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People Say Animals Are Preying On Larger Livestock. People living in major Valley neighborhoods... that coyotes have all but overtaken their neighborhoods. Don Hoopes and his 7-year-old son Jordan have a new ritual every night. They need to make sure all their animals are tucked safely inside, now that they know what can happen if they don't. Neighbor Richard Tate said, "I saw one yesterday morning trying to attack dogs in broad daylight." Tate's had a couple sheep slaughtered by coyotes already. He said they even tried to go after his ram. Tate said , "My concern is that if...

A PROMISING young Canadian musician has been attacked and killed by coyotes while on a tour promoting her new album. Taylor Mitchell, 19, was considered a rising star of the folk music scene, having just earned a Canadian Folk Music Awards nomination. She was hiking alone on the Syline Trail in Cape Breton Highlands National Park when a pair of coyotes attacked her. Tourists rushed to her aid when they heard her screams and found Mitchell bleeding heavily from mulitple wounds "all over her body", according to The Canadian Press. "She was losing a considerable amount of blood from her...

Meet the world's toughest coyote. Daniel East and his sister, Tevyn, were driving at night along Interstate 80 near the Nevada-Utah earlier this month, when their car slammed into a coyote that scurried in their path, reported Rex Features. Believing there was no way the wild animal could survive the 75 mph collision, the pair kept driving for eight more hours to their destination, where they finally inspected the damage to their car. But it did manage to survive being dragged for 600 miles. "Immediately I saw a ton of fur and said, 'Sis, don't look, this is bad,'" David...

Daniel East and his sister, Tevyn, were driving at night along Interstate 80 near the Nevada-Utah earlier this month, when their car slammed into a coyote that scurried in their path, reported Rex Features. Believing there was no way the wild animal could survive the 75 mph collision, the pair kept driving for eight more hours to their destination, where they finally inspected the damage to their car.

Jessica Simpson's beloved maltipoo Daisy was grabbed by a wild coyote that then vanished with the small dog, the singer wrote via Twitter Monday night. "My heart is broken because a coyote took my precious Daisy right in front of our eyes. HORROR!" she Tweeted. Simpson, 29, has offered a reward to anyone who can reunite her with her 5-year-old, caramel-colored dog.

(Washington, D.C. July 2, 2009) Coyotes regularly feed on outdoor cats, according to a scientific study Observations of Coyote-Cat Interactions by Shannon Grubbs of the University of Arizona and Paul Krausman of the University of Montana published in the Journal of Wildlife Management. The researchers tracked coyotes in Tucson, Arizona and observed 36 coyote-cat interactions, of which 19 resulted in coyotes killing cats. Other studies have found that approximately 13% of a coyote’s diet consists of cats. However, during this study, in the 45 instances when coyotes were observed feeding, 42% of the meals were cats. The researchers concluded that...

GULFPORT — The dog was going nuts. Each time Jo Hastings tried to calm her muscular Staffordshire terrier, it would lurch madly at a fence bordering mangroves. Finally Hastings squatted down, peered through the fence and discovered she was only inches from a coyote, who returned her stare before skulking into the woods. "There ended up being two of them, and they kind of looked at me like I was bothering them,'' she said. "It's not like they were skittish or anything. They were kind of like, 'Yeah, whatever.' " The uneasy standoff in the manicured confines of the Pasadena...

BOSTON -- For the second time in less than a week, a family pet has been killed by a coyote in Georgetown. A Clark Street resident said he saw a coyote come onto his porch on Sunday night and grab his cat, the Newburyport News reported. Just four days earlier, a Jack Russell terrier was killed by coyotes as its owner walked it in the Georgetown/Rowley State Forest. In June, a woman reported being surrounded by coyotes while she walked her dogs in the woods of nearby Groveland. She was able to get out of the woods without being harmed.

The Pomeranian, who Osbourne, the former lead singer with British heavy metal band Black Sabbath, called Little Bit, was attacked on Tuesday. It is believed the 60-year-old 'Prince of Darkness' and his wife Sharon were watching the Michael Jackson memorial on television when the attack happened and did not hear the dog's yelps. The couple's daughter, Kelly Osbourne, said in a Twitter message that her father - who has a history of animal abuse including biting the heads off live bats and doves - "is devastated – she was his other woman."

Several cats have suddenly gone missing in one north Long Beach neighborhood and its feared coyotes may be to blame. Lisa Kamieniecki says she watched a coyote kill her 14-year-old cat named "Bear" around 4 a.m. Saturday morning. The coyote dropped the cat's body when her husband scared it off, Kamieniecki said. She says two coyotes returned minutes later. Kamieniecki called Animal Control, who told her that coyotes commonly feed at that time. But, if the animals make a daytime appearance or don't seem to fear humans or cars, that's something Animal Control would investigate, according to John Keisler, Manager...

