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To: Ilaine who wrote (53934)	7/27/2000 1:24:42 PM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

We've seen a lot of coyotes around here, but they usually run like mad as soon as they see a human. I've seen foxes that were much bolder. In fact, last week, I had a bit of a laugh while driving down a quiet country road near here. A couple of farmers were driving along very slowly at some distance ahead of me... they slowed to turn into their laneway, and a little fox crept out of the long grass next to the road and started following their truck and then stood at the entrance to the lane watching the truck as it stopped in front of the house. Meanwhile, I drove up slowly and had to stop and sit in my truck waiting for the fox to notice that I was right behind it. It was so engrossed in watching what the farmers were doing, that it didn't even seem to hear me. Suddenly it realized that it was being watched from just a few feet away and it spun and leaped up over a hedge and made a run for it... I guess I'm a little nervous of bears as we seem to have a few around... A local beekeepers hives were entirely mangled on a farm just down the way from ours last summer. We have a wild apple tree at the back of the farm which was pretty scratched and gouged up last year and I would imagine that was a bear and not just a deer rubbing its antlers on it... I have seen what coyotes can do to sheep though... they are deadly around here... A pack killed a dozen of my next door neighbour's sheep in just a few minutes on a summer afternoon a few years ago... It's a pretty nasty sight..... My own feeling is that it's good to keep a distance from just about any wild animal because rabies is so common and will make even a shy or passive animal behave in an unexpected way...

To: Ilaine who wrote (53934)	7/27/2000 1:50:04 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Coyotes are retiring sorts, very human-shy. What fills me with trepidation isn't so much the thought that they might mess with people - but that the Eastern ecology isn't set up for coyotes. They might be as bad a plague upon the earth as housecats. Although that isn't likely - it'd take biiiilyuns of coyotes to match the harm cats did and do.

To: Ilaine who wrote (53934)	7/27/2000 10:51:31 PM
From: JF Quinnelly	Respond to of 71178

I don't remember if I posted it, but last Saturday I nearly walked on top of a coyote that was hiding in the bushes at one of my businesses. It didn't move until I was about three feet from it. And then it didn't run far. Just stood in the street looking at me. Not the kind of behavior you want to see in a coyote, means it's probably sick or injured. The W&OD used to run right behind my house near Carlyn Springs Road. Little blue diesel locomotives, I have pennies flattened by them around here somewhere.