Syracuse.com - Oneida turkey hunter photographs coyote pups near Chittenango

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Morgan said he didn’t have the nerve to kill the pups because they were too cute. Besides, it wasn’t coyote hunting season, he said. Submitted photoDan Morgan, of Oneida, said he hunts coyotes after deer season because they kill fawns.In March, he came across what looked like a coyote den on land outside of Chittenango. He went back there recently to hunt turkey and came across five coyote pups sunning themselves.“One posed long enough for me to take a picture,” he said. “Not sure where momma was, but I didn’t wait to find out.”Despite hunting them, Morgan said he didn’t have the nerve to kill the pups because they were too cute. Besides, it wasn’t coyote hunting season, he said.He said others might disagree.“(A local) homeowner and local hunters thought otherwise,” he said, noting that coyotes have been killing the woman’s chickens, guinea hens and geese.View full sizeSubmitted photo

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