guy right here we go by name is john magaw anis the belmont animal patrol officer been on duty for about sixteen years i'm also the massachusetts representative for project which is a national organization and i'm a founding board member of missing drives massachusetts so if you have a lose a dog with a want to call so tonight i'm going to talk about coyotes obviously there's a lot of misinformation out there so i'm going to provide you with factual pacifically coexistence because that's really the goal we're where we want to go human a pet safety which everyone seems to be really really concerned about  but with a little bit of common sense a little bit of knowledge we can we can accomplish that and hazing the right way because for years we've been taught the wrong way took haste so we're getting to a point now where all the stuff we've been taught really isn't doing anything so i want to teach the right way to do it so there's a lot of talk about call them coil wolves coydogs they will even even scientists that in a minute so how did how did our western coyote or wiley coyote here get to be what we call the eastern would we see all around here today and basically roughly breed and because testosterone and hormones and all that they can be territorially aggressive so you have a higher risk of having your dog attacked by a coyote and jade away better work otherwise the time for big dogs and people that like to walk them off leash everyone of this room is currently living in an active coyote family and territory and a lot of times when i say that people are aware but they disperse all wildlife does it seems like october november either their parents kick them out or they're urged to leave or they just instinctually move out on their own with coyotes they're kind of given a choice the pups can actually go for one and if they leave they can actually come back or they can stay last year i sponsor a family group of six files so obviously it was good to alpha travel hundreds of miles and eventually either find a home or become what's called a tree and see a coyote which is the type of coyotes that don't they're either not wanting to set up a territory and have a family or they're just not ready capacity which means they're more after in low light hours and this is a learned behavior this is real reflection on their own just because they don't want to be around us they don't like people so they learn to be more active or more or less there we you know between six and eight weeks they're out of the dead and they leave and then they're not in it anymore so once the pups are we the family is traveling as a group they do set up little rendezvous places where they  keeps them from messed around with the tricycles for itself talk about a little bit more later on which is kind of important no and they only have one heat cycle here a lot of people talk about cory dogs it is biologically possible so she could provide them so if the dog is a male then she's left home alone and the chances of those pups surviving are pretty low because she's going to have to leave the dead to go get food and that opens them up to other predators  and it is the other way around like i said coyotes come into heat one time a year but dogs come in he twice a year or so in it at a time so the pups need to be born in the spring so th parents can teach them all someone how to be good coyotes if they're born in mid summer or in the winter that's not going to happen and they're probably going to perish so yes they can have they can make good dogs for the the  these guys are very resilient if you look closely this coyote has three legs it is a very good shape the left rear leg is totally bought it was probably shot but i don't know but look because of their wall back right also better off also right smack in the middle of evolution right now they're still evolving into another species common diseases they get all the same things that well mange which there's a lot of research coming out now that there's an association with me in this cycle is that right now we have a really bad rap on here belmont eventually die starvation or even the the rat poison it enough quantity could kill them as well this guy i tracked him down to belmont avers but he was between the belmont farm and the golf course first one golf course and both the farmer and the guys at the golf course that may change manage the field they both wanted this guy treated they they that eat their crops so heavily a predator that majorly eats rodents is something they want to have around and the guys at the golf course the same thing to keep in the geese off the fairways they'll eat a lot of them he's eggs in it's he did this showing that over morris from scratching and biting each is so bad they just can't control themselves and this really is a really bad infection i've seen worse so you can see this old guy and i actually did see this guy go for months later i think about two hundred or one hundred yards from that period so she was hanging around for quite a while and not only that i did take in another animal up to  successful because they're so adaptable they'll eat anything if you compare them to wolves wolves only uncles you know hope to hold dear elk most are kind of coyotes will eat anything they get their jobs on including insects i have seen coyotes in the heat of august to hundred degrees of you know ninety percent of humanity just laid down snap and bugs out of the air and i've seen their be unfortunately this will include paths and this is the hardest people for to you know rock their head around i love dogs more than anything on the planet and one of my goals here tonight is to prevent any more dogs in bellmore or anywhere from getting eaten by a pack of we've had several dogs about over the past year or so taken by its whole rented for the family  so having a coyote around that even those animals is a good thing in terms of lyme disease which i've had already three times that is not a bug and a couple of