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"The Coyote"

A coyote can be just as beautiful and majestic as any wolf.

Much like the wolf, the coyote gets alot of bad rep, especially in Ohio from what i can personally say i have experienced myself growing up.
You hear them at night in the countryside.
Yet my mom having grown up in the country there had only actually seen a live one ONCE, and i was lucky enough to have been with her to have seen it too. That was in 2008-2009 i think, oh yeah and shes in her 50's by the way, thats a long time to have lived in a place and not see an animal that is supposedly 'overpopulated'.

The only other coyote's we've seen are the maybe 2-3 a year in our area as roadkill.
I'll never forget the one we saw alive though, he was BIG we actually thought he was a deer at first, and then a dog, as we were driving up on him, because you never see coyotes.
I wont forget me and my mom saying in unison:
"Its a coyote!"

We were driving down a country backroad coming back from something as boring as a dentist appointment of all things at 12pm noon.
He was a tall lanky fellow, big ears, and such a beautiful face.
We were close enough to see his markings.

He was standing next to a ranch house and looked groggy as the early noon sun was hitting his face, like he had just woken up.

Across the road was a horse farm though, so hopefully he didnt cause any trouble. We turned around to see if we could watch him a bit longer as there was a car behind us so we couldnt stop, but once we got back there he was gone.
One of the most exilerating experiences of my life, that was the first time i ever saw a live wild canid IN THE WILD.

In Ohio, my home, we have killed off most of the predators, even some snakes there are endangered now, we are heavily overpopulated with deer, you can not visit Ohio's countryside in the morning or evening and not see any deer lets just put it that way.

Cougar's there have been extinct for years and only got technically classified as extinct just recently.
(not the best wildlife management in the world...)

No wolves whatsoever, they have been extinct since
around and possibly before the 1900's.

And a very sad dwindling black bear population
that no one cares about.

The coyotes are the only ones eating the deer besides us people,
and even then we are encroaching so much on the forests that we are having conflicts with them more often, which makes people assume that they are overpopulated.

A few years back in 2008 it was actually on the news that they were gathering hunters up to go shoot the "overpopulated coyote boom" even though i dont recall hearing anything about any attacks on people just small pets that belonged to careless owners who let them run free. (And it should be said that some of these were actually coydogs. aka coyote dog mixes.) They had only spotted the coyotes passing through peoples yards and parks in Indian Hill you can read about it in an article here: [link]
(Reminds me of the wolf hunts way back...)
Police and hunters killed fifteen coyotes that year, but does this mean that they are indeed overpopulated? No, mind you there has been ALOT of 'development' aka construction for duplexes and shopping stores in the past few years there, its more likely that we have forced them out of their habitat
because we forced our way in.

And at the time i remember the public was scared to let their kids play outside, my grandma warned me every time i took the dog out, everyone was cautious about getting into their cars at night. Everyone was talking about the coyotes.
Its good to be cautious and preventative, but to be downright scared?
You hear so much monster stories about them eating your cats and dogs and attacking your children yet most people who have lived there their entire lives into old age have never even seen one.

I actually asked a friend of the family through phone yesterday "How many times have you seen a coyote?"
this man is 59 years old, has been hunting since he was a boy, and hunts two times a week (sometimes three now that hes retired) during each squirrel season, rabbit season, and deer season. And he said in his entire life he has only seen a coyote 5 times.
Now, he grew up hunting in Kentucky, (which supposedly has MORE coyotes than Ohio) and he has now lived in Ohio for YEARS and hunts there. So having been out hunting in the forests of both Ohio AND Kentucky from a boy to the age of 59 he has only seen a coyote FIVE times.
Fishy eh?
Im aware that coyotes are mostly nocturnal
so i think coyote populations are 'healthy' in Ohio, as
they are the most adaptable wild canid can thrive and can go unseen living even in cities but i do not think they are 'overpopulated' in Ohio.
Mind you, there wouldnt even be any coyotes in the northeastern states had we not killed off the wolf in those parts.
Coyotes originally were found only in the western states, and when the wolves were wiped out the coyotes migrated outward through much of North America to fill in the niche the wolves left behind.
Because of this its is actually speculated that some of the Coyotes actually hybridized with the leftover wolves, so that explains why the eastern coyotes are sometimes referred to as "brush wolves" due to their large sizes and different skull shapes.

Best way to prevent an encounter is to please
NOT leave pet food outside, seal your trash cans,
keep your cats indoors, and keep your small pets
ALWAYS supervised when in the yard and ALWAYS
on a leash outside otherwise, btw the leash is totally in-effective if you let it go/drop it for whatever reason, like the
woman did in the article above.
And do not go to wooded area's by yourself.

Done in watercolor colored pencils.
This is as much to the likeness of the coyote i saw
that day as i can remember. He was just a bit
lighter in color than this.

