Crime Information Latest Information on Crime Statistics and Self Defense Home About Coyotes Take Small Game Posted in February 15th, 2008 by Ronin in Product Reviews, Self Defense I Never Knew These Animals Were So Tenacious More reports in our small town have been generated in the past few weeks about coyotes in our area.  We live on a peninsula with a single, two mile long, access bridge.  I have called it home my entire life.  Not to say I have never resided in other States or out of the country a couple of times, I just always end up back here again.  I can be away for a couple of weeks or even a weekend but the smell of the water hits you with that familiar scent of home.  This is confirmed by everyone in our area if this subject pops up.  We can smell home miles before we arrive.  It’s a wonderful and comforting feeling that spreads from that first scent, across the brain and into every cell in my body.  Kind of like Judy Garland saying “there’s on place like home” over and over as she rockets through time and space form Oz, all the way back to Kansas. So what’s my point - if you’ve bothered to read this far?  The point is that the once extinct coyote population began again about 15 years ago, give or take.  First there were a couple of unsubstantiated sightings of coyotes working the huge limestone slabs that border the bridge as it begins and ends.  I always dismissed that connection since the animals would have to depart the shelter of these “off road” banks and actually get up on the road, a State Route, and the only way to continue to our exit on the other side and far beyond.  In other words, it would seem impossible for one to cross that expanse of bridge, with the amount of traffic and survive.  Are there coyotes here now?  You bet there are, there have been so many sightings, increasing with time due to dwindling habitat, that just about everyone has seen one over the past couple of yea