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In City Where Dogs Outnumber Children, Finding a Way for Coyotes to Coexist
ny times ^
| May 14, 2012
| NORIMITSU ONISHI
Posted on 05/16/2012 8:10:23 AM PDT by george76
SAN FRANCISCO Dogs outnumber children here, making already assertive dog owners an even more formidable political force.
But the emergence in recent years of coyotes in the citys parks, and sometimes in its expensive backyards and picturesque streets, has raised doubts about whether that founding legacy can survive. Will the two animal worlds the domesticated and the wild be able to coexist? Might they even, as many in this liberal city hope, ultimately complement each other?
Taking no chances, city officials recently cordoned off trails and barricaded a restroom in an area of Golden Gate Park where reports of coyotes following dog owners and approaching unleashed dogs have been rising
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: coyotes; doggieping; unleasheddogs
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posted on
05/16/2012 8:10:25 AM PDT
by
george76
To: george76
Will somebody please nuke San Francisco. Please.
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posted on
05/16/2012 8:11:33 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: george76
“Dogs outnumber children here.” And probably spotted owls and newts outnumber dogs.
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posted on
05/16/2012 8:13:18 AM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: george76
I’m sure there are plenty of cats in the park at night to sustain a healthy coyote population.
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posted on
05/16/2012 8:14:15 AM PDT
by
skeeter
To: jazusamo; girlangler; SierraWasp; Flycatcher; GladesGuru; B4Ranch; tubebender; Grampa Dave; ...
Remove all the people in San Francisco and create a UN Agenda 21 wilderness area ?
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posted on
05/16/2012 8:14:36 AM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: george76
Dogs and coyotes can coexist..............until the coyote gets hungry. Then they will eat the dog. Live in rural areas for awhile and you will learn a lot about the coyote. He’s very good at survival.
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posted on
05/16/2012 8:14:42 AM PDT
by
RC2
(Buy American and support the Wounded Warrior Project whenever possible.)
To: george76
Might they even, as many in this liberal city hope, ultimately complement each other?
...maybe reasoning with the coyotes or perhaps the city should pass a law where every family must sacrifice one member to the coyotes!
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posted on
05/16/2012 8:16:47 AM PDT
by
albie
To: RC2
You can learn about them in the suburbs of Chicago. They’re picking of “Fluffies” right and left around here. I won’t let my dogs out in my fenced in backyard after dark alone anymore.
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posted on
05/16/2012 8:17:01 AM PDT
by
Lurker
(Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
To: george76
Pit Bulls and Coyotes? Maybe.
Shih Tzus and Coyotes? Not so much.
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posted on
05/16/2012 8:17:28 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(You only have three billion heartbeats in a lifetime.How many does the government claim as its own?)
To: george76
I have never before feared for the coyote population, but if they have to cohabitate with San Franciscans they may well be doomed.
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posted on
05/16/2012 8:17:28 AM PDT
by
Steamburg
(The contents of your wallet is the only language Politicians understand.)
To: RC2
Plus coyotes end up being target practice targets by those with rifles.
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posted on
05/16/2012 8:17:50 AM PDT
by
Biggirl
("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
To: george76
Taking no chances, city officials recently cordoned off trails and barricaded a restroom in an area of Golden Gate Park where reports of coyotes following dog owners.
In San Francisco, a city of 805,000, there are 108,000 children, according to the 2010 census. And there are 180,000 dogs, and 10 coyotes, according to city estimates. TEN COYOTES.
As in nine plus one.
Good grief.
Yep, don't want to take any chances.
Better just stay home.
Behind locked doors.
In bed.
With the lights off.
The covers over their head.
Shivering in fear.
.
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posted on
05/16/2012 8:22:03 AM PDT
by
TLI
( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
To: george76
By all means, shut down parks and wooded areas so the coyotes can protect their pups in their dens. Then next year their numbers will be double, no problem there that I see.
Government trappers will then have a lot more targets but by the time they get the trappers after the coyotes there’ll be a lot fewer pets.
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posted on
05/16/2012 8:23:20 AM PDT
by
jazusamo
("Intellect is not wisdom" -- Thomas Sowell)
To: RC2
I hear coyotes within a hundred yards of the house at night here. I don’t let my dogs go out alone at night.
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posted on
05/16/2012 8:23:35 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: george76
“Remove all the people in San Francisco and create a UN Agenda 21 wilderness area ?”
No! No!
Send all of the California left wing America haters and illegal aliens to Gay Frisco to live and don’t allow any of them to leave the city.
Also, ban any of our tax $’s federal/state from being sent to or spent in Gay Frisco.
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posted on
05/16/2012 8:25:25 AM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS DESTROYING AMERICA-LOOK AT WHAT IT DID TO THE WHITE HOUSE!)
To: george76
SAN FRANCISCO Dogs outnumber children here, Wow ... that's a thorough condemnation of San Fransicko.
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posted on
05/16/2012 8:27:55 AM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: george76
Where would they go? Like locusts, they would devour the civilizations where they landed. Keep them there, eventually, they will eventually unpopulate themselves to nothing.
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posted on
05/16/2012 8:29:45 AM PDT
by
lormand
(A Government who robs Peter to pay Paul, will always have the support of Paul)
To: AnAmericanMother; Titan Magroyne; Badeye; SandRat; arbooz; potlatch; afraidfortherepublic; ...
WOOOF!
The Doggie Ping list is for FReepers who would like to be notified of threads relating to all things canid. If you would like to join the Doggie Ping Pack (or be unleashed from it), FReemail me.
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posted on
05/16/2012 8:30:22 AM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: george76
Dogs outnumber children here About 5 to 10 years ago here on FR there were stories of parents moving out of San Francisco to other cities and towns.
They did not want to raise their kids in the perverted city.
There must have been a lot of truth to those stories.
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posted on
05/16/2012 8:31:35 AM PDT
by
TYVets
(Pure-Gas.org ..... ethanol free gasoline by state and city)
To: BenLurkin
"Will somebody please nuke San Francisco. Please." No need to use nukes. The earthquake will happen -- someday. Or, the city will collapse once the last of the normal sane people leave.
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posted on
05/16/2012 8:32:06 AM PDT
by
StormEye
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