Posted on 03/22/2006 8:07:26 AM PST by XRdsRev
"Coyotes can be extremely dangerous, especially to small children."
While that may be an accurate statement, it doesn't really mean much...
"Coyote attacks on people are extremely rare. There have been a small number of attacks on people in the U.S. and Canada, with most of the attacks involving small children under 5 years of age. Since 3 million children are bitten by dogs every year, your small child is millions of times more likely to get hurt by the family pet than by a coyote."
From: http://tchester.org/sgm/lists/coyote_attacks.html
LOL -- Good for you!
I don't know, but I'd wish they'd catch a few on the Mexican border...
Good thought. When I was growing up on a farm in Iowa, it was generally known among farmers that if you had coyotes, you didn't have rats. The bad part of that is that it seemed to be multiple choice where you get stuck with one or the other and "neither" was not an option.
There is a street in Everett MA called Cat Head Alley, because the pack of Coyotes that lives in the cemetary take everyone's cat that gets out but the heads pop off when the coyotes grab them by the neck. A Malden cop I know showed be a picture of him holding up a 125 lb Coyote that he shot on Broadway in daylight. One shot to the head. Nice shootin'. Oh yeah, it had rabies.
Must have been a wiley coyote. Maybe even a super-genius.
your small child is millions of times more likely to get hurt by the family pet
Oh please. That is only because the wild Coyote population is managed. Left to breed and roam, Coyotes, like the mountain lion population here in Southern California would reek havoc. There are millions of homes that have family pets so your comparison makes little sense. More people die from Doctor's malpractice too, but what does that prove? Nothing.
Coyote packs are very clever.
They will send out one "broken wing" coyote to get the neighborhood dog to run out. The rest of the pack will wait over a small hill for the ambush.
Lunch.
Then we see signs in the neighborhood..."Has anyone one seen my dog, muffin ?"
There are quite a few cyotes in Central Park and some have been spotted in some of the Bronx Parks. They seem to migrate down from upstate.
Interesting that your dog has a "food" name.
Probably headed to this joine...http://www.acmebarandgrill.com/
Coyotes, wolves, bears, mountain lions...all see our pets and our children as food.
They likely give us a food name, too.
Not quite what you mean by "managed". Coyote populations will balance themselves depending on resources regardless of the numbers killed (to a point). As far as cougars go, their numbers are relatively small; there simply aren't enough of them to pose a threat. Of course you'll tell me about some isolated and rare case in which a human has been attacked, but with more and more people recreating outdoors and with people developing land in more remote areas, that is to be expected. I live in a remote area of Washington that has a large coyote population and a significant cougar population, and I'm glad. (By the way, one wreaks havoc, not "reeks".)
Last time they caught a coyote here (1999), it ended up in the Queens zoo.
May he who is without typo cast the first stone...
I live in a remote area of Washington that has a large coyote population and a significant cougar population, and I'm glad
Better you than me, brother.
I can't see how he could smell mice and rats in NYC/Central Park and then make it through all that traffic.
How about this Tiger in Harlem...
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