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Theo, the first Coyotes I ever heard of in this area were in the mid-1970's. A trapper I knew then caught one in a steel trap about 1975; didn't know what it was and released it thinking he had caught someones "little dog." This is about the time the all knowing Ky Fish and Game Dept released the Red Wolves in LBL management area. They still won't own up to releasing the coyotes. I killed my first one about 1985 and they were rare then.
They were harmless little varmits back then but, as the population exploded they began to "pack up" and exhibit more aggressive wolf like behavior. I started having livestock predation problems 3 or 4 years ago; 2 summers ago they began running my catle throught the electric fences. I thought it was Deer, until my son caught them in the act one night. We declared War on them last year and my son and I killed 19 within a mile radius of my house. A total of 37 were killed in this same small area by several shooters; many of their photos appeared on this Varmits Den last winter.
The livestock predation has about stopped in my area, but I have killed 8 this winter so far. Someone wanted to see photos as to coat color; I don't have the photos saved as I had a Komputer Krash but most were darker than the ones I see on her from the West. George in Ky shot a Black one last year and there is a totally White one running around in my area but I have not personally seen it. (probably Albinio).
They were harmless little varmits back then but, as the population exploded they began to "pack up" and exhibit more aggressive wolf like behavior. I started having livestock predation problems 3 or 4 years ago; 2 summers ago they began running my catle throught the electric fences. I thought it was Deer, until my son caught them in the act one night. We declared War on them last year and my son and I killed 19 within a mile radius of my house. A total of 37 were killed in this same small area by several shooters; many of their photos appeared on this Varmits Den last winter.
The livestock predation has about stopped in my area, but I have killed 8 this winter so far. Someone wanted to see photos as to coat color; I don't have the photos saved as I had a Komputer Krash but most were darker than the ones I see on her from the West. George in Ky shot a Black one last year and there is a totally White one running around in my area but I have not personally seen it. (probably Albinio).