I saw a coyote last week

[AngryAmish]

We walked up to the tee and there he goes, running across the fairway to the trees beyond. He looked over his shoulder at us and was gone. I had not seen one before and this course was not in the country but a suburb very close to Chicago. It was near a forest preserve, tho.

[raccoon]

1. About 15 years ago, I first heard of them in SC. I always thought until then they

were 'way out West. While I wasn't paying attention, they migrated to the east. A book I'm listening to says they are even in Newfoundland. Why would the Newfies ferry them over there?

[HopeHoops]

2. Curiously, we had them in New Hampshire. Unfortunately, I think one of them ate one of our cats.

:cry:

[blueknight]

3. i see at least

one or two a day here in ky. and hear TONS of them at night

[MiddleFingerMom]

4. I got interrupted recently in a reading of a novel by Barbara Kingsolver...

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...(an INCREDIBLE Tucson-based author) and the proliferation and
"migrations" of coyotes all over the country seem to have been one
of the sub-threads.
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I had been living in Tucson for less than 3-6 months and was riding
my bicycle to work down a "Central Tucson" suburban street. It had
rained the night before, so there was a lot of flooding and I had
gotten off the bike to walk it through one of the temporary "ponds".
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Approaching me on the sidewalk was this mangy German Shepherd. I
put the bike in between me and the dog and realize up close that this
was my first face-to-face encounter with a coyote, who had chosen
the same path of least water-hazard resistance as I.
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It just looked at me, a little curious (much LESS so than my gawk)
and trotted by within 2-3 feet of me.
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And, unfortunately, with our growth spurt -- an increasingly RARE
occurrence now (I did see one trotting through a grocery store
parking lot about 6 months ago).
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They ARE a problem for kitties. MiddleFingerMomMom urged me to keep
NoName indoors as there's a French word for outdoor cats in Arizona.
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Hors d'oeuvres.
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[fabsfour]

5. I live in one of those suburbs

Near Chicago, near a forest preserve. We once had a coyote walking down our back walk in the middle of the day. I hear of sightings several times a year from people in the neighborhood.

[styersc]

6. I work in the woods and they are seldom seen.

Often seem scat and prints but have only seen about 20 in 25 years in the woods. They are getting more common. Although I've only seen approx 20, I've seen 5 in the last three years.

[surrealAmerican]

7. We had a pair of them living in my quite urban ...

... neighborhood last winter. We saw them regularly. All the traffic and people didn't seem to phase them; they would walk around like they owned the place.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. I saw a pack of five of them in the field behind my work in a Minneapolis suburb.

A cougar was also seen a couple of weeks ago, early in the morning, in the parking lot. And there are wild turkeys all over the place.

[noamnety]

9. My suburban back yard:

[TorchTheWitch]

10. saw a silver fox last night while out walking the dog

We like to walk along this grassy area behind some houses that have loads of bunnies at night. We often see the red foxes because at the end of that grassy area is a gully where they build their dens. The silver foxes are really shy though and I haven't seen one in years. The dog had stopped dead and was staring at something for quite some time, and then the fox trotted across the road and disappeared into some undergrowth. I think it may have followed us though because the dog kept looking back and staring at something and we did happen to be walking toward the gully. He wasn't around on the walk back though.

[Brother Buzz]

11. I have come to believe coyotes do better in urban areas than farm country

I live in farm country and mostly see the rear end of the skittish creatures. They generally trot a far distance before looking back, but they always look back.