
Amen to that. When all the game is gone, and the coyotes need more to feed on, it will be pets. when all pets are gone, it may be small children. OMG!... There must be a way to reduce or eliminate this mutated scourge called the eastern coyote.
Halifax-area man unhurt in coyote attack
A man on an urban farm on Rockingstone Road in Spryfield turned the corner of a house and saw one mature and two young coyotes, according to a Natural Resources news release. One of them lunged at him and tore the sleeve of his jacket, but he wasn't hurt, the release says.
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/9019576.html
Frequently Asked Questions about Eastern Coyote in Nova Scotia
<http://www.gov.ns.ca/natr/wildlife/nuisance/coyotes-faq.asp>
Requirements to Hunt in Nova Scotia
<http://www.gov.ns.ca/natr/hunt/hunting.asp>
A man on an urban farm on Rockingstone Road in Spryfield turned the corner of a house and saw one mature and two young coyotes, according to a Natural Resources news release. One of them lunged at him and tore the sleeve of his jacket, but he wasn't hurt, the release says.
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/9019576.html
Frequently Asked Questions about Eastern Coyote in Nova Scotia
<http://www.gov.ns.ca/natr/wildlife/nuisance/coyotes-faq.asp>
Requirements to Hunt in Nova Scotia
<http://www.gov.ns.ca/natr/hunt/hunting.asp>
Next available dates (in Nova Scotia):
Canadian Non-Restricted Firearms Safety Course
<http://www.nscc.ca/Learning_Programs/ConEd/Course.aspx?I=77#1462>
Canadian Restricted Firearms Safety Course
<http://www.nscc.ca/Learning_Programs/ConEd/Course.aspx?I=79>
Atlantic Provinces Hunter Education Course
<http://www.gov.ns.ca/natr/hunt/huntered.asp>
Canadian Non-Restricted Firearms Safety Course
<http://www.nscc.ca/Learning_Programs/ConEd/Course.aspx?I=77#1462>
Canadian Restricted Firearms Safety Course
<http://www.nscc.ca/Learning_Programs/ConEd/Course.aspx?I=79>
Atlantic Provinces Hunter Education Course
<http://www.gov.ns.ca/natr/hunt/huntered.asp>
A man on an urban farm on Rockingstone Road in Spryfield turned the corner of a house and saw one mature and two young coyotes, according to a Natural Resources news release. One of them lunged at him and tore the sleeve of his jacket, but he wasn't hurt, the release says.
You guys are not hearing 10% of the encounters that are taking place here. I am not sure what changed in the past 3 years or so but they are unreal.
Not scared of man at all. I have them in my yard in town, they follow you when you walk the dogs etc.They are nothing like the ones I have seen and hunted in Ontario or Alberta.At first they were but not lately. I think myself yes they did breed with wolvbes at one time but are now also breeding with local dogs since some look more dog like now than anything and that would explain why they are not scared of man.
Not funny but some are saying this last attack were good coyotes since they went after the guy reading the power meters.
And it should since these dogs are nothing like they should be from their size to their lack of fear of man. There will be more people hurt it is just a matter of when.
