Anyone have coyotes in their neighborhood?
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Comments (0)My neighborhood is having a garage sale, and I will be selling my tomato plants again. The neighborhood is Wychwood, in Aylmer and it's Saturday, May 26, starting at 8am. I'm at the end of Pine st, left hand side, you won't miss me if you go by. If you're coming from Ottawa, take the Champlain bridge, turn left on Lucerne right off the bridge, and follow Lucerne all the way through two sets of lights. Pine st is on your left, second street after the second set of lights. It's the access street to Wychwood. I have lots of organic heirloom tomato plants, all grown from seed, wide variety. These are open pollinated, so you can save seeds for next year if you want to try growing them yourself. If you need info on how to save the seeds, just let me know. Lots of Beefsteak ( aka Ponderosa), Rutgers, Reisentraube, Roma and Amish Paste. Many other varieties in smaller numbers, many are old Russian types. If anyone is interested, please feel free to email me for more info. I will also have some hostas, a few other perennials, brugmansia and house plants. Sam....See Morecoyotes in my neighborhood?
Comments (36)It is nice to see how the messages on this forum went from hysteria laden with misinformation, to a more fact filled, tolerant view. Education really is the key. People should learn the facts from the people who have the facts, and not from the people who are spreading misinformation and fear. Those that belive they need to kill every coyote that they can are terribly misguided - the biological facts are that the implementation of "coyote control" actually stimulates the coyote population growth. This concept is not an easy one for most people to understand. If "coyote control" actually worked, then why were millions killed through ADC in the Western States for years, yet a healthy coyote population persists there. Studies have shown that if they had simply left the coyotes alone to do what coyotes do, there would have been many less coyotes than before the control was implemented. Imagine the money that was thrown away on this project! If control methods actually lowered the population, coyotes would theoretically be extinct by now. However, killing coyotes actually causes their population to grow at a faster rate. The litters increase in size and the young that are produced are more viable and hardy. So it is actually the coyote haters and killers that are creating more of them. If you have coyotes on your property and you hire someone to come in a trap or shoot them, you will create a bigger "problem" for yourself and your neighbors. Funny thing is, if you don't want coyotes, the last thing you want to do is kill them. Your population will stabilize and once the prey population goes down, the coyotes will leave, or you will have a single pair protecting their territoy. Logging also will cause coyotes to move into an area. Logging creates more undergrowth, more treetops for food for the small prey species. Coyotes will move in to fill the niche of predator to control the prey populations. A lot of people see the predator /prey relationship as a Good VS. Evil relationship. This is a very naive and environmentally unsound view. Predators are necessary to have healthy prey populations. coyotes are doing what predators are supposed to do. Man should butt out and simply protect their domestic animals with good fencing and good common sense practices. A good person to look up is Robert Crabtree, or "Bob Crabtree" He is the foremost coyote biologist in the USA. He has studied coyotes for years and has the facts, not the misinformation. Elise Able Fox Wood Wildlife Rescue, Inc http://www.foxwoodrehab.com Here is a link that might be useful: Fox Wood Wildlife Rescue, Inc...See MoreAnyone know anything about coyotes
Comments (19)I saw the post heading but did not look at the date. We too live in Canada - Toronto - and last Friday received a 4 page flyer from Animal Control re the increasing population of Coyotes in Toronto - and near our house - a few blocks away there is a big park, but the coyotes are becoming increasing brave and venturing further afield in search of food - and people have been feeding the coyote "puppies". They are competing with raccoons and skunks - they are of course a nuisance but a far cry from a raccoon. Re the OP's question re a Coyote jumping a 6 ft. fence - most definitely. Heck our 22 lb. dog can jump a 5 ft. from a standing position. I called Animal Control and was told to be careful, particularly in the early a.m. and evening - of course it is dark - and to never put our dog in the yard alone - we don't do this anyway. And to always have him on a leash - which he is. But dogs are being attacked by Coyotes while on leash, including a Chocolate Lab, not that far from here. His Mom beat off the 2 Coyotes who were biting him and then they came back for more - Mom and dog got away thankfully. In one area not far from us, Coyotes have been seen looking in windows checking for dogs and cats. Suggested deterrents are coins in a can (useless - they don't even scare my dog) - or small air horns - I got the last one at Sport Chek much to the dismay of other shoppers. I know the noise will hurt our guy's ears, but better that than the alternative. People are being told to take down bird feeders since Coyotes will search