Posted on 12/12/2022 3:01:11 AM PST by marktwain
On Friday, December 2, 2022, a father, Ariel Eliyahuo, and his two-year-old daughter returned to their Woodland Hills home in Los Angeles, California. An average-sized coyote can be seen approaching the two-year-old. It knocks the child down, then attempts to drag the girl off by her legs. Only the quick action of her father, who ran at the coyote, yelling, drove off the animal. The coyote did not leave the area until the father threw a water bottle at it.
The action fits very well as a predatory attack. Young children are reasonably close to the size of prey that a coyote would feel capable of taking down. As coyotes become comfortable with humans and gain experience that humans are not a danger to them, they are much more likely to “test” small humans as potential prey. The immigrant family is from Israel and has lived in the area for three years.
For generations, coyotes were considered vermin and shot at or killed when the opportunity presented. This is a common reason farmers and ranchers would keep a rifle handy. Not long ago seeing a rifle rack in a truck was a common thing, but that has been greatly reduced in California by their draconic gun control laws.
California is one of only five states which do not have the protection of the right to keep and bear arms in the state constitution. In the 1960s the state started making it harder and harder to bear arms. It is very difficult to be able to legally carry firearms anywhere in the state, including in rural areas.
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This is why we kill every coyote we see on the range.
We have the big ones here, the Eastern Coyotes, that are genetically a red wolf/coyote cross. Some are as big as a German Shepard. So far all they hunt are regular prey but that can include calves and goats. Most cattle farmers here keep donkeys to keep them run off. Most goats are kept close to the house.
As you stated the proper solution is to kill them.
The trouble is the anti’s have fallen in love with predators.
The want more and more. Thinking having them around is a good thing.
Thank God for fathers. Thank God for fathers who are protective and vigilant and aware. Malachi chapter 4 ends with a warning.
Why not trap them, and send them to gated communities?
My first thought was that SloJo Biden had escaped his handlers again.
My husband used to live in a forest preserve near my dialysis center when I was still on hemo, and one night I walked out his back door to see a pack of four or five coyotes in the street and the end of his driveway near my car. I slowly backed around the corner to the house and went inside, then he walked me to my car with his shotgun. This was probably 01:00.
Pretty sure it wouldn’t have been legal for him to shoot them, even on hos property knowing Illinois laws.
I originally come from Nahant MA, a one square mile peninsula across from Boston.
Currently the coyote problem is such that
they plan to shoot and kill any agressive coyote. It’s controversial.
Wildlife getting closer to civilization and
people are befriending them, feeding them.
Youtube videos by Jim Blackwood, a retired Mountie in Nova Scotia, show him (”Raccoon Whisperer”) and his wife Angie feeding raccoons on their back porch. They “name” them—Bashful, Steven Spielberg, Buddy, etc.
They are tame and mostly unafraid of humans.
While they sometimes growl at each other
(”Hey! Be nice!”), there are no signs of rabies.
But it is a good thing to have wildlife
lured so close via feeding? You have aggressive coyotes killing pets...
Here in Beverly MA a family of foxes near the cemetery were noticed and a seal who made it into a pond (dubbed Shoebert—after the former shoe factory that’s now a commercial development) has become beloved.
One time I was in Middlebury VT in a fairly suburban section and saw a bear casually walking across the road on a Sunday afternoon. I slowed down, etc.
A Sopranos episode had a scared Carmella and A.J. get the then-estranged Tony to try
and deal with a bear that invaded their yard
(perhaps smelling bird food).
What kind of range you on, with a herd of toddlers running around? 😁
Bumper sticker: Support the right to arm bears
Very high velocity hollow points are the cure.
What Are Wild Coyotes Doing in the Big City?
[Excellent for understanding urban coyote behavior, in order to counter them. It’s liberal PBS, and coyote-sympathetic, but you can still learn from it.]
“They become nocturnal ghosts.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB7nomE1VL4&ab_channel=PBSTerra
COYOTE HUNTING at NIGHT - Instructional Tips and Tricks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M9eUIU-9qE&ab_channel=SinCityOutdoors
Coyotes Behavior Differences Between Day and Night
[More great night hunting tips. Coyotes are extremely curious and can’t resist when they hear recorded “distressed prey” calls, other coyote calls, etc.]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WHJjQJJ-mU&ab_channel=BurrisOptics
Coyotes and Coy-wolves can also jump 6 foot fences which many people think will keep them away from children and pets in the back yard. Local suburban ordinances frequently limit fence heights to six feet in height to “maintain property values”, but fail to protect children. People should demand that be changed.
Usually, the purpose is to make sure zoning officials can spy on what is going on, which is why they ban walls.
A local zoning official eventually admitted this when I was quizzing him.
This video is long (46 minutes) but it is a PBS Nature episode called “Meet the Coywolf”; all about how they became a breed and where they’re showing up.
Very interesting as this happened over the last 100 years or so. “Nature,” as Jeff Goldblum says, “Finds a way.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA_OZKPGYUI
One lady supposedly stood up at a meeting and asked why they don’t just trap the coyotes and neuter them. A rancher told her Lady they are not raping our sheep. They are eating them.
I don’t know where you live in Illinois (I’m in N. Illinois), I live in a small municipality, it would probably be illegal for me to shoot them in the city. There are other alternatives, pepper spray, even stun guns if you have a FOID card.
There also those ballistic batons, I think they call them. I don’t know if a FOID card is required for them.
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