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here in the Catskills call coyotes "brush wolves." Ours are much bigger than they are out west. That could be from interbreeding with dogs, or just such favorable conditions for them. We are surrounded by them here, and 50-60 lbs is not unusual. My one hound is more than adequate to keep them at a distance, but my neighbor with two GSDs can't keep them out of her yard. She claims to have seen several that look bigger than my 80 lb redbone, although I'v never seen any that big.
They are very aware when the hound isn't home. My husband tells me they often come in very close when I am elsewhere hunting the hound. He goes outside with a starter pistol to scare them off, and they get quiet--whether they leave or not isn't obvious.

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I caught a pretty big one today. Didn't weigh it. pretty black, as my local fur buyer says "I don't know about that one, lotta dog in em"

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Killed a female deer hunting about 2 yrs ago,weighed 83 pounds on feed scales,most around here are about 40-60 pounds.

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Location: Laurens, South Carolina
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Had a rather large one try to get into my basement one time after a female pit bull I had that was hurt. She had gotten into a squabble with a male that I had at the time and he had chewed her up a bit before we were able to seperate them. She wouldn't let me do too much touching her, so I put her in the basement until she healed up to where I could put her on a chain. I was washing my hands in the bathroom and it sounded like growling coming up through the drain. Then I heard a beating noise. I looked out the bathroom window, and sure enough, there was a coyote trying to get in there to her. Every time it would hit the door to get in, she'd hit the door trying to get to it and knock the door back closed. I hollered at it and it took off. They are bold around here, most definitely.

Saw two big ones here lately. One was last year, eating roadkill on the side of the interstate. Cars weren't even bothering it!

The other was earlier this year, right when the weather started to get warmer. We were walking our pups and their mother in the woods during the daylight. My boyfriend stopped and kept asking me "What is that?" pointing up the trail. I was looking more on the ground for what he was talking about, then finally it caught my attention. It was a big one, dark gray but obviously a coyote. I'm not at liberty to say just how big it was. It turned and ran about 2 seconds after I looked up. I caught a good glimpse of the bushy tail, though. Gave me the heebie-jeebies. I knew it was probably watching us the whole rest of the time we were in the woods.

I hear them all the time across the street in the cow pasture. They creep me out then, too, because I can just imagine them killing a calf or something when I hear them making some of the sounds they make. When there's a lot of them sounding off at one time it's a terrible sound.

Lots of problems here lately with them coming into town and killing cats and little dogs. Packs of them, right in the middle of town. Yet nobody, to my knowledge, hunts them around here. So they just continue to multiply.

And I always thought they were solitary scavengers. At least, it seems like that's what I was always taught about them, and learned from National Geographic and such. I know different now.

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bobby thats big coyote!

danielle it may have been mixed with a dog but it looked full blooded to me. it made burtha look small and she is a big female.

kelli the coyote's are getting out of control. the local high school has them all around and the track n field team run the trails around the school. CRAZY

i bet if fur was worth something they wouldnt be around.

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we have lots of coyotes around here, they are brush wolves, the DEC has done DNA testing on them to verify, and they cross with domestic dogs often, i hunt my hounds with bells on their collars, kinda like what bird hunters use, seems to keep the yote's away, and doesnt bother the coons to much, the biggest i have ever had my hands on was 73 pounds, but have heard of bigger

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considering ny is over run with coyotes, why would they need to breed with dogs. we shoot around 40 a year in front of my hounds and run alot more. the only thing that makes them look like they have dogs in them is the different color phases we get. now yotes attacking and killing dogs is a fact. in ny a yote would rather kill a dog than breed to it.

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Maybe they go out of kill mode when they smell a dog in heat. I don't know.

I do know they breed with dogs around here, though.

I know this too. You can bring your dogs down here and dispose of as many as you want, if you want to. Coyotes tore my nerves up something terrible last night in the woods.

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know problems with them following me.....i killed a big one probley in 96 or 97......but hunt the same places and have never had one follow me....

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I am with branch505, was born and raised on a ranch and hunt coyotes like they owe me money. I have never killed one that would weigh over 45 pounds. The largest I ever killed was in NE NM a couple of years ago. Did not have scales but I would guess around 45.
If they cross with dogs, they can get bigger but this cross is very rare in Texas and NM. It is extremely rare for a coyote to attack a human unless a small child or in a situation where rabies is involved.

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Location: Ontario, Canada
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i can garuntee you that a coyote wont get much over 50 lbs without it havin something else in it, i run them with plotts and the biggest we kill a year is around 40 lbs, they looke alot bigger but peel that hide off them and they look like a big coon with long legs, u know they arent that heavy when they are running on the thin ice while the dogs are bustin through it. and yes they sure can cross with dogs, one year there was a loose dog around here a big red dog, and the next few years after he came we kept seein big red coyotes.

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People with the coyote problems need to shoot at them. Keep a gun in the truck and when you see one shoot to kill. It dont matter if you hit them or not. Let them know you mean business, it'll make them weary.

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People with the coyote problems need to shoot at them. Keep a gun in the truck and when you see one shoot to kill. It dont matter if you hit them or not. Let them know you mean business, it'll make them weary.

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oh theres ways to stop it lmfao called a charge of number 1 buck followed by a mauling from a good hound, and dont worry about the size killem all.

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i do agree but resurch has showed that when hunters put pressure on the herd, the yotes produce more pups. and i dont no about u but i think that makes it hard to controll. they are a animal that next to humans, are on top of the food chain, and have naturall ways to keep there numbers up.

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i`m with you on that one jake, nothing like a goog maulin.

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This reminds me of a joke....

few years ago a group of tree-huggers was presenting an alternative to the ranchers for controlling the coyote population. It seemed that, after years of the ranchers using the tried and true methods of shooting and/or trapping the predators, the tree-huggers had a "more humane" solution. What they proposed was for the animals to be captured alive, then castrate the males, then let them loose again, and then the population would be controlled. I, kid you not, this was ACTUALLY proposed to the Wyoming Wool and Sheep Grower's Association. Well, all the ranchers thought about this amazing idea. Finally, an old boy in the back stood up, kicked his hat back and said: "Son, I don't think you understand the problem. These coyotes ain't screwin' our sheep, they're eating them!!"

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70LB. FEMALE WOLF, DNA'D BY THE FEDS HERE IN NORTHWEST IL. 85/90LBS YOTES??? <v>

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Biggest I ever saw weighed about 45lb prolly.

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WAS TAKEN 3 MILES FROM THE ONE PICTURED ABOVE DURING IL. DEER SEASON. IT WEIGHED 150 LBS. THAT IS A N.W. IL(JODAVIESS CO.) WHITETAIL BUCK UNDERNEATH. MUST BE A COYOTE, CAUSE THEY KEEP SAYIN THERE ISN'T WOLVES HERE. <v>

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put lighted collars on your dogs that will keep them away

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WAS TAKEN 3 MILES FROM THE ONE PICTURED ABOVE DURING IL. DEER SEASON. IT WEIGHED 150 LBS. THAT IS A N.W. IL(JODAVIESS CO.) WHITETAIL BUCK UNDERNEATH. MUST BE A COYOTE, CAUSE THEY KEEP SAYIN THERE ISN'T WOLVES HERE. <v>

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love to c m yotes laid out ,,thick around here now we also gettin hogs

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I had a good buddy call me several years ago now, and ask me if I had ever seen a 87 lb. coyote?

Apparently, while coon hunting he hit a large canine with his pipck-up. I said no, but i will come over tonight and check it out. He called me about an hour later saying the DNR took it for testing. He mentioned that I was interested for our collection here at work. They later returned it to him so he could give it to me. It ended up being a wolf-dog hybrid, and it had been fixed. Just as a side note, its belly was full of deer hair.

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