Coyote Roundup

[Barton]

All the "talk" about coyotes lately brought back memories of going on coyote roundups with my Dad. This was in eastern Kansas in the 50's. Does anyone remember the roundups and when they stopped having them?

 

[dmccarty]

All the "talk" about coyotes lately brought back memories of going on coyote roundups with my Dad. This was in eastern Kansas in the 50's. Does anyone remember the roundups and when they stopped having them?

I don't remember such things. But I was talking to a farmer who was selling some land that had been in his family for a hundred years. He said that the farmers used to get togather every couple of years and shoot all of the stray dogs. Since coyotes are supposed to be a recent migration in NC I don't know if they got coyotes as well. I'm sure if they saw any K9 that could be viewed as a threat to their animals it was toast.

Later,
Dan

 

[KentT]

He said that the farmers used to get togather every couple of years and shoot all of the stray dogs.

We used to do something similar in East Tennessee. Living out in rural areas on gravel roads where grass grew up between the tire-tracks in summer, it was all too convenient for "city folk" to take a drive and set out their unwanted pets... which then began running in packs, attacking the livestock.

We used to exterminate packs of stray dogs, and one of my most unpleasant chores was thinning/exterminating the stray cats that ended up making their way to our dairy barn...

 

[chadincolo]

All the "talk" about coyotes lately brought back memories of going on coyote roundups with my Dad. This was in eastern Kansas in the 50's. Does anyone remember the roundups and when they stopped having them?

My Grandpa and parents used to run them in the 60's-70's, used old cars, greyhounds, even an airplane to spot for a while...I think they got around $25-50 or so for a good hide, and $5 or so bounty from the government, but not sure on that...I've got a couple pictures of the dogs with 25 or so coyotes laid out...

 

[Barton]

I remember hearing about a guy, again in eastern Kansas, who ran a pack of mongrel dogs. He didn't care if he "lost" a couple of dogs now and then as there were enough dogs being dumped to replenish his pack. He would hunt coyotes in the winter, with his pack, for the bounty and the "sport." The coyotes ears were turn in for the bounty and he tied up the rest of the 'yote on his fence line that bordered the public gravel road. A govn. agency, I guess the Health Dept. (if they had one back then), made him take them down. I never saw the 'yotes hanging there but drove by afterwards and saw over 30 pairs of the lower half of hind legs still wired to fence posts. Hard to figure.

I will write about the roundups later. They were a big event back then.