How to care for a cat Wrote:
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> TrapperJohn Wrote:
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> > There's no difference. The increase in the
> coyote
> > population we've seen in the last 20 years or
> so
> > is the result of a drought that lowered the
> water
> > levels of the upper Mississippi and "Western"
> > coyotes made it across to proliferate.
>
> The eastern coyote has been established in this
> area for at least 50 years. Records are sparse
> (and somewhat unreliable) before that. The DNA of
> local coyotes has meanwhile established that they
> migrated first across the Great Lakes and into
> Canada, then eastward (interbreeding with wolves
> along the way) and later back south again along
> the Appalachians through New York state and
> beyond. The fact that wolves, bears, and large
> predator cats had been driven out of areas around
> here left them wide open to coyote colonization.
>
>
> > I love it when a coyote eats a yuppies prize
> poodle...
>
> This would be quite a rare occurrence. Coyotes
> are omnivores and opportunists and would be apt to
> come across something much easier to munch down
> before coming upon a poodle. And of course
> "prized" poodles sleep in Mommy's bed and are
> never left out overnight.
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