pet coyotes?

[El Chivo]

I was out for a bike ride Sunday and took the route around the Encino golf course. There's a four lane road, a bike path, a jogging path, and then the golf course.

I'm pedaling along and look up to see a coyote standing on the jogging path. He looked like he was somebody's dog. He didn't run or hide. Joggers went right past him, families with kids and strollers, sweaty fat ladies with stretch pants, bicyclists whizzing by, right on the same path.

I've seen coyotes around but this is the first time I saw a tame one. The golf course attendant said that people feed them so they come around.

[TedH]

I always thought it would be cool to have a pet fox.

[Blaine]

Sounds like a Dummy is about to get bit

[fatoldfool]

Isn't that what lead to the death of the young singer up in Canada? People feeding a pack of yotes until they became unafraid of humans.

[Kansas Ed]

FWIW, when I was growing up a really good friend of mine got two coyote pups when their eyes were still closed. The male as an adolescent, got to fooling around a hive of honey bees and didn't make it, but the female lived several years after that. The female loved to play, but you just couldn't trust her. It was obvious that if she could kill ANYTHING...cat, duck, kid, other dog...she would do it without warning. She would trick the ducks and geese and end up killing them...she pretended to run a shorter rope than she had, and when they moved within reach, she would strike...very cunning and amazing to watch and play with. Then she got bred by a black lab, and NO ONE could touch her after that. She was destroyed shortly thereafter. My point is, that even raised from "eyes closed" state, you should never trust one.

Ed

[jeepnik]

Sounds like a Dummy is about to get bit

Yotes live pretty well in close proximity to humans. Right up to the time they kill your kid. Some years back, a young boy in the nearby foothills was attacked in his yard. Now hunting yotes isn't allowed in this area. The parents put up quite a holler. But the greenies, yea, we had them even way back then, fought poisoning, trapping, and certainly shooting.

So, a few years later, his younger sister was killed by a coyote. Guess what, still can't hunt them close to urban areas, and can't poison them. And since they have no natural enemy, except for the automobile, they keep breeding.

By the way, think this is a new problem. The little girl was killed in 1981

[KCSO]

We had a PET??? 1/2 yote 1/2 Heeler dog, yes they DO cross breed. Had to get rid of it as it would bite anything and even truned on my boy who fed and took care of it. Yotes do not make pets, same with wolves, but people don't learn.

We have had several folk who thought raising wolves was the thing to do and in each case as the wolves got older they started chasing down livestock, or just kids on bikes. If it ran they would try and take it down.

[shooter]

My great uncle has had 2 pet yotes at different times. He is as cowboy as anyone I ever saw. He worked on the wildlife preserve up in southwestern Oklahoma until his retirement a few years ago. Anyway, he ended up putting the first one down, but said the second one made a pretty good pet. He said it was always a little temperamental, and he never could get it as tame as a domestic dog.

[firefuzz]

Friend of mine once had one that he raised from a pup. Had it about eight years until it tried to eat the face off his six year old daughter, very bad scars. I don't know now many people told him to get rid of that "pet", unfortunately the girl paid the price for his stupidity.

Rob

[rangerider7]

Yes, they are a cunning predator, but I'm higher up the chain and will not take them as a pet. I will use my cunning and trick them; then blow them apart. I don't like them.

[Paladin]

Yes, they are a cunning predator, but I'm higher up the chain and will not take them as a pet. I will use my cunning and trick them; then blow them apart. I don't like them.

+1

[madman4570]

RABIES

[model55]

In California they run for office!

[Bob A]

In California they run for office!

And they win

[Griff]

In California they run for office!

And they win

And the season and bag limits should be the same.

[OJ]

Friend of mine once had one that he raised from a pup. Had it about eight years until it tried to eat the face off his six year old daughter, very bad scars. I don't know now many people told him to get rid of that "pet", unfortunately the girl paid the price for his stupidity.

Rob

I spent my first 16 years as a cowboy in the Sandhills of western Nebraska and had a lot of experience with coyotes. There were several times people would find orphaned coyotes and think they could domesticate them - never worked - post above was how 100% of them ended up - bad because it would happen unexpectedly several years after the adoption.

I tried to rope them - dunno what I would have done if I had caught one - young cowboys don't think far ahead. Concluded - either leave'em alone or shoot'em.