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.


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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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