Posted on 11/14/2005 4:04:02 PM PST by BurbankKarl
STUDIO CITY, Calif. -- Residents of a Studio City neighborhood say coyotes have been boldly hunting pets in broad daylight in the past week.
Michael Knab, of the 11500 block of Sunshine Terrace, said he watched from his office window Monday morning as three coyotes walked up the street, grabbed his neighbor's cat, and ran up into the hills behind his home.
"The lead coyote had this big orange cat in his mouth," Knab said.
Knab, who moved to the area from Chicago just last summer, said a coyote grabbed his own cat out of his back yard in the middle of the day Saturday.
At first, he said, he did not realize his cat had disappeared. He heard the yelping of coyotes up the hill and when he climbed up to the ridge, he saw a coyote lying under a tree just yards away.
"It was a beautiful animal," Knab recalled. "After admiring the beauty of this animal, I thought, 'Where's my cat?' We later found out that the cat had been eaten."
Knab found his pet's remains up the hill.
NBC4's Robert Kovacik said the incidents serve as an important reminder to residents to keep their pets indoors and not to put pet food outside.
Animal Control authorities also recommend that people carry something to make a loud noise while walking their dogs, in case they need to scare off an attacking coyote.
Try a good pellet gun. Silent and you can at least scare 'em, if not kill 'em...SSZ
A Mini-14 makes the perfect loud noise.
You know full well its been 9 years since you could by a Mini 14 in LA
My 357 Magnum makes a lot of noise. But then so does a 12 gauge and it doesnt go as far , so it would probably be safer and more likely not to miss.
"Cat. It's What's For Dinner." ~ The Coyote Council
What's the official PETA position on this :)?
Not to worry; they'll quit eating pets once they discover babies taste better.
Early this morning, my pointer came back into the house from doing his business out in the yard and jumped back onto the bed as usual. My wife smelled something horrible, then discovered that the dog (unfixed male) had rolled in female coyote scat and rubbed it all over himself. Needless to say, we were not happy.
Coyotes are occassionally spotted near Boeing Field and in the Arboretum near U of Washington. In NYC, they are often scene in the Bronx, particularly in Van Cortlandt Park and Woodlawn Cemetary. Its no wonder they filmed "Wolfen" in the latter.
hmm.
Why is nobody shooting them ? I mean, a pack of coyotes that hunts and steals big cats out of people's gardens could as well hunt and kill toddlers...
Like this is news in the hills of LA? Coyotes have been coming down for years, and "outdoor cats" have been disappearing for at least 30 years.
Nonetheless, it might be time to buy stock in "Acme" products.
This frightens me, as they are in my area also. I hear them all of the time. I have two little dogs and I watch over them constantly when they are outside.
Beautiful animal? A coyote? Someone needs his glasses changed.
Insofar as carrying something to make a loud noise, all freepers know what that should be.
We used to dig out their dens, back in the 30's. And in southwest Oklahoma, they were invariably called kiyotes, not coyoteeees.
When I lived in Florida, the Gators used to swim up the canals in Miami and take every dog or cat they could sink their teeth into. Don't get me started on the idiotic tourists who would leave their dogs unattended in Everglades National Park.
Coyotes are protected. So are alligators in the park it seems.
Coyotes are a-s ugly, but make cool sounds. A person in the building across from mine has a Coydog that has that yelp.
LMAO!
It's illegal to just shoot them... people have to keep their pets inside and protected from coyotes. We have a lot of coyotes here and you do not ever see cats running lose and seldom see dogs loose... and if you do they don't live long. Coyotes have to eat, too, and they eat rabbits, quail, doves, and whatever else they find, just at the owls and eagles do.... and both the latter can pick up a small dog or a cat and carry away same as a coyote.
Other than the above, you are only allowed to kill alligators during the hunting season. Since firearms are not allowed in Everglades National Park, you're pretty much screwed in the unlikely event that you are charged by an alligator (they usually just sit there and wait for the closest small animal to come running by).
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