#when I was a little kid we also had a slingshot and biodegradable ammo (it was stale jellybeans)

[tj-crochets]

Hey y’all! Slightly weird request, but can you please give me any “living around coyotes” advice you have?  My mom’s backyard has no fence and backs onto a huge open field which goes up to foothills, which are also unoccupied by humans. She’s been trying to grow vegetables this year, which means she has a lot of ground squirrels in her yard (eating the vegetables), which seems to be attracting coyotes? They’ve been getting closer and closer and today she sent me a picture of a coyote what appears to be less than 100 feet from her door. The problem is my mom likes to take long walks in that big field and the coyotes keep getting closer to her on those walks. I know they make coyote-safety vests for dogs but idk the human equivalent? It’s not like one or two coyotes, it’s a bunch of them. I think she said the most she’s seen at a time is seven. 

#the person behind the yarn #tj asks weird questions #we got coyotes where I used to live but like I lived in the suburbs #so coyote avoidance was like...don't let your small dogs out into your backyard alone #always go with them #and like maybe don't go riding your bikes or on a walk by that one particular back road at dusk #because that's when the coyotes like to be there #my mom's version of staying safe with coyotes is just to loudly say 'I see you!' when she sees a coyote #when I was a little kid we also had a slingshot and biodegradable ammo (it was stale jellybeans) #but that was because we had particularly aggressive squirrels #also because my parents knew neither my siblings nor I would ever manage to actually hit one #it was not meant for coyote avoidance #when I got a little older as a kid we got my brother's dog and effective got no more large predators in our yard #because she'd scared off all the small animals. we never had another rattlesnake once we got her #idk. my version of coyote avoidance involves. you know. avoiding them. #my mom does not seem to want to do that part.