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Question: When 'yotes move into an area, does the crat population take a noticable hit?

Yes, at least where I live. Several times I have been up at 4AM getting ready for fishing trips and seen the silent shadow of a songdog running down the middle of my street. There are VERY few feral cats around, and the new neighbors always seem to be hunting for their crats. Either I have a lot of like thinking neighbors, or the 'yotes are very efficient.