The coyote’s are getting bolder in my neighborhood. I came face to face with one in my local park on my early morning walk. He was not scared of me at all. He just watched me go by within 25ft and he hardy moved at all. He was still watching me as I left the park.
Rabid?
A friend of mine in SC was checking his trail camera. He said there were several toddlers playing in their back yard nearby. He saw something out of the corner of his eye and turned as a coyote was charging him. He battled the critter for a good while and eventually stomped it to death.
He decided nobody would believe him, so he went to his truck to get his phone to take a picture. He also got his hunting knife.
When he got back to the trail camera, the coyote was gone. He saw it charging down the hill at him again. He stomped it to death a second time. This time he slashed the twice-dead critter’s throat and tied it up in a tree so other animals wouldn’t eat it. He called animal control.
They verified the animal was rabid. They decided his scratches did not endanger him. He is all better now. We changed my friend’s name to Killer Of Coyotes.
He no longer will enter a wooded area without his gun and a big knife.