Almost attacked by a Coyote today

Are you really posting the pepper spray or showing the guns to the ladies?

 

I actually added the pepper spay w/Photoshop just so I could post that pic:beer:

 

I think the vast majority would. They'd never take them off.

 

I have encountered them on horseback and on my motorcycle. Growing up in a very rural area you see them alot. After losing a couple cats and a puppy to them growing up I have no qualms about killing coyotes.
As long as you have a hunting license Coyote's are open season in California. We would stake out on a ridge when I was in college close to sundown with dieing rabbit calls on a boom box covered with a gilly suit and blow them in half with a Winchester 300 magnum.... or Head shots with the Ruger 10-22. Honestly the best thing to do if you see one is clap your hands loud over your head, stomp your feet ,and yell. Same thing with a bear, You give the appearance of being huge and pissed and generally they run away.

 

I commute on bike sometimes behind Oneil park up on Camino Montana in RSM along a bike path, Houses on one side of the street and Oneil the other. 5:45 AM saw two run from the houses then another following, I was pretty close so I yelled, they took off like a bat out of hell. And there is a chain link fence on the border of Oneil, they went right under it(they got there ins). People lose there pets there all the time.

 

I've had similar coyote encounters. I've been paced (not followed) by a yote while riding down Telegraph in Chino Hills TWICE. It never showed fear; ran with the bike for 100+ yards and then peeled off into the brush.

Living at the edge of the Brea oil fields we get LOTS of coyote visits. I posted this guy before. It was around 6:30 in the morning. I see him or his brother weekly.


I will also agree with the pack hunting mentality. I've witnessed three separate hunts behind the houses and they do work together. I've probably seen the pack roaming over a dozen times.

The only time they've been aggressive toward me was when I came near a deer kill that they were actively feasting on. Their ears laid down, took a crouched position and growled VERY convincingly. Exit stage left!

When I used to hike more than bike, I used to always carry a bulb squeaker that mimics a wounded rabbit. I would spot a yote a few hundreds yards out and quickly hide myself. A few soft squeaks and the yote would instantly turn around and zero in EXACTLY where I was hiding. Mama Nature does fine work.:clap:

 

Chino Hills coyote are very aggressive compare to others. I have been pace several times by a pack on Lower Aliso.

I was told by a follow MTB that he was attacked by a group at Chino Hills State Park. He use his bike to fight them off, finally succeeding in scaring them off.

 

Wow I better be more carefull when riding at night, bear mace sounds good to carry too.

 

Actual Bear Spray is heavy and cumbersome.
I kept thinking this is about the same weight as a .357
Which would I rather carry?
Anyways..I keep bear spray in my tent and sometimes carry it when backpacking..
but on the bike?
I leave it at home and carry pepper spray

 

Whatever you carry, carry it where it's accessible. I've read about people packing their "bear spray" in their packs...a helluva lot o'good that'l do ya. I carry a fixed blade on my pack strap (sheathed) just in case, and only when I ride in areas known to have predators. An old man dispatched a cougar with a pocket knife after being attacked while resting during a hike(docu. on disc.chan.). I figure if he was able to kill one with such an implement, I stand a good chance with a fixed blade...and youth on my side.:bang:

 

The only good coyote is one that serves beer, margs, and decent mexi. Word up to "The Yo".

 

i carry pepper spray just in case of critters like this. Sure, it may not work, but what else have you got? I got a small cell phone case at home depot. It holds a small can of pepper spray nicely. Wear it on the chest strap of my camelback. haven't had to use it yet, but recently was coming down a very narrow trail and found myself face to face with some d!ckhead's pit bull (not on a leash). Well, I found out how fast I could retrieve and aim that pepper spray. Pretty quick.

I had already heard others ahead on the trail, and given out a yell as advance warning. fortunately they called their dog and i put away the pepper spray, unused. Second to last thing I want to do is hurt an animal; the last thing I want to do is be bitten or attacked. So I always carry it because south OC is just chock full of inconsiderate dog owners that think its cool to let F-ing pit bulls and other breeds run loose and harass bikers.

 

Loose dogs

Yeah, I FEEl ya. Just yesterday I was out running at Daley Ranch, and coming around the trail, I encountered a woman jogging with two dogs; this was the setup: two small breed mutts connected at the neck by a 3 foot rope which was connected to another 10 or so foot rope at the middle. Picture sled dogs mushing. The dogs, agitated, were all over the trail, and of course she was not holding the makeshift leash dragging behind the dogs as they ran. I got so pissed, I nearly suffered a seizure. Bikers/hikers everywhere. I mustered all the patience and tact I could gather, and advised her she could cause a serious accident. I love dogs, but I have a deep dislike for humans...:-k

 

I was doing a road ride on my mountain bike in Sierra Madre last year around 3pm when I noticed a coyote pup running along side of me. I was amazed and figured it would run off at any minute but it didn't. People in cars were pulling off to the side of the road asking me what was going on. I could only shrug my shoulders. I turned and it followed right along. this went on for a mile until it just veered off into a large yard. There was no aggression or anything. Just weird.

