Do people eat coyotes?

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MainVehicle2812@reddit

Never heard of it happening, but I'm willing to bet it has. And on a different note, I seem to be the only person on this thread so far that sees coyotes as a useful animal to have around, instead of a pest. But I guess that's to be expected when some idiots dump their pet rabbits outside, and the little bastards not only survived, but thrived, breeding like mad and eating any plant you tried to grow outside. Your flowers? Gone. Your veggie garden? Gone. Your ornamental bushes? Chewed all to hell. A pack of coyotes moved into the area and had the problem fixed within a year. We still have rabbits here, but wild rabbits, not pets, and their numbers are kept in check.

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emmasdad01@reddit

I’ve never known anyone to. I would think the meat would be quite disgusting

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PfedrikTheChawg@reddit

Saw a YouTube video of a guy who killed and ate one. He said the hind quarters had a strong ammonia taste due to scent glands and that the only real edible part was the back strap.

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ABelleWriter@reddit

Happy cake day

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CtForrestEye@reddit (OP)

Happy Reddit Anniversary 🎉

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american_wino@reddit

Coyote is one of the most dangerous kinds of meat to eat. They carry a ton of diseases. Only eat it if you're starving and if you do, cook it until it is very, very well done

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unsuspicious_raven@reddit

When I lived up in SD I knew a guy that had tried it and said it was foul. Most people hunt them because they are pests

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greasyprophesy@reddit

Killed a lot of coyotes. Never ate one of that answers your question.

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RobinFarmwoman@reddit

You kid yourself all you want about murdering those coyotes, they are not about to attack humans.

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greasyprophesy@reddit

No. But they were killing calves. But it’s also not common for coyotes to come out during the day. Or stare at your from the wood line. Or run at you. Didn’t look rabid. Saw about 5 or 6 out there in broad daylight.

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RobinFarmwoman@reddit

Your comment about hunting being fun is just moronic. But then, if you get nervous when an animal stares at you to the point where you feel you have to kill it, you obviously have emotional problems anyway.

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greasyprophesy@reddit

Where did I say it was fun? They were killing our cows. I value the cows more than the life of those coyotes. End of story

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RobinFarmwoman@reddit

I called bullshit. Coyotes just aren't that aggressive, and they rarely hunt in packs. There are plenty of people out there shooting coyotes that never ate anything bigger than a bunny. But if it makes you feel like a big man Defending Your Beef, I guess you're just going to carry on.

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greasyprophesy@reddit

You can call it what you want but I’m just telling you what it was and what I saw

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ThePurityPixel@reddit

So you ate one that *didn't* answer his questions?

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ermghoti@reddit

"What is your favorite color?" "Arf?" \[bang\]

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greasyprophesy@reddit

Bingo lol. I’ll change it. Thanks haha

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Hoosier_Jedi@reddit

It’s generally a bad idea to eat animals that can carry rabies.

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Belle_TainSummer@reddit

Carnivore meat is considered a health risk in general, too much of a risk of parasites; plus it tends to be unpleasant tasting.

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crafty_j4@reddit

TIL. I always assumed it was just tough and chewy since a lot of carnivores tend to be more lean. Don’t people eat bear meat though? Is it less risky because they’re omnivorous?

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Belle_TainSummer@reddit

Only Polar Bears are truly carnivorous. Most bear species, even the fearsome Grizzly subspecies of Brown Bear, are more herbivorous than carnivorous. Or at least insectivorous.

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CaptainAwesome06@reddit

Fun fact: Eating polar bear liver will kill you because it's so high in Vitamin A.

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FineUnderachievment@reddit

Enough vitamin A to kill about 50 people. So yeah, if you manage to kill one. Don't eat the liver.

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CaptainAwesome06@reddit

Imagine being able to kill a polar bear just to die from too much vitamin A. What a sad turn.

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Belle_TainSummer@reddit

And also because the vicious furry barsteward will not give it up easily.

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LukasJackson67@reddit

You can eat bear meat. I have. You have to cook it well done because of parasites. It wasn’t good.

