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I have a coyote visiting my property nightly. What is the deal with these things? Do I want to keep it around or does it need a .223? What are the regs? I searched and don't see any recent threads on this topic!
I won't tell you what to do at your property, but if I see one at my place I'll put it down. They will kill household pets and attack livestock.
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If you have a hunting license and a fur bearer stamp you can hunt them year round, no bag limit, no camo requirements, no weapon limitations.
Kill it. Although I haven't spotted any on my cams yet I have recently read that you do not want to kill either of a mated pair. It will cause a population explosion. How you know if they are a mating pair, I do not know.
I have a coyote visiting my property nightly. What is the deal with these things? Do I want to keep it around or does it need a .223? What are the regs? I searched and don't see any recent threads on this topic!
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They are technically "unprotected", but a license is required unless you are preventing damage to pets/livestock. I know a furbearer permit is required to trap them, but not sure about just shooting them.
I contacted DNR (at the phone number next to the Trash Panda photo) and obtained a Landowner Permit to Control Nuisance Wildlife. It's free, but only lasts 60 days. We had foxes and raccoons killing our chickens, so there was a demonstrable reason (they will ask.) Received a nifty PDF file suitable for framing within a day of calling.
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I’d imagine having the permit is good, but from I’ve seen, heard and read, that permit is only needed if trapping and killing them. If they are an active threat, they can still be killed out of season. They just can’t be trapped first.
IE you could shoot the raccoon that’s getting in to your chicken coop. You just can’t set a trap for it out of season, even if it’s getting in to your coop. Or at least you can’t trap it and kill it (and you can’t legally relocate it if it’s a rabies vector species).
The law says imminent threat to life or property.
Furbearer permit is just that. To “bear” or “possess” the carcass (possibly only the “fur”??) of any species designated as a “furbearer” you need to have a furbearer permit. Whether you shoot it, trap it, find it as roadkill, or it drops dead of old age in front of you, you cannot possess the animal unless you have a furbearer permit.This^^^
They are technically "unprotected", but a license is required unless you are preventing damage to pets/livestock. I know a furbearer permit is required to trap them, but not sure about just shooting them.