How do you feel about that coyote / wolf eating your cat / dog?? No really!

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A buddy of mine sent me this and it is for real... I am not a social scientist by any stretch and I dont understand what the end results of the research will actually accomplish - other than a support group between wild canids and those hunting them..

Lakehead University researchers examine how people, wild canines co-exist

Project involves collecting stories of encounters with wolves and coyotes in Ontario


Anyways, any of you that want to participate in the study, the links to the professors are in the following link:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/lakehead-university-wild-canines-1.5917361
 
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He also suggested the study may have been inspired by the following Far Side cartoon....


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My cat was almost taken by a coyote last summer early in the morning when I let him outside at 6am. He doesn't go far and had just walked over to my drive way that enters from the street and all of a sudden this coyote comes running down the driveway right up to my cat, just a few feet away! I yelled loud, everyone stopped and both the cat and coyote were looking at me startled and then the yote took off and high-tailed it out of there! My cat got really lucky there and now I have a gate across my driveway to keep him contained in my yard. Seeing coyotes in my area in Calgary is not uncommon at all.
 
Send in some beyond belief fake stories of impossible (but valiant!) encounters. See how long it takes for them to figure out you're messing with them.
 
If you’re talking about an urban setting I’m all for it. I wish there was a pack of wolves in Toronto to educate some greenies. The fact is that any alteration to wilderness with roads, cut lines etc. gives a huge advantage to predators over prey. This has to be balanced by human intervention and has not been happening. Too many Disney-ites.
 
I read this and think, gee are we going down the crapper, but it is a Ont. university, so guess they have to do something to fill the day.
These girls should hook up with the girl in Regina that thought we should just gather up all the gophers that where eating thousands of acres of crops a few years ago, and move them somewhere, but she would not give out her address in Regina so we knew where to take them.
 
Don’t have much loss in dogs or cats but livestock takes a beating from wolves, I usually loose a couple of head (cows/calves) a year on average then there are the ones that survive an attack that need doctoring from infected bite wounds and bitten off tails.
 
We've had 2 cats taken not 15m from the house in the last 2 years. I now have lights in the back yard and the tracks stay about 10m beyond the light. We have cats a dog and a pup and from dusk to dawn i have my nuisance wildlife dispatch kit with me.
 
How I co-exist with coyotes is to go after every one that I seen near the house or barn. If they run they might live. If not they don't. Don't see that changing no matter what some university professor happens to say.
 
Standardvel said:
Don’t have much loss in dogs or cats but livestock takes a beating from wolves, I usually loose a couple of head (cows/calves) a year on average then there are the ones that survive an attack that need doctoring from infected bite wounds and bitten off tails.
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A black bear can make a mess out of beef too.
 
A few years ago when I lived in Oakville(Bronte Road/Qew area) a coyote followed 2 young girls rite to the gate to their house. Don't remember hearing much about it after the initial news report.
I had a couple of coyotes run down Bronte road in front of my house early in the morning when I was leaving for work to.
 
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I try to give as many as I can a place to stay in my garage, though they don't look comfortable hanging from their back feet ��#♂️
 
Grizzly Adams said:
Great horned owls love cats as well. Death from Above. :redface:

Grizz
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Some years ago I was walking across the yard from the barn to the house and I was being followed by a young cat maybe 20 steps behind. For some inexplicable reason I turned around just in time to see a huge great horned owl swoop down over the cat from behind with talon's extended, I think that I startled the bird when I turned around because he didn't snatch the cat, just flew over it inches away and the cat never did see him!
 
Arietta said:
How I co-exist with coyotes is to go after every one that I seen near the house or barn. If they run they might live. If not they don't. Don't see that changing no matter what some university professor happens to say.
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I have a 300 m exclusion zone around the house. :redface:

Grizz
 
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