Yotes are on the move, watch your pets

[Indiana Camper]

Hamilton Co resident also here. My job has me driving around the county a lot and I see them all the time in the evening/night. Fishers, Carmel, Noblesville, Westfield, you name it. They are all over whether you see them or not. Not that big of a deal really. Like mentioned above, they would rather avoid us.
With that said though, literally 5 minutes before reading this thread I just saw two of them in Anderson near 53rd and MLK in broad daylight.

 

[yotewacker]

Right now is the easiest time to kill a coyote. It's mating season. Forget about rabbit food calls and go for the female howls. They want sex not as much food right now.

 

[pjcalla]

Well the last few days, I've seen the tracks, but no yotes. Today, I get home from work, and my wife tells me she saw two within 30' from our back sliding door at 10:30am. Naturally, our dogs went complete ape ****. She cracked the door a little so the yotes could hear our dogs, but they didn't even move. I'm thinking they are using our hardscape and a pine tree for cover. I hope they are not trying to den there. I'm not really sure how they go about that, but that would not be good. I called the animal control here in Westfield (which are the police), they told me to call DNR. DNR told me that I can trap them (I'm assuming that since I'm in city limits, I cannot shoot), but I have no idea about how to start. I think there are some INGOers that trap, so if you want to come trap some yotes, please pm me. I'm not opening up my property to anyone. I want to get someone with experience to either help me, or just get them. I don't care, I just want them gone before I have a situation with yotes and my dogs.

 

[indykid]

Had one walking through my back yard Sunday morning (Feb 2) just east and north of 146th and Spring Mill. Tracks all over the snow.

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

Watch Meet the Coywolf | Nature | PBS | Nature | PBS

Saw that, it was really awesome.

 

[Fishing-Nut]

We have a bunch out here too

 

[ChalupaCabras]

This is why you need a .25 or bigger pellet rifle. No noise, no paperwork, dead coyote.

There are semi-automatic 9mm pellet rifles out there now that develop as much energy as a 38 special. You can buy them mail order and shiped dirrect to your door.

 

[printcraft]

......... DNR told me that I can trap them (I'm assuming that since I'm in city limits, I cannot shoot), but I have no idea about how to start..........

Leave an Acme catalog out in plain sight and let nature take it's course.

 

[Noble Sniper]

Was going to take care of a service call in Marion at the beginning of last week and was on the bridge going over the mississienewa and saw a pack of yotes running down the middle of the frozen river.

 

[Bennettjh]

I'm a little farther south than where they're being spotted but our dog is always accompanied outside. I might have to look into a pellet gun or at least something quieter than a firearm. We are in city limits.

 

[Meyer]

I am slightly NE of 161st and springmill. They are in my backyard all the time. Took my dog for a walk around 7pm a few weeks ago... we were not alone :O Last time for that, at least that late in the evening.