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Donohoed@reddit

No, bear meat is risky. One of the random facts i learned in boy scouts way back in the day was that bear and beaver meat can have parasites burrowed into it and cooking it the way you would like a steak doesn't get it hot enough to kill those parasites. Safest method is to cut it into cubes and stew it to make sure it reaches a safe temp all the way through to kill the parasites

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devilbunny@reddit

Stew or sausage. Sausage is the only bear I've ever eaten. It tastes like what it's eating. A bear that's been mostly eating berries is going to have a much more pleasant flavor profile than one that's been inhaling moribund salmon.

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Ducal_Spellmonger@reddit

Bear has a high likelihood of carrying trichinosis, which is neutralized through proper cooking (the same as salmonella in chicken). Historically, trichinosis was prevalent in commercially raised pork and was why it was recommended to cook to 165°f.

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Ducal_Spellmonger@reddit

Bear has a high likelihood of carrying trichinosis, which is neutralized through proper cooking (the same as salmonella in chicken). Historically, trichinosis was prevalent in commercially raised pork and was why it was recommended to cook to 165°f.

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DerthOFdata@reddit

So any animal except possums?

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Hervee@reddit

Possum is edible. It used to be very common in southern states (maybe still is?). Cooked properly and served up with sweet potato you could think you’re eating chicken.

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DerthOFdata@reddit

My point was that it's very very rare for possums to carry rabies as their low body temp is hostile to incubating the disease. Meaning they are basically the only mammal that doesn't carry rabies meaning they are the only safe mammal to eat according to Hoosier_Jedi.

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fenwoods@reddit

This is why I was never able to get my Bat Bites food truck off the ground.

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PhilTheThrill1808@reddit

You know what they call bat? The chicken of the cave.

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fenwoods@reddit

Dammit, THAT’S what I should have named the truck!

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BottleTemple@reddit

*puts down fried raccoon*

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mrjabrony@reddit

Indeed put down that fried raccoon because this evening I’ve prepared for you slow-braised metropolitan raccoon, nourished on a diverse diet of late-night fried chicken remnants, artisanal pizza crusts, imitation cheese product, and high-fructose corn syrup blends. Finished in a Dr. Pepper demi-glace and served atop a crispy strata of day-old waffle fries, with pickled drive-thru garnish and a dusting of Cheeto ash.

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AnnicetSnow@reddit

Raccoon is actually a very healthy lean meat and was a Thanksgiving staple a century ago. For people that still harvest them for that purpose the rule of thumb is you need one seven miles from any kind of heavy human habitation to ensure their foraging range does not include too many dumpsters. (To add to the random factoids remembered from somewhere in this thread.)

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BottleTemple@reddit

I love an artisanal trash panda.

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mrjabrony@reddit

Slow braised metropolitan trash panda would’ve been so much better

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Buford12@reddit

All mammals carry rabies. Raccoons are some of the most common carriers and people definitely eat them.

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lawyerjsd@reddit

I've never heard of anyone eating coyotes. To the extent that people hunt coyotes, it's because they kill (and eat) domesticated animals.

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Murderhornet212@reddit

No. They’re basically dogs.

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somecow@reddit

Hell no. Shoot them, sure (they will attack your chickens, cows, horses, cats, dogs, etc). They’re gross, have rabies, and nobody is eating what’s basically a wild dog. Also, they might drop an anvil on you or plant some dynamite, so best to just leave them alone.

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Quenzayne@reddit

I used to live in Southern California and they were a constant pest on hiking trails and even sidewalks along major thoroughfares. You’d be going for your evening walk, see one of them pop out from the bushes in front of you, and you’d have to just start walking backwards until they went away or got bored. Most of the time they were just booking it across the trail or street for one reason or another but sometimes they’d stop and stare you down, they were a total nuisance.

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RobinFarmwoman@reddit

This is the best answer!

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Adamon24@reddit

I’ve never heard of anyone eating them. They are hunted a lot. So I assume someone does. But usually they’re just killed to protect pets and livestock.

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jrhawk42@reddit

I'm sure somebody out there does, but typically humans avoid eating carnivores (w/ exceptions) since they're more likely to carry parasites.

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HorseFeathersFur@reddit

We don’t eat canines, no. This can’t be a serious question. Also, we don’t hunt them.

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RobinFarmwoman@reddit

You were incorrect about people not hunting them. There are still organized coyote hunts with bounties in the western US.

