Anyone Actually Worry About Coyotes in the Woods?

lol no, but i do actually have a chihuahua( my little sis was dying for one, now im stuck with it) and he is probobly the most vicious dog i have ever met. he attacks MY golden retreiver all the time.....im just waiting to come home one day to find his limp body in my goldens mouth
 
Coyotes are not that harmful. Yesterday a couple of friends and I went down to a little nature park, and there were i think about 3 coyotes like 30 yards away just walking by. It was a nice sight to see
 
If you are healthy you have nothing to worry about if they were to attack you would only have to boot one in the nose and they all go running
 
we have had trouble with coyotes going after farm animals or my dogs mixing it up with them. the dogs always come out on top. but feral dogs are much more of a problem people throw them out instead of taking them to the pound. they arn't afraid of people and will bite or chase horses, or try to, most of my horses are not afraid of dogs or coyotes at all i've had to remove well stomped dead ones from the pastures several times. you really dont want to piss off a 1600lb mare with feet like dinner plates.

take it easy
cricket
 
19 YO girl was attacked here couple weeks ago, I'm not sure if she lived as I just heard about it briefly on the radio..

I would definitely say "yes" to be concerned..

1) they are wild animals
2) they are opportunistic feeders

I never thought I'd ever have a concern until just lately, I shot one last week. looked out the window and seen my bird dog with her hair raised up and barking, I seen a yotee just crossing the back yard going for my 'free range' birds. the only thing I had at the moment was my mark 2 on the fridge I grabbed it and stepped outside, (with my dog frenzied yet scared) the yotee just stopped adn looked at me, it was about 80' from me and apparently wasn't scared. then I shot it, it ran off into the woods and i had to head to work so now it can feed the others..

they are getting bad out here, I've been hearing them at night really bad, I would set traps but I have my dog to worry about.. guess I'm gonna have to go on a hunt.

shotgunner: that's totally spooky man.. I used to think kids were in danger but I'm finding this isn't the case.. If something gets hungry enough it'll eat and do anything..
 
I always try to be aware of my surroundings, but every Coyote I have come across in the woods ran away as soon as he saw me. It's the ones that hang out around residential areas that I worry about...
 
Within the past 12 months during work, I've seen two on two separate occasions during the middle of the day. They were maybe 100 yards away each time and were only interested in getting as far away as possible. So they don't really worry me. I've had much more worrisome encounters with wild hogs though.
 
We've got quite a few coyotes here where I live. In the summer evenings you'll hear them running around in packs howling together. I or anyone else I know has ever had a problem with a coyote. Anytime you ever see one they take off the other direction. They're an opportunistic hunter, either feeding on smaller easier to catch game or larger, wounded / dying game.

Along with Jeff and Adam I've had a couple run in's with pack dogs and it's not fun! Since most of them have had a lot of contact with people they've lost that fear of humans. Sometimes there's not much you can do but, like Adam said, "get your shovel!"
 
last time i saw a ciyote in the woods, i was walking my dog off leash on the coastal range in California. we were coming around a corner, she stopped and stared, i was just behind her and didn't see it as soon as she did, but i saw it as it scooted off the dirt road we were on and into the woods.

i've heard of 'yotes harassing dogs in the desert near one of the county parks that has a dog park in it. occasionally see them around town.

they're usually shy and reclusive, i usually have my G19 as part of my EDC, so i'm not too worried about them, but if one was mixing it up with a dog that was of leash, that wouldn't be good.

my cats are indoor cats however. i don't think they're aware that there are dogs or other canines that don't like cats and would make them into a snack.


but i'd be most concerned about packs of feral dogs that don't have any, or much fear of humans and have heaard stories of some packs using "decoy dogs" to lure someone in to a dog that doesn't appear threatening while the larger, more aggressive dogs circle around and try to surround the prey.

many years ago while camping in the sierra nevadas i woke up to see a bear in the camp. all our food was up on a bear line so i just rolled over and went back to sleep. no point in waking everyone up and not being able to get back to sleep. we all had out packs unzipped, because bears don't care about zippers. one of the girls found all her stuff scattered around in the morning.

the boyscouts camped somewhere nearby had their food in a tree. inn case you haven't heard, bears can climb trees. they lost half their food.
 
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I don't worry about coyotes. They might go after my cat or even a little kid if they are hungry, but there are deer fawns, rabbits, and other smaller fauna to keep them fed. I rarely see them in the woods, and when I do, they are usually headed somewhere else in a hurry.

If I was spending the night in the woods, or in a bad way and stranded it might cause me more concern.

SP
 
shotgunner11 said:
I was SUPER, verge of death sick on a trip last year. Ended up laying in the woods up against a tree vomiting to the point of near unconsiousness.

