In the last several weeks, I have seen a handful of coyotes within the city limits of the small town where I live, usually in the evening time or after the sun goes down. The Arizona Daily Star (
click here for full story) has warned that the extreme heat of the summer can drawn coyotes into more urban areas. Things such as your pet's water bowl, a swimming pool, or the temptation of nice shade can make coyotes more apt to head into your neighborhood, resulting in them taking little Fifi or fluffy Mr. Snookums as a snack. Keep your eyes open for coyotes in your area, and scare them off when you can. Even better, use such sightings as a method of scouting for your next hunt! Coyotes often leave the urban areas as some point in time, and when they do, you can be there waiting. The new laws outlined in one of my previous posts about hunting in the AZ city limits makes it even easier for predator hunters to stay close to home and still have the chance to hunt - just make sure you follow all of the rules, have a proper backstop, and be safe!
Elsewhere in the country, mountain lions are saying "No thanks" to the expansion of wolf populations - in fact, they are killing wolves in the Bitterroot Valley in Montana (
full story here). While predator-on-predator violence is nothing new, the amount of wolves that mountain lions have killed in the Bitterroot Valley is something to be interested in. Each one was found with the standard puncture wounds in the skull, typical of a lion kill, and some of the kills were not due to any apparent conflict over a food source. What does that mean? To me it means that mountain lions don't appreciate the uncontrolled spread of wolves into their territory anymore than humans do, but unlike humans, they don't need a special permit or a government agency to tell them when they're allowed to take care of business.
Happy Hunting!
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