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AnnicetSnow@reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAnAmerican/s/TR8OBFBPL0 I'll just refer you to the posts made directly above this one. There really is no reason to dismiss it as "not a serious question." Coyotes might be about the only animal hunted and trapped across most of the country that *aren't* eaten, there's no reason someone not from here would automatically know that though.

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brian11e3@reddit

Here in Illinois, they are hunted for several reasons, including sport. Coyotes are open season year round for us (except for during deer seasons) because we have an over abundance.

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Krusty_Krab_Pussy@reddit

People do hunt Coyotes to protect their animals, just not the same as deer hunting.

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globularlars@reddit

People do also hunt them for pelts and recreation

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HorseFeathersFur@reddit

That’s what I said

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Krusty_Krab_Pussy@reddit

You edited it, your original comment didn't have the last part.

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Opportunity_Massive@reddit

I don’t know if their meat is actually gross, but they are predators and so are very lean. I would think that that’s the main reason not to eat them unless necessary. Since a coyote looks a lot like Fido (generic name for any American dog), I can’t see it ever becoming very popular to eat them

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redvinebitty@reddit

In the southwest they are pretty lean and mangy. In northwest, big with full coats

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RobinFarmwoman@reddit

I'm in New Mexico. Our coyotes are thriving. I haven't seen any with mange although I'm sure it happens sometimes. Overall the population is doing quite well though.

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RobinFarmwoman@reddit

Coyotes are predators and carrion eaters. Nobody eats those unless they're starving because the meat isn't very tasty. There's a reason farmed meat animals are all herbivores. In general, Americans value dogs and would have an automatic negative reaction to the idea of eating a canine species. There are some assholes who hunt coyotes, because they think it decreases the coyotes' ability to flourish in a human environment. It doesn't.

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Alternative-Law4626@reddit

When my dad had a sales territory in Nebraska back in the 1970s, he said he drove by one farm/ranch where the farmer had posed 7 dead coyotes into a scene you could see from the road. Some were attacking, others being attacked. They were all frozen in place -- because Nebraska.

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Astute_Primate@reddit

My dad's rule about hunting was that if we shot it, we had to eat it. Didn't really affect me, but m stepbrother used to be really into hunting when he was younger. He ate one. He said it was stringy and earthy. But he's not exactly a 5-star chef so maybe someone with culinary skills would make it better?

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Beagalltach@reddit

People don't eat coyotes. They are hunted because they are pests and they are usually left in the wild after being killed. Two common things done with coyotes are to harvest the pelt and harvest anything necessary to collect a bounty (only in areas with a reward for killing coyotes).

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mtnman54321@reddit

People very rarely eat scavengers. Ever notice how big a bird a raven is? Ever heard of anyone eating one? Same thing.

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battlebarnacle@reddit

*land* scavengers. We love scavengers in the sea

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DecemberPaladin@reddit

I mean The water washes off the food, making sea scavengers extra clean. That’s just Science.

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htownmidtown1@reddit

And the come marinated in free salt! I miss raw conch

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DecemberPaladin@reddit

In all seriousness, I grew up on seafood, and freshwater fish is gross to me. Flavorless and dull. “Catfish is great, you just have to season it until it’s unrecognizable as a lifeform!” I rest my case.

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JohnnyC908@reddit

I agree with catfish, but lake trout and walleye are phenomenal. Then again I grew up in the midwest, so maybe it's just a cultural thing.

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DecemberPaladin@reddit

Likely—a buddy of mine grew up in the landlocked parts of Texas, and couldn’t abide the oceanic stuff.

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htownmidtown1@reddit

lol I agree. I was being serious. I spent roughly a decade growing up in Cayman and I worked as a dive instructor. I loved diving down (no gear) to catch conch and bring it up to eat on the boat. I was an avid bass fisherman in Texas and Louisiana. I think catfish and tilapia are gross but I’ll eat Tilapia if served to me as a show of respect but I’ll never order either. I’ve seen too many fish farms. No thank you. Same with catfish. Catfish disgust me more because they can/will/do survive and thrive in any nasty ass sewage water. No thank you.

