Posted on 05/13/2022 5:12:39 AM PDT by marktwain
On May 3rd, in the Lake Highlands neighborhood of the Dallas metroplex, a coyote attacked a two year old toddler on the front porch. It was about 8:30 a.m., according to AP. From Fox4kdfw:
DALLAS – A 2-year-old child is in critical condition at the hospital after being attacked by a coyote in Dallas.
Police said it happened around 8:30 a.m. Tuesday morning in the Lake Highlands area while the child was sitting on the front porch of a home on Royalpine Drive, which is not far from White Rock Creek.
Another coyote attack on a toddler had happened a week earlier in Huntington Beach, California.
In Vancouver, Canada, a spate of coyote attacks triggered an official response in 2021. 45 people had been bitten by August of 2021. By the end of the year, eleven coyotes had been culled. No more attacks were reported. Vancouver park authorities made it illegal to feed coyotes.
In Texas, Governor Rick Perry made headlines when he shot an aggressive coyote which appeared to be menacing his dog, while out near Austin, Texas, in December of 2015.
The attack in Dallas was unusually severe. Most coyote attacks on people are bites or nips, where hospitalization is not needed. The Toddler in Dallas survived the attack, was in critical condition at the hospital, but is now recovering at home. From ksat.com:
DALLAS – A 2-year-old boy who was attacked by a coyote
on the porch of his Dallas home is recovering after surgery, and officials searching for the coyote said Thursday that three that were acting aggressively have been killed.
As coyotes have increased in population and adapted to urban areas, coyote attacks have increased.
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Open season. No bag limit.
The morons in that neighborhood were feeding the damn things. By hand....
bounties buy more bullets.
They deny it.
Ca paid $5 FOR 2 EARS in the 80s.
I think it was the Tx Governor who shot a coyote several years ago. He was out jogging and dispatched the varmint with a LCP.
They are approaching a shoot on site situation in Tx.
There used to be a bounty on coyotes scalps. Two bucks for a piece of scalp with the ears attached.
That was back when .22 LR ammo was about a penny a round
“Coyotes and wolves interbreed successfully.”
We have Coy-dogs around here. Bigger than coyotes and absolutely no fear of man.
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It already is.
However, I think they would shy from the public affairs nightmare of prosecuting someone who shot a coyote which did not fear humans.
There's a reason in many (most?) states outside of urban areas there's open season on coyotes.
Now that’s just stupid
A ping out to the Texas Ping list, founded by Windflier.
Coyote attacks in the middle of Dallas? Welcome to Texas - it can happen anywhere in the state.
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Blessings, and stay cool!
So true! The coyotes where I live, in the Colorado mountains, are not like the small, mangy ones in the lowland suburbs. They're larger, with thick coats, aggressive, and look very much like wolves. Last year, I saw a pack of them running up my mountain hill, through the trees, at full run. It was like a werewolf movie. Very surreal.
MI used to pay a $5 bounty for coyotes. Now you have to pay to shoot them.
There’s a new breed, a cross-section of coyotes and wolves called “Coywolves”.
Those things are flat out dangerous.
Open season. No bag limit.
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Same in my region. And to point out the opposite case of feeding by hand, around here they are shot on sight so humans imprint as danger. Not always, but mostly. (My daughter is a farm wife who packs a handgun outdoors because she’s had the buggers growl at her instead of running away.
That said . . .
Nothing more eerie than to be out pheasant hunting on the river bottom when the fog rolls in at sunrise and a pack of yotes start howling like high-school girls screaming bloody murder.
This happened 2 streets over from my mom’s. A friend grew up at that address.
The neighborhood is devastated and hung big blue ribbons around trees in support of the boy.
No they weren’t. The neighborhood is mad at the Dallas police department for even suggesting it.
Neighbors have been complaining about the coyote before the attack.
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