Dog and the Mail Lady

[Eagle1]

No coyotes here, and I keep my trash bins in the garage to avoid the racoons and bears that like to knock them over, around here.

Lots of yotes and no garage just the barn up the hill.
Used to have 50 trashcans, one at each camp site. Now down to 5 households on the place
Have a 4*8 dumpster out front.
Also have trapped 100+ coons in a year just at the Chicken coop.
Dogs fix that. Coons and Coyotes live longer and peace is restored.

We live in middle of a large section of national forest. No paved roads, not many houses. Lots and lots of wildlife of all types.
Finding ways to live with the critters not kill them, except for food.
Learned I do not enjoy getting up at 2 am to take out several coons that broke into the chicken coop, or other types of chicken killers.
Heck the dogs even vastly reduced the number of snakes that want to visit.
Nearest house is 1/2 mile as the crow flies and they have 5 or 6 dogs out all night i normally only have 1 big one on patrol unless she needs help (rarely).

 

[Jstpssng]

Cattle, rooster, and geese are generally quiet at 2am, as are hunters outside the city.

You've never had young roosters. 3:00AM they are crowing up a storm.
I like listening to them but can see how they'd be annoying in a city.

I've been woken up on more than one occasion by the sound of coonhounds... one morning at about 1:00 while camping out, hounds were obviously across the lake when some nimrod pulled up next to my tent and started shooting.