A wolf is howling around my house every night.

[Radical Activist]

I live near the edge of town but its still not a rural area. Every night, especially for the last week or so, I hear a wolf making a ruckus. It sounds like several wolves, but I know one of their tricks is to sound like there's more than one. It gets all the dogs in the neighborhood howling in response. Pretty damn annoying. This area is getting developed and I think animals are being displaced.

[dropkickpa]

1. sure it's not coyotes?

They are much more likely to get close to inhabited areas.

[Radical Activist]

4. I guess it could be.

I don't know if coyotes are in Illinois though. ?

[dropkickpa]

7. They're everywhere but Hawaii

One was even captured in Central Park in NYC once!

[Radical Activist]

8. Ok. I'm thinking back to my boy scout days and looking online.

Coyotes are more common in my area than wolves and they like mixed wooded/agricultural areas, so it probably is a coyote. I'll pretend its my hero, Wile E. Coyote.

[dropkickpa]

14. I would be very surprised if there aren't some near me

I live in the city, but Pittsburgh is rife with urban friendly wildlife (deer, turkey).

[Radical Activist]

16. There was a small patch of woods behind my house

across some railroad tracks. They cut it down. I didn't know it was going to happen until one day their were 6 deer on the road in daytime. They lost their home. I'm not sure what's planned for the land. I think I'll find out and fight it.

[Radical Activist]

10. And now that I think about it

It sounds more like a coyotes yelp than a wolf's howl. So I think you're right. I guess I haven't been camping enough for a while.

[Withywindle]

22. Definitely they're in Illinois.

A coyote made news last year by walking into a Quizno's in downtown Chicago.

They're all over the burbs too.

[JVS]

2. Wolves? In that area?

[Radical Activist]

5. I think so.

I'm not anywhere near Chicago.

[JVS]

15. I know where you are.

I remember your story about a certain county fair where a woman flashed a portable chucky cheese band.

[Radical Activist]

17. good times.

[JVS]

18. totally. I wish I'd have been there to see it.

[Orrex]

3. Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night

May become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright.


Just sayin'.

[Radical Activist]

6. ha

So it could be me? Well...I have been having odd dreams lately.

[Mendocino]

9. Maybe Sarah palin could come and shoot them.

Seriously, almost certainly these are coyotes or feral dogs. There are just a smattering of wolves in northern Wisconsin and the UP. A more sizable population exists in Minnesota.

[Radical Activist]

11. Yeah.

After others posted and I thought about it, they do sound like coyotes. Not realizing it right away makes me feel disconnected from nature. I need to on a road trip to some national parks.

[Radical Activist]

12. There they go again.

A siren went by on a rural road and it got the coyote started, followed by the yappy neighborhood dogs.

[Mendocino]

13. My Siberian Husky howls often...

especially when hungry.

[dropkickpa]

20. How cool!

I get to hear turkeys in the early morning, and the lions at the zoo on very quiet evenings at feeding time (they start houghing and roaring).

[blonndee]

19. Probably coyotes.

They love to "talk" to each other when the sun goes down. They get used to people pretty quickly and lose their fear, although it's almost impossible to really domesticate them. (There is a neat blog out there, though, by a woman who raised a coyote from a pup--it's fascinating). http://dailycoyote.blogspot.com/

If I hadn't been raised on a farm, the coyote barks and howls would creep me out. I guess I shouldn't be surprised at how close to developed areas they are getting now, given how close they would get to us even during the day in a rural area. We stopped having barn cats after a while because of them. If you have a cat, please keep it indoors, and if you have an "outside" dog, please bring it in when you're gone (or not outside with it) and at night.

[elshiva]

21. Werewolves?

[pokerfan]

23. There, wolf.

There, castle.

[elshiva]

25. Yes! I remember that!

What hump? ;)

[skooooo]

24. That's a sign that vampires are close by.

Forget the wolf, get out a cross!

[elshiva]

26. Let the vampires come.

http://bp1.blogger.com/_ulxygaqurII/RqpRGto7hXI/AAAAAAAAAPk/KaqaiVIhvKI/s320/lolbuffy_byQ_1+-+Zach.jpg

http://bp1.blogger.com/_ulxygaqurII/Ro1duDWeqCI/AAAAAAAAAMs/rybTElWZJfw/s320/U+HAS+A+FLAVOR.jpg

Let them come all over me. :evilgrin: