Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] coyotes in Columbia?

[Vern Green <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Oh and as you have realized from your last message, your reasoning was
fautly. Foxes exist as well and they are somewhat less skittish than
the coyotes. I think for the most part Coyotes in Missouri have feared
human interaction, and for the most part they are not hungry since
there is plenty of wildlife in the wild.

Once a coyote finds out that there are easier pickings in your
backyard, he is going to make more excursions there.

I don't think it is common to see them in Missouri. The main reason
for this at least used to be because of varmit hunting. Most farmers
would kill them when they saw them hanging around, but if you get one
in the suburbs, particularly the suburbs of Columbia, you are going to
find people less likely to kill them.

You could compare Columbia to Southern California in a way. Since no
one is shooting at them, and I am sure they are not in Columbia, they
will get braver and move closer to town, just like they do here in
Southern California.

We had an incident out here a couple of years ago where a pack of them
were chasing a kid on a bicycle, talk about getting brave.


On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 10:18:25 -0600, Jonathan King
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> On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 10:07:17 -0600 (CST), Dave Lloyd <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> > On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Shawn Parker wrote:
> >
> > Jking, this is why our cats are *indoor* cats.  Not to mention the toll
> > that domestic cats have on songbirds.
> >
> 
> That was our plan, but Lil was going insane with jealousy when we got
> to the new neighborhood and every cat in the neighborhood came up to
> the back glass door and taunted her.  My (faulty) reasoning was that
> there were no coyotes or foxes around, and Lil couldn't hunt since
> we'd had her since kittenhood and she hadn't been taught how to do
> that.  And she only goes out during the day.
> 
> Bzzt!  For being self-taught, Lil was quite proficient.  The only good
> news is that she's mostly after the mice in the ivy and baby rabbits,
> neither of which is in anything like short supply.  But a coyote
> presence in the area might mean she's going to spend a lot more time
> indoors.
> 
> jking
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