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<blockquote data-quote="DSheetz" data-source="post: 2583527" data-attributes="member: 91783"><p>Several years ago in early June I was out looking for a coyote that was killing lambs in a rough pasture with deep draws . I made my way up to the top of a hill over the top and down the other side where there was a cut bank that was around 4 feet tall . It had a view of the rough draws as well as a small valley and the sun was coming up on my right hand side . I let out a couple of howls then waited several minutes and did some fawn blats . A few minutes passed when I heard some grass breaking above me then saw a movement as a gray form hit the ground only a couple of feet to my left . I like most people jumped from being startled realized it was a nearly grown bob cat . It realized I wasn't it's intended meal and also jumped then it ran several feet farther to my left turned and stood looking at me . That calling stand was over for the day but I watched as the young cat wandered farther out then sat and watched me for several minutes till I stood up and climbed over the top of the cut bank . I made my way farther to my left into a small saddle on a ridge found me a good location and howled waited several minutes just looking and listening down in a draw to the west she howled back then did a few barks . I watched her run from the bottom of the draw and up the side of a small hill where she stopped stood her ground and started putting on a show for me doing short sharp high pitched howls and some barks . That told me she had been startled when she first talked to me and had been near her den and was now attempting to get me the unwanted coyote out of her home area . I let her put on a performance for a long time then I gave her a few puppy squeals from my mouth call she bristled up did some really high pitched short howls and ran my way . I had her in my scope before I talked to her and watched her the whole way in keeping her in it . When she got close I gave her a couple of barks on my call she stopped stood and was dropped . When I got to her she was a very small coyote only about the size of a red fox . I checked her and she only showed 4 pups on her uterus . I put her and my stuff down beside a two track made my way back to the truck had some water then drove over to where my things were parked and started walking down toward where she had first been there on a south facing bank was her hole a lot of mashed down grass , puppy crap . She had put them in a good location down out of sight of us humans in a pasture that was near to the lambs but not in the same pasture with them . The fence at the bottom of the draw was the boundry line between the two pastures it was one where it was hard to get to except on foot . It would be an interesting story to know as to her first year of life and why she was runted and so small and why she didn't have a mate helping her with her pups . She was close to the neighbors ranch and that was one I didn't work on and there was also a small area of homes with 40 , 20 and 10 acres of land . It is highly possible that she had been orphaned as a pup last year and that her mate had also been shot leaving her to fend for herself and their pups . I will never know for sure .</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DSheetz, post: 2583527, member: 91783"] Several years ago in early June I was out looking for a coyote that was killing lambs in a rough pasture with deep draws . I made my way up to the top of a hill over the top and down the other side where there was a cut bank that was around 4 feet tall . It had a view of the rough draws as well as a small valley and the sun was coming up on my right hand side . I let out a couple of howls then waited several minutes and did some fawn blats . A few minutes passed when I heard some grass breaking above me then saw a movement as a gray form hit the ground only a couple of feet to my left . I like most people jumped from being startled realized it was a nearly grown bob cat . It realized I wasn't it's intended meal and also jumped then it ran several feet farther to my left turned and stood looking at me . That calling stand was over for the day but I watched as the young cat wandered farther out then sat and watched me for several minutes till I stood up and climbed over the top of the cut bank . I made my way farther to my left into a small saddle on a ridge found me a good location and howled waited several minutes just looking and listening down in a draw to the west she howled back then did a few barks . I watched her run from the bottom of the draw and up the side of a small hill where she stopped stood her ground and started putting on a show for me doing short sharp high pitched howls and some barks . That told me she had been startled when she first talked to me and had been near her den and was now attempting to get me the unwanted coyote out of her home area . I let her put on a performance for a long time then I gave her a few puppy squeals from my mouth call she bristled up did some really high pitched short howls and ran my way . I had her in my scope before I talked to her and watched her the whole way in keeping her in it . When she got close I gave her a couple of barks on my call she stopped stood and was dropped . When I got to her she was a very small coyote only about the size of a red fox . I checked her and she only showed 4 pups on her uterus . I put her and my stuff down beside a two track made my way back to the truck had some water then drove over to where my things were parked and started walking down toward where she had first been there on a south facing bank was her hole a lot of mashed down grass , puppy crap . She had put them in a good location down out of sight of us humans in a pasture that was near to the lambs but not in the same pasture with them . The fence at the bottom of the draw was the boundry line between the two pastures it was one where it was hard to get to except on foot . It would be an interesting story to know as to her first year of life and why she was runted and so small and why she didn't have a mate helping her with her pups . She was close to the neighbors ranch and that was one I didn't work on and there was also a small area of homes with 40 , 20 and 10 acres of land . It is highly possible that she had been orphaned as a pup last year and that her mate had also been shot leaving her to fend for herself and their pups . I will never know for sure . [/QUOTE]
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