them out - I feel sorry for the birds who will return each year for food, but.... The Coyotes of course are looking for food since so much of their native habitat is now covered with houses. This problem will get worse - and a child has been bitten by a Coyote in the GTA. I for one would be eaten I guess by a Coyote while trying to save our dog. My friend owns a store in Toronto and was written up in the local area newspaper. On the adjoining page there was an article about the increase of Coyotes in Toronto and how to deal with the problem. Quite a large write-up. I did a Coyote search on our dog's specific breed forum and many people in the U.S. are facing the same issue but many states allow people to protect themselves in ways that Canadian laws do not - so an air horn it is - as well as having a fit during the early morning and night walks when we hear a noise or rustling in the bushes! Animal Control suggested speaking with neighbours to best devise ways to deal with garbage and keep pets safe - so far - zip. Cats are still being let out to run loose - and some people feel that since the major park isn't right across the street (well there is a park across the street - just a different one) that they need not worry. The usual case of "it couldn't happen to me". There are a couple of people though who are worried, thankfully....See MoreNeighborhood crime - what does your neighborhood do to prevent it?
Comments (44)I've still been wondering about this and decided to search for the terms and read them carefully. You can find the Member Agreement without going through the membership process. Here are a couple of things I found that will keep me from joining. "Nextdoor may offer similar accounts to businesses, nonprofits, and other organizations. These accounts do not have access to neighborhood discussions or to messages between neighbor members. You can make choices about receiving messages from organizations at (link omitted). Nextdoor provides organizational members with some aggregated statistics about neighborhood activity and size." AKA unwanted advertising. "Preferences. By default, we subscribe you to messages both for your neighborhood and nearby neighborhoods. You can customize your neighborhood subscriptions at (link omitted)." What I don't like about this is that other neighborhoods will be subscribed to MY neighborhood, and after seeing the huge area assigned to my neighborhood, I can only imagine the number of people then subscribed. Might as well just put the whole town in and be done with it. "Content. You retain all ownership rights to the text, photos, video and other content you submit to Nextdoor (collectively, your “Content”). You give us permission, in the form of a nonexclusive worldwide license, to use, copy, and publish your Content as described in our privacy policy." So I own the rights to my photos but nextdoor.com can do anything they want with those photos, including publishing them as their own. No thanks. From the included Privacy Policy: "Verification as a Resident Of Your Neighborhood. Nextdoor requires members to verify their status as real-world residential neighbors.....by...(1) having a neighbor who already has a verified account....confirm your address, (2) (2) submitting your name and street address (and email address....and then providing us (or a third-party service provider directly) with additional authenticating information....such as a unique code....(or)....we may allow you to use a credit card number or the last four digits of your social security number. .... To help with verification, we may share or confirm your verification information with our service providers. ... We may retain your verification-related information for a reasonable period of time (further down it says 'as long as necessary') even if you do not complete all verification steps." "Facebook Connect. If you register for Nextdoor using your Facebook account, we automatically request your email address and publicly available information, including your account ID, name and gender as well as public information about your Facebook friends. If you revisit Nextdoor while logged into Facebook, we’ll automatically log you into your Nextdoor account. If you don’t register for Nextdoor using Facebook but later attempt to log into Nextdoor using your Facebook credentials, we’ll connect your Facebook and Nextdoor accounts and request the information from Facebook as if you were newly registering. ... If you register or log in via Facebook, we may give you the option to invite your Facebook friends to Nextdoor. Those friends will see some information about you along with your invitation." Great. So every friend, even those I really don't know, on my Facebook page will see my neighborhood if not my exact address. There is a lot about collecting information and sharing it with 3rd parties, their expanding corporate family, and even google. This maybe the scariest part of their privacy policy: "Export of Data (Non-U.S. Residents). By using the Services, you authorize Nextdoor to use your information in the United States and other countries where Nextdoor operates. Please be aware that the privacy protections and the rights of authorities to access your personal information in some of these countries may not be equivalent to those in your country."...See Moreprairiemoon2 z6b MA
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