Saw this thing around 11am coming from open country into densely populated urban area. It stopped less than 40 yds form me and waited for me to leave. But I didn't and it eventually hooked a right toward farm house. Why wouldn't it just turn around and go toward open country? Why was it headed into populated area at 11 am?

Dunno, maybe just getting cocky. I see one every couple of days heading for a neighbor's barn at about 1 in the afternoon. He's got a couple more weeks here of fun before one of us gets a trapping lesson.

Maybe he lives so far in the brush he has to go toward town to hunt. Lol

It's been fox that have been thick around city limits and even into town. This is the second yote I've seen like this from start of harvest

You think this is the first time this yote is headed toward a very well known feeding area? Why go into open country when the groceries are easy to find and get?

Bryce

No

For sure not! It didn't even care I was there!

They get just like deer, the more they are around people the more they get used to them and pay less attention to them. On foot you won't get so close but on a mower or tractor you can get right up next to them.

Yeah going for groceries: Tom, Fluffy, Spot, Princess

They follow farmers around when they bushhog around here. Or really any kind of tractor work. Yes they are usually in areas pretty thick with coyotes too. Ive found if i see coyotes in the daylight, that spot is usually covered up in them. They do get brave. But they are usually pretty easy to catch when they get bold like that. I love it when i go check out a place in the middle of the day and jump coyotes just laying out in a field.

Hunting the meows

Keep you friends close and your enemies closer.

headed for some Asian buffet , here kitty kitty

people get all excited when the feral cat population goes down , think it must be some rescue saving them , it probably just means the coyotes are eating them , bedsides being tasty , they compete for the rabit population , cats often get the kits while they are still in the nest.

You think they haven't figured out that population centers are safe zones full of food?

They don't like day-sleeping in open country. Perhaps it was late returning from a hunt, going to one of its rest areas, one near someone's back yard.

For twenty years coyotes have walked on the streets of suburban Los Angeles every day looking for cats and small dogs.

Coming to a theatre near you soon.

Pete