For two and a half days after Andrade's abduction, the kidnappers -- including a man whom Andrade later said had been a friend -- deprived their victim of food and water. Through the door of the closet where he was held, Andrade could hear the cries of other victims being tortured in the house, the report said.

An aggressive coyote snatched a Chihuahua off a walking path within feet of the pet's startled owner and ran off with the helpless dog. The woman rushed home and told her husband, who called police; the remains of the Chihuahua were later found in the Englewood park. The Colorado Division of Wildlife is trying to track the coyote, said spokeswoman Jennifer Churchill, because the attack occurred so close to the dog's owner in a heavily used public space. "We'll be tracking it over the next few days, trying to identify the right animal," Churchill said. If wildlife officials positively identify...

CALGARY -- Coyotes had already drawn blood from Hugh Magill's cherished dog Duke when Calgary Transit driver Dawn Hagel came to the rescue. Early Tuesday morning while shuttling commuters, Hagel noticed a pair of coyotes menacing a dog that had taken refuge beneath a parked pickup truck. "I thought, 'There's a puppy underneath that vehicle,' so I immediately thought I can't leave that dog there," said Hagel, a 3 1/2-year Calgary Transit driver. She simply opened the bus door like she would for any passenger and Duke didn't hesitate to take up the invitation - scurrying aboard. "He was in...

An Allen woman said she got a painful reminder two weeks ago of the wild -- while jogging in a suburban neighborhood. The 39-year-old woman, who asked she not be identified, said a coyote took a bite out of her thigh as she rounded a curve on a popular Allen jogging trail. "I think I surprised it," she said. "That's what the problem was. It was dark, really quiet, and it probably thought I was attacking it."

A Broomfield man reported being bitten by a coyote last night. The 38-year-old man told police he was walking two dogs in the Trails Park area at about 8:15 p.m. Monday. The man took one dog off-leash and threw a dummy for the dog to chase, a police news release said. The other dog stayed with him. The man threw the dummy up a hill, and the off-leash dog chased it. At the top of the hill, the dog saw a coyote and ran after the animal. The man went to look for the dog, and a second coyote "lunged"...

Tony Sandlin, 9, and his 6-year-old brother, Vincent, were snowboarding on a golf course behind their Erie, Colo., home Thursday when a coyote came out of nowhere and charged Tony, tearing through his clothing and puncturing his skin.

Aggressive coyotes are not a new problem for people in Erie. At about this same time last year, several attacks on small dogs were reported, and one woman was bitten as she tried to wrestle her 3-year-old Maltese out of a coyote’s jaws. But the attack Thursday afternoon on Tony Sandlin was different — he didn’t approach the coyote and he didn’t have a tiny dog on hand, though he was watching out for his 6-year-old brother, Vincent, as they practiced their snowboarding skills on the golf course hill behind their house. The animal charged Tony at the bottom of...

An oldie, but a goodie. And it really captures the attitude that Mr. Obama and his supporters have regarding themselves, Liberalism and their candidate.Operation: Rabbit

An Open Letter to Sarah PalinBy Wile E. ReporterNational Political Correspondent, MSNBCNNABS(Medius Vulgaris)*Knock Knock Knock*Good afternoon, madam. Allow me to introduce myself: my name is Wile E. Reporter, investigative correspondent for an international network news gathering organization. No doubt you may have seen my award-winning coverage, assuming your igloo is equipped with a satellite dish. No, I am not selling anything nor am I working my way through college, so let’s get down to cases. You are a Republican candidate, and I am going to eat you alive. Now don’t try to get away! I am more educated, more cunning,...

Agencies, expert unite in an attempt to control nuisance animals in the Brooks community in Estero; attack was fourth on dogs since March. “For the past three months, I thought: ‘Coyotes in Florida. Yeah, right,’” Love said. “I had never seen a coyote, not even in any zoo in Florida and I’ve been here 27 years.” But, with the newfound respect for the wild animal, she was quick to add, “We’re on their territory.” And, she says people didn’t start noticing coyotes in the area until alligators were removed from a lake on the property. She believes the alligators snagged...

"Their aggressive behavior seems to be on the upswing," said Steve Martarano, a spokesman with the state Department of Fish and Game. "They just seem to lose their fear of humans." Since the 1970s, more than 100 coyote attacks on humans in Southern California have been recorded, with half the incidents involving children age 10 and younger. "If they see a young child and they have a chance, yeah they'll take it," said Kevin Brennan, a state wildlife biologist. Game wardens don't normally hunt coyotes unless they pose a threat to people. After attacks, they trap and then shoot coyotes....

