Re: [VFB] Re: Coyotes in Rhode Island ????

[George Shepherd]

Title: Re: [VFB] Re: Coyotes in Rhode Island ????

Coyotes are not so bad My daughter has black bears giving her problems. She can't even take the dogs out for there walk because there are to many of them. She sent me pictures of a sow with three cubs two sows with twin cubs one sow with one cub and numerous boars going through her yard to get downtown and raid garbage cans.  There are no berries for them this year because of the dry whether we have been having.  You are required to keep your garbage in a secure place that is not accessible to bears but some people just don't get it.   George Shepherd Author of Kootenay Flies. ----- Original Message ----- From: Pierre Bombardier To: vfb@troutnet.com Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 1:17 PM Subject: Re: [VFB] Re: Coyotes in Rhode Island ???? Allan, Their prey in los Anglees includes rats, cats and small dogs...and I've seen them wandering the streets of Westwood  in the late 1970s in the early morning hours.  I remeber house-sitting for my parents one weekend while thye were in Hawaii, I was working on my car late into the evening in the driveway.  Took my head out from under the hood and was staring right into the eyes of of a coyote.  I tossed a screw driver at him and he left (if you are wondering I had a lot of other tools to toss at him readily available). I've seen them here in the marshes of Louisiana as well, but they never look real happy... Mark Delaney Allan Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Exactly to how many states they've expanded to in the US I'm not certain, because I haen't checked  the past few years.  But they are extremely adaptable. Distribution: Widely distributed throughout all of the United States and all of southern and south-central Canada, south through Mexico into northern Central America. Northward expansion of coyotes may be the result of wolf removal, as their range is expanding in areas where wolves have been eliminated for more than a century. Habitat: Wherever suitable prey exists, from tundra to grassland to forest to city (e.g. large populations found in Los Angeles, California). Established coyotes exclude fox, but are excluded by established wolves (Berg, pers. comm.). Population and Status: Large and increasing despite control efforts and unprotected status in most areas. No threat to the species as a whole. Source:  http://www.canids.org/SPPACCTS/coyote.htm#Distribution -- Allan Fish Greenwood, IN [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com. Check it out.