dogs have happened so it's not a good seems to have it's it's fish around pull them out and have a meal what that is in the bowl though she had a pretty good deal there and if you compare the body size to a look at the size that bowl compared to her body mass you know that's like a steak potato salad a glass of wine of a side and as i watched her do this i started to develop three times to win this one for sale and unfortunately three days later she got hit by a car and killed bike one of my favorite pictures you know that's not a jeep in the back room on the i took some pictures are this this one here because because i didn't suspect there might be kids here but if you look real close  good here if you can see that i can't point there but look great hero your screen and you'll see a leg and what it is is a deer that a deer hunter shot with a bow and arrow and ethically he never went and got it know me everywhere when i say everywhere i don't mean their population is everywhere i'm saying that their territory some pretty well established all in the one of these ok couple statistics for you  you really put this in here for a reason i'll tell you shortly but there's a dog bite epidemic united states right now almost five million people are bit by dogs every single year in a lot of those are bitten your kids get bit in the face because they're short on the ground in an average of fifteen or twenty people are killed every year by dogs in the united states i don't know how long ago was but if you google it in the town of west and right next to knowledgeable about a much more worried about dogs that will ever be of oh calles and the reason is because coyotes are but it doesn't happen all the time  having made you think punctured on the way then they'll be fine so so here's some of the statistics roughly twenty five years of data from state lab which you can go online to look for yourself in all the those little wooden areas to get from point a to point b and so there they're just awesome and i like to remind people that they're here because of our  our species is just the type of species that we'd like to shoot nast questions later or should not even ask questions so when the settlers moved out of cow and all that stuff they had soft riders instead of trying pretty much anywhere you can see coyotes human downtown boston this is a beautiful coyote i love this guy ok so let me ask you guys you know every time the coyotes in the news for any reason whatsoever  pollen out of helicopters and all the stuff and the kid was bitten and so you know who did the headlines and coyote attacks cattle and all that kind of stuff i guess they were all worked up well above four months after  me back on so that they'd track their kind of down there kill that they did the crossing on it and they found a one bone fracture that obviously had been worked on by somebody so this coyote had been hit by a where he's been getting from people and the kid had a school lunches backpack and piled one after that get picked up in the process but the media never came back and told you the rest of the story and i could give you example after example after example with the media just when we do it properly we have been taught how to do hazing properly i'm going to get into that big time ok so a lot of people ask me well you know why should we hazel why don't we get rid of well first well in massachusetts you cannot  to groups and territories and that sort of thing you just hardly any there's no way to get rid of transit because they're always going to be so if you decide that you want to you know kill a whole usually what happens is jonker inexperienced guys will go into that territory and divide it up so it was that i happen to not have four to six tiles in their pups every year so it's just not good management practice to kill them because it just opens the door for more of a four hundred thousand pilots one admitted in their population remains pretty stable and that's one of the reasons why this is because when you kill that alpha female the bottom is keeping those girls in check with her out of the they're not trained on how that you know hunt very well so those pups usually end up getting in trouble in cities and towns from the boot so again like i said four hundred thousand of them killed every single year please contact your of your senators and congressmen to tell i don't want this i don't want to be both for us it's one of those sick things that nobody knows about that we're paid and i've moved on because i can talk about hazing right here we go  we've all been taught the reason your rooms have begun pots and pans scares them away right is everybody heard that if you talk to any of the control officer of the state at this point like i have been doing we'll tell you that gourami well they run away so over the over you know of a short period of time capsule learned that we're afraid of them and then we provide them that space for them to feel safe so what we have to do now is we have to retrain them that's all we're doing is it's basic behavior modification ok so basically let me just zip through this and just show you how to do it when you can it is also kind of it can be a fun day there's a lot  of neighborhood associations that are popping up these days and you know i've actually done some in home presentations a lot of fun people are connected by internet so you can you know if you're in a neighborhood association you can say hey guys let's esta a lot of coyotes will see you immediately if they do that you don't need to hate them and i see a lot of them as soon as they see a person they're out there sometimes they get a little bit nervous initially and they're not they don't immediately run away they kind of pace around a little bit and then they leave they don't need behaviors because they already have a healthy fear so just leave them alone if they didn't exhibit nervous posturing which i'll show you some pictures of because it could be that there's a den nearby any