rwbeagles-Coyotes in a park

I can't watch videos here at work. What's the gist of the story? 

Here's a written story, but the video is much more detailed w/interviews with people who live there and of course the footage of the Coyote's who DO indeed look 100% relaxed and comfy in broad daylight around humans and their homes...

Written Story

You know people can be idiots.  You don't feed them!  That's what will make them stick around, and that's why their not afraid of people.  Then for them to be spotted so next to a school, that would worry me!  If I found someone feeding them, I'd be all over them.  What happens when more and more show up and there isn't enough food for all of them...then they'll see why they are "wild".  We had a problem here in the suburbs with the deer.  Dogs were actually being attacked by deer, and a few dogs were actually killed.  They roam the neighborhood like a pack of dogs, they're everywhere!  That's what they're going to do w/ the coyotes.  They'll feed them, to the point more and more will show up then there will be a bigger problem.

People are such idiots when it comes to feeding wild animals.  My dad used to live on the beach in the National Lakeshore in northwest Indiana.  There was one road I would take to get to his house that only had one house on it and it ran through a bunch for forest and wetland.  Occasionally I would get behind some yahoo who had decided that this was actually a petting zoo rather than a road and just stop their minivan in the middle of the lane and feed deer through their windows.  Generally when that happened I would pull up real close behind them and lay on the horn until the deer ran away.  I got some nasty looks but causing deer to associate the road with food results in dead deer and traffic accidents.  Eventually the DNR started posting signs stating that they would fine people $100 for feeding wildlife and that seems to have curbed the problem.

I guess there have been a couple incidents at Yellow Stone where people have been attacked by elk when trying to feed them....  

rwbeagles

Just 7 or 8 total...that'd have to mean some inbreeding....are we seeing evolution again here? Will this small isolated population of Coyotes be domestic pariah type dogs, in say 100 years?

Probably a family group of 2 breeding adults and their juvenile/adolescent offspring.  Coyotes are known to live in those family groups for up to 3 -4 years.  The elder offspring will aid in the care of the next litter, sometimes wandering off to find a mate of their own afterwards.

I highly doubt that this small population contains more than one breeding pair.   Even so, it's very easy for a lone coyote male to wander in whenever the breeding female is in season.  I mean, heck, there are coyotes in NYC and other large metropolises.

I swear sometimes in this world it seems like "survival of the fittest" has become instead "survival of the dumbest"...lol. I have never in my entire life been moved to feed anything wild...just weird and a bit scary to even consider it.

This might of course be due to me sneaking around a corner to watch that "Faces Of Death" flick when I was small...the one with the man feeding the bears then well..getting dragged thru his car window and well...fed to the bears. I didn't sleep for a week after than and refused to have my teddy in bed with me.

There is also the possibility that they will interbreed with off leash or stray dogs...that does happen.

rwbeagles

There is also the possibility that they will interbreed with off leash or stray dogs...that does happen.

Absolutely!

There's a coy-dog that frequents the dog park we used to go to.  She's a wild one and terrorizes everyone with the exception of a particular Pharaoh Hound.  LOL 

Keeping kids indoors because of a couple of coyotes is ridiculous! Just leave them alone and they will leave you alone.  People are so freakin' nutso over anything that isn't part of the machine age.  Don't feed them and they may well leave.

lorib

 Don't feed them and they may well leave.

This sounds like a plan to me.  Probably the main reason they're coming around is because people are feeding  them.

Joyce