Coyote Den near my property.... need help

[genesee_mohican]

Wow, I'm sure some are joking on here, but that anti's will eat this up.

I have a pack of coyotes who have lived near my home for 5 years. I hear them howling many nights year round, sometimes very close by. We also have a very healthy population of deer, large flocks of turkey, and rabbit and the small rodent population has exploded in the last few years. I realized coyotes will take fawns in the spring if they can, or chickens that are unattended. They are opportunistic and clever. But all wildlife seem to coexist in good balance here.  The hound hunters will be around for a month and they will take a few coyotes and fox and I'm sure a few were taken during gun season. The coyotes will just have more pups in the spring and more coyotes will move in from other areas.

[the blur]

If you hunt in a state park, coyotes are there to stay.   Where I hunt, it's deer hunting only.

[G-Man]

Sponges stuffed in natural sausage casing, rolled in bacon grease. bite size .swallow them whole. cant pass sponge=dead coyote. most antifreeze is safe now...

[growalot]

When I was..real young...a guy did that... to a friends dog .....but it was a stocking stuffed with meat and knotted at both ends...it was a miserable death...vet found it....

[G-Man]

yep talk to some old timers, know more ways to kill stuff than i thought possible..only one thought goes thru my head....Not to piss them off i doubt my body would ever be found if they were so inclined....

[the blur]

You should catch a little yote pup, and raise him as a house dog.   That would be pretty cool.   I bet they are highly trainable.

[bluecoupe]

I think the DEC should trap them and release them on eastern Long Island

[Sogaard]

There wanting to get rid of them then there's just plain cruel for the sake of being cruel....which is sadly purely human nature...seldom found in the animal world...save Chimps I believe

 

Google what sea otters do to baby seals. Or what dolphins do to porpoises.

 

And there are plenty more examples in nature, don't kid yourself.

Edited December 13, 2013 by Sogaard

[SteveB]

Sponges stuffed in natural sausage casing, rolled in bacon grease. bite size .swallow them whole. cant pass sponge=dead coyote. most antifreeze is safe now...

 

 

Another cruel and indiscriminate suggestion that should carry lifetime hunting loss and probably a felony. 

[NYbuck50]

My wife asked if we could do this. i said hell no

You should catch a little yote pup, and raise him as a house dog.   That would be pretty cool.   I bet they are highly trainable.

 

[NYbuck50]

I dont have any antifreeze, sponges, or sausage casing laying around, but i do have a semi auto shotgun and a box of M80's. I doubt the M-80's are legal in the communist state of ny though. I'll probably handle this after this weekend, going to try and get my wife a deer with her muzzleloader. But i'm gonna head down Christmas week and have at them. 

 

 

[bluecoupe]

As someone who had quite a few wild animals when I was young, trust me, they are always wild animals as we found out when my coon who was about 50 pounds at the time, decided that he didn't care for my Father and bit right through his arm.

[First-light]

Old timer story- used treble hooks with a hunk of meat hung with piano wire. About high enough for a yote to jump and bite…………...