LAKE ARROWHEAD, Calif. — A coyote grabbed a 2-year-old girl by the head and tried to drag her from the front yard of her mountain home in the third incident of a coyote threatening a small child in Southern California in five days, authorities said. The coyote attacked the girl around noon Tuesday when her mother, Melissa Rowley, went inside the home for a moment to put away a camera, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said in an incident report. Rowley came out of the house and saw the coyote dragging her daughter towards a street. She ran towards...

CHINO HILLS, Calif. — A nanny pulled a 2-year-old girl from the jaws of a coyote when the animal attacked the toddler and tried to carry her away in its mouth, officials said. The girl was playing Friday in a sandbox at Alterra Park in Chino Hills in San Bernardino County. Around 10:30 a.m., the caretaker heard screaming and saw a coyote trying to carry the child off in its mouth, officials said. The babysitter grabbed the child and pulled her from the coyote's grasp, the sheriff's department said in a statement. The coyote then ran off into nearby brush....

Are Wolves The Pronghorn's Best Friend?Yellowstone pronghorn populations directly benefit from the presence of wolves, a new Wildlife Conservation Society study says. (Credit: Julie Larsen Maher/Wildlife Conservation Society) ScienceDaily (Mar. 4, 2008) — As western states debate removing the gray wolf from protection under the Endangered Species Act, a new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society cautions that doing so may result in an unintended decline in another species: the pronghorn, a uniquely North American animal that resembles an African antelope. The study, appearing in the latest issue of the journal Ecology, says that fewer wolves mean more coyotes, which...

Sorry for posting this in the main area, but I need some advice quickly. Over the past few weeks I've been having a real coyote problem. We're in the San Joaquin Valley and have always had issues with the coyotes, but this year seems to be expecially bad (even traveling in small packs, which I've never seen before). I need some recommendations on the proper weapon to deal with these varmints.

When all else is gone from this earth, the howls of the coyote will still be heard -- or so goes a proverb passed down by indigenous North Americans. It reflects the seemingly indestructible nature of the song dogs, as they are often called because of their nighttime vocalizations in desert and suburb alike. With the state's coyote season under way, hunters' skills are being tested by the elusive canines. Such hunts have been held for a decade, but the stakes are much higher this year. In the spring, two young children in Monmouth County were attacked by one or...

SAN MARCOS -- The results are in: The carcass of a ugly, hairless, big-eared animal found this summer in Cuero is not the mythical bloodsucking El chupacabras. It's just a plain old coyote."The DNA sequence is a virtually identical match to DNA from the coyote (Canis latrans)," according to a written statement from Texas State University biologist Mike Forstner.Phylis Canion and her neighbors found three 40-pound carcasses in July outside her ranch in Cuero, 90 miles southeast of San Antonio. Canion saved the head of the one for DNA testing and then to mount it for posterity, she said.El chupacabras...

For years, the vast majority of politicians in the main parties have avoided having honest public conversation about the extent and consequences of immigration. The fear of appearing racist, or giving any ground to the arguments of the far right, has left most MPs and commentators in Pollyanna territory - extolling the economic and cultural benefits of immigration and glossing over problems. That has done the nation no favours, because the consequences of rapid social change have been scarcely studied, let alone addressed. And it has increased many people's distrust of the political universe, as the gulf between their own...

About three weeks ago, South Jeffco resident Jeannie MacMurtrie made a devastating discovery — one of her cats, a tabby named Tazzy, apparently was killed by a coyote. The loss of one feline companion was hard enough to take, she said, but then last week the roving coyotes apparently took MacMurtrie’s long-haired black female cat, Boots. The family learned of their beloved pets’ fate from Jefferson County animal control officers... Since the two incidents, MacMurtrie has decided to keep her remaining pets inside, including a small female kitten that was orphaned when Boots lost her life. “We hear the coyotes...

Five-year-old Brayden Gazette was crossing a neighbor's lawn near his Monmouth County home last month when a coyote burst out of the pine woods and bit him on the head. Twenty-month-old Liam Sadler was in a relative's backyard in April when a coyote grabbed him by the neck and tried to drag him off. The rare daylight coyote attacks on humans were interrupted before the yellow-eyed beasts could kill. Nevertheless, brazen coyotes have rattled residents across North Jersey's Monmouth and Bergen Counties, where scores of sightings have been reported and where numerous pets have been killed or mauled this spring....

