Last winter I snared nine coyote on this small farm, the ninth one chewed the wire off and left.
I just snared her today, she's still wearing the loop from last year.
When I gave up due to snow depth last winter I knew there was one fox and one coyote left there, I guessed it was a small female.
This old skinny little coyote I'm guessing is between 11-13 years old, all canines are short stubs, some teeth gone, cutters wore way down. Hard to believe she could do that!
Hoping to have pics soon

I like to keep the skulls of the old dogs.

I once called in an old female yote. All her teeth were wore to the gum. Nothing but a white ring with black core. Reminded me of old cows that we called broken mouth gummers.

You can have it aged with the lower canine tooth. Need the whole tooth

I got an old pair in wy, male one year female the next.
Good to know about aging, I still have the skull from my 67" coyote, hide too
I don't think they very old here, not often anyway, I'm always surprised to get a 6-8 year old

Not with you around...

This group never came 1-2 miles to where I was trapping, I finally asked to trap this spot, quarter mile from City limits

Catman, that's wore more than any I've see

First one was sun morning, ugly red male, second was old female, still alive, third was a good sized male 100 yds from old female, fourth is nice looking female, I guessed them all correctly before looking

Gosh you think about the stuff they survive over the years it's a wonder they do live as long as that. Cars, diseases, storms, parasites, droughts, extreme cold and extreme heat, plus around here at least every passing truck stops and shoots at them off county roads.
It's not like they ever get to go to a vet or dentist either, and God knows what all crud they choke down for food too.
Congrats on catching the one still wearing the old collar from last season. That's something.
Jim

I would believe it!

Foxes are smaller than yotes but the critters have gone through 3 broom handles already (I use them with the catch pole) and one made a right mess of the bark on a large tree at the top of the garden...
FE

Well that was exciting, yesterday I pull up to a big female in a snare, and she takes off across the field! So me n dog luckily chase her down going across an open bean field, she headed for Willow trees and got hung up, man that was close, luckily coyote didn't pull stake before I got there!
30" stake in muddy soil

Got a medium sized female and a big male yesterday, after three days of nothing, saw big males tracks couple days ago

Good Deal! Great pictures!

Nice!!

I think I'll pull three farms, there are very few coyotes again on them this year, for some reason there doesn't seem to be new ones moving in good, the big male caught with the old female wasn't there last year

Picked up a real nice looking male today on one of farms I was going to pull traps on, I pulled another instead.

This is an honest question, not trying to start anything. I've been trapping for 50 years so I am not anti. But, why do some trappers harass trapped animals with there dogs? Just wondering. Don't you think it gives fodder to the haters?