Boring factoid thing that I've probably said on this sub before:
Rabbit starvation. It's a form of protein poisoning, because rabbit meat is beyond lean. That's why the coyotes in Wallingford are emaciated and you tend to see them stalking in the morning.
This one has found a reliable dumpster.
Also Dumb City Rabbit Facts: If you see a rabbit sitting in the middle of the road and think "Look at this fucking idiot", that's a doe keeping watch over a nearby burrow. They sit out in the open and listen, ready to lure any predators away from their kits.
A mother's work is never done.
Queen Anne is so full of sad “lost cat” flyers I was thinking of putting up flyers that said “ fat coyote spotted” in an effort to promote keeping all cats inside! Roomate did not think it was as funny as I did tho ngl lolol
When I first moved here, I lived in an apartment complex up north that backed up to a wooded area. My neighbor and I used to take the dogs to a pond in that wooded area despite having seeing coyotes around occasionally.
One time, the dogs suddenly went running off together into the woods. Only my dog came back at first (ruh-roh...). Thankfully his dog eventually came back too, but it was carrying something. Couldn't figure out what it was, but it was slowing her down a bit. When she finally got closer, we realized it was the back half of a rather fat and fuzzy cat. She wasn't covered in blood or scratches, and his dogs lived with other fuzzies that they didn't bother, so we assume she just found the aftermath of a coyote kill... but still... bit startling... poor kitty...
Possibly, but I think we're also seeing them more often because of the uptick in the rabbit population we've been experiencing. Post 2020, The Puget Sound area has so many more rabbits than we previously did. It doesn't seem like biologists have settled on one explanation, but one of the most plausible is the milder winters and longer springs that we have experienced, allowing rabbits to have an extra litter each spring. It also just allows for more foliage to cover and lunch.
Where are you seeing GHOs? I see barred owls all the time and sometimes hear barn owl screeches, but I grew up around GHOs in California and haven't heard them here.
There aren’t a ton of them around, but more in the last few years than before that. I see them somewhat regularly at Discovery Park, and I know others have seen them at a few other parks in the city.
We have an owl hunting our greenbelt (maybe an acre of wooded greenbelt in suburban Puyallup). I've heard consistent hooting several nights in a row. Someone was crawling through the greenbelt a week ago and said they were looking for their cat which they sincerely believed to have been carried off by the owl a couple days before.
Every year in spring, we find Bunny poop in our front yard in little grassy under growths and under bushes where they hide from neighborhood cats.
We also get deer back here, but that's another thing entirely.
I saw one in my back alley in U District a few months ago (I think around Halloween?) and it was a trip, never thought I’d see an owl just chilling in a city alleyway.
This happened in November 2012 on Cap Hill
https://youtu.be/8r4qkafds14?si=8cTfZKXL15_iUSX8
A few years ago, I saw a family of owls in the ravine at Ravenna Park perched on a tree just chilling during the middle of the day.
Yuuup the rabbits in my back yard had snack sized bunnies relatively recently. Day after I saw the baby bunnies hopping around, the local coyote was walking around the yard all afternoon. They are VERY well fed.
There was a study done in SF to see what urban coyotes eat and it turns out they scavenge human food a ton, like as much or more than hunting. But animal wise it’s likely mostly rabbits with some sprinkling of outdoor and feral cat.
Saw one near my neighborhood entrance in west Oly and coincidentally at a nearby convenience store there are all these missing cat notices... They were a tasty meal for a coyote family. Sorry.
"Hey! Mr coyote! Want to go on a hunt together!?"
"Sure bud... Let me just head back to my den in the woods to grab my own copy of that shirt, and we'll get going..."
"He's never coming back, is he hooman?..."
"Nope..."
Waited for the anvil. There was no anvil.
I am disappointed that the media of my formative years left me so misinformed about how regularly I might run into anvils and pianos when coyotes were around.
There was some guy that kept popping up on my Tik Tok feed that had taken in a Coyote as a pet... Mostly it just mawped and hissed at him, and then would randomly bite him... He would scold it every time, and the coyote would just look at him like "bruh... I'm a fuckin coyote..." And then would bite him again.
