Coyote

[choggieman]

when they have their full coat they always look bigger than they are. chances are it has become accustomed to hunting in peoples back yards for cats and small dogs, which they love to snack on. They are getting more and more brazen as we develop more woodlands and they increase in population. Shoot the bastidge!

[Raven]

the california coyote is much smaller....
and they still run 60 pounds and up..

my solid smaller queensland blue healer
a running dog so fast she outruns everything
and is related to the wild dingo....down under
also known as a "cattle dog" is half their
size and she weighs close to 60 pounds.

the one i saw in my back yard was as tall as
a german shepard so there may be some
in- breeding with the wolves or domestic dogs
that have gone wild...somewhere...
because these specimens are quite large.

sign is easy to find...they crap on top of rocks.
i've climbed rocks that were like... pillar shaped
and found coyote dung up on top of them.

[Raven]

are targeting cats that are so tuned in
to watching a mouse or near-by bird
they hope to catch....and pounce on...
with a quivering tail...giving away their position
that they don't see them
coming .......until its to late...

so, if you don't see any rabbits...
thats a tell tale sign.
i'm on 1000 acres and never see rabbits
they've been eaten by either coyotes
or fisher cats ....who also prey apon
domestic cats and chase them right up
a tree.... and then eat them.

[Karl F]

If it is a full blooded 'yote, it won't go anymore than 60#
If it is a Coy-dog, it will go bigger, depending on the breed it mixed up with.
My property borders Nickerson Statepark on one side, and a landlocked area between me and the park on the other. Have gotten to know our area's 'yotes patterns well, as I have walked all the fire roads for years. Healthy they are, and not as nocturnal as peole think, just real stealthy. Bold is the word, for behaviour, especially once they know the habits of the neighborhood.
The local Alpha, nice full coat, he looks like he might go 90#, but I am guessing it is just the way he carrys himself, and his full healthy coat, I have seen him fairly close, and realize he probably goes no more than 60#. they are wiry and all muscle under that fluffy jacket they wear.Bob, I am guessing, but, I think he was just curious, as to WTH you were doing.
If he walked away calmly, I doubt he was rabid, he would have been in your face, or some other part of your anatomy.

BBJ & I last year, out at the Race, we had a couple 'yotes go by us within petting distance. Stealthy and Bold.. if you fish sand eels do not leave your bag swingin from your sand spike.. .. I witnessed a guy come unglued more than once over what happens.. the funniest was the guy who while rebaiting, actually touched the 'yotes snout as he was reaching back into the bag.. he screamed like a little girl and ran damn near a mile down the beach.. can't say as I blame him, but he should have known better. 'yote didn't snap at him, or chase him, just kept after the sand eels till they were gone.
Fox too, on the cape, and the beaches.. years ago, bunch of guys fishing camper alley down at Nauset. Slow night and some booze was being drank. they started a card game in the camper, one guy left his rod baited and out... tide going out.. well, after a while they hear drag, a lot of it, they go out and he starts reeling.. one of them notices it is dead low tide.. they shine a light on the line.. it is headed up to the dune line... guy is reeling in a small fox with a high low sand eel rig in is jaw!

[vineyardblues]

one was in my back yard a few years ago, i live behind the police station. I called them and all they said was really !!!!
They said they will not do anything but I should try the dog officer.
Call them , no answer ...hung up
VB

[tattoobob]

When I said 90 pound I was just guessing I have no idea what dogs weigh I never owned one, so if it was 60 75 or what ever I was sure it was the size of an aerdale german shepard. dogs do tend to weigh more than a wild coyote seeing they are very well fed.
I did lose a cat 2 yrs ago mid July found her eaten in the woods, my daughter didn't take it to well either. I have noticed my 2 cats have been really jumpy the last week. I don't think me killing it is an option seeing I own no guns and I don't want to posion a cat or dog. PLus we have 3 hawks living in our trees. we also have fox, deer, raccoons, wild turkey and probably skunks, the rabbits have slowly diappeared, but I have never seen one. I am just going to keep my eyes open and tell my neighbors the rabbits have slowly diappeared

[Skitterpop]

according to some research:

I`ve been reading more and there is quite a bit of mixed info. so I edited this post.