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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Oregon
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I live twenty blocks from city hall in downtown Portland. There are three resident coyotes in the urban neighborhood that bed down in the nearby cemetery. Animal control says if they remove them even more will come in.
The 60lb chow mix I walk wants to make friends but I discourage it. The Coyotes seem indifferent.
The only downside is that possums and cats go missing on a regular basis. Idiot cat owners post signs on the poles asking you to give them a call if you see Fluffy.
Fluffy ain't comin' back.
Then, of course, was this photo taken on the Max train at the airport.
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Roots
Mountain climber
Tustin, CA
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I used to see those signs in my previous community (local hills)...it took me a while to figure out that they weren't actually looking for their lost pet, but instead helping their children look for their lost pet [re: giving them hope for a while].
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Roots
Mountain climber
Tustin, CA
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Coyote-wolf hybrids are increasing in Canada. One human fatality so far.
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=coywolf+attacks+canada+fatality
Google "coywolf attacks" for many reports.
This is interesting in that, I would think that if a wolf mixed with a coyote that they would actually become more shy (aka coy). A wolf is generally the more aggressive animal.
This statement seems to support mine:
Coywolf attacks on people are extremely rare. Like its coyote cousin, coywolves are usually wary of humans and avoid people whenever possible. Consider that dogs kill 15 to 20 people each year in the U.S., and that there have only been two fatal coyote attacks in North America in the past 500 years.
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Jan
Mountain climber
Colorado, Nepal & Okinawa
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Thanks for the coyote roller reference. It's the first I've heard of them. It beats having an electric fence if coyotes are the only problem.
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Heyzeus,
That coyote roller is perfect. Something like that is exactly what I thought would work when I saw the coyote perch for a moment on the top of the fence. All four of his feet were on the cross-brace at once, I would have loved to have seen it rotate on him.
My problem is I have 1,880 feet of fence I want to keep the coyotes on the other side of. I'm going to have to find a more economical fix - like homemade.
I am going to put up a small pen for the goat to overnight in, now that I know the coyotes can roam the yard at will. I'll look into coyote rollers for that.
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Captain...or Skully
climber
in the oil patch...Fricken Bakken, that's where
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Good luck with coyotes. That's the smartest living thing.
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Heyzeus
climber
Hollywood,Ca
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Chaz, that's a lot of fence. I was surprised at how expensive the rollers were myself. Here's a homemade version that might be worth a try, won't look as clean but way cheaper, scroll half way down the page: http://www.huskycamp.com/security.htm
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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I have a plan, Heyzeus.
I'm going to put those extensions you see supporting strung barbed wire atop chain link fences on my existing posts. Then I'll simply bridge between them a length of galvanized pipe, on a loose "axle", so they rotate when something attempts to climb over.
I know what you're thinking; "Galvanized pipe? Isn't that expensive?"
It would be, if you had to go out and buy it.
But I have a boatload of it, thanks to the people who lived here before me. The couple who lived here fifty or sixty years ago ( dated by tree rings ) were botanists. They traveled the world, and brought home at least one of every plant they saw, and planted them all here. They had set up an elaborate system of irrigation to water all this, using a mile or more of iron pipe. Pipe that is not just useless to me, but a lot of it is just in the way, and needs to be re-purposed. DIY Coyote Rollers sounds like a good use for all that pipe!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Hey, Chaz, how about stringing a wire along the top of yer fence and putting
1/2" PVC pipe on the wire? Seems like it would work just as well at a fraction
of the price. The only problem would be getting the wire taut enough.
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Fossil climber
Trad climber
Atlin, B. C.
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Wolves have taken dogs from yards at the edge of this village, and once from a porch. Couple of years ago an old dog was simply killed by a wolf and left. There are coyotes around - plenty of tracks, and you see them on the road occasionally - but they remain quite elusive. Of course this would marginally qualify as a wilderness situation, as Atlin is a "town" of 450, and the nearest "city" is Whitehorse, about 25,000, about 100 miles away.
None of the coyotes I've seen seem to have hybridized.
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Roots
Mountain climber
Tustin, CA
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Ears Up - Don't Shoot!
Their ancestors where here long before us....
I like the rollers idea.
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