Tree climbing coyotes?

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ArizonaArcher

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Two interesting encounters last season that I am curious about. First, while at work doing forest inventory I walked up under a large "yellow" ponderosa pine and when I looked up there were two coyote pups (~3-4months I'm gussing?) curled up together on a limb 18-20 feet off the ground. They just sat there and looked at me. Second, later that month A co-worker had his pet rabbits eaten from his yard. He got a live trap from the county and caught a similar sized coyote (8-10lb-ish) using raw chicken in the first night. When he took it in the woods to shoot it, he let it out first (don't know why) and it ran right up a large pine tree, where he then shot it out of. He caught three pups in four nights doing this. My question...Has anyone else experienced yotes in trees...and if so is it just pups or can adults climb too?
 
I've only seen that once in my life, and it was on the Road Runner cartoon.
Ole Wiley went right up the tree after him, and didn't realize until he got out there that the tree hung off the edge of a huge cliff.... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
 
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I think someone is seeing gray fox and mistaking them for coyotes.



I think you are exactly right. No coincendence that both times they were 8-10 pound "pups".

Does it look like this one that Rooster has pictures of in the Photo gallery?

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Coyote pups wouldn't be likely to be able to climb.

I hav seen adult coyotes sitting on top of round hay bales at night, but I'm sure they just jumped up there.
 
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my first thought was of a gray also! when I used to run hounds ,they would occasionally go up a tree after prey.so I'm sure an adult yote could climb a tree for food ,but I would tend to believe a yote pup would not! I once watched 3 yotes try to get a chicken out of a tree for about 30 minutes.they would jump as high as you've ever seen one jump and even grab limbs and pull at them ! but not once did they try climbing,and it would have been an easy one to climb .It had some really low limbs!
 
Yeah, I am sure they were coyotes. If you haven't seen it before don't be afraid to say so... or not... but don't insult my intelligence. I have seen greys come out of hollow gambel oak trees as well and can tell the difference. It annoys me that because you have not seen it before I don't know a coyote from 20 feet in the middle of the day. Thanks anyway.

By the way yellowhammer, watch randy's video and you will see a dingo climb a tree to bark at turkeys, or watch any lion video and you will see hounds that climb after cats. I guess those dogs didn't read your references.
 
If you don't like the answers, don't ask the questions.

But, I learn something new all the time. Like just now. I thought dingos were from Australia, and I didn't know Australia had turkeys. See, I learned something. even found a picture of one. Not our turkey of course, but what they call a "brush turkey"

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Do the lion dogs go 20 feet up the tree?
 
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YH,
Queensland heeler, blue heeler, "dingo", barking yippy little cattle dog...whatever the breed was, you get the picture. The verminators...I bet you even own it. And the answers I can handle, the patronizing is what bugs me. Lion dogs...sometimes more than 20 but not ponderosa's to my knowledge. I understand dogs don't "climb" trees. How about if I said, "ascend or scramble or scale or run up", what ever the means, they were in the tree.

Rich, I have seen it, so don't tell me absolutly cannot happen. Ponderosa pine 32" dbh, strait up... no leaning, first branch at least 10 feet off the ground. Two coyotes sleeping on a dwarf mistletoe broom. How they got there is what I am inquiring about.
 
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The verminators...I bet you even own it.



Nope. Don't own it, never seen it.

Sounds like you have an unexplained mystery.
 
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YH,
Queensland heeler, blue heeler, "dingo", barking yippy little cattle dog...whatever the breed was, you get the picture.



Not wanting to hijack your post, but the "Dingo" is a wild dog from Aussie Land, whereas the Queensland or Blue heeler, along with the red, were products of breeding domesticated dogs to the dingo.

The red was bred to a dingo last, where as the blue's (speaking of the true breeding) where bred to the dalmation last.

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My Red
 
I didn't know that coyotes could climb, but as far as hounds most certainly. I have coon hounds and squirrel dogs and have had both climb 30-35 feet off the ground. It is not a desirable trait but some dogs can really climb. It depends on how cat footed they are. Cat footed means tight footed. I might add that the trees my dogs were in were not straight they leaned somewhat. My buddy just had his walker hound fall 32' the other night. He was on the limb just reaching for him when he fell. He dropped a rope and they took it home and measured it, that is how they knew it was 32'. Just my 2 cents.
 
J. Holly,
I didn't mean to affend any heeler owners by calling them dingo's, actually we have owned several blue's in the past. Just a generic (yet I agree inaccurate) term. Sort of like everyone saying they hunt coyotes in the "cedars" when we know there are not any real "cedars" in North America just Junipers and Cypress.
Nice looking dog you have there by the way. I always liked how smart and trainable the breed is.
 
Come to think of it I seen somewhere on tv where a little pomeranian (or some hyper little dog) climbed straight up a tree.

I could understand a little energetic coyote pup and a somewhat small tree.
 
In the link provided in the previous thread about litter size (http://www.canids.org/PUBLICAT/CNDNEWS3/coyotes.htm) under "Diet and Hunting Behaviour", this article states that coyotes have been observed climbing trees for food. I'm glad to have it comfirmed at least and i didn't just witness some random act in nature.
 


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