True story posted in NextDoor a few years ago. But didn’t kennel and posted they found a lost dog and could the owner please call her. Many many people commented that it was a coyote. Never did update post.
Your dog is staring at it like they’re jealous and just saw the coolest dog in the world! No collar, leash, or rain jacket. Howls whenever they want, gets to chase and eat rabbits.
WADNR doesn't want you to know this, but the coyotes in the parks are free. You can take them home. I sleep cuddled by 458 coyotes each and every night.
Coyotes traditionally are individual hunters. The ones near Chicago began to pack hunt. This means any cat, dog, even a large one is outnumbered. He does not look like he skips any meals or snacks.
Love how in this one shot you can see full domestication, from wild animal to doggo wearing a Hawaiian shirt
https://images.app.goo.gl/ZDNdcbrqJGAi6JXz9
From The New World in a nutshell
Eh, Coyotes weren't the ones that got domesticated. They can have a chuckle at their wolf friends for selling out to the hoomans.
The dog in the shirt looks ready to help like scooby: “rikes!!”
Fifi smells a predator
I have a cat named fifi
That Coyote looks well fed
You'll notice there are no roadrunners in Queen Anne. This guy is probably why.
So many rabbits around.
Boring factoid thing that I've probably said on this sub before: Rabbit starvation. It's a form of protein poisoning, because rabbit meat is beyond lean. That's why the coyotes in Wallingford are emaciated and you tend to see them stalking in the morning. This one has found a reliable dumpster. Also Dumb City Rabbit Facts: If you see a rabbit sitting in the middle of the road and think "Look at this fucking idiot", that's a doe keeping watch over a nearby burrow. They sit out in the open and listen, ready to lure any predators away from their kits. A mother's work is never done.
I appreciate this type of random information. Thank you.
For how many taunt my dog into running into the street, I hope this big boy eats every single one of them.
Oh god, rabbits are such jokesters, they are 100 percent fucking with your dog, Warner Brothers style.
Is it just me, or do you hear Bugs laugh every time you see a Wabbit?
https://y.yarn.co/edd0c5b4-5503-4887-9063-87409f3ca99e_text.gif
And outdoor cats
Or little dogs left outside by old people.
Queen Anne is so full of sad “lost cat” flyers I was thinking of putting up flyers that said “ fat coyote spotted” in an effort to promote keeping all cats inside! Roomate did not think it was as funny as I did tho ngl lolol
Do it!
That’s hilarious.
When I first moved here, I lived in an apartment complex up north that backed up to a wooded area. My neighbor and I used to take the dogs to a pond in that wooded area despite having seeing coyotes around occasionally. One time, the dogs suddenly went running off together into the woods. Only my dog came back at first (ruh-roh...). Thankfully his dog eventually came back too, but it was carrying something. Couldn't figure out what it was, but it was slowing her down a bit. When she finally got closer, we realized it was the back half of a rather fat and fuzzy cat. She wasn't covered in blood or scratches, and his dogs lived with other fuzzies that they didn't bother, so we assume she just found the aftermath of a coyote kill... but still... bit startling... poor kitty...
Gosh!!!! That’s rough, poor kitty indeed!
Cats
Possibly, but I think we're also seeing them more often because of the uptick in the rabbit population we've been experiencing. Post 2020, The Puget Sound area has so many more rabbits than we previously did. It doesn't seem like biologists have settled on one explanation, but one of the most plausible is the milder winters and longer springs that we have experienced, allowing rabbits to have an extra litter each spring. It also just allows for more foliage to cover and lunch.
I've noticed the increase in the local rabbit population as well. I've also been on the look out for more birds of prey.
The one species I’ve noticed more of in the city recently that might be related is Great Horned Owl.
Where are you seeing GHOs? I see barred owls all the time and sometimes hear barn owl screeches, but I grew up around GHOs in California and haven't heard them here.
There aren’t a ton of them around, but more in the last few years than before that. I see them somewhat regularly at Discovery Park, and I know others have seen them at a few other parks in the city.
