So you are sitting by the fire, and you hear

Just get the high beam red light out and watch them. That and the Racoons, Kitfox, Bobcats. Or better yet walk a ways away from the fire and shine the light about. Also fun to use the black light in the desert to spot scorpions, they glow white in that light. Or get the game caller out and see if something big might just try to sneak in. AAAHHH the night time adventures.

LEN

trucker495 wrote:
Enjoy the evening and the coyotes song. They are not a threat to humans! They are a threat to dogs and cats.

Several people will disagree with you that coyotes are certainly a threat to people. I'm one of them, the lady in story below would be too, if she was still around that is.

Clicky, Clicky.

08UltraRider wrote:

MrWizard wrote:
feeding them is the dumb part
they can and will get aggressive, when the food stops, they come to expect it and want it

Exactly! Never feed a wild animal!

Is that why my wife refuses to feed me?

MrWizard wrote:
feeding them is the dumb part
they can and will get aggressive, when the food stops, they come to expect it and want it

Exactly! Never feed a wild animal!

MrWizard wrote:
feeding them is the dumb part
they can and will get aggressive, when the food stops, they come to expect it and want it

Sounds like my kids years ago after they just moved out! :B

I also live in the suburbs. We have coyotes, black bears, deers, snakes, squirrels, tons of bunnies (occasionally you find half of one). The scariest thing that happened was when a pit bull was running around. Kids everywhere were running to the nearest house or garage.

Tell the kids to be quiet, open another beer, and enjoy!!!

Wolves are about the same but I ensure I have a weapon handy.


Funny story. I was on a guys trip earlier this year and there were some guys camping with us that were more of the city persuasion. We were boon-docking about 25 miles from the closest town which is pretty small. They had been taking about all the wolves in the area during the day.

So if you were on a guys trip, had a wolf call, a bunch of drunk rednecks scared of wolves and a odd sense of humor what would you do???

Yep :-)

I put the wolf call on my camper facing away and started quiet and progressively got louder. Needless to say there was some serious profanity, nervous folks, and a lot of contained laughter. A couple of times I went into the camper for a fresh drink and climbed out the window and rotated the call 90-180° to make it sound like they were moving all around us.

After about 30 minutes I couldn't contain my laughter anymore and started throwing out exotic calls instead of wolves. Between those calls and the 3 of us that were in on the joke rolling on the ground laughing they figured it out.

Good times!!

dewey02 wrote:
Come to Northern Minnesota.
What you will hear howling will be wolves, not coyotes.
And same response. Just sit and listen and enjoy what not many people have the opportunity to hear these days.

I love the sounds of the wolves and loons my site in MN is only 20 miles from Canada. I would sit on the patio and enjoy the stars and the sounds of nature.

feeding them is the dumb part
they can and will get aggressive, when the food stops, they come to expect it and want it

Enjoy them. We have lots of them around here. They'll walk through our yard, and at work they'll come to within 10 feet of us, sit down, and watch us. We also feed them sandwiches once in a while.