Dealing With Nuisance Coyotes

 

Urban coyotes can readily become habituated to humans causing all sorts of mayhem.   This is excellent advice from the Redwood City California Parks Department – all of it practical.   

Someone should be sure to notify the nervous busybodies over at Nextdoor.com…..

How to Haze a Coyote

In rural America most the the wildlife tend to steer clear of us people.  Because they're hunted the game animals and predators are rather skittish.  I would add that for the first time this winter has brought the wild deer to our yard to eat our landscaping.  But that's an altogether different problem of too many deer. 

At the other home there has arisen a great clamor over the matter of coyote/pet/human conflicts.  Most of this is a consequence of plentiful and reliable food sources in the urban environment and I've written extensively on the subject.

Living with wildlife becomes problematic - whether it is deer, coyotes, raccoons or other critters - when they lose their natural fear of humans.One of the tools for putting the wily coyote in his place and teaching him that he's not top dog and not welcome is to haze them.

Here is a short instructional video on how to make life unpleasant for an unwelcome coyote.