How would you guys feel if we were to get a sister group? That group being  catsoffa DO NOT TROLL OR TEASE THE MEMBERS OF THAT GROUP!!!!
Simply cast a yay or nay vote. I need every member in on this so there should be over 110 votes cast

YAY - 13

NAY - 0

Skeptics - 2

Fine Either Way - 3

Question 4: Do coyotes present any threat to livestock (other than chickens, cats?)

While some coyotes do kill lambs and the occasional calf, not all do. If a coyote on a farm is not bothering livestock, the best thing a farmer can do is leave it alone. This coyote will keep other coyotes that may harm livestock from moving into the area. Coyotes, being predators, will naturally prey on sick or injured animals, be they wild or domesticated. Dogs and cats that are allowed to run loose, or that are dumped in the country and become feral, cause far more damage to both livestock and wildlife than coyotes. Dogs tend to form and hunt in packs and attack larger prey, while in Indiana the coyote usually hunts alone. Also, coyotes hunt for food, dogs often kill by chasing and catching animals for "fun" rather than food.

In Memoriam - Vedrona

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Vedrona 1993 - 2010

Vedrona passed away on January 14th 2010 She would have been seventeen this coming April. She is survived by her brother, Marc who lives at the Nature Center at Land Between The Lakes in KY. She and her sibblings were taken from the Purdue Airport when the air control operators heard the manager was going to poison them or set them on fire in their den.
She was a good coyote who was never any trouble in her lifetime. She lived her life with Mama's Boy. They had a very close relationship.
I will miss her.

CeAnn Lambert

Question 3: Do farmers actually realize more benefit than detriment by their presence in terms of them killing rodents and other pests that eat their crops?

Since coyotes prey on rodents, grasshoppers, insects and other pests, farmers can benefit from reduced use of pesticides and poisons to control these pest populations. According to laboratory observations done at Wolf Park, Battle Ground, IN, one captive coyote ate 10,000 mice in a year, . From my own personal experience, I had a coyote living near my barn which killed 11 rats in one 24 hour period. They also help to keep the environment clean by eating carrion, including road kill.

Question 2: Was their natural population check the wolf?

Coyotes natural predators were the wolf, cougar and bobcat. However, there are other natural factors that also keep the population in check. We know that availability of prey (rodents, mice voles, rats, rabbits, squirrels) determines the coyote population within an area. When there is an abundance of prey, litters tend to be larger. When prey is scarce, litters tend to be smaller. Population is also limited by the dispersal of the pups at about 10 months of age. At this time they must leave their home territories to find territories of their own, sometimes traveling hundreds of miles to do so. Less than 50 percent survive that journey. A combination of hunters, automobiles, distemper, parvo-virus, and starvation (from competition with other migrant coyotes) lead to the majority of these deaths. These factors: hunters, cars and disease, also impact the natural population within a given home range. Another factor that controls population involves the fertility cycle. Male coyotes, unlike dogs which are fertile year-round, are only fertile once a year. This cycle begins approximately a month before the female coyote comes into estrus in about January. In Indiana, pups are born towards the end of March. Cold weather and snow during the first few weeks of the pup's life affects their survival rate. During the time immediately following the birth of the pups, the female depends on the male for food, as she does not leave the pups during the first two weeks. If anything happens to the male from the conception of the pups until two weeks after they are born, the pups will generally not survive, as the mother has no source for her own nutrition without the male and therefore cannot take care of the pups.

Question 1: Is there an overpopulation problem in Indiana?

According to Dr. Larry Lehman, Indiana state biologist for fur-bearing animals at the Forest-Wildlife Headquarters, Mitchell, IN, the population of coyotes exploded in the 1970's, leveled out in the 1980's, and has remained steady at that level through the year 2000.


and...though some of you may not know who this is (if not, wiki him), I want you to raise your paws to harry Houdini being a natural coyote.

We got ourselves a temporary I.D. and some new crap in the profile for y'all to read

This one, you guys should be able to do. Pack member  fawlk is losing his watcher count. He needs it up again. If it's not too much of a strain on your digits, click the +watch button on his page and wipe the sweat off your furry brow from such a strenuous task. I'm sweating just imagining it. *Wipes brow and flings it aside and the sound of a bucket of water being thrown at a wall is heard* /Naked Gun

a friend of a pack member needs help paying those nasty bill monsters. Anyone that can help, read this

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/1234916/

http://animal.discovery.com/videos/.....-wildlife.html
near the end, a 'yote is nomming on elk buttmeats

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyEK4djBJ6w&feature=related
the otter pwning begins at 3:00

I was watching Animal Planet and spotted a 'yote in the snow, tailing some otters in the snow. he was all *pad through snow...pounce on otter food stash..pleh at snow...digdigdigbuttwaggle..."HA! I haz j00r phewdz, otr!" walk off with feesh*

It's official, folks! Coyote Moon Call is the winner of the contest. YAY!

Folks, it seems we have a tie between  StormsLegacy 's - U2 - A Sort of Homecoming and  Sandyjax 's Tatanka - Coyote Moon Call at 7 votes each. Closing day is Thursday. Vote your choices. If it's still a tie, we're doing a tie-breaker revote.

revote:
Coyote Moon Call - 7

A Sort of Homecoming - 3

 SunGoddessAmaterasu needs our help. No, it's not a watch thing or a fave thing or even commission. People are bugging her. A LOT! I need you to spread the word that she needs to be left alone and to stop the constant barrage of shouts and notes and comments concerning her and SexyCatYiffy. Can I count on the pack to help out a friend?

Here's your choices to vote from. ONLY VOTE ONCE!!!

