About 10 years ago I hiked the PCT. I was more concerned about cats than bears. Kept my foam mattress pad up on my pack to protect my neck. Pussy cats are stealthy as f@ck.
Nuanced, yes. I don’t claim to be an expert, just part of the conversation. In my friend’s case, his security cameras caught the very brief struggle. Had to be tough to watch...
You're feeding and treating coyotes? In most places they are considered pests. In Tennessee, they can be hunted year-round, and there is no bag limit. The TN Wildlife Resources site has, as the very first sentence on its Dealing with Coyotes page: Do not feed coyotes! I'm an animal lover, but I agree with TN's approach. Coyotes are a scourge. My neighbors in TN lost pets and farm animals to coyote packs, and feeding them just makes the packs larger and the coyotes less fearful of being around humans and animals cared for by humans. There's lots of other wildlife that deserve your help much more. Leave the coyotes alone.
No shit. if the world ends, it will be cockroaches and coyotes left, because they learned to adapt to living on cockroaches.
I would guess he's trying to treat them for mange with Ivermectin laced food. The vet was telling about one of his customers that did this for squirrels in the neighborhood (her dog kept getting mange from the squirrels).
TJ, Yes! <3 I have 4, they all come at different times, no schedule, sometimes they come in pairs, or x3. It is freezing cold, sub-0 some nights and they are almost completely bald I have the meds, but cant double dose any of them....i dont have a clue how to get each one dosed....and they/vet told me, if all 4 arent dosed w/in 1 week time frame, the undosed one willl re-infect them all. Im at a loss.
IIRC you are a guy that's quite familiar with various firearms? Just sayin. I get the urge to save them all. Really. But as has been mentioned, coyotes are a scourge in populated areas.
It’s really hard to overdose. Our GSD had bad allergies, but at the start they put her on high doses of Ivermectin in case it was mange. So if you are set on this path, up the dosage. The side effect of too much was loss of appetite in our GSD, so they naturally won’t OD on it.