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DecemberPaladin@reddit

And no salt in the water to kill all the germs!

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htownmidtown1@reddit

That’s why fresh seafood = best food!

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mtnman54321@reddit

Good point. Crabs and lobsters are definitely scavengers.

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Pkrudeboy@reddit

I’ll eat bottom feeders all day.

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groetkingball@reddit

Crow tastes OK though.

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General-Winter547@reddit

Not eaten, hunted to keep them from killing your animals.

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Dangerous_Midnight91@reddit

No one eats them but often a bounty can be collected for hunting them. Usually paid by a state Fish and Wildlife agency as a means to control livestock predation.

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Separate-Swordfish40@reddit

Is this a joke?

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redvinebitty@reddit

No joke, some people who hunt coyotes will eat the meat, just like bear, cougar

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LaLechuzaVerde@reddit

Why would it be a joke? I didn’t know until mid adulthood that Llama is eaten in Peru and Bolivia. I thought until then that it was strictly a fiber animal. People don’t know what other people in other countries eat unless someone tells them. OP: No, coyotes are too similar to dogs and people who are culturally American do not eat dogs, so the idea of eating a coyote would be quite disgusting. Some people do eat raccoons, but this is very uncommon as they are hunted mainly for their fur. Same with bear and mountain lion. Animals hunted for meat are generally birds and ruminants such as deer and elk. Coyote fur is sometimes harvested, but I’ve never known anybody to harvest the meat.

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Separate-Swordfish40@reddit

You are not OP. Why are you answering my question

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Distinct_Safety5762@reddit

It’s a public forum on social media, designed specifically for such interactions. If you wanted an answer from OP and OP alone you should have asked them privately. Out here it’s fair game.

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AnnicetSnow@reddit

I don't know what it is, I have seen so many people indignantly demanding to know what gives someone else the right to reply to their post made in a public discussion thread this week. And I'm just like "huh? You do know where you are and that the reply buttons you use are on everyone else's screens too?" Lol

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Rob_LeMatic@reddit

Wait a minute... you're not the guy they asked why he answered their question! What are you answering the question about answering the question? You're not OPP

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penguinpops92@reddit

Because your question is easy to answer if you think about it for longer than 5 seconds. They gave you a pretty good answer

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kshucker@reddit

lol shut the fuck up

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crafty_j4@reddit

I’m learning a lot from this thread. I too thought they only used llamas for fiber, and my last girlfriend was Peruvian lol.

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Landwarrior5150@reddit

I see the type of comment you replied to a lot on Reddit and it almost always annoys me. It’s like people can’t fathom that others have different levels of knowledge and experience than they do, so they just assume that a question that they know the answer to must be a joke.

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jackaroo1344@reddit

Why would it be a joke? Hunting animals for food like ducks, deer, squirrel, etc is very common in parts of the US. Eating dogs is common in other parts of the world. It makes sense to ask if we hunt a dog-like wild animal for food, I'm not sure which part you think is a joke?

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redvinebitty@reddit

Yes

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Original-Opportunity@reddit

No. Never.

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Queen_Aurelia@reddit

I have never heard of anyone eating coyotes. There are coyotes in my neighborhood, but they don’t bother anyone. They will, however, go after small pets.

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LukasJackson67@reddit

Has there been a nuclear war?

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Pernicious_Possum@reddit

Eating the meat of predators is generally avoided

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Ducal_Spellmonger@reddit

Well, that's not true. Most of the fish humans eat are predators, many people eat bear, and some people even hunt and eat mountain lions.

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goldentriever@reddit

No. I don’t know anyone who eats bear or mountain Lion. Fish wise… that’s catfish, bass, tuna, shrimp etc.. none of those are predators lol

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Ducal_Spellmonger@reddit

Catfish, bass, and tuna are 100% predators. As well as salmon, trout, swordfish, pike, walleye, etc..

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goldentriever@reddit

I guess I was thinking predators to humans lol. Either way fish aren’t really meat either

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brian11e3@reddit

I've known as few people who used to eat coyote, opossum, raccoon, and pretty much anything other animal most people turned their nose up to. They were all older people who ate them out of necessity. I haven't met anyone who has eaten them in the last 30 years.

