Posted on 09/25/2019 9:37:19 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
The coyote came charging full speed across the front yard, circled the tree, and charged right at Christine. It came so close it touched her.
"I feeled its ear," she said. "It almost bited my rib."
"We heard the scream," her mother Elizabeth Przybylski said. "She came in with this wild story."
Her parents pulled up the home surveillance footage and sure enough, there it was.
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They have trail cams out and see pictures, plus tracks in the snow across thier acre plus back yard. They are about 20 miles west of Villa Park.
I see them occasionally from my house and often when out with my dogs, more ofter during coyote mating season (Jan-Feb).
Once spotted one inside a neighbors 4'fence.
Very lucky Girl- coyote mighta had rabbies- but maybe not-
“A Dingo Ate My Baby!”
Coyotes are everywhere, now - we even have them in Maryland.
“I feeled its ear,” she said. “It almost bited my rib.”
He really didn’t want her....if he did he would have had her. Too big to carry in his mouth.
Scary. We have a 6 foot chainlink fence. Our next-door neighbors were against fences and almost lost one of their small dogs. They put up a small, fenced in area after that.
A coyote snatched the dog belonging to a friend of ours not long ago. She was ten feet from it in her own backyard when it happened. This was near downtown Wheaton.
We fish frequently in a couple of the local forest preserves. Hearing them howl at sundown is a bit spooky.
We’ve seen them strutting down the middle of our street in Carol Stream more than once. No fear in them at all.
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They are all over around here. My dog and I ran into one at the bottom of the steps one night. My dog went nuts and I heard the coyote run off and I saw it go over the fence. Now I carry a flashlight to scan the yard when we go out at night. They are frequently spotted trotting down streets and alleys during to day, too.
Out in the countryside of Madera County, the coyotes run at the site of humans, and that’s because they are hunted as varmints, as they should be.
I’m glad she’s fine, but I bemoan the state of our language. She’s only 5 and already says “I was like...”, “He was like...”.
Coyote came out of nowhere and bit him.
Our townhomes back up to a forest preserve, we see lots of coyotes. I've seen them walking down the middle of my street in packs like they own it.
This state is over-run with coyotes, and not just the libtard democrat ones we like to bitch about.
There aren't a lot of them (couple of year ago I saw th figure that 2%-15% of the coyotes in Illinois are coydogs) because they interbreed only when the coyote population is expanding into human -inhabited areas, but only when female dogs of suitable size are more plentiful than coyote females.
Correct. They learn very, very quickly when locals start taking them out. Am in suburbia now, but having lived in the sticks, know this truth. Rather than “Calling the Authorities”, I wish the closing comment from the newswoman would have been “Men from the neighborhood have indicted that they will be correcting this problem.”
Ho problem with them here, I shoot everyone I see. It is legal to call them in, spotlight them, and kill them all year and we do.
There are still problems with them killing outside dogs/cats and small calves.
City folks will sue them and ask them to please not eat their children.
My wife is a horse veterinarian.
Went to a farm call a few years back 7-8 coyotes took down a healthy horse. Neighbors saw it happen. It was near death when she got there she had to euthanize it.
Months later I was walking my English Setter on a local trail and heard a pack of coyotes howling behind multi flora bushes maybe 30-40 yards away.
Def puckered me up.
The newer high powered air rifles are very quiet.
Absolutely fantastic targets for an AR-15.
Yep, a pack can definitely take down a horse. We have a horse farm. Used to have problems with them. Since we have gotten a Great Dane, no more problems. Our local coyotes apparently take having a giant dog around seriously. Our current Dane does her evening “big bad dog” barking session and that is enough to keep them away. She is a house dog and is not patrolling. They just know she is here.
A friend of mine in Connecticut has told me about coydogs there. I checked online to see what they look like: definitely a different look from a coyote, depending on what kind of dog the coyote bred with. It’s kind of scary, since some of them look more like dogs than coyotes, and you could be walking along and see one and think it’s just a dog.
Kill every coyote you see.
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