Coyotes take down a police horse

[Balog]

http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2015/01/coyotes_attack_kill_horse_from.html#incart_river

But but but APS keeps telling me how harmless the little song dogs are.

[Firethorn]

Are you getting APS and mainstream media mixed up?  Most of APS is all for shooting them when they appear.

[BobR]

"A lot of people are starting to get burros around here," he said, noting the loud noises they make and their willingness to defend themselves and other animals against coyotes.
 
Osmon did have a few words of advice for any resident that may come in close contact with a coyote.
 
"Stay clear and leave the area," he said.

Really, get a burro, don't they know how much those things cost? They just need to learn how to coexist with nature and allow the 'yotes their piece of meat, whatever form it takes, cat, dog, little kid, whatever.


Or because it is kind of rural, get a GUN, jeebus, how hard is that?

bob

[HankB]

Are you getting APS and mainstream media mixed up?  Most of APS is all for shooting them when they appear.

No we're not.

They help keep the roaming domestic cat population down in suburbia.

[charby]

No we're not.

They help keep the roaming domestic cat population down in suburbia.

and ill trained yippie dogs, you know the punting size that you could kick half way across the block, but they have ninja like skills between lifting your foot to kick and them biting your pant cuff.

[Balog]

Are you getting APS and mainstream media mixed up?  Most of APS is all for shooting them when they appear.

Every time a coyote thread comes up and someone expresses concern that their kid will be attacked, at least a couple people scoff at the notion.

[Tuco]

Every time a coyote thread comes up and someone expresses concern that their kid will be attacked, at least a couple people scoff at the notion.

Oh right. 
 
 

That's not going to happen.  Get real.

 

[charby]

Every time a coyote thread comes up and someone expresses concern that their kid will be attacked, at least a couple people scoff at the notion.

Darwin in action, the weak die, the horse was weak.

[BobR]

Sadness, horse did not go home at end of shift.   


bob

[Hawkmoon]

Sadness, horse did not go home at end of shift.   

No, the horse WAS home after the end of its shift. This just proves that the cops are right -- they are in constant danger even when out of uniform.

[Sergeant Bob]

Are you getting APS and mainstream media mixed up?  Most of APS is all for shooting them when they appear.

If it has "Yote" in the end of the name, I'm all for ending it's existence!

[Doggy Daddy]

If it has "Yote" in the end of the name, I'm all for ending it's existence!

Nancy Peloyote.

[vaskidmark]

Do the people of Lepeer County, MI really need to be be instructed in this?

...said Osmon of the mare, or an adult female horse...

It's winter up there.  You know, cold and snow and stuff.  'Yotes, like just about any other animal, take the easy route whenever possible.  Chase a bunny and divvy it up or take down an adult female horse mare?  You do the math.

stay safe.

[Balog]

Darwin in action, the weak die, the horse was weak.

Not as weak as a human.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

Yotes are much bolder . See em in groups in the daytime and they don't run off. That's a mistake. I took a shot from in the door and got em. With a bow. Yotes that close to house is not good and needs immediate correction. I fear my dog will get killed. If that happens I will channel the good capt Quinn and do some ethic cleansing


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[230RN]

Really, get a burro, don't they know how much those things cost?

Well, if they had to explain, "said Osmon of the mare, or an adult female horse..." it tells me that they ain't writing for rural folks.  Just city slickers, who probably don't even know what a burro is.

Residents should also eliminate all outdoor food sources, clear out wood and brush piles, as well as keeping pets inside or accompanying them outside if coyotes have been spotted in their area.

Oh, and keep a gun handy.

Terry, 230RN

ETA:  I gotta learn to type faster.  Wuz beaten to it.

[MechAg94]

"A lot of people are starting to get burros around here," he said, noting the loud noises they make and their willingness to defend themselves and other animals against coyotes.

Oh.  A burro, not a burrow.  I didn't think a hole in the ground would work; without concrete I mean.     

I wonder if a burrow owl would work. 

[MechAg94]

If it has "Yote" in the end of the name, I'm all for ending it's existence!

coyote
stray cat-yote
ferral hog-yote
burglar -yote
....this could be useful. 

I would want to make an except for Mr. Wyle E. Coyote. 

[Stand_watie]

I'm in the "shoot them on sight to do a favor to humans/domestic animals/pets AND  wild coyotes" camp, but I'd be surprised if there wasn't some pre-existing factor regarding the mare that weakened her enough for a pack of coyotes to kill. Maybe injury with shock, or very, very strong training against defending herself from barking/biting dogs. 

[charby]

Every time a coyote thread comes up and someone expresses concern that their kid will be attacked, at least a couple people scoff at the notion.

We all have different interpretations on the science of biology. For example: some of us understand food webs and complexity of them, some of us look at man in as part of nature, some of us look at man has the right to dominate nature. 

Some of use believe/understand that the risk of a coyote actually attacking or even killing a human is less than being hit by lightening.

Some of us have different fears and beliefs.

[Fly320s]

Well, if they had to explain, "said Osmon of the mare, or an adult female horse..." it tells me that they ain't writing for rural folks.  Just city slickers, who probably don't even know what a burro is.

If a burrito is a small burro, then a burro is a big burrito. I wonder if it was steak or chicken.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

I can't stop a lightening bolt or make my yard less likely to get struck. I can however discourage bold yotes


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[charby]

I can't stop a lightening bolt or make my yard less likely to get struck. I can however discourage bold yotes


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If you remove the coyotes, what takes its place? Something worse, or do you get overrun with rodents?

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

I don't kill em all. I just try to keep em appropriately scared of man. When a group of 6 stand in broad daylight 50 feet from me inside one fence in a yard with dogs they are meat


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[charby]

I don't kill em all. I just try to keep em appropriately scared of man. When a group of 6 stand in broad daylight 50 feet from me inside one fence in a yard with dogs they are meat


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I have shot my fair share of them also, fun to call them in and take them at 25 yards or less with a shotgun loaded with 4 buck. If you blink, they run like their ass is on fire and their head is catching.