Mott

 

"Coyotes kill woman on hike in Canadian park"

From MSNBC.com today...

TORONTO - Two coyotes attacked a Canadian woman while she was hiking alone in a national park in eastern Canada, and authorities said she died Wednesday of her injuries.

The victim was identified as Taylor Mitchell, 19, a singer-songwriter from Toronto.

She was hiking solo on a trail in Cape Breton Highlands National Park in Nova Scotia on Tuesday when the attack occurred. She was airlifted to a Halifax hospital in critical condition and died Wednesday morning, authorities said.

Wildlife biologist Bob Bancroft said coyote attacks are extremely rare because the animals are usually shy.Bancroft, a retired biologist with Nova Scotia's Department of Natural Resources, said it's possible the coyotes thought Mitchell was a deer or other prey.

"It's very unusual and is not likely to repeated," Bancroft said. "We shouldn't assume that coyotes are suddenly going to become the big bad wolf."
Royal Canadian Mounted Police spokeswoman Brigdit Leger said other hikers heard Mitchell's screams for help on Tuesday and called emergency police dispatchers.

Police who were in the area shot one of the animals, apparently wounding it. But the wounded animal and a companion coyote managed to get away.

Mitchell was an up-and-coming folk and country musician.
"Words can't begin to express the sadness and tragedy of losing such a sweet, compassionate, vibrant, and phenomenally talented young woman," Lisa Weitz, Mitchell's manager, said in an e-mail. "She just turned 19 two months ago, and was so excited about the future."

Coyotes are found from Central America to the United States and Canada.

 

Lol

He was just curious. They go into residentials alot and are used to humans I'm sure. If he wanted you he woulda had you. I doubt a single coyote coulda have taken you down. Weird you weren't worried about your kid and if anything he woulda went after your kid. It was prolly just havin a little fun or jocking your bike!

I was riding the single track at the bottom of meadows in alsio once when a coyote jumped over my front tire. Apparently it was just sitting next to the trail and I never saw it. As I passed it freightened and ran but had to jump stright over my front tire. Needless to say I screamed like a ten year old girl, loud! When I saw the blur over my front tire all I thought was is mountain lion. Really mtn lion attacks are so rare that the likley hood of getting attacked is super rare.

 

When I was a kid my best bud got a hold of a mixed coyote pup. It was just like a regular dog and would play with us and do some crazy stuff. As it got older it's demeanor changed. It almost always slinked by us even though it'd never been abused it almost always held it's tail between it's legs. He (or she I don't remember) would hang out with us but usually would stay hidden under a bush or something. The coyote became very high strung as time went by. Even though it was well fed it started to kill and eat cats. It ended up biting his little brother to many times and his mom told him to get rid of it. Well, every place he took it to no one wanted it. We took it to the Orange Co animal shelter and they took one look at it and said, it wasn't a hybrid it was a full blooded coyote. They took it and it ended up at the Irvine mini zoo on display where it lived for many years. But the poor thing was caged and would pace back and forth all day long, so sad.

I also met a guy in Oregon who had a hybrid wolf/dog he told me it was about the worse thing that could happen to the animal as it stays confused it's whole life not being able to be domesticated or wild and literally turns into a nervous wreck.

 

mom had 2 full breed akitas. both matured and tried to dominate her(attempted attacks). This is after thousands of obediance training. They were both put down. Now they have a lab akita mix and shes working out.

 

I had a Shih Tzu bite me in the sac one time.

No shadow.

No warning.

No cup.


Totally sucked.



:bang:


PBS

 

i've had many coyote encounters, most of them right in front of my house, in a neighborhood!

The first time i was going outside late at night, probably around midnight to get somthing from the car, i walk out, go to the back of the car and see a coyote! I stared it dead in the eye and started walking towards it... then i made some kind of sudden, loud, nasty snarl that scared the sh*t out of it and made it sprint itself back up the damn street.

Second encounter involved me going outside around midnight to get somthing from the car, i see it, i start staring it down... but this one stares right back and starts walking towards me... this is where my screwing around at The Pit(Chuck L. hangs around there, and all you people that think he can't fight... haha, he could flick you into a dumpster) he got too close and i gave him a facefull of my DCs... knocked him over and obviously stunned him pretty good cause he kinda drunk-walked away.

It seems like maybe the coyotes around here are smaller than other places? cause all the ones i see (many) could easily be seriously injured by the average joe's leg...