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goldentriever@reddit

I’m a fellow Illinoisian (Metro East). Where are you seeing people eat coyote and raccoon😂

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brian11e3@reddit

Central and Western Illinois. The last time I saw it was back in the 90's.

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AnnicetSnow@reddit

Anybody over 60 around here has probably eaten posdum at some point in their life.

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oarmash@reddit

I’m sure someone has tried eating it but I’ve never heard of it

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Sabertooth767@reddit

No. They're scavengers, so their meat is gross. Also, no one really "hunts" coyotes. There's no valuable part to them, it's just pest control (often opportunistic- if I'm out hunting deer and I see a coyote, I'll kill it).

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Hervee@reddit

Have you actually eaten coyote or are you just turned off by the thought of it? It’s actually very nutritious, lean, and cooks up nicely in a stew. It tastes a bit like beef if you cook it up like beef stew and is okay in chili.

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Sabertooth767@reddit

I'm not turned off by the thought of it- I'd be willing to try it, I'm just not inclined to bother. I just assumed that they'd taste bad, due to being a scavenger and predator.

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AdRevolutionary2881@reddit

Coyotes are kill on site in my area of NY. It's all farmland around here, though.

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Gyvon@reddit

Predators are, generally, not eaten.

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KarmaticFox@reddit

I've never heard of anyone eating coyotes.

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DryFoundation2323@reddit

Not typically. I guess it's possible in an emergency. Coyotes are scavengers/predators so their meat would that be very good.

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Curmudgy@reddit

Tangent alert : > their meat would *that* be very good. [emphasis added] I've been noticing more of these totally obvious typos. I'm wondering whether they're from more voice to text usage, swiping instead of tapping, or just the long standing bad autocorrect. If anyone can point me to recent discussions of this, I'd appreciate it.

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DryFoundation2323@reddit

In my case it was voice to text. I fixed it if that helps.

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Curmudgy@reddit

Sorry, I didn’t need it fixed. I knew what you meant. I’m just curious as to whether more and more people are using voice to text and/or swiping, as well as how reliable they are. Also, I speculate the errors made by voice to text are different from the errors made by autocorrect.

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DryFoundation2323@reddit

It seems to me that voice to text is becoming less reliable over the years rather than more reliable. I'm not sure why this is. Back in the days of early smartphones I found that I almost never had to edit after doing a voice to text input. Nowadays I have to edit almost every time and they seem to be more than one error every time. This seems to defeat the whole purpose of voice to text to me.

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Curmudgy@reddit

I guess I’ve never considered it reliable, which is why I’m surprised at its growth. Perhaps people have been spoiled by Alexa without understanding how much of it is dependent on domain semantics. Controlling household appliances, asking questions about day to day things, placing orders, while they see like a broad use of language, are still a far cry from educated discussions about an unlimited array of worldwide topics here on Reddit. Although in this particular case, it should have been basic English grammar and semantics. Or maybe I don’t understand the evolution of speech understanding. When I was first exposed to it, it was totally limited to a very narrow domain, chess moves. So maybe subject domains are no longer that critical.

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ignescentOne@reddit

I certainly do voice to text a lot more than I used to, because the dictation is now close enough? And it does cause some typo type issues, but I pay a lot more attention to what the dictation is translating my words into. But for the autocorrect, autocorrect has gotten way way worse. Now that a lot of the systems are using itty bitty AI driven autocorrect, the tendency to suggest entirely inaccurate words has immensely increased. It used to be that autocorrect had a set amount of common misspellings, that it had replaced with correct spellings. So it missed a lot of things, but when it did suggest something it was often correct. Now that there's predictive feeds and an attempt to interpret the misspellings, I think the amount of inaccurate words has sharply risen.

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cdb03b@reddit

It is not good or typical to eat carnivores. At least land carnivores. They are hunted in areas that they cause problems killing livestock and pets.

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Just_curious4567@reddit

No! They carry diseases and parasites. The ones around me get rabies.

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Boring_Detective142@reddit

We don't have coyotes but I've had some yummy alligator.

