Our neighbors lost two of theirs.
And we found out why yesterday.
I was at R.S. Presidency meeting for a few hours and then on my way home, Kathryn called me saying she had just got off the phone with dad who told her the news.
Jordan had shot a predator in our back yard.
Jordan tells the story as follows....
He hears all our chickens pitching a very loud fit and he sees them run off. He looks out our back windows to see a coyote right by the edge of our garden. He takes off into my back bedroom closet and grabs his 22 rifle from our shelf and quickly loads it and goes out on to the back patio. By this time, the coyote sees and hears Jordan and had made it half way to the chicken coop before she tries to make her escape back into our forest. But Jordan took quick aim and got her, leveling her to the ground, but not yet killing her. He said he had to go over and shoot her twice more to finish the job.
I arrive home to find him hovering over his kill.
He and Del decided it would be a good experience to skin the coyote, so Jordan spent the next hour hanging it up and skinning it and then burying the carcass. It was a little more overwhelming than Jordan thought it would be and by the time he was finished, he was a little more than just grossed out, he was exhausted.
Our neighbors were thrilled Jordan had killed it as the wolves and coyotes are real threats to all the pets and animals homeowners have around here - sheep, goats, horses, chickens and rabbits...so, hopefully, there are not too many more around, although they do happen to hang in packs.
But at least, there is one less threat in the neighborhood tonight.
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