ESCONDIDO: Investigators have learned that a Riverside County man shot and killed by a Border Patrol agent last week was a legal resident, the Sheriff's Department said yesterday. AdvertisementBenito A. Gonzalez, 40, of Sun City, gave the agent a false name when contacted in a parking lot on Mountain Meadow Road off Interstate 15 last week, said sheriff's homicide Sgt. Roy Frank. The agent was not able to confirm the man's identity at the time and tried to arrest him on suspicion of being an undocumented immigrant. A struggle ensued, and the agent shot and killed Gonzalez in a nearby...

The handful of coyotes that call the Presidio home are still happy, healthy and wild for one main reason: They still fear humans. Experts hope that will be the case for the timid animals now living in Golden Gate Park and Bernal Heights. There has been a flurry of coyote sightings in The City in the last few days, and officials are hoping to quickly educate the public before a rare opportunity turns sour. Experts say it’s possible for coyotes and humans to coexist, as the animals pose no threat to humans who leave them alone. “It’s our job as...

Police shot and killed a coyote Wednesday less than a mile from where a 5-year-old boy was attacked this week but cautioned that at least four others were roaming nearby. It was not known whether the animal that was killed was the same one that bit Brayden Gazette as he and his sister were playing near their home on Monday. "It's somewhat of a relief, but I'm still going to be watching out for my kids every minute," said the boy's mother, Joann Gazette. "Who knows how many more are out there? And how can anyone be sure if this...

No doubt, the coyote has a bad reputation in some quarters. First, there's that unfortunate resemblance to a wolf. Second, there's that unsavory habit of dining on neighborhood cats and small dogs. The state Division of Fisheries and Wildlife is considering lengthening the hunting season on coyotes and foxes, already the longest for any game animals. And the agency wants to add coyotes to the list of "nuisance animals" that animal control workers are allowed to remove when necessary. The proposal seeks to extend the coyote and fox hunting season so that it would run from the Saturday after Columbus...

