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Coyote
Aug 21, 2009 9:03:10 GMT -5
Post by joanne2 on Aug 21, 2009 9:03:10 GMT -5
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Coyote
Aug 21, 2009 9:15:02 GMT -5
Post by chaz629 on Aug 21, 2009 9:15:02 GMT -5
thats a pretty nice looking yote for a road kill,fine job
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Coyote
Aug 21, 2009 9:45:07 GMT -5
Post by joanne2 on Aug 21, 2009 9:45:07 GMT -5
I think the kid himself hit him and well he was blown open pretty good! I told him that I wasn't going to sew him up but I decided after all it really wasn't too big a thing to whip stitch him back together real quick. As you can see he's still a work in progress! Nice and windy today, will have to hang him outside for awhile and just leave him alone!
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Coyote
Aug 21, 2009 10:17:13 GMT -5
Post by caretaker on Aug 21, 2009 10:17:13 GMT -5
Ya softy. lol. Looks real good an yea I`ll do just bout anything for a kid too.
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Coyote
Aug 21, 2009 10:36:11 GMT -5
Post by joanne2 on Aug 21, 2009 10:36:11 GMT -5
Lol...well I took another pic to show the stitches and forgot to post the pic.. hahaha.. Well anyway it's out hanging in the shade and humidity outside.. something like a 'watched pot n'r boils' y/k?!? He took a lot of stitches! But I stitched him after running the washer on him. It would be pretty difficult to flesh one out with this kinda damage over a beam. Fleshing furs over a beam with a bar is just begging for the hair on the other side to come out, IMO.. why I like using the washers. Pretty nice this time of year but I'll need to don waders and do my best to keep my own paws dry once it gets down around freezing here. This kid's old enough to be learning to do this stuff on his own! I can tell that he'll cherish it forever.. wants the skull really bad too, but I'm not sure I can 'save it' as the rear side was GONE from either the collision or putting it down after the collision! Sometimes if the back side of the skull is gone like that there's just nothing left to hold the pcs together. Guess it's worth trying. I've never seen one of these young pups before! Shame to see them get killed. It happens, so all in all a good thing to try and preserve their skins at least. Hope this effort goes to help instill a desire in this kid to learn to do his own danged tannin'!
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Coyote
Aug 21, 2009 12:00:44 GMT -5
Post by Buckskin Billy on Aug 21, 2009 12:00:44 GMT -5
maybe you'll bring one to our side joanne, and this will give that kid the want to learn how to. my dad shot a young coyote last year, said the thing was coming to him. he said he didn't think it be a good idea to have a young pup that wasn't scared of humans growing up not being scared of humans. daday brought him to me and we skint it and i alumed tanned the hide, but it was so thin, i was scared to applay any presure to soften it. most of the hair slipped off any ways. that young yote, was scrawny and mangy, so it was most likely a mercy killing anyhows. wish the hide would had been better, cuz i would had liked for my dad to had it
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Coyote
Aug 21, 2009 13:05:02 GMT -5
Post by joanne2 on Aug 21, 2009 13:05:02 GMT -5
Wow.. that would have scared the crap out of me. Even a pup. Always did wonder what'd be like to call one of these creatures right in to you with the wounded rabbit thing. They can surely utter some GAWSh scary notes in the dark of night.. I've seen some very big coyotes. I've got chickens and rabbits..well lots of domestic rabbits running around here and now a potbellied pig. I notice the pig has moved in closer to our house during the wee hrs.. She must hear or who knows if a coyote doesn't wander in closer searching for something to nab during the night. I have to build a pen for this new pig soon. I would hate to think that she might get attacked.. but you never know. She might make real good coyote food. Yeah I think it's a good thing your dad shot that fearless coyote pup.. hard telling what it could have been carrying being totally unfearful like that.. just doesn't sound right to me either. I hear that the yote populations can get way out of control and well that would lead to unhealthy and dangerous animals. Think the yotes are like buzzards too and able to eat anything to survive. Very blessed here that there isn't a problem with mange..probably because they are really hunted here. Doesn't hurt their population at all but I think it does sort out the unhealthy ones.. I don't know that much about them at all but just stands to reason that they're being managed only keeps all these problems in check. I've probably seen a couple hundred coyote now since I've begun this tanning thing and only 1 or 2 that had this mange. Definately not worth tanning them when they have that mange disease.. horrible looking with that aren't they? Yeah I was kinda doubting what a yote would look like this time of year but was kind of surprised when it seemed to have plenty of fur and was also just a pup. anyway the topical tanning stuff is making just softening them much easier.. if I could just learn to let them dry on their own a bit more... hard cause I hate redoing anything! Speaking of which!
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Coyote
Aug 21, 2009 17:44:40 GMT -5
Post by joanne2 on Aug 21, 2009 17:44:40 GMT -5
Well the critters paws and tail Still weren't dry and softened, so the kid left with a semi finished yote and instructions! He looks happy though! Josh
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Coyote
Aug 21, 2009 18:07:49 GMT -5
Post by caretaker on Aug 21, 2009 18:07:49 GMT -5
I`m sure that big ol smile made it worth it.
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