Registered: Feb 2006
Location: virginia
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We hunted last week and had them yotes all over us 3 nights in a row!! We used to hear them way off but now they are comming in a little too close for comfort. This is with 3 dogs out and with lighted collers. Things get a differant feeling when you know they are all around you. Also we hunted in differant area's that were up tp 45 min apart. Is anyone else having a problem and if so what have you done to help with the situation. Thanks in advance. We are going to put bells on them next and see what happens. Just seems like they are waiting to single one of them dogs out to us. I would say the yotes have even started getting closer to us than they used too!!

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Dont worry. There just dumb curious pups. There probly as big as there parents now, but still nothing to worry about. Ive only had a problem with them and the dogs 1 time, and that was from them treeing almost on top of a den when the pups were just born. That area is also bad for people dumping dogs and I think they thought they found a new food scorce. 1 rumble with a couple young hounds they attacked on the tree and they were never a problem agian. The only thing most of them would be brave enough to go for would probly be a half grown pup or a smaller dog like a beagle, with the exception of when they have new pups.


Ive had them fallow me close enough to hit with a rock, but its always the young stupid ones trying to figure out what I am. When you see 6 or 7 togather this time of year, its a pair and there pups of that year. They will kick them out before the next ones are born.

Kind of like walking under a nest of wild turkeys. A little unnerving at first, but harmless other than the heart check the first few times.

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we used to have them around us all the time..we would go out on night we werent hunting and shine them and then kill them off...reduce to pop a lil

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a couple nights ago, for the first time in about 3 months. The word around here is that Heartworms are killing them off???? I do know that there are more reports of people seeing more Groundhog's & Red Fox in the last couple of years, than in the past 10-15 years, so there must be fewer Coyotes around?

Also, there have been several report's of farmers finding dead Deer? I've heard that there is some kind of Fly laying it's egg's on the Deer, & the Larva is affecting the brain in some way. Our Driver Ed. Instructor at School, seen one 2 weeks ago in the edge of a bean field, turning around in circles, butt first, then it would back up a little way & shake it's head. It was laying there dead the next day.

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Had them to circle me for about 30 minutes while coonhunting, taking the semi-12 gauge next time !!

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The population seems to be exploding around here. Said they would thin the deer out some.LOL!! We are seeing more deer than ever. Thanks for the input from everybody. A few years ago I did have a hound get caught by one. She was a small female and was just starting. I was working her by herself and they came in on her and tore her up pretty bad. It was behind my house and fortunatly I was close enough to get to her before they finished her off. She never was the same after that. Most of the time you just hear them and thats it. Like Larry said maybe it's just a bunch of young ones we have been getting in.

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