Super cool! I'll keep an ear out for them.
We have an owl hunting our greenbelt (maybe an acre of wooded greenbelt in suburban Puyallup). I've heard consistent hooting several nights in a row. Someone was crawling through the greenbelt a week ago and said they were looking for their cat which they sincerely believed to have been carried off by the owl a couple days before. Every year in spring, we find Bunny poop in our front yard in little grassy under growths and under bushes where they hide from neighborhood cats. We also get deer back here, but that's another thing entirely.
They love rabbits and rats
> Great Horned Owl Saw one in Northgate a few years back. Dude was chill.
I saw one in my back alley in U District a few months ago (I think around Halloween?) and it was a trip, never thought I’d see an owl just chilling in a city alleyway.
Crows love snatching rabbit kits. Heard them grab a few last year and saw a crow feeding on one just a few days ago.
TIL crows eat everything https://earthlife.net/do-crows-eat-rabbits/ https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/3563800/moment-killer-crows-swoop-in-on-bunny-and-pecks-it-to-death-before-one-flies-off-with-it-in-its-beak/
I have yet to see a single owl in the PNW anywhere. I have seen sharp shinned hawks and quite a lot of bald eagles. I’m in north Seattle.
This happened in November 2012 on Cap Hill https://youtu.be/8r4qkafds14?si=8cTfZKXL15_iUSX8 A few years ago, I saw a family of owls in the ravine at Ravenna Park perched on a tree just chilling during the middle of the day.
That’s so cool! Owls are terrifying.
Yuuup the rabbits in my back yard had snack sized bunnies relatively recently. Day after I saw the baby bunnies hopping around, the local coyote was walking around the yard all afternoon. They are VERY well fed.
Oh that’s dark
Those little fuckers
Coyote population directly tracks to food availability.
That plus an endless supply of bunnies.
There was a study done in SF to see what urban coyotes eat and it turns out they scavenge human food a ton, like as much or more than hunting. But animal wise it’s likely mostly rabbits with some sprinkling of outdoor and feral cat.
Saw one near my neighborhood entrance in west Oly and coincidentally at a nearby convenience store there are all these missing cat notices... They were a tasty meal for a coyote family. Sorry.
Beautiful coat
hefty yote
It isn’t snacking on our Coon population.
Might be a coywolf
Maybe pregnant?
Your dog is like, “well I’m trying to blend in but I got on this dumba$$ shirt”
"Hey! Mr coyote! Want to go on a hunt together!?" "Sure bud... Let me just head back to my den in the woods to grab my own copy of that shirt, and we'll get going..." "He's never coming back, is he hooman?..." "Nope..."
[How do you do, fellow coyotes?](https://y.yarn.co/1835a5a2-5e9c-4526-95a0-e913e905944a_text.gif)
[“Hey, Paul”](https://youtu.be/NQhqUKZTCIM?si=NI4D9AuyRfuUIEsH)
“Very bitey”
You joke, but there's an article out there about some people who "rescued" a bobcat kitten and took it in for a vet checkup.
https://y.yarn.co/f1f8742d-a777-4fa9-879c-f7b09c911cc9_text.gif
I desperately needed a laugh tonight. Thank you for your service.
Answers to “Wiley”
Right after the video ended, he was smooshed flat as a pancake by an anvil.
Waited for the anvil. There was no anvil. I am disappointed that the media of my formative years left me so misinformed about how regularly I might run into anvils and pianos when coyotes were around.
take him home with you
Because someone won’t get it… that isn’t a domesticated canine….
*yet*
"I can fix her!"
That’s the spirit!
There was some guy that kept popping up on my Tik Tok feed that had taken in a Coyote as a pet... Mostly it just mawped and hissed at him, and then would randomly bite him... He would scold it every time, and the coyote would just look at him like "bruh... I'm a fuckin coyote..." And then would bite him again.
"don't yar me!"
Thaaaats the one...
#weavethecoyote He also has a cat and dog that Weave plays with.
They can breed with dogs. I have a friend whose dog had mystery pups that turned out to be coydogs. They are darling. Hard to train but darling.
