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In reply to the discussion: I love wildlife, but... [View all]passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)It would only work for me after my summer irrigation water is turned on. I don't have outside water for half of the year. It is supposed to be turned on on April 15 but this year it wasn't on till the 20th, and I had to ask them to turn it on then. So it wouldn't deter coyotes from coming in this part of the valley to den...and it might not save my cats in the future in spring, but might work for summer. Or if it's the same breeding couple, after one summer of learning they might just find a different way to get to their den.
The coyotes won't hang around here all year. They only come occasionally in spring to find a den and then they go back to the bigger valley for the rest of the year when the cubs are old enough, in late summer. I think in my eighteen years here I've only seen coyotes out here three times (three different years) and none of them have ever been as aggressive and bold as this male.
But thanks...I'm going to call these guys and talk to them.
It's weird, they don't address coyotes, bobcats, mountain lions or bears and we have all of those out here.