New Jersey Boy Saves 22-Month-Old Nephew From Mauling By Wild Animal In Backyard -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "My dad turned to walk away and it came running back at him. I yelled, 'Dad, it's coming for you!' Ryan Palludan, 11 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (AP) A Middletown 11-year-old is a hero for helping save his toddler nephew from being mauled by a coyote. Ryan Palludan helped free 22-month-old nephew Liam Sadler from the animal's jaws and then chased the coyote into the woods. State wildlife officials are saying it could be the first coyote attack on a human in New Jersey. Playing in the back yard...

~~~~snip~~~~ A male coyote really did wander into the Quiznos sandwich shop at Wabash and Adams -- in the Loop! -- just before 2 p.m. Tuesday. Workers had propped open the front door for the warm afternoon, and in sauntered the roughly 30-pound, 18-month-old wild animal. "He probably smelled our prime rib," observed Bina Patel, 23, the shop's manager...... ~~~~snip~~~~

When a man and his dog dashed into the house with a rabid coyote on their heels, his wife slammed the door on the coyote's neck. Craig S. Luckenbill said Thursday that he ran to get his 12-gauge shotgun, and his wife managed to close the door, but the coyote continued biting at the door and the front of the house. The coyote was in the front yard when Luckenbill went out and killed it with the shotgun, he said. "I'm a hunter but I've never seen anything like that." The Pennsylvania Game Commission confirmed Wednesday that the 40-pound eastern...

The man thought he was going to die. Hungry, thirsty and unbelievably hot within the metal train car where he had hidden for the past two days, he knew he had to do something when the train crawled to a standstill. And it couldn't have stopped at a better place: the corner of Goldsmith and Garcia streets, in front of the Bexar County Sheriff's Department East Side substation. "Lucky for him," Sgt. Russell McWhorter said. The man, a Honduran citizen, had left his country several weeks ago, "fleeing the war," McWhorter said. He crisscrossed through Guatemala and Mexico before making...

A driver who sped through a Border Patrol checkpoint near Freer led law enforcement officials on a three-county, 100-mph chase that ended 65 miles up the road in Atascosa County early Thursday. The man tried to drive three suspected of being undocumented immigrants through the Freer border checkpoint on U.S. 59 in Webb County late Wednesday, officials said. Laredo Sector Border Patrol spokesman Mike Herrera said the man sped away when his SUV was flagged by agents for a second inspection. Agents gave chase until they reached the outskirts of Freer, where they backed off for safety reasons, Herrera said....

OKLAHOMA CITY A California man has been convicted in federal court of smuggling illegal immigrants from Los Angeles to Oklahoma, a federal prosecutor said Monday. Jose Angel Lopez-Lozoya, 32, of Paramount, Calif., was convicted Friday of eight counts of transporting illegal aliens, said John Richter, the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. The trial lasted five days. Lopez-Lozoya faces a sentence on each count of up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. A sentencing hearing before District Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange will be set in about 60 to 90 days, Richter said. "This case demonstrates that...

A [St. Louis] businessman masterminded a scheme in the late 1990s to bring illegal immigrants to clean floors at Wal-Mart stores across the country. Wal-Mart paid at least $82.2 million over three years to shell companies set up by businessman Christopher Walters, federal agents discovered. Walters' companies in turn paid subcontractors who hired illegal immigrants from countries stretching from Poland to Mongolia. When investigators dug into the scheme, Walters cut a deal and became a star cooperating witness in a criminal probe targeting Wal-Mart. He told investigators that a Wal-Mart executive told him to set up the shell companies, and...

Nationwide Rally to Stop Illegal Immigration on Saturday, July 1st, at noon, at every City HallOn May 1st - Million of Illegal Aliens Marched in our StreetsTwelve million illegal aliens demonstrated their political power, and declared May 1st to be A Day Without Undocumented Workers ( illegal aliens ). They boycotted the USA, all US businesses and institutions. Millions of them marched in our streets, carried Mexican flags, shouted "Si se puede!", and demanded new laws from our Congress. On July 1st - U.S. Citizens Nationwide Rally and BoycottRally to stop the invasion by millions of illegal aliens. 1-Day boycott...

USA Citizens Day - July 1st Immigration Control Rally Nationwide Rally on Saturday, July 1st, at noon, at your City HallMay 1st - Million of Illegal Aliens Marched in our StreetsTwelve million illegal aliens demonstrated their political power, and declared May 1st to be A Day Without Undocumented Workers ( illegal aliens ). They boycotted the USA, all US businesses and institutions. Millions of them marched in our streets, carried Mexican flags, shouted "Si se puede!", and demanded new laws from our Congress. July 1st - U.S. Citizens Nationwide Rally for Immigration ControlRally to stop our continuous invasion by...

  PUBLISHED ON JUNE 2, 2005: Catastrophe in Care Hospitals are being crippled by the costs of treating migrants--and that could be just the start of an immigrant-related health crisis By LEO W. BANKS Leo W. Banks One of the many signs on the Naco Highway. Leo W. Banks "It's not unusual to have one UDA (undocumented alien) cost $5,000, and we know we're not going to get that back," says Josie Mincher, emergency room manager at Copper Queen Hospital. Leo W. Banks "Until we have comprehensive immigration reform, we need to bear the health-care costs for undocumented workers,...

An immigrant smuggler was convicted Tuesday of causing the deaths of three passengers in a June 2003 crash while fleeing authorities. A jury deliberated for nearly six hours before finding Antonio Sanchez, 30, guilty on three counts of second-degree murder. Sanchez, a Mexican citizen, was retried for speeding away from the California Highway Patrol on state Route 78 near Borrego Springs, killing a woman and two men he was trying to smuggle into the country. He was originally convicted in March 2004 on similar charges and sentenced to 53 years to life in prison. But a state appellate court reversed...

confirmed killed by wolves... the confirmed kills varied from the reported animal deaths and values, which came to 40 animals valued at roughly $40,000. He cautioned people not to draw conclusions about the confirmed numbers, because unconfirmed kills are often those in which the livestock is discovered too late to actually identify, by tracks, tooth marks or other means, the actual cause of death. Their agency is part of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, though they often are mistaken for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which is part of the...

Did you know coyotes could climb trees?

A coyote's romp in Central Park ended yesterday with a tranquilizer dart and a nap, but only after a messy breakfast (hold the feathers), a dip in a chilly pond and a sprint past a skating rink-turned-movie set. There was also a final chase that had all the elements of a Road Runner cartoon, with the added spectacle of television news helicopters hovering overhead, trailing the coyote and the out-of-breath posse of police officers, park officials and reporters trailing it. The coyote's pursuers joked that it even tried to turn itself in. It was hunting for a place to sleep...

A wily coyote led sharpshooters armed with tranquilizer guns on a merry chase through Central Park for two days before it was finally captured Wednesday morning.At one point, the searchers had it cornered near the park's ice rink, but the clever creature jumped into the water, ducked under a bridge, then scampered through the rink grounds and ran off.The coyote was captured somewhere north of that area, Parks Department spokesman Ashe Reardon said.The hunt had been on since Tuesday afternoon when Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe, among others, spotted the animal in the southeast corner of the park, not far from...

Coyote captured. New York City is safe lol.