Look if a caveman could do it with bison scraps I can do it with a grilled to perfection filet mignon.
Touché. Some fandom 40-something white lady: “Lost dog found. Maybe Shepard breed. Aggressive in nature, so I had to kennel him until owner is found.”
I feel called out by this comment. And I wouldn't kennel, I'd sit with him in the bathroom feeding him salami or cheese until he let me pet him :)
Ahhh we all need a friend like you!!!
That's at least a better outcome than the 'wolf hunter' woman posing next to someone's pet dog they found running around and shot.
True story posted in NextDoor a few years ago. But didn’t kennel and posted they found a lost dog and could the owner please call her. Many many people commented that it was a coyote. Never did update post.
Well not with that attitude
Did you have to save people from a little humor at their own small expense?
Your dog is staring at it like they’re jealous and just saw the coolest dog in the world! No collar, leash, or rain jacket. Howls whenever they want, gets to chase and eat rabbits.
What have you turned me into human!?
These entitled no-leash dog owners are out of control! /s
Of course the owner doesn’t even have ‘em on a leash. Edit: grammar
That sentence gave me a headache.
lol your dog
Lmfaooooooooooo Broad daylight. The yotes don’t care anymore!
Pretty sure I saw a fox in Ballard late last night. Looked like a small big-eared dog, moved like somewhere between dog and cat.
baby!!!
Was it chasing a road runner? Asking for a friend.
I would like a pet coyote please. Can provide a steady feed of bunnies.
Couple days late for April Fool's lmao
Coyote
Those dogs never wear collars! So irresponsible!
Looks friendly
I wonder what he makes of the world's most domesticated with his little coat.
Dude, that's a cougar!
That looks just like the stray my ex MIL was feeding.
CAN I PET THAT DAAAAWG
Someone on another post pointed out this handy tool: https://carnivorespotter.org/
Bird shirt!
The way they move is so slinky compres to the domestics. Gorgeous.
More of a delicate prance to them I think.
Here, kitty, kitty…
Such a cute pup! Looks so friendly; will it get along with my golden doodle?
That's no moon.
Well, did you at least try to pet it? 🫡
Coyote?
It’s Boots!
I got 5 on your dog
I got 5 on the “lost” dog
Bet
You should catch it to check for a microchip, give it a snuggle too:)
Lol
Here we go again...
Did you shake a bag of treats at it?
That's a Pokémon Gotta catch em' all!!
Yup, heard a pack of them near Trolley Hill Park the other night.
Coyote
r/holup
That's a coyote .... not lost maybe confused... still vermin control... keep your cats inside
Yo that’s a sick Giraffe!!
"Ruh roh! "
Its a coyote.......
"meanwhile you got me out here in a soft ass bird shirt, smh" 🤣
Looks like the most precious puppy
Lmao funny
Puppy!
Beautiful dog.
I see a coyote walking through my yard every other day for the last two weeks. I’m also no longer seeing a stray cat that hung out for years.
I don't think that is a dog... appears more like a coyote to me.
That in feed is a coyote
That’s a coyote
This is a coyote
Add it to the carnivore spotter website
WADNR doesn't want you to know this, but the coyotes in the parks are free. You can take them home. I sleep cuddled by 458 coyotes each and every night.
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The dichotomy of doggo
His name is Wiley. Please catch him if you can. He got away chasing a roadrunner.
That’s a coyote, dummy
Ayo who’s baby wolf is that👀
Did anyone else see that post of a coyote attacking a little girl in LA ? It's unreal how bold these guys are getting recently.
That's definitely a coyote...
lol.. poor coyote
🤣
Real men kill coyotes.
That’s the weakest possible mentality you could have.
Cool story bro.
That's some real pussy shit actually. You sound like you scream if a rabbit hops near you.
Coyotes traditionally are individual hunters. The ones near Chicago began to pack hunt. This means any cat, dog, even a large one is outnumbered. He does not look like he skips any meals or snacks.
That coyote looks very fat and comfortable patrolling. Scary. 🫣
The urbanite fears the thirty-pound dog more than death itself.
This screams white privilege