In order to participate in the GunBroker Member forums, you must be logged in with your GunBroker.com account. Click the sign-in button at the top right of the forums page to get connected.

I just can't kill 'em

tapwatertapwater Member Posts: 10,336 ✭✭✭
edited March 2015 in General Discussion
..The 'yotes are in the yard every night. Now they're coming within ten feet of the house. When we have old leftovers, I toss them in the front yard. There are some things they won't eat, like green beans and such. The crows come in the morning and clean up that stuff and stale bread. I love watching a crow fly away with a huge slice of frozen rye bread in his beak. It looks like a canard wing!
..Picky, picky, picky yotes. I guess I'd rather see it eaten than go in a landfill. Yesterday, two watched us get out of the truck, then checked to see if the feed was on. One of these days they'll catch me in the wrong mood. That's happened a few times. Little do they know that their ancestors are on the wall looking out with glass eyes..[;)]
· Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Comments

  • SCOUT5SCOUT5 Member Posts: 16,181 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Neat story but be careful.

    Once they get used to humans and associate them with food a kid with a peanut butter and jelly sandwich isn't exactly safe. You said they are coming close and even watched you get out of the truck without running off, then "checked to see if the feed was on".

    Careful, those aren't squirrels your feeding.
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • topdadtopdad Member Posts: 3,408 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    That's sorta like the * around here.
    A couple of years ago they stopped twice a week
    trash pickup, and rather than have a maggot farm
    we started tossing all the food scraps in the woods
    across the street. Now the * wait for it every
    night. There was a time when I made good money selling
    *. The wife gets upset when I call them 10 dollar bills.
    so I don't mess with them. We are getting coyotes around
    these parts now, but I have yet to see any around the house.
    With the stories on the news about them eating peoples pets,
    I'm sure the wife would have no problem with me wackin any of them
    that came around though.[^]
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • tapwatertapwater Member Posts: 10,336 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by SCOUT5
    Neat story but be careful.

    Once they get used to humans and associate them with food a kid with a peanut butter and jelly sandwich isn't exactly safe. You said they are coming close and even watched you get out of the truck without running off, then "checked to see if the feed was on".

    Careful, those aren't squirrels your feeding.




    ..Point taken. I didn't say that they were about 175 yards out. They are however coming closer to the house (by tracks in snow) than they ever have. This started at least 2-3 generations of 'yotes ago. Maybe we'll put an old rug mounted one on a sawhorse and see what they do..[}:)][:D]

    ..Edit: I meant the ones watching were 175 yds. They
    are within 10' most nights.
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Aspen79seAspen79se Member Posts: 4,707
    edited November -1
    I'm cleared to snuff any around here. There was a mangy one hanging around in the summer, but he's gone now.
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • ChrisInTempeChrisInTempe Member Posts: 15,562 ✭
    edited November -1
    It is important to kill them, to not go soft on this thing. They become dangerous when allowed to lose their fear of humans. Dangerous to pets, to livestock and to children.

    If you can get away with killing coyotes where you live, do so and feel right about it. You will not wipe them out or come anywhere's close to "endangering the species". You will only discourage them from getting too close to people.
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Kill every damn one of those nasty sumbeeches!! They aint nuthin but the canine version of a damned rat! Only yotes that ever lived through meeting me was because I either missed or was where I could not shoot!
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • AzAfshinAzAfshin Member Posts: 2,985 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Be very careful with coyotes. We live in the suburbs of Dallas and two coyotes were stalking my wife while she was walking our dog. Our dog is half Rhodesian Ridgeback, so 65 pounds of lion hunter. Still when I got the call from my wife that she was being stalked I grabbed a gun and was out there mighty quick.
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • jev1969jev1969 Member Posts: 2,691
    edited November -1
    I feel the same about food. Would rather a critter eat it than send it to the landfill. I started throwing old bread and stale chips out for the birds. Then I saw the deer coming around and eating them. It's gotten to the point where one doe recognizes the sound of a crinkling potato chip bag. When I walk onto the deck the herd takes off. I crinkle the bag and one doe turns back and walks up. She comes to within about ten feet and no more. [;)]
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • William81William81 Member Posts: 25,503 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    They get a little too close to my house sometimes. My poor 14 year old Corgi Dudley would make a great snack to one of them. Every time I let him out I stand watch. He is blind in one eye and the other is going.

    I took one yote out a week or two ago. Now that there is snow, I hope to see more.
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • tapwatertapwater Member Posts: 10,336 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ..I have clear shooting in almost any direction. They'll catch me in a cranky mood one of these days/nights. It wouldn't be the first one to have his lights put out in my yard.
    ..If my grandkids are over, there's always an adult outside with them. I don't know of any outdoor pets in this area.
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
Sign In or Register to comment.