[Kent Dorfman]

Where did all the coyotes come from? Or have they always been here just in smaller numbers?

 

[razor]

Bring em on!! Coyotes are the most challenging things to hunt...call..here in Ohio. Sure anyone can drive them like deer or shoot them from back roads. Try and call one in and kill it, you'll be humbled.

I have heard though, that rather than it being the ODNR stockpiling them, it is Insurance companies footing the bill. And it would be rather easy to trap them and transport them here from another state. I have kept coyotes alive years ago and they do just fine in holding pens together.

 

[Caribou Dreamer2]

I heard that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:bouncy: :bouncy: :bouncy: :gaga: :gaga:

Bring em on!! Coyotes are the most challenging things to hunt...call..here in Ohio. Sure anyone can drive them like deer or shoot them from back roads. Try and call one in and kill it, you'll be humbled

 

[bowhunter1023]

I have heard though, that rather than it being the ODNR stockpiling them, it is Insurance companies footing the bill. And it would be rather easy to trap them and transport them here from another state. I have kept coyotes alive years ago and they do just fine in holding pens together.

I have a feeling that if this was the case, that it is in violation of more than a few laws and it would be shut down if it were truly the case.

I think we have all heard the same stories about the ODNR releasing yotes and rattlers. I can buy the release of yotes 15 years ago, but not the release of rattlesnakes. I highly doubt the ODNR is releasing yotes as we speak. But if you look back 15 years, Ohio was virtually devoid of any coyotes. Then all of a sudden we are over run? There has always been a push to restore the habitat back to its original status (i.e. introducing plants and animals that were once present). I still think it is a farce, but it makes more sense 15 years ago than it does now.

Interesting side note: My uncle shot a coyote 15 years ago while deer hunting behind my grandma's house. There were no yotes around at that time and it was a big story. He got his picture in the papers, and even one local magazine. He had to send his yote to Columbus to be mounted because no one in our area knew how to mount one the right way. After the article ran he began receiving nasty letters, phone calls, and death threats from tree-huggers that he had killed such a "beautiful animal". My how things change…

 

[deerhunter_matt]

Well, there ARE rattlesnakes in ohio, the Eastern Massasasauga and the Timber Rattler. Obviously migrated here due to balloons...

On the positive side, talked to a ODW guy at the Cleveland Home & Garden show and the black bears are defintiely on the rise. They are seeing more and more young males migrating into the eastern portions of the state...there was even one in Kent a year or two ago. As far as yotes go, I think they should bring back Mt. Lions, they would be much more effective at killing deer... And man, do I want to hunt a lion!

 

[Fishin 2]

put collar on truck!!

:yikes:

We did shoot one with a GPS collar on it last year. The yote traveled about 40 miles or so.

Man, That would be irresistable. Imagine them tracking that yote. Dang, he's running 65 in southern fla. how can this be, not sure, he was in tenn an hour ago !!!That would keep em thinkin. Mike:mischeif:

 

[Gunners]

You Dog!

We did shoot one with a GPS collar on it last year. The yote traveled about 40 miles or so.

So thats what happened to my bird dog, would you at least give me my shock col:yikes: ar back.
Jeff

 

[Mohican]

I heard that was the main reason that Janet Pelosi wanted a bigger jet. It enabled her to bring more coyotes into Ohio and more wolves into Montana and Idaho!!!!!!

 

[bulsmith]

Janet Pelosi

Nancy Pelosi & No it was to save all of the deer in Ohio from the horible hunter.
She had a part in the filming of Bambi too; the ultimate anti-hunting movie ever made!

 

[whitesnake]

Whats next? Can you here the insurance companies and farmers complain if they brought the elk back to Ohio, wow.

 

[ncboman]

sorry to inject some fact into this but efforts to relocate rattlesnakes are nearly always unsuccessful. Rattlers are very primitive animals and often can't even survive being moved a mile.

 

[harehound]

I never gave the coyote pen a thought but this could have been where they are going. I know there are some in Ohio and Michigan where guy's train and condition dogs. If he asked they driver where they were going and he said here in Ohio you can take it from their what might have happened.

 

[Brules]

Why would the DNR import an animal that is already doing very well? The coyote population is already expanding rapidly. It's funny how many people believe these stupid urban myths.

 

[deerhunt45]

Stopped at my local gun and supply store (Mountain Man) Tiffin,Ohio and was told a friend of the owner was a truck stop in southern Ohio. No big deal right? No big deal but an important point in the story as it is now 4th hand if you know what I mean. Plus the alleged statement that they were to be released He saw what he thought was a stock yard truck with cattle in it. To his surprise when he walked up to it instead of cattle it was loaded with Yotes. How many is loaded?? :16suspect1: They were to be released in Ohio. Illegal for anyone but the ODNR. For what you ask, to see if they will help curb the deer population. The ODNR doesn't just "do" things to "see" if something will happen. So who would be releasing yotes in Ohio I ask? I find this hard to believe but he swears by it. Anyone else heard about this? While I don't doubt some yotes were seen in a stock truck, they weren't for release in Ohio. Who ever "owns" these animals would have to have proper credentials i.e. permits, registrations etc during transport. Should be paperwork on this "shipment". As others have stated, there are other explanations and no I haven't heard of any such nonsense happening.

End of story and IMO that's all it is...a story. No myth to it :coco:
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45 :coolgleamA:

 

[tuffshot]

Whats next? Can you here the insurance companies and farmers complain if they brought the elk back to Ohio, wow.

Bears and mountain lions...

 

[MASHUNTER18]

I never gave the coyote pen a thought but this could have been where they are going. I know there are some in Ohio and Michigan where guy's train and condition dogs. If he asked they driver where they were going and he said here in Ohio you can take it from their what might have happened.

Hello Harehound, Im certain there are a few running pens in Ohio. My comment earlier in the thread relating to selling on the live market is true, but all those states do not allow you to transport the animals out of state lines.
Could be possible they were going to a pen, Im not certain how pen owners obtain the animals. I know live market yote and fox, are suppossed to be good money( in states where its legal), but the animals need certain shots and must be clean and good condition. The live market guys need to get to their animals quickly, even some foot swelling from a foothold isnt good.

Bob Wendt has a video out on live market trapping of coyote, been out a few years now, I want to get a copy, its pricey though 45$ or so. Bob knows his stuff, he used to post at trapperman all the time.

 

[El Cazador Loco]

Was it a black truck with no license plates?

 

[CStan]

tellin stories wouldn't be any fun if there wasn't someone to believe them! By the way did I ever tell you about my last fishin trip?

 

[OHBOW76]

Seems like someone in every state has a story about coyotes beign stocked, trust me they dont need any help from man to introduce themselves to wahtever state they want to propagate. :16suspect1:

 

[susandleon66]

Yes it was even reported on the news that the government was bringing coyotes here instead of extending deer hunting season. I was appalled and it absolutely happened