there's a coyote in my barn. how do i remove her?

Question

she's small. adolesent. my dogs have been terroizing her in a back corner of a hay barn. i finaly went to investigate and found her shivering, alive and looking unharmed. i've put the dogs up but she won't leave. i think she is in shock (she hasn't moved but she looks at me and moves her head like she's here mentaly) and i am worried about her safety.
how do i remove her? can she be drugged?

Answer 1

Coyotes are pack animals. And if they are active in your area your dogs (and other livestock if any) will be at risk. She probably is in your barn since her pack abandoned her for some reason, and it is doubtful she will survive on her own no matter what you do. If she does not have the strength to return to her pack on her own, then there is precious little you can do to help her. And the last thing you want is for her pack to make your property their home.

Your dogs may have the best of her right now, but Coyotes hunt by luring prey into a trap. Your best dog that could easily take on one coyote at a time will find it is in mortal peril when the one he/she was trailing becomes an entire pack descending on him/her.

My best advice which may be hard to swallow is to put her down. If you can't do it yourself, your sheriff will most likely do it for you. There might be a humane group that would take an interest. It never hurts to ask around, but I doubt you will have success.

This may not be the advice you hoped for. Sorry, but that's how things are..

Coyotes now are everywhere. I live in the suburb of a major city and have seen them on my yard, in the streets, etc... Small dogs have been carried off.

Answer 2

I had a similar situation once, and given the chance I would do it differently now. I saw a cute little baby mouse in my porch area. It was sitting by my shoes just looking at me. It was so cute and precious that I just admired it and let it be. I could have easily caught it I believe, or stepped on it etc. Within 2 months my porch and basement was full of big fat mice. Poopin' and peein' everywhere. I lost my pity for that litttle baby mouse right then.

The moral of this story is that mice and coyotes do very well without our help. If you let this one go at your place chances are there will be more in no time, and they won't be little ones. Depending on what your dogs are, they could become coyote dinner.

As you can guess, I would either put it out of it's misery (and yours) or call some authority to handle it as they would. Which may be trap/catch remove and relocate, destroy, whatever.

Be careful, bet that thing can bite and may have some disease. Lots of rabies back east here.

Answer 3

I would ideally want a medium sized barn, maybe only 8 large stalls or so. On one end of the barn, I would want 2 crossties with a place to put saddles and bridles for tacking up. Maybe across from the grooming rack, a vet rack and/or a wash rack. It might be nice to have a tack room nearby this area too and easy access to cabinets with vet stuff in it. Sort of a general grooming/health care area. For the stalls, I'd want cushioned floors, automatic waters, fly sprayers, hay doors and a spot for the horses to stick their heads out, as well as a spot for a halter, lead rope and blanket in front of the horses stall. At the other end of the barn, I'd want a small office with a bathroom, a desk and a couch and maybe a TV/mini fridge. One nice thing that a barn I worked at had was a feed room. We kept some hay in there, treats, extra buckets, any horse feed/supplements/oils. It made it really easy to prepare mashes and stuff like that (it had a counter and an electric kettle). You could make this almost like a general equipment room...put laundry in there, use it to clean brushes, store extra shavings, etc. We kept our shavings and our hay in another building, so it was REALLY nice when it was wet/snowing to just grab them from this room instead of going outside. And, if we're getting really luxurious, I'd want heat/ac with an indoor arena and covered outdoor arena. Both with lights and great footing. And maybe a turnout outside and an extra wash rack. A girl can dream...

Answer 4

The poor thing. Most people would say shoot her but that is kind of mean if she's not hurting anything. Just keep your dogs locked up and go out and try to chase her out. Maybe make a bunch of noise or something. If you don't have any cats or anything that she can hurt maybe let her spend the night in there and she'll be gone by morning. Just keep your dogs locked up for a while. I hope I helped.

Answer 5

call either the animal control or the forest rangers or some exotic animal place in the mean time lock her in a stall . give her food and water from a distance and keep the dogs away from her.
the vet in your area will also know more about this too .

Answer 6

You have 3 choices, poke her until she moves from a safe distance, call the cops, or, bust out the 9 and air out your hate, u know, shoot it repeatedly in the blowhole till that lil guy moves. Or find a boy coyote, so they can mate, and then you'll have more to deal with.

Answer 7

She probably won't move because you're around. The best solution is to leave the barn open, and stay away from it. She'll probably leave under the cover of darkness when she feels safer.

Answer 8

Thats a tough one. May only sugestion is to leave the barn door open and wait till she leaves. also make sure your dogs dont borther her when its out there. Good Luck!

Answer 9

You should call animal control because the coyote could have a disease.

Answer 10

Call animal control they'll remove it for you and if there's a wild animal rescue in your area that's where they'll take it.