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Red_Beard_Rising@reddit

Not really. If anyone does, they aren't going to tell anyone. Most Americans question the meat from scavenging animals. But out in the sticks, the scavenger finds are different from their urban or suburban counterparts. They are scavenging the kills of larger predators rather than trash bins. Coyotes are kinda open season. When I am hunting deer in Wisconsin with a deer tag, I can shoot a coyote during deer season. Last deer season I had a coyote come up within a few feet of the blind. I'm not going to shoot it and scare any deer nearby. Up close they are not that big. It caught my scent and ran. If it attacked me I would probably just hit him in the head with the rifle. Then shoot him in the head if the clock on the head didn't do it.

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Tree_Weasel@reddit

In the hills of Appalachia or the rural outskirts of Texas, the most backwoods folks may occasionally hear a coyote. But it’d be VERY rare and only in a “we’re starving” situation.

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Colodanman357@reddit

Rare is not the preferred temperature to cook coyote meat to, well done is recommended.

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Tree_Weasel@reddit

👏 👏 👏

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MrsGideonsPython@reddit

Hear?

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Tree_Weasel@reddit

Should have said “eat”. Thanks Autocorrect. I’ve made the edit.

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Tree_Weasel@reddit

Should have said “eat”. Thanks Autocorrect. I’ve made the edit.

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Hatweed@reddit

I’ve eaten squirrel, rabbit, groundhog, raccoon, bear, and dove. Never had coyote.

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CalmRip@reddit

Ick, no.

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misterlakatos@reddit

No

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eyetracker@reddit

Steve Rinella/Meat Eater, who has eaten most everything, says it's not that great. And he likes bear, mountain lion/cougar/puma/several other names, beaver, raccoon. Another program tried coot, crow, and other things generally considered not great and made it more palatable than they considered coyote.

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dontdoxmebro@reddit

Westerners typically don’t eat canines of any kind. The Coyote population is the opposite of endangered. They have adapted to life alongside humans quite well and have expanded their range considerably.

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Prior_Particular9417@reddit

Yeah they pop up on porch cams in my neighborhood and scamper down the sidewalk. I do enjoy the coyote howls, makes me feel like I’m kinda close to nature even though we are the invaders of their territory.

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AnnicetSnow@reddit

They sure do keep the stray dog and outdoor cat population in check in some places.

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Prior_Particular9417@reddit

True!

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Spiritual_Lemonade@reddit

It's essential a dog or in the Canine family No

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CleverGal96@reddit

Not usually, no...although my husband bagged one on an elk hunting trip and wondered what the backstrap might have tasted like, so he cooked it over the fire and ate it. Told me all about it when he got home and I told him that's absolutely foul and disgusting lol. He said it tasted great but I told him coyotes are literally eaters of carrion and other dead things 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮 curiosity killed the cat I guess. So to answer your question I guess you could? Don't recommend it though as stated above.

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Ok_Organization_7350@reddit

No, people don't eat coyotes. It's weird to eat carnivorous animals.

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StarbuckWoolf@reddit

In Texas, coyotes eat pets.

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Colodanman357@reddit

It’s uncommon but coyote is edible and some people do eat them. The same goes for mountain lions.

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Vachic09@reddit

We generally won't, but there's probably somebody somewhere that has. Certain populations, especially older members, are known to eat just about any kind of critter if it's cooked right.

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OkConsideration9002@reddit

I've hunted them. I would never eat them. I have caped them out; That's not easy.

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Rob_LeMatic@reddit

I'm not sure what caped out means and I'm having a google fail

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OkConsideration9002@reddit

IDK how much detail you want... https://youtu.be/4Wzmza06rBE?si=5mtZTcnEwfRVlK3V

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Rob_LeMatic@reddit

Thanks, I get it now. I just hadn't run across the term

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OkConsideration9002@reddit

Probably not very common for "normal"people. 😂

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Derfburger@reddit

To cape (caping) an animal is to prepare it for mounting. Similar to skinning but more involved.

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OrdinarySubstance491@reddit

Do other countries eat foxes and wolves?

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Disposedofhero@reddit

Canids are not often on the menu for humans that have any choice about it, American or otherwise.

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DrGerbal@reddit

I’ve never heard of it. Coyotes are usually very thin, not a whole hell of a lot of fat, and are kind of opportunists So it’s definitely not a piece of meat you search out. But I think you can eat them

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