Coyotes are nasty animals...

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Coyotes are nasty animals... according to the host of a T.V. hunting show I stumbled across this evening. Darned if I can remember which show this was, it was on one of Dish T.V.'s line-up of outdoor programming. The host was bowhunting whitetails somewhere in the midwest. At one point in the show there was a cut of the host with another dude, they told of hearing a lot of coyotes howling the night before and in the morning they went into the area the coyotes had been in to see what they could find. They told of how gruesome the next shot would be and then bent down to a deer carcass on the ground. It was a partially eaten buck. The host said, "Coyotes are just nasty animals and you should shoot every one of them everytime you get a chance to." They didn't mention how they knew the deer was actually killed by the coyotes. No thought given to the fact that it was hunting season and the buck could have been unrecovered game, or, a wounded deer that managed to get away. Or even a deer struck by a vehicle that crippled away from the road and the coyotes capatilized on the find. Nope, coyotes are nasty animals and should be shot on sight. I don't get it. IMHO, it's a aprt of nature and it is coyotes just being coyotes. That doesn't make them anything but a coyote. Certainly not nasty animals. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif
 
GC I'm with you. Coyotes get the blame for alot of things they DON'T do. To many experts out there nowadays, just ask em. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
To be honest, a coyote is alot better animal then some humans I know. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
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Yeah I agree with GC and BillyTheKidd There are a few humans I would like to shoot faster than a coyote. And thats bad because I am usally not exactly slow when it comes to shootin' dogs! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

I am so sick to death of hearing people say when ever something is killed or mangled instataniously yep no dought that was a damn coyote. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/angry-smiley-055.gif
 
I would certainly say they smell nasty anyway! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
 
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I would certainly say they smell nasty anyway! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif


Just think how humans smell to coyotes! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
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Just think how humans smell to coyotes! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif





You must be onto something!!!!!! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif

Every time they smell me they leave so fast that they come back later for their skins!!!

Sorry PETA .... I did not mean to mess up nature so....!

Three 44s
 
Tell us how you really feel Chili /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif. For the most part I think I agree though. As for the Coyote being nasty, I dont think so. I consider them, at least in my own mind, a worthy game animal that deserves the same respect as any other animal I hunt including Deer, Elk and the like. I dont expect every one or even anyone to agree. I just know I would miss them if they were all gone.
 
From what I have know about Coyotes they at least eat what they kill unlike Freakin Wolves that kill 4 or 5 elk and eat the best parts of 1 or 2 and leave the rest to go waste then head to another elk feed ground and kill a few more. And the only people that can hunt them are Feds at the taxpayers expense. JC............... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/angry-smiley-055.gif
 
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I think hunting show hosts are nasty sonsabitches, most ignorant, ill informed, bad acting bunch to grace a tv screen.



I'll second that.

IMHO, I'd rather have coyotes as neighbors than most of the people I know.

At best, the 'yotes make pretty noises at night (to my ears anyway), unlike most of the "thump... thump... thump..." echoing out of cars today.

At worst, I can always just shoot the 'yotes. That's all legal and accepted. No matter how much I might sometimes want to, or even how much some of them REALLY deserve it, I still can't shoot the human vermin...
 
I talked to a rancher the other day about hunting coyotes on his property.He told me to leave the coyotes be. They keep the jackrabit pop. down.Jackrabits eat grass cows eat grass would rather have less rabits. He said that if he knew of a momma cow that didnt defend her calf he would send it to sale.Most dead calf get fed on by yotes but were not the reason for death.He did say to stop by the house leave a note and I could shoot every Jack I saw.
 
I cant say that what you have described bothers me much. Most shoot coyotes on sight anyway and it may sway a few ranchers that watched the show to let all of us have a whack at em. I to have encountered farmers and ranchers that have coyotes that just don’t bother their livestock or deer. A few have called us to come hunt them after they have a bad run in. Coyotes are opportunistic, just because they are there and aren’t killing doesn’t mean they aren’t thinking about it and just waiting for there best chance to clean house.

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Tell us how you really feel Chili /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif. For the most part I think I agree though. As for the Coyote being nasty, I dont think so. I consider them, at least in my own mind, a worthy game animal that deserves the same respect as any other animal I hunt including Deer, Elk and the like. I dont expect every one or even anyone to agree. I just know I would miss them if they were all gone.



I heartily agree with that and what the rest of you guys have said /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif. ( /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gifI wonder why? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif) The only "nasty" things I know of walk on two legs and I'm not talking about birds /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif. Long live the coyote, he has a purpose.
 
I seen a show on Animal Planet about loud animals, #5 was the Coyote, one thing they said was Man has not figured out what the howling means. I laughed to myself and thought, Oh yeah? ask a coyote hunter what the howls mean, and not only will we tell you what a howling coyote is saying, we will talk back to them.

t/c223encore.
 
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WyoSongDog- I consider them, at least in my own mind, a worthy game animal that deserves the same respect as any other animal I hunt including Deer, Elk and the like.


so how do you cook those coyote steaks exactly? does the jerky taste as good as the elk jerky?
 
I'm reminded of Rich Higgin's DVD with the coyote walking away with his covey of quail. IMO they are mostly just victims of typical human sensationalism and as convenient as it is to stereo type them as good or bad, I think they are much like us in that there are some good ones that are just doin what they were created to do and taken care of themselves and their kin and then there are those that ain't so good and all the rationalization in the world doesn't explain it or change it.

If we were really driven by facts and wanted to remove animals that were killing for the sake of killing, there would be a whole lot fewer free roaming dogs and a lot less kitties coming back inside for the evening. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

They say that perception is reality. Well for animals I'm thinking that really means 'human perception of them is their reality' and given the insanity of much of the human perceptions, it must be one heck of a bazzare world from their perspective. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif
 
I'm going to chime in again and agree with all of you, but what WyoSongDog said in his sums it up for me. I personally would really miss the coyotes if they were all gone, But I don't think thats a possibility because they adapt to change around them all the time. I am reminded of a old saying out west here that goes like this,

"If the world were to end, the last sound on earth would be the howl of a coyote."
 
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They say that perception is reality. Well for animals I'm thinking that really means 'human perception of them is their reality' and given the insanity of much of the human perceptions, it must be one heck of a bazzare world from their perspective.



This is so profound that it's worthy of a sticky thread here! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/bowingsmilie.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif

I guess we all assign a value to the critters that surround us according to our individual perceptions and situations. For me personally, I like coyotes. As far as I'm concerned as a hunting challenge and experience, it doesn't get much better. The coyote is a worthy animal that requires the best of a hunter to consistently get over on an old dog. I enjoy camo, calls, decoys, woodsmanship, knowledge of the critter being hunted, set-up strategy, long seasons, ect... Many of the same things that draw hunters to turkey or waterfowl hunting. Except we know the great nose of the coyote and his superior intellect place him above the others and makes for a supremely challenging critter to hunt day in and day out. Not for eating, but for the actual hunting - the coyote is tops IMHO! That's the nasty truth that hunters of other species don't like to admit. Actually hunting and consistently killing coyotes is a far cry from sniping the occasional unsuspecting coyote from a tree stand while deer hunting.
 
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WyoSongDog- I consider them, at least in my own mind, a worthy game animal that deserves the same respect as any other animal I hunt including Deer, Elk and the like.


so how do you cook those coyote steaks exactly? does the jerky taste as good as the elk jerky?



You haven't tried them? Man oh man are you missing out on a real treat! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
 
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