Dear Editor:
I recently read the article about coyotes. Good article, but it made it sound as if this is something new.
You might want to update at some point to let the readers know there are lots of coyotes around Plant City, and there have been for years. We built a new house in 1994, at the end of East Williams Road, and since that time, we hear packs of coyotes to the north, east and southeast of us, yipping routinely and close by.
In the last year, we have lost our two cats to coyotes, when they wanted to go out at night, and we let them out. About the same time, a feral cat that stayed outside disappeared, as well, along with the neighbor’s cat. My wife recently saw three in our yard (we have five acres) at the same time our donkeys saw them and chased them away.
Ranchers near us have dug up the dens with a bobcat and killed all the coyotes in the den. Apparently, coyotes are bad for calves.
I recently talked to a lady who saw one jump over her chain-link fence, grab their chihuahua then jump back over and run off with it. A friend of ours, Michelle Tucker, who lives on the south end of Plant City, had them dig under her fence to kill all of her chickens. She sees them routinely.
I was looking at rifles recently at the hardware store at State Road 39 and Lithia Pinecrest Road, and the guy in the gun department was recommending rifles to kill coyotes and telling me what various farmers and ranchers in the area use. While there, several other people told me they kill coyotes routinely. The hardware store also has coyote skins on the wall and a stuffed coyote.
Keep up the good work.
Byron Nelson
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