I live and work in Pasadena as a delivery driver. This morning I was making a delivery to a construction site near the corner of Genoa Red-Bluff and Beltway 8. There is a big nice country style home located next door to the construction site with a nice big front yard. I had made my delivery to the construction trailer on the site which is about 20 yards from the street. As I was about 10 feet from my van I was startled by a shotgun blast. I immediately looked up toward the country house and I saw an odd looking creature running really fast from the front yard and it blazed across Genoa Red-Bluff which is a 5 lane road. Luckily there were no cars passing at the time or the creature would have surely been smashed into the pavement. From the looks of it, and judging by what I had seen in pictures and on television, the creature looked like a coyote but I thought to myself that there was no way that coyotes existed in Houston or anywhere near the Gulf coast. I saw the owner of the house walk out to the street and I walked over to him to ask him what had happened and he confirmed my suspicions. He says the coyote was trying to kill his wife's big house cat. He says he can't let his pets outside unattended anymore cause he had recently had a lot of problems with coyotes coming onto his property. He said he was about to invest in a large fence to surround his property due to this problem alone. I was utterly amazed at what I was hearing. What would have happened if there had been children playing in the front yard? I guess the aspect that surprised me the most, outside of the creature being a coyote, is that this all happened at 10am. I was under the assumption that coyotes were nocturnal creatures. Guess I was wrong.
I have family that live in Clear Lake. I have seen several Coyotes there. I have also seen deer. My brother has seen Javelina as well.
I live in Clear Lake and have seen them a few times. It's always a trip. My dad saw a bobcat at a driving range in League City, but I have never seen one in the Houston area. I saw a bobcat kitten scavenging a Mcdonalds trash can in one of the small towns off 59 North a few years ago, I don't remember which one though. I have never seen a live skunk either. And it's always funny when people complain about wild, indigenous animals coming onto "their" property.
I've seen one skirt my fence, and then go through the barb wire to the right of my house into the neighborhood. Several times. They howl as a pack occasionally late at night - drives my dog bonkers. Seen a bunch of skunks too. I live in Clear Lake.
At my parent's house in Lakeside area( Wilcrest and Westheimer) I have seen several coyotes in the forest area deep into the night. Usually they are out in the winter months. They aren't that scary looking, but they go in packs of 3-4 usually.
Of all the crazy things it's really not out in the boonies at all. From the back balcony/patio of my house you can see the hummer on the roof of the hummer dealer (I absolutely hate that ****ing hummer). There was always wildlife, including coyotes in the field between the neighborhood and the freeway, but ever since the morons cleared the land across El Dorado, the Coyotes have been forced to be even more concentrated, and a bit more brazen. They look miserable, no doubt due to lack of enough food, and they raid the trash of my idiot neighbors that refuse to buy a 10 dollar trashcan. For the record though, this wildlife (and the view, minus that goddam hummer) is why I bought the house.
Yeah, I have seen them around Ellington. I used to go walking around that area when it was nothing but fields north of Pineloch, before Clear Lake bvld even existed. I live in Camino South btw, by Mollys etc.
There's lots of coyotes around the Houston area, and some really BIG ones in Galveston near the port. I like coyotes; I think they are pretty cool animals, but they will kill and eat your pets. I know they come into my neighborhood, but my dod is an inside dog, so I don't wait outside with a gun for them. However, if I ever felt threatened, or that one of my family or pets were threatened , I'd keep a loaded gun within reach and shoot that sumbich deader than JKF. Cuss me all you want for my attitude, but that's just the way it is.
i have at lone rabbit habitating under my shed. one day i was trimming the grass around the shed, that mother****in' booger jumped right out at me and had me running back like an 8 year old school girl.
Not in Houston, but they regularly howl at night, and eat pets in the neighborhood. At least once every couple of weeks, I see the folks from Critter Control around my complex looking for coyotes.
Wow. I literally live around the corner from there. I'm going to start looking in the woods as I drive by there from now on.
