Here is my first ever attempt to post a video on YouTube. It's not very interesting, but I wanted something short to play around with.



I need to figure out how to edit videos. I have no experience with it. If I can figure it out, I'll try to get some videos of Katie reacting to novel objects and digging. If some of you want me to film her reaction to any lures you made, I'll try to video that too.

The unpleasant, rattling, growly background noise is a window air conditioner.

Keith

I can't find anything to edit videos with on my Android tablet. Any suggestions?

Keith

That's definitely her toy!

That Kong knockoff had been missing most of the year. We moved a couch to make way for a huge, circa 1910, mahogany, Doten Dutton, rolltop desk I bought and found it a few days ago. I let Katie play with it the day before and she was really into it. I was planning to bounce it and film Katie pouncing on it. I sat down on the ground with it next to me. Katie came over, climbed into my lap, acted like she was going to lick me and then snagged the toy and took off like a rocket. She tricked me.

Keith

She figured that out quick LOL.. Does Katie share her toys with your dogs?

Katie will wrestle for toys with Althea, my half Anatolian Shepherd/half English Shepherd and they take turns chasing each other to get the toys back. It looks like normal dog play.

Keith

Here are some videos of Katie from today. One of the other members sent me a curiosity lure. I will be videoing Katie's reactions in the same spots shown, once the lure is placed.

In the first video, you can see how Katie reacts to a novel object, in this case some stacked firewood.



In the video, you will notice that Katie looks to me, after startling. She checks the stacked firewood again and decides to shy off and change direction. I will put the curiosity lure by the wood using it as backing.

The second video just shows how coyotes move when traveling, when not hungry. I will put a dirt hole in near the bush she stops by.



Keith

This video shows Katie reacting to stepping on not firm ground and finding a man made toy on a trail, probably left there by another animal. I thought it was a turd, when I told her not to eat it. She found lots of turds on our walk. Fresh deer poop is apparently yummy to a coyote. The video also shows how well a coyote can disappear into light cover, from even only feet away.







Katie kept the toy, until we were nearly back to the house, when 2 canvas tents we are drying, startled her.

Here's the toy. It's rubber and probably off of some sort of machine.



All the known coyote dens I have found had pieces of bone to large for a coyote to easily chew apart. The coyote dens close to houses I have found all had plastic, chewed up trash near them usually including bottles, milk jugs, golf balls, other balls, kids toys and pet toys.

I suspect that sets containing small, interesting looking and smelling plastic should work well. I think old, worn out dog toys might work great in sets

Keith

that's so dang cool keith

Here's Katie's reaction to some partially burnt wood. The wood was placed on top of wood coals that had pork chops cooked on it, immediately before, to ignite it 2 weeks ago and then spread out after we were done enjoying the fire. Its rained a lot on that wood, including almost all day last Saturday. Firepit sets obviously should attract coyotes attention, especially if meat fat or meat was burned in them.



Keith

Thanks. There is a lot to learn from a tame coyote. I know that Katie's reactions will be somewhat different from a wild coyote, that was not born in captivity, not hand fed, that does not live in a house and that is not handled by people every day. However traveling with and observing a wild coyote would be nearly impossible and getting close videos would be hard to get without catching it and mounting a camera on the wild coyote.

Keith

Thanks, very cool

Thanks Keith for posting those vids. The thing I have always known, and shows so well in your vids is just how spooky a. coyote is! They trust nothing, but trust their nose before their eyes. Same is true to a lesser extent on dogs, but that inherent spookyness has been bred out of them! Cool getting to see it in action. Keep up the good work!

Great videos Keith, look forward to seeing her reaction to the lure.

I made 2 dirt hole sets with the curiosity lure and dipped the tip of a honeysuckle branch in it, that was about 4 foot high, before bringing Katie down. I Intended to put the lure on the same bush that Katie found the toy behind yesterday, but messed up and put it around 60 feet away, on another bush, in the same fence row. Katie, while she was going down the row, went to the same place she found the toy yesterday and actually laid in there for a bit. I strongly suspect a fox or another coyote holes up in the same spot.

I used a very small amount of the lure, but at least a small amount dripped down from the honeysuckle branch. I expected Katie to stand on 2 legs to smell the branch, but all her focus stayed on the ground. To me the lure had little smell. Katie expressed lots of interest in the lure.



The maker of the lure, who is welcome to identify themself, told me that their male dogs rolled on the lure, as Katie did too.

The next video is much more interesting from a trapping standpoint. It will take about an hour to upload. I am very pleased with it.

Keith

I am still waiting for the next video to upload. I grabbed Diane's tablet and took a picture of the tool I used to dig the holes. I inherited it from my grandfather last year. It works really well to make a fast dirt hole set. Does anyone know what it's called? I am sure you can castrate a pig with it.




I used a piece of number 5 rebar and a small sledge hammer to make a deep hole to drop the lure in. I wanted to keep Katie from getting stinky from the lure. I gave up when she started rolling, as shown in the other video.

The next pictures are of the holes after Katie dug them out. She worked on the first hole shown for about 2 minutes, as the video will show.





This picture shows a honey locust pod I saw a fox squirrel eating



Keith

This video shows Katie working a small cubbie set in the same small wood pile she shied away from yesterday. I did not lead her to any of the sets. I just went along with her. I did not spill any lure on the bark. I don't know why she removed it.



You can see pretty well where to place your traps in relation to the dirt hole.

Keith

In this video, Katie has smelled the same lure 3 times in the last 15 minutes. She is now showing less interest. Using multiple lures in the same area should improve catches if the first few sets don't connect.



Keith

Keith, The tool you show is a " Flower Bulb Planter". Great videos. Thanks for sharing.



Charlie

Thanks Charlie. It would definitely be useful for planting flower bulbs too.

I plan on taking a video of how Katie reacts to a blue bucket and a white bucket. I think she will shy away from both.

If anyone else wants to send me a lure to try, I will film Katie's reaction to it too.

Is there anything else any of you would like to see Katie's reaction too?

Keith