Yotes are on the move, watch your pets

[pjcalla]

The last few mornings, we have seen three yotes cruising through our yard. They are not shy about it, just leisurely walking within a few feet from our house. I imagine they are searching for food, since they look pretty scrawny and it's been really cold lately. We hear them from time to time, but this is the first time in the last three years that they've come up to the house. We live within city limits in a small neighborhood where almost everyone has a dog(s), us included.

I guess this is just a PSA to watch out for the damn things and watch your pets when you let them out.

 

[Streck-Fu]

Which city limits. I'm on the north side of Noblesville so am interested in sightings.

 

[pjcalla]

Westfield. 161st and 31 area.

 

[remauto1187]

Great! Ive got some .30 caliber rifles that I need to break in.

 

[Tydeeh22]

Double 00 is better. Haha

 

[churchmouse]

They have been seen just north of the Indy Speedway at 30th and Georgetown and north of there along the creek that runs just northwest of my property's. I have seen some odd tracks in the snow up until my new neighbors moved in behind me with a freaking huge German Shepard.

 

[chef larry]

Can a yote jump a six foot fence?

 

[eldirector]

We've heard them out and about in our area. Of course, they are ALWAYS cruising White Lick Creek, just west of us.

@ Chef Larry: If they want what is inside the fence, sure. They'll dig/squirm under it, too.

 

[halfmileharry]

I've seen a lot of yotes south of indy. Foxes are "sunning" a lot as well.
I've got a pair of German Shepherds running and yotes aren't being shy.

 

[Jason R. Bruce]

Just got a text from a landowner 30 minutes ago, a big coyote was standing nose to nose with a domestic dog along the county road. The female coyotes are in estrus so the conflict between coyotes and domestic K9's has begun. It will continue to escelate through the spring as pups are born and coyotes defend their den sites. More often than not there will be no physical confrontation, just postruing/vocals and scent marking. In the cases where it does get physical, the dog was just a little slow in realizing he needed to run.

 

[mulsas]

Westfield. 161st and 31 area.

I'm about a mile or two west of you. Just the other morning I was pulling back into our neighborhood while it was still dark. I saw one come in from the corn field to the north, and he was walking into our neighborhood right down the center of our street. He finally got spooked when I pulled in behind him. But yeah, I bet they hunting for anything they can get.

 

[buckstopshere]

I just picked up a Bear Montana this week. Yote blood on an arrow would be a great way to break it in!

 

[AtTheMurph]

There are coyotes all over town. That you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't around. I've seen tracks in Speedway, in the near westside, on my back patio in the snow and across my front porch. Only seen one here in B-Burg and that was in my backyard. I thought it might be a wolf it was so big - maybe a coy-dog. I think it was well over 60lbs and probably 80lbs.

They are out more now because as was posted I think they are in hear but also because of the cold and wind. They need more food to stay warm.

I'm going to try to do a little hunt tomorrow, although that wind might be a little discouraging.

 

[swampdonkey]

I'm going to try to do a little hunt tomorrow, although that wind might be a little discouraging.

yeah i have had very little luck hunting dogs when the wind gets up and sustained over 15 MPH. good luck though. with a little snow on the ground they should stick out nice!

 

[spaniel]

I would not be surprised anywhere I saw a coyote. I regularly run the White River trail just north of downtown Indy and have seen a couple coyotes just across the river from the VA hospital.

 

[kch]

Im not positive if it was a yote but I'm pretty sure the evidence is there. My girlfriend lives in a neighborhood near 126th and Cumberland. There has been a rabbit that has lived in her front yard since summer. Saturday morning when I stepped outside, there were some leftover intestines and other innards just off the little porch. Along with some fur and blood. The wind blew over any tracks but there were rabbit tracks along the front of her house where the wind didnt disturb them.

 

[pjcalla]

Saw them again Saturday night. We were driving down our street after dinner, and there were two yotes crossing right in front of us. We stopped to see where they were going. They stopped in our neighbor's driveway and just looked at us in my truck. Usually they would run off, but they just stood there watching us.

 

[printcraft]

Saturday night about 3 am I was awakened to the yip yapping chorus of multiple yotes out back near the creek. (outskirts of Kokomo)
This is about 50 yards from my back door, 25 to where the dogs go out to do their business.
They carried on for about 10 minutes. I went outside Sunday AM and found a stampede of their paw prints
with deer tracks mixed about, the whole area is trampled and tracked up.
I would surmise they were trying to get some late night dinner.
No blood. The deer looks like it hauled tail out of there with more yote tracks chasing it across the road and into another woods.

 

[singlestacksig]

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[churchmouse]

Saw them again Saturday night. We were driving down our street after dinner, and there were two yotes crossing right in front of us. We stopped to see where they were going. They stopped in our neighbor's driveway and just looked at us in my truck. Usually they would run off, but they just stood there watching us.

Town yotes are not fearful of us just cautious.
Forest yotes avoid us if they know we are there.