Coyotes are colonizing cities. Step forward the urban hunter

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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Dennis Murphy sniffed the bobcat urine he uses to lure his prey. He checked the silencer on his AR-15 assault rifle and loaded a few snares into his Ford pickup.

“Let’s go kill some coyotes,” he said.

But he wasn’t heading for the wilderness. Mr. Murphy’s stalking ground is on the contentious new frontier where hunters are clashing with conservationists: cities and suburbs.


Coyotes are largely associated with their ancestral bastions in the wild lands of the American West, but they are highly adaptable, and in recent years they have been colonizing large population centers throughout North America. The hunters have come after them, stalking the predators in settings like strip mall parking lots, housing tract cul-de-sacs, and plazas in the shadow of skyscrapers.
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Some carnivore ecologists argue, though, that moving the hunt into cities will be self-defeating. They say it replicates the very tactics that have allowed coyotes to prosper despite a concerted onslaught against them. In an adaptation that biologists call fission-fusion, when coyotes come under pressure from hunters, their packs split up into lone animals and pairs, they start producing much larger litters, and they migrate into new areas.
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If you kill your enemies, they win.
 
Im not surprised, they are eating dogs around my place and i live in the middle of surrey 100% concrete jungle. I saw one standing on the street corner on my way grocery shopping a few months ago, it was less than 300 feet from surrey central mall!
 
Rifter said:
Im not surprised, they are eating dogs around my place and i live in the middle of surrey 100% concrete jungle. I saw one standing on the street corner on my way grocery shopping a few months ago, it was less than 300 feet from surrey central mall!
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I'm in Surrey too, closer to south surrey actually. We in the late summer evenings we get the screeching of the peacocks from one side and the yipping of the coyotes on the other. See both daily. The peacocks are by far the braver of the two. LOL

We dont let our cat stay out overnight.
 
Had about 3 people stop me so far this winter when I'm on the side of the road watching for the hounds and tell me that their dog or cat has been attacked by a coyote this winter. They know we are coyote hunting by dog box and CB antenna

They tell me where they live and beg us to bring the hounds over there and hunt their property, ever offering to pay.

Had to catch the hounds the other day as coyote crossed the road into a subdivision and ran right into someone's backyard. So lucky I had time to scratch the track away off the road to slow them down and catch the 2 older dogs before they crossed into there. Could have been bad
 
It's no surprise that they are in the cities.. they're smart too..I keep hearing stories of attacks on leashed dogs while people are walking them.. I often hear them barking in an attempt to lure my dogs ..probably an ambush
 
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