Saw a coyote tonight

[Airoh]

It was about 2 miles out of downtown Lake Orion. It ran across the road in front of the car. This is in a fairly well populated area. It was between a subdivision and a new elementary school.
Anybody else seeing them where they didn't see them before??

[Steve]

Wow, right in the burbs.

[DEERSLAYER]

I heard they are very fond of cats.Did he look real healthy? He probly thinks he has found the good life.

[The Nailer]

I saw one once running down the median on I-475 in Flint. A guy I know was running some heavy equipment to lay sewer lines for a new sub behind Pine Knob golf course(in Clarkston)and he said he would see them most every day. They are losing some of the fear for humans as they become more at home in our backyards(so to speak) and I wouldn't want to see them hanging around a school.

[Neapolis]

I see them every once in a while in my area. There has been several alerts by the local authorities for people not to leave pet food (dog or cat) outside overnight for their pets. Seems the local coyote population have taken a liking to it and have figured out that it is easy pickings. :rolleyes:


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[ag2053]

I've seen them quite often between Lake Orion and Metamora. I think this is not a good thing. It's not as rare as it used to be. Watch your pets!

[Steve]

But they will keep the rats, and mice, and sick and rabit racoon populations down.

[bwiltse]

Steve, I agree with you overall, but don't think there are any documented rabid racoon cases yet in MI.

Boyd

[Steve]

No but the high populations of these varmits breed such diseases.

[Airoh]

Badgers don't seem to be bothered by them. I have seen that both locally and up north. But a couple of trappers tell me that once the coyote take hold the fox all but disappear.

[DavidDC]

We see them quite often in Clare. Had allot of them running last year, but this year they're fewer. Really get the deer running when they are around.

[lawnboy]

Like I posted before we have them down here in Brownstown....just got them in the last few years. The bad part is that I would say that half of them have the mange. I just found a dead one a few weeks back. And I saw another one the other day with it. I watch them all the time and they eat a LOT of viols and geese. They poop all over the golf course and it looks like they are eating well. The bad part is that I get them up near my back yard and I have to wounder if thats why my dog got so sick, took him to the vet and they said hes got some kind of skin allegory. He's taking 4 pills a day and is in real bad shape. And I'll be darn if he's not starting to loose hair all around his back end. I called the vets about the coyotes in the area but they said that it could not happen. God bless the old dog.

[Mr. 16 gauge]

A couple of weeks ago I saw one standing on the side of the road at 7 A.M. near a woodlot about 100 yards from Troy Beaumont (M-59 & Dequindre Rd). Funny thing was, about a year ago I saw a deer (BIG doe) in the same spot--ran across the road in front of me! Coincidence?

Lawnboy;
I think you may want to find another vet and get a 2nd opinon--what you describe sounds like classic mange to me. Just my 2 cents. Good luck!

[J-Lee]

I have a friend who is a pilot, he flies out of Bishop Airport in Flint. He sees them on the grounds of the airport all the time.There seems to be a family of them .

[Benchshooter]

I last week saw 2 on the side of us 131 out by Plainwell, they were just watching the cars go by...wished I could get the 22-250 out and get one. :)

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[david]

Originally posted by Mr. 16 gauge:
A couple of weeks ago I saw one standing on the side of the road at 7 A.M. near a woodlot about 100 yards from Troy Beaumont (M-59 & Dequindre Rd). Funny thing was, about a year ago I saw a deer (BIG doe) in the same spot--ran across the road in front of me! Coincidence?

Lawnboy;
I think you may want to find another vet and get a 2nd opinon--what you describe sounds like classic mange to me. Just my 2 cents. Good luck!

16 gauge, i know the area you're talking about. see lots of deer in there, across from Troy Beaumont, where it's all woods. are you allowed to hunt in there? was planning on trying some hunting in that part when i get a day off from work.

[Jumpshootin']

Too bad you couldn't speed up and flatten the &(#@#$^% mangy thing. The coyote population around Interlochen and Traverse City has exploded in recent years. I see coyotes just about every time I go into the woods. They even run thru my neighborhood on garbage night and tear everything apart. We used to think it was someone's dog until snow fell and saw 7 sets of tracks crossing the yards.
I shoot them at every opportunity.

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[Mr. 16 gauge]

David,
Sorry, but that woodlot is a wildlife sanctuary for the city of Sterling Hieghts, and more than one individual has gotten caught hunting in there and ticketed. Just what do you think those patients in the hospital have to do, be sick in bed? The look out the windows! You are welcome to take your camera, but leave your bow & gun at home.

[UPBert]

I saw a coyote recently in the city limits of Marquette carrying a cat in its mouth. Also see them regularly on the old Air Force Base.
As the wolves increase up here, that will curtail the coyote population in a hurry.

[Recurve]

Last season,'99, I saw a large coyote running several does and fawns through the woods right behind my stand, (Oakland Co.). Last season 4 deer were harvested off that property and the gut piles sure didn't last long. Also, I found a fresh spike carcass half eaten, guts first. I couldn't say for certain but it looked like he was chased into an old fence line and got trapped. It's possible that it was a bow kill that went unrecovered but I didn't hear of anyone not making a recovery and I didn't see any wounds in the heart lung area. This year I filled both my tags there and the gut piles were gone within a day.

[stelmon]

Near troy beomont while fishing at yates...on the way home we almost hit a deer coming home from therer...missed him by and inch..there is coyotes over there...great better be careful then while fishing...

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Make sure you know what your shooting @ and knock it dead and keep those reels screamen

[TJ_255]

I went out this morning and didn't se anything. I don't understand it if there is so many then why don't I see them unless hunting deer or walkin...

Just bad luck I guess.

[Rabid]

Saw two coyotes on the last day of gun hunting in Chesterfield Township 24 mile
& Gratiot area.


"A free people ought...to be armed..." George Washington

[trappercarl]

coyotes won't kill a rabid coon even if they do then you have rabid yotes.there has been many cases of rabid coons in michigan.