Now, take this next part as you wish, I didn't notice the yotes but I was also really out of it.

A fellow that we were camping with came rushing into the woods with an AR-15 and night vision goggles on screaming "We need to get out of here now!"

He said he was on his way back from hog hunting and noticed me on the night vision and said that the yotes were circling me within about 10 yards.

I believe him for what it's worth.
We also had a few attacks on children shortly before I moved out of Jersey in a local park. It can happen.
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See what drinking does ,you got sick ,passed out in the woods and hear things & then a hobo comes out of the woods adding drama to the mix:D
 
I have heard\seen Coyotes all the time out here. The noisy ones are the spring whelps or youngsters in the summer. I like their yodeling but at the same time they creep me out now and then. They usually racket up at dusk when I'm tired and hungry from metal detecting in the bush or fields all day. The buggers can sound like a dog or someone that escaped from the asylum and is off his meds. I see them occasionally during the day but mainly dawn\dusk. I did stop and listen to one early this summer about mid day while it was grey and misty out. He was barking in a sharp and alarming way for quite a while. I believe that it was a young of the year that got lost and flipped out until found. I could hear him on the other side of the river. I also had an adult Coyote that was fairly large stop and look at me on multiple days when I showed up at a certain field by the river. I figured that if anything went down I could clock it with my digging shovel. In the real world I'd say that my chances of being attacked by a Coyote or extremely low, but then you factor in mange or rabies which may change the equation. Anyway, whether Black bears, Yodel dogs, Mountain lions (yes they are seen here now and then) etc., I always pack a FB or hawk in the bush. But truth be told I'm probably in more danger from drunk\stoned partiers or other creepy things that people do were they don't want to be seen, than the wild life. I find deep relaxation and peace of mind tromping around outside. And I consider myself lucky to hear the wild yodel dogs, even if they do spook me now and then.:D
 
I can sit on my front porch and hear 'em hooting & hollaring...... yesterday we was headed to the store and my wife said look a that dog, trotting along the road in the ditch .....I look over and it was a coyote just trotting less than a block from my house.
I love it ......
 
knivesngear said:
as for deer and bear, they always come up into our camp. the deer are nice and won't hurt you but i'm a little afraid of the bears (im 15).
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Careful with those deer. If you spook one in close, those hoofs are razors. The larger black bears I've encountered are usually dumpster divers, fairly used to humans. A good amount of noise, a fire, and keeping your food controlled and hung will keep most black bear problems away. Ran into two giant dumpster divers while hiking with my brother a year ago. Was during a downpour so neither of us saw each other until they crossed the trail 15 feet ahead of us. They seemed shocked to see us out there. Once they realized we weren't going to toss them any food, they just turned and walked away.
 
coyotes killed a 19 canadian singer a couple of years ago. in many parts, coyotes have interbred with wolves and can weigh upwards of 90 lbs. i have problems with them in my backyard hunting my cats, in a neighborhood where there are not large tracts of wood for miles. They have attacked two children near where i live and unfortunately its probably just a matter of time before they are successful.

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2009/10/28/ns-coyote-attack-died.html
 
awh said:
coyotes killed a 19 canadian singer a couple of years ago. in many parts, coyotes have interbred with wolves and can weigh upwards of 90 lbs. i have problems with them in my backyard hunting my cats, in a neighborhood where there are not large tracts of wood for miles. They have attacked two children near where i live and unfortunately its probably just a matter of time before they are successful.

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2009/10/28/ns-coyote-attack-died.html
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Thanks, was gonna link that story. We don't have coyotes a whole heck of a lot right around where I live and I've never encountered them...if I saw them I wouldn't shoot without provocation or anything like that but I'm wary of them.

We definitely have wild dogs though, and some pretty nasty packs of them sometimes too.
 
A few weeks ago we went camping in Indiana and heard a pack off in the distance yelping it up around 11:30pm. They must have just made a kill on a deer or something because it sounded like about 2 dozen teenage girls squealing and laughing then died off after 20 minutes or so.

Last year I showed up at work to find a deer by the driveway with nothing but the head, front legs and ribcage intact. All the guts and rear legs were gone and there was a bloody smear about 20 feet long where she was either drug by the coyotes or pulled herself along while they tore her hind end apart.
 
I've had Coyotes run by me when I was hunting quite often. I always shoot, rarely hit. The people where I hunt do not like them as they kill their livestock.

Where I live I am more worried about the pets outside then anything else. My nephew, brother and myself saw one a few weeks ago and my nephew thought it was cool and then asked if we had a gun with us if we ran into one.
 
We have alot of coyotes around here but I've never been concerned about them. But this thread has got me thinking.Never really considered them a threat to a grown human
 
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