Description
"The Coyote"

A coyote can be just as beautiful and majestic as any wolf.

Much like the wolf, the coyote gets alot of bad rep, especially in Ohio from what i can personally say i have experienced myself growing up.
You hear them at night in the countryside.
Yet my mom having grown up in the country there had only actually seen a live one ONCE, and i was lucky enough to have been with her to have seen it too. That was in 2008-2009 i think, oh yeah and shes in her 50's by the way, thats a long time to have lived in a place and not see an animal that is supposedly 'overpopulated'.

The only other coyote's we've seen are the maybe 2-3 a year in our area as roadkill.
I'll never forget the one we saw alive though, he was BIG we actually thought he was a deer at first, and then a dog, as we were driving up on him, because you never see coyotes.
I wont forget me and my mom saying in unison:
"Its a coyote!"

We were driving down a country backroad coming back from something as boring as a dentist appointment of all things at 12pm noon.
He was a tall lanky fellow, big ears, and such a beautiful face.
We were close enough to see his markings.

He was standing next to a ranch house and looked groggy as the early noon sun was hitting his face, like he had just woken up.

Across the road was a horse farm though, so hopefully he didnt cause any trouble. We turned around to see if we could watch him a bit longer as there was a car behind us so we couldnt stop, but once we got back there he was gone.
One of the most exilerating experiences of my life, that was the first time i ever saw a live wild canid IN THE WILD.

In Ohio, my home, we have killed off most of the predators, even some snakes there are endangered now, we are heavily overpopulated with deer, you can not visit Ohio's countryside in the morning or evening and not see any deer lets just put it that way.

Cougar's there have been extinct for years and only got technically classified as extinct just recently.
(not the best wildlife management in the world...)

No wolves whatsoever, they have been extinct since
around and possibly before the 1900's.

And a very sad dwindling black bear population
that no one cares about.

The coyotes are the only ones eating the deer besides us people,
and even then we are encroaching so much on the forests that we are having conflicts with them more often, which makes people assume that they are overpopulated.

A few years back in 2008 it was actually on the news that they were gathering hunters up to go shoot the "overpopulated coyote boom" even though i dont recall hearing anything about any attacks on people just small pets that belonged to careless owners who let them run free. (And it should be said that some of these were actually coydogs. aka coyote dog mixes.) They had only spotted the coyotes passing through peoples yards and parks in Indian Hill you can read about it in an article here: [link]
(Reminds me of the wolf hunts way back...)
Police and hunters killed fifteen coyotes that year, but does this mean that they are indeed overpopulated? No, mind you there has been ALOT of 'development' aka construction for duplexes and shopping stores in the past few years there, its more likely that we have forced them out of their habitat
because we forced our way in.

And at the time i remember the public was scared to let their kids play outside, my grandma warned me every time i took the dog out, everyone was cautious about getting into their cars at night. Everyone was talking about the coyotes.
Its good to be cautious and preventative, but to be downright scared?
You hear so much monster stories about them eating your cats and dogs and attacking your children yet most people who have lived there their entire lives into old age have never even seen one.

I actually asked a friend of the family through phone yesterday "How many times have you seen a coyote?"
this man is 59 years old, has been hunting since he was a boy, and hunts two times a week (sometimes three now that hes retired) during each squirrel season, rabbit season, and deer season. And he said in his entire life he has only seen a coyote 5 times.
Now, he grew up hunting in Kentucky, (which supposedly has MORE coyotes than Ohio) and he has now lived in Ohio for YEARS and hunts there. So having been out hunting in the forests of both Ohio AND Kentucky from a boy to the age of 59 he has only seen a coyote FIVE times.
Fishy eh?
Im aware that coyotes are mostly nocturnal
so i think coyote populations are 'healthy' in Ohio, as
they are the most adaptable wild canid can thrive and can go unseen living even in cities but i do not think they are 'overpopulated' in Ohio.
Mind you, there wouldnt even be any coyotes in the northeastern states had we not killed off the wolf in those parts.
Coyotes originally were found only in the western states, and when the wolves were wiped out the coyotes migrated outward through much of North America to fill in the niche the wolves left behind.
Because of this its is actually speculated that some of the Coyotes actually hybridized with the leftover wolves, so that explains why the eastern coyotes are sometimes referred to as "brush wolves" due to their large sizes and different skull shapes.

Best way to prevent an encounter is to please
NOT leave pet food outside, seal your trash cans,
keep your cats indoors, and keep your small pets
ALWAYS supervised when in the yard and ALWAYS
on a leash outside otherwise, btw the leash is totally in-effective if you let it go/drop it for whatever reason, like the
woman did in the article above.
And do not go to wooded area's by yourself.

Done in watercolor colored pencils.
This is as much to the likeness of the coyote i saw
that day as i can remember. He was just a bit
lighter in color than this.