RNCoyote - Mercy Drive - Burn in my Light 1

Coyote42 - Leahy - Coyote Way 3

StormsLegacy - U2 - A Sort of Homecoming 7

Ceilingcat - Ivor Biggun - I'm a Wanker 0

................Tim Minchin - So Fucking Rock 0
Sandyjax {
................Tatanka - Coyote Moon Call 7

any last minute contributions to the theme song contest must be made now before we start voting

Everyone! yes, that means you. Post your entries in this journal. The next journal will be the voting one. Post quickly and with gusto!!

RNCoyote - Mercy Drive - Burn in my Light

Coyote42 - Leahy - Coyote Way

StormsLegacy - U2 - A Sort of Homecoming

Ceilingcat - Ivor Biggun - I'm a Wanker

................Tim Minchin - So Fucking Rock
Sandyjax {
................Tatanka - Coyote Moon Call

I've decided to make it the official DK theme.
While it's sneaky like the foxes in our pack, it's also clever and used for a thief like coyotes are portrayed as, so it fits us both. I may change it if there's a good replacement. Instead of the confusion we had in the previous journal, let's do this in an orderly fashion. Any who wants to contribute will post a link coupled with their brief reason why we should use it. We'll have a vote on the choices in comparison to the current theme to see if it'll be replaced. No non-contribution comments to keep it organized.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhHwnrlZRus

Although our moistened member,  wetcoyote, may object to this, he has his reasons and should not be flamed/trolled/insulted/etc. He is a respcted officer of the pack and will be treated as such.

Some hurp-a-durps called the "Anti-Furry Coalition" is out there somewhere.
Sign this to stop them.

http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/shutdownafc/

The 5 important schmucks
 Jazzfan
 cigarsnscotch
 MacenGregora
 StormsLegacy
 WetCoyote
 LatNam

our honorary member
 LostLove

the rest
 -Experiment-1904-
 A-WolFox
 Alex-Kunz
 althecoyote
 ArcticRenegade
 CaseyCoyote

















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Kaz_Rusakov
kennetbrent
Khaiyote
kraesh
Kravotir
kristof
Mathmachine
MaxCoyote
mobianguardian
Neex
NikkiSkyotie
Okidoki
PepperCoyote
Pure-Ruby-Dragon
QuickXyk
RECoyote
RNCoyote
Runei
Rusty983
SandyJax
seiichiro39
Shadowdi
sneakcoyote
snipercoyote
SpazzticGlitch
Spotteh
Tikky
TobiasRedFox
tolbia
Treble
Vodka_Foot
WildClawCat
wolfkinglionheart
yotienpluche
Zeke_Shadowfyre
Daemonikk
GraniteTail
PankoWereyote

I need to find a certain sound. The first to present me with the link will get a free custom story. It's a cartoon sound heard in cartoons. It goes like this. Y'know, that sneaking sound

...........do
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do.....................................do
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These exotic aminals need your help! They will be booted if this guy doesn't pay the shelter rent

http://www.globaltvbc.com/video/ind.....uSI_1yB9kv36Bn

Neutral face

The eyes are open, the ears erect and the lips relaxed. The neutral face often grades into a relaxed open-mouth face. (Fox, 1971)
Alert face

The ears and eyes directed strongly forward suggest that the coyote is alert to some source of stimulation. The lips also appear more tensed than in the neutral face. (Brown, 1973)
Low intensity threat face ( Fig. 2j)

The corners of the mouth are brought forward and the lips may be retracted vertically slightly to expose the canines and some of the other teeth. The eyes are closed slightly or narrowed as the threat becomes more intense.
Small mouth threat face (Fig. 2a)

The ears are erect and directed forward and the eyes are closed slightly. The mouth is closed with the lips covering the teeth and the corners of the mouth are brought forward into a "pucker". (Fox, 1970)
Aggressive threat face (Fig. 2b)

The mouth is opened wide into a gape with the corners of the mouth brought forward and the lips retracted vertically to expose the canines and incisors. The eyes are narrowed. (Brown, 1973)
Defensive threat face (Fig. 2c)

The mouth is opened wide but the corners of the mouth are pulled back and the lips are retracted to expose most of the teeth. This jaw gape emerges first as a startle response in coyote pups. ( Fox, 1971) The ears are laid back on the head and the eyes are open. The defensive threat face may incorporate the submissive grin ( Fig, 2d,e) The mouth is opened only slightly and the corners are pulled back with the lips retracted to expose most of the teeth. The ears vary in position from erect to laid back. (Fox,1971)
Defensive aggressive threat face ( Fig. 2g)

The mouth is opened wide with the lips drawn back to expose the teeth. The ears are laid back and eyes are opened or narrowed.
Submissive play face ( Fig. 2h)

The mouth is opened slightly with the lips moderately retracted to expose the tips of the teeth. The eyes are wide open and the ears are back.

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These facial expressions have been described at rather arbitrary points along a finely graded agonistic continuum incorporating various levels of aggression and fear. The ears generally provide a good indication of the position of the animal along the agonistic continuum from aggression (ears erect) to submission (ears laid back). However, the ears often rapidly oscillate between intermediate positions refecting not only oscillations in motivation, but probably also response to auditory stimuli from the environment. When the coyote is extremely submissive with its ears laid back tightly auditory stimuli are probably at a low priority.

The eyes are not consistant barometers of agonistic intent. They may be wide open or narrowed during either aggression or submission. However, line of sight is important since a direct stare constitutes a threat. The submissive antithesis of the stare is to look away.
Special thanks to COYOTES, BIOLOGY, BEHAVIOR, AND MANAGEMENT
Edited by Marc Bekoff

Be on the look out for Indigo-Nightfall. He's a hacker and the FBI are out for him.

You will be briefed through these documents

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/1097721/

We will be having a pic done with a group BBQ. I need a count of yes and a count of no, so please respond even if it's just the one word. Who wants to be in the picture?