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<blockquote data-quote="DSheetz" data-source="post: 2732930" data-attributes="member: 91783"><p>Here they used to not eat at bait stations either. If it had any human scent on or around it they would just walk in a circle around it. It was common for me to see where they would walk a circle around my m-44's then a smaller circle around them. Then after a week or so they might come back and pull it if I had just looked at it from a distance. My thought was that they were still used to the poisoned baits from the 50's and 60's they didn't know why but they had been trained through generations not to mess with baits with human scent on or around them. Before 1972 there were so many people that didn't really know what they were doing putting out poison baits in this area that a lot of animals would get sick but not die from it that they would teach other coyotes not to eat at them. Another cause of them not eating from bait stations is that their numbers might be down, so they are just more cautious in the first place. And as you mentioned there may be an abundance of small prey for them. Have any of the USDA Wildlife Services guys or Vet techs, read any reports of the red fox and swift fox dyeing of the avian flu? My wife brought me an article from the Casper Star Tribune where it was thought that a red fox was found dead and that it was thought to have died from the avian flu. I do know that the numbers of European starlings are way down this year. I don't find that a problem as they are an invasive species but do think it is an indicator of the health of the other flocking birds.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DSheetz, post: 2732930, member: 91783"] Here they used to not eat at bait stations either. If it had any human scent on or around it they would just walk in a circle around it. It was common for me to see where they would walk a circle around my m-44's then a smaller circle around them. Then after a week or so they might come back and pull it if I had just looked at it from a distance. My thought was that they were still used to the poisoned baits from the 50's and 60's they didn't know why but they had been trained through generations not to mess with baits with human scent on or around them. Before 1972 there were so many people that didn't really know what they were doing putting out poison baits in this area that a lot of animals would get sick but not die from it that they would teach other coyotes not to eat at them. Another cause of them not eating from bait stations is that their numbers might be down, so they are just more cautious in the first place. And as you mentioned there may be an abundance of small prey for them. Have any of the USDA Wildlife Services guys or Vet techs, read any reports of the red fox and swift fox dyeing of the avian flu? My wife brought me an article from the Casper Star Tribune where it was thought that a red fox was found dead and that it was thought to have died from the avian flu. I do know that the numbers of European starlings are way down this year. I don't find that a problem as they are an invasive species but do think it is an indicator of the health of the other flocking birds. [/QUOTE]
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