07-25-2013, 03:12 PM
In NE Ohio, the main predators of deer are:
Disease and Starvation
Cars and trucks driven by humans
Hunting by humans
Coyotes
Coyotes can't take a healthy full grown adult, but they defintely steal off with a few fawns every year. Mostly they eat rodents and bunnies and the occasional opossum and racoon. And of course trash and the occasional household pet. We lost a cat to a suspected coyote one year, based on the bite marks on his brother's butt. Poor Ginger...
Disease and Starvation
Cars and trucks driven by humans
Hunting by humans
Coyotes
Coyotes can't take a healthy full grown adult, but they defintely steal off with a few fawns every year. Mostly they eat rodents and bunnies and the occasional opossum and racoon. And of course trash and the occasional household pet. We lost a cat to a suspected coyote one year, based on the bite marks on his brother's butt. Poor Ginger...