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R.Shaw
Peanut Butter Man, da da da da DAH!
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posted December 09, 2005 03:16 PM
This coyote was not here 24 hours earlier. Below 0 temperatures did him in.
The sign indicated he had curled up in the hay and then, for some reason, kicked himself out of the barn and into the snow. What a way to go.
Mange is one of the reasons our coyote numbers are down. The upside is the cat population is increasing.
Randy
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Cdog911
"There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual could believe them."--George Orwell.
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posted December 09, 2005 03:31 PM
I've found them like that, Randy. Last year, after that big ice storm swept across Kansas laying an inch of ice over everything, the local Game Warden told me he found a half-dozen coyotes lying dead out on open fields where they succumbed to exposure. Their feet were raw and their pads were bloody stumps from walking on the ice and repeatedly pulling the scabs off. One of my buddies saw one in just such condition walking across an open field and thought it was sick because of the way it was walking, staggering and the like.
I had one die of exposure during the night several years ago while in one of my traps. What a sad thing to see, and a sad thing to witness, knowing what this noble creature's final hours and weeks were like. You have to be sick on several levels to me to think that any animal deserves this kind of death. Yet, there are those that do.
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brad h
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posted December 09, 2005 04:28 PM
A friend of mine, over the phone last night, mentioned he put down a coyote the other day that had taken up residence in his barn less than 100 yards from his house. A badly manged one. Seems it had been there for a few days too judging the sign and scat.
One other he shot a week earlier not far from the house had no hair other than a little on the head.
That's three recent manged coyotes from the same area. I don't know how fast mange works but it seems like something they pick up as a litter, in which case all the pups are doomed from the get go.
Brad
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R.Shaw
Peanut Butter Man, da da da da DAH!
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posted December 09, 2005 05:09 PM
Brad,
We have had mange here for at least the last 10 years. Doesn't seem to want to let go. A full 80% of the coyotes we have killed the last few years have had mange to some degree.
It is not funny, but I have seen a couple that only had hair around their necks and the tips of their tails. Kinda looked like a lion. More than likely these were not seen by the locals or we would have African lion sightings to go along with the never-ending cougar sightings.
Randy
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