Posted on 03/21/2018 6:08:48 AM PDT by george76
BROOKVILLE, Pa. Authorities are on the hunt for a possibly rabid coyote that mauled a Pennsylvania woman, leaving her badly wounded and "drenched in blood."
Brookville borough police say a night shift employee of an assisted living community was attacked
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Brookville Police Chief Vince Markle says the woman was "drenched in blood" and required over 20 stitches and a rabies vaccination.
He says the woman may also need reconstructive surgery.
Brookville is about 80 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.
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Trump’s fault?
Any one concerned with your own safety should get a practice dummy and learn to be comfortable with sticking your thumbs deep into eye sockets. Works on humans equally as well.
” nice puppy....”
80 miles north is not Pittsburgh. That’s all woods.
Coyotes are not usually that aggressive against people: Could be rabid. Stopped to pet the “nice doggy” in the woods?
What are coyotes doing “north of Pittsburgh”. That was not their “natural habitat” until the envirowackos got involved. Thank you envirowackos.
There’s a big coyote in the woods behind my house. It snatched a Pomeranian off the porch of a condo while the pet’s owner was nearby. The coyote carried the dog into the woods and killed it. When police arrived 15 minutes later they found the dog’s head and collar.
A few years ago a guy shot a coyote in his back yard, in a neighborhood about two miles from Downtown Pittsburgh.
The entirety of North America was and is the natural habitat of the coyote.
Do you know if there is a bounty on them in Pennsylvania? There is in Virginia.
Many if not all NE coyotes are really Coy-wolves. Coyotes that mixed with Wolves up in Canada a the coyotes moved east to fill the niches left by the extermination of the eastern Timberwolf.
The most dangerous ‘coyotes ‘ are coy-wolves and especially coy-dogs as the dog gene makes them not fear man. Pure timber wolves have a definite fear of man for good reason.
Incorrect. The natural habitat was the middle tier of the Midwest.
The coyote has spread like wildfire by adapting to suburban life via scavenging.
“Brookville Police Chief Vince Markle says the woman was “drenched in blood” and required over 20 stitches and a rabies vaccination.”
“He says the woman may also need reconstructive surgery.”
Coyotes attacking humans is extremely rare. I did some reading on the subject last year because a female friend was concerned about going outside as she lived in an area with a large population of coyotes. As of 2015 there had only ever been two recorded deaths from coyote attacks in all of the United States and Canada.
Additionally, not trying to sound insensitive or anything but, 20 stitches is nothing. I can’t imagine reconstructive surgery needing unless she was bitten on the nose, ears or a couple other areas of the face.
I’ve had over 500 stitches in my life so I have a little bit of experience with this. Was in a nasty car crash when I was in my twenties and went through the windshield. That required about 200 stitches in my head, face and ears. A scar revision surgery, acouple Dermabrain procedures and time was all I needed to recover most of my pre-accident good looks. Lol.
Hope she recovers quickly. It had to be quite traumatizing.
Once again correcting the autocorrect function: “Dermabrasion procedures”
I shot one in my Pajamas...
“drenched in blood”
not sure why. would expect that in a fictional novel, not reporting.........................
80 MILES north of Pittsburgh... If you ever get to Pittsburgh, drive 80 miles north. Pittsburgh is in the mountains. You don't have to drive very far north to get out of the suburbs and into rural towns. By the time you get to Brookville, your in a small rural town on the edge of State Forest, which was probably established by someone who liked the mountains, woods and streams, but before anyone was being called envirowackos or earthfirsters. The coyotes have been there before, during and after that Billy Penn guy arrived.
Not true. Wolves push Coyotes out. We got rid of the wolves, then the coyotes advanced. It was a good trade, Coyotes are a much smaller problem. Of course, we are trying to fix that now.
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