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Melvin
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posted June 06, 2005 09:17 PM
Current study is looking at how coyotes interact with humans.
A study being done by Cornell University and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation aims to find out.Over the next five years,researchers will be looking at how coyotes and people interact,with an eye toward preventing conflicts--namely coyote attacks on people--in the future.
Bob Timm is an extension wildlife specialist at the University of California at Hopland.He's been studying coyotes for the last few years,looking at how they're adapting to living around people.
Timms work seems to suggest that coyotes become more aggressive when not controlled by hunting and trapping.
Southern California experienced 41 coyote attacks on people in the ten-year span between 1987 and 1998.It had 48 attacks in the next 5 years alone,though. Only one person--a 3 year old girl who was attacked in her own yard--died as a result of one of those attacks,but the potential for more deaths is very real,Timms said. "We think that there are at least 30 to 35 cases where,if a parent had not intervened, there would have been additional fatalities,"Timm said.
"We're trying to be proactive",agreed Paul Curtis,an associate professor of natural resourses at Cornell who will be working on the project."Those types of aggressive behaviors are not acceptable and they are cause for concern.
Coyotes in California--like western mountain lions and to a lesser degree black bears in the east--seem to go through a sort of four-step process on there way from being secretive and shy to potentialy regarding humans as prey,Timm said.First,they go from roaming mostly at night to foraging during daylight hours,when people are more active and likely to see them.Next they start preying on pets like dogs and cats.After that,they start attacking pets while they're being walked on leashes by there owners.Finally,they become aggressive toward humans.
New York--which has coyotes in every part of the state except Long Island--has seen all of the behaviors, Timm describes,said Gordon Batcheller.
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With the growing population of coyotes in the east,especialy around the human population centers "increases the likelihood of a human-coyote encounter occurring"Incidents of coyotes attacking people are generally unheard of in Pennsylvania.
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Cal Taylor
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posted June 07, 2005 07:44 AM
I was attacked 4 times yesterday by coyotes. I was putting flea and tick stuff on my pups and every one of them attacked me. They are like little buzz saws. Welding gloves are a must.
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Andy L
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posted June 07, 2005 11:23 AM
I bet that is a chore Cal. Probably alot like giving a bath to a grey squirrel.
I had a friend with some pet baby coons a long time ago. Welding gloves or some kind of heavy leather gloves were very much needed. They got some sharp little teeth.
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Leonard
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posted June 07, 2005 11:35 AM
The set of teeth that intimidates me is oppossum. Playing dead is much more friendly.
Cal, what is the actual purpose in keeping the pups? Do you always just turn them loose after summer, or what?
Good hunting. LB
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Cdog911
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posted June 07, 2005 11:41 AM
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Timms work seems to suggest that coyotes become more aggressive when not controlled by hunting and trapping.
I was formulating a brilliant solution to this so-called problem, but then I got to this remark. Therefore, I'll condense my remarks to one word: Really?
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"We're trying to be proactive",agreed Paul Curtis,an associate professor of natural resourses at Cornell."
Noting that the rag in which this was reported misspelled the word resources in this quote, this is yet another brilliant remark. Had they any interest whatsoever in acting proactively, they would have been a stronger part of the opposition against the numerous ballot initiatives across this country, underwritten and fueled by HSUS and PETA, that have eliminated any means of proactively addressing the problem of depredation on pets, livestock and, in time people. In my eyes, this is nothing more than a bunch of dumb ass city people getting exactly what they have coming to them. I have no sympathy and consider anything they have to offer to the matter as being uninformed, miguided, and irrelevant. Then again, this is just my personal opinion and I might be wrong.
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Cal Taylor
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posted June 07, 2005 12:07 PM
Last year I recorded some distressed pup sounds for FoxPro, Leonard. The FP pup distress #2 is one of my sounds. This year I want some pup howls and other vocalizations if I can get them, but so far no one is talking.
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Tim Behle
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posted June 07, 2005 07:13 PM
Cal,
I used to give my adults a shot of Ivemec to get rid of the fleas. You might check with a good Vet and see if your pups are old enough for a shot.
When the get past the point of chewing on everything, try hanging a cattle type of oiler in front of the den box.
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