mother of any animal of any species is going to protect their babies so there's a den and they've got pups and they're not going to come out tacky but they're going to kind of posture to show you that they don't ok so coyote demonstration here it's very simple you can wave your arms you can bang participate you can yell and scream i don't care what you do but you have to do something to get the you know like it was laid out of office on his feet in the book i don't recommend throwing things at them because if you hit them with something in your of them then you're talking about an injured animal and you can't predict gauge how much experience of exposure he sat previously to people because of course you get the more he's had you know most of the people and i have got as close as like fifteen feet before they realized i meant business and the up and run but then you're not done this is where people screw up ok that kyle is going to get up in iraq and he's going to run forty fifty sixty yards or so and he's going to stop and turn around and then it's really going to get his attention he's going to take off again and just keep going until he's completely out of sight and also recommend that once he's out of sight you don't see him anymore just stand there puffed up and dance or be happy and just look around a predator but you're looking out because he's watching you you're not going to see him but he's watching you and if you see you up there like this he's going to be very good ok this is that human is after me and he's going to remember that and i'm telling you it works i've done it works but you have to be brave you have to you have to be willing to get out there do it but if you good do active pacing do with the right way and that's the right way it's really stumble you just have to have that follow through because for years and years of doing this they run away and nothing happened so now we do this and this and then just lay there will get you know so scared for me it's a blast i love  wanted but it works it actually works right so it's it's simple behavior modification we do it with dogs all the time write us how many people have dogs and most of us who wri everywhere you know pays guy so it really needs to be a community based program to be effective and it can be you know hopefully hopefully we can do this you know it belmont s belmont is kind of a small town and i've been here for sixteen years i know the kind of population and i hasten whenever i can so fillmore really didn't have hughes needed he's a coyote but anyone that lives leashed and protected like i also have a lot of cats at all i love cats and dogs i don't ever let my cats out ever never and it's not because of kyle's it's because  but cats are healthier and happier indoors and people always say well they need to nurture their wild instinct you know if you take one of these laser things that you can serve that all without ever having to go outside and reviews that would be a big concern for me but there isn't a coyote that i know of that is going to open your front door and come in your house you jerk cat so leave them indoors and dogs unfortunately if you have small have bird feeders you kind of clean up underneath them every moment then you can kind of coyote prove your outdoor spaces by if you have live bush is a group right from the ground up to t they're not going to come all the way here and also this time of year october november when the possum dispersing a lot of these pups haven't seen people yet or dogs so you see you hear this time of year people walking through the woods and those say i start on maybe time so i know their behavior i'm not not afraid about my own free will by me coming after me dog but so for me i would hesitate to just you know bring my dog you know i would tell my dog get up get a boy no more than three active players but you have to remember they're not they're not going to stay in bellmore and pay taxes here not cross a line you know they can have a dead rubber mat over their territory go ready to walk the license in arlington you know so you know it's a tough question but i think this area don't want to settle on no more than three active feelings for sure oh the rabbits and you know that if you look at our our past four or five winters they've been extremely mild even though we've had some big snows was always part of fall by warmer weather and typically do with whether in the wintertime when it gets super cold all those animals that are in bottles and so i felt like the coyote was getting a bad rap and i felt like you know what i feel it's my duty to to an old assumable so i could be proactive in the town newspaper and that's i don't have a degree in biology or hear any of that kind of stuff and there's plenty of people that do but they they picked me and i think basically just because i'm compassionate i understand coyotes and i'm want to get out there  and i scratch my head but i've been thinking about that and i think that when there's plenty of food the competition for food is way down so they're much more tolerant of each other and that's why you'll see fox right down because there's a lot of food up there you know we get really one super bad cold winter a lot's going to change but i i don't know for a fact but that's that's my thought of why we fishers but they were imported by their milk companies because fisher's favorite food is porcupine imported to bark kill trees so the milk companies import of these fellows it here you know couple hundred years ago to kill you know there's a balance of nature here all these predators of prey that when they're together it works when we take the predators out what we end up with is all prey animals like you know raccoons foxes mice rats rabbits their populations is so you know the answer to that is it's just you know leave the predators alone and let's try to manage and i want to tell you guys this if a car you jumped in your fans and attacked your oh right well thank you so much for com