RO-PEL ® an animal, rodent, and bird repellent, may help discourage coyotes from entering your property. Another pack simply increases to take its place and they continue to teach their young assertive behavior.ĭo not provide an accessible food supply, keep pets on leashes and/or monitored when outdoors (even when, within invisible fences,) use loud voices and hostile noises to create discomfort for the coyote. The destruction of an entire pack will not solve the problem.
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They certainly know how to live with us do we know how to live with them?Īs the coyote teaches it’s young to survive, we too must teach our children the important rules for living safely in coyote territory. Once again the wily coyote forces us to review our responsibilities as residents living in their territory. Our responsibility and actions in this equation become increasingly important as the conflict increases. The coyote then teaches its young this behavior. The larger the available prey, the more cunning the tactics they use as a pack to take their prey. Coyotes exhibit very clever hunting methods when hunting alone or as a team. In urban areas, where humans provide an easy food supply such as domestic pets, garbage, pet food and water the coyote population quickly increases, loses its fear of humans, increases its aggressiveness and audacity toward humans and will hunt during daylight hours. Where the coyote is threatened either by humans or prey, the coyote maintains cautious behavior and nighttime hunting methods.
Where there is little food supply, the coyote produces fewer pups, where the food supply is great, the packs increase rapidly. This adaptability allows it to live in all habitats, ranging from grasslands, deserts, mountains and urban areas. This wild member of the canine family acclimates easily to its environmental surroundings. If you maintain your domestic animal to keep them away from wildlife, everyone can be successful in cohabitating.ĭue to our ongoing conflict with coyotes in Douglas County, we must learn how our actions have helped create this situation, and then we must learn techniques and habits which will help alleviate the problem.įirst, we must become informed about coyote behavior. If you are not trying to harm them, they have no interest in them. Overall, skunks are a very passive and friendly animal that will not spray you if not provoked. If you use bear-proof trash cans, garbage will be secure from skunks. Keep garbage in cans in a garage or shed and don’t put trash out overnight for collection the next day. Fences should extend one to two feet below ground level. Don’t feed pets or leave pet food bowls outside, even in a fenced yard. Fence gardens to exclude skunks and don’t put any potential foods in a compost pile, even if securely fenced. Make sure there are no spaces under the house, outbuildings, or woodpiles where skunks could den or seek shelter. Like most potential wildlife conflicts, being aware of skunks and taking some proactive steps, you will likely help you to avoid an encounter.įew people would consciously attract skunks to their home, but some homeowners’ habits may do just that. Skunks dig holes in lawns, eat garden produce, scatter improperly contained garbage, den under buildings, spray free-roaming, agressive pets, and leave an offensive (to some), characteristic odor when they have been around. He was the driving force to put this club together.Skunks are one of the wildlife species inhabiting Douglas County that most residents never see.
Jeff Bartlett, Scatter Creek Club president and event chairman. They did a great job and that always helps make a good trial!Īmateur judges John Robinson and Donald Grenseman conferring with Contestant Mel Milton. The open and derby judges were Chris Hatch and Tom Hartl the amateur and qualifying judges were John Robinson and Donald Grenseman. All of the northwest clubs were there and pitched in and helped with throwing birds and with all of the equipment needed to put on a trial.
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As we all know it takes a lot to put a trial on and Jeff even did all of the lunches and cooked the dinner for the tailgate party. The Chairman had lots of help from club officers and members. The club put on a very well organized trial. Both set of judges used the grounds very well with all of their tests. Pat had a field that was used for camping for those contestants who had trailers. The other field was also a hay field but had more natural terrain and natural ponds on it. One of the sites used consisted of flat hay fields and man-made ponds. The Scatter Creek Retriever Club held its first field trial on July 27 throin and around the town of Chehalis, Washington on the Pat Little’s property.
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