City Coyotes

[specialist3]

Taken out, yes, but that's eliminating an animal that was not fearful of humans, hunting does not add fear, persay. Or maybe not at all.

These animals are naturally fearful of humans. Mountain lions are as well.
What eliminates the fear is constant contact. Feeding, or routinely being around them tells the animal you are not a threat. The animal is conditioned to believe you are not a threat. Snakes, turtles, alligators, all naturally have a fear of humans but I can take any of these animals and show that I am what brings them food and they will naturally start to associate me with food. After awhile, the fear turns into an easy source of food. This to be said with all animals.

:That being said, you let your chickens free roam all the time, you think its the coyotes fault they are eating them?:

Take a look at domestic animals. An actual stray cat or dog that was born without any contact of a human will naturally believe we are a threat. It will fall back on it's natural instinct of fight or flight when cornerd. All animals will believe we are no threat if we continue to feed them or come into constant contact with them, including your pup.

An animal will be startled when you make a loud noise, just like you will jump when someone randomly hits their horn. But when you experience it enough, it's whatever. An animal in a suburn area may be skittish, but easy food is easy food.

The animals that do not have the fear of humans are conditioned to not be afraid. Due to constant contact or learning that humans provide food, or that we just simply do not pay the animal any mind. If an animal in it's natural environment attacks you, you violated it's space. Be it food, young, or the animal finds you a threat that it could not run from.

Now one could argue that elimintaing the ones that lose the fear of humans for our safety, but then again, we hunt them why not the other way around?

But seriously, hunting the animal does not install fear, but eliminates the animals that are not fearful.

 

[Danny Tanner]

I regularly see coyotes running across the golf course in my neighborhood...they are getting pretty bold.

I, too, see them running away from my neighborhood and we're surrounded by other housing additions. I hear them yapping all the time. I have no idea where they're living, but they seem to be pretty comfortable here. Probably eating all of the rabbits that romp around in my yard.

 

[870WingBlaster]

your wrong. Those are cougars in starbucks.......looking for young bucks.

lol!!!!

 

[Old Fart]

I saw a bobcat in Shawnee last week running down a street from a car that almost ran it over.
I think that bobcat now has a healthy fear of cars.

 

[KYLE_B]

I've seen them crossing the road going into our neighborhood golf course. They've been known to take small dogs from the yards that back up to the golf course. I usually hear about a couple dogs each year.

 

[n423]

I live in the burbs but there are still some open fields scattered around between the housing editions. In the one directly to the south of my, I hear a pack 'o yotes howling all the time at night. .

We hear them sometimes when we go walking at dark.There are a lot of farm fields in this area. It creeps my wife out, but I always carry.