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Coyotes Threaten Grocery Shoppers
KPHO 5 (Phoenix) ^ | August 31, 2007

Posted on 08/31/2007 11:14:42 AM PDT by yorkie

Wary customers at North Valley grocery stores keep a watchful eye after several shoppers were recently threatened by three brazen coyotes.

The animals were killed after they were trying to snatch white grocery bags from customers at a Fry's supermarket at Tatum Road and Cave Creek Road.

"Coyotes are very smart animals," said Kriselle Colvin with Arizona Game & Fish.

"Once they know where food source is, they know white bags have food in them, so they'll go up and grab them," Colvin said.

One of the biggest reasons for the problem is well-meaning people feeding them, Colvin said.

In the Biltmore area a few years ago, a woman was buying rotisserie chickens from the store and leaving them out for the coyotes.

Elsewhere, coyotes have made themselves at home in Kathy St. Hilaire's North Valley neighborhood.

"We see them walking up and down streets down subdivisions, in front of houses looking for food," she said.

Wildlife officers said they field complaints every week about people feeding wildlife all across the Valley and it's usually because they think the animals are hungry.

But if coyotes learn to expect food from people, it could make them dangerous to children and small pets, Colvin said.

"I don't even know if there's such a thing as a starving coyote," Colvin said.

"I mean, all these are very well fed and there are plenty of food sources. Golf courses have rabbits for them to eat."

It's against the law in Arizona to feed any wildlife with the exception of birds and tree squirrels.

Violators could fined $300.


TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: coyotes; dangerousanimals; hotdogswithratpoison; wildanimals
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1 posted on 08/31/2007 11:14:43 AM PDT by yorkie
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To: yorkie; AZ Flyboy

Note to Son...read this!


2 posted on 08/31/2007 11:18:20 AM PDT by HiJinx (Learn to take as a measure of success the criticism of your enemies. RL.)
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To: yorkie
Note to Arizonans: Coyotes aren't dogs. They are varmints.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

3 posted on 08/31/2007 11:19:44 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: yorkie; Grampa Dave; SierraWasp
The animals were killed after they were trying to snatch white grocery bags from customers

I just got a flyer in my mail box (Greenwood Village, CO) that had an article about how to Live in Peace and Harmony with Coyotes

Colorado has become so friggin' liberal I wanna PUKE

4 posted on 08/31/2007 11:19:59 AM PDT by BOBTHENAILER (One by one, in small groups or in whole armies, we don't care how we do it, but we're gonna getcha)
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To: yorkie

The potential for harm to kids here is enormous...and folks have no recourse to self-defense, because you cannot discharge a firearm within city limits...not even with a hunting license.

Maybe a slingshot/wrist-rocket?


5 posted on 08/31/2007 11:20:10 AM PDT by HiJinx (Learn to take as a measure of success the criticism of your enemies. RL.)
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To: yorkie

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6 posted on 08/31/2007 11:20:10 AM PDT by Lurker ( Comparing moderate islam to extremist islam is like comparing smallpox and ebola.)
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To: HiJinx

Note to self: Take aluminum baseball bat to grocery store.


7 posted on 08/31/2007 11:20:38 AM PDT by CholeraJoe (How hot does it have to get for a burning concrete lion to experience spalling? Anybody know?)
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To: BOBTHENAILER
how to Live in Peace and Harmony with Coyotes Colorado has become so friggin' liberal I wanna PUKE

Did they suggest offering up infants to pacify the beasties?

:-(
8 posted on 08/31/2007 11:24:28 AM PDT by cgbg (There are two Americas--those who have the blackmail files and those who don't.)
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To: yorkie

Coyotes are not pets. Here is a list of coyote attacks: Coyote Attack Page

Coyote Hunting is great sport too: Varmint Al's Coyote Hunting Page

Good Hunting... from Varmint Al

9 posted on 08/31/2007 11:24:59 AM PDT by Varmint Al
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To: cgbg
Did they suggest offering up infants to pacify the beasties?

Interestingly enough, the ONLY defensive part of the feelgood article said to be sure and keep infants away from the cute and cuddly creatures

10 posted on 08/31/2007 11:27:44 AM PDT by BOBTHENAILER (One by one, in small groups or in whole armies, we don't care how we do it, but we're gonna getcha)
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To: Varmint Al

Coyotes are not all bad. They help cull the feral cat population.


11 posted on 08/31/2007 11:28:12 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler ("A person's a person no matter how small." -Dr. Seuss)
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To: HiJinx

I saw this on local tv station last night.

I have seen cow-birds fly up to customers as they were leaving the grocery store, and grab food right out of their hands and fly off. Usually it was a donut or a cookie. But,coyotes taking bags of food?

It is very rare for a coyote to get that close to a human.


12 posted on 08/31/2007 11:29:02 AM PDT by yorkie
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To: goldstategop

“They are varmints.”

Amen. Coyote season in TN is 365 days/year.


13 posted on 08/31/2007 11:48:09 AM PDT by HeadOn (Hey kids - Learn to think instead of prepping for the test.)
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To: yorkie

A coyote came through our back yard two nights ago, which happens fairly frequently. We always alert the neighbors because they have young children, small dogs and cats. We also have two fisher-cats in the yard. Not too many squirrels seem to be around lately.


14 posted on 08/31/2007 11:52:48 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: yorkie
“It is very rare for a coyote to get that close to a human.”

There were some cases in Austin,TX. where coyotes were coming into establihed neighborhoods and snatching people’s pets right off their leashes. They apparently lost all fear of humans.
This was during a pretty severe drought and development had shrunk their habitat.

15 posted on 08/31/2007 11:53:05 AM PDT by wolfcreek (tagline on holiday)
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To: Varmint Al; yorkie

I wasn’t aware of the coyote habitat range spanning from the West to back East.

They don’t go in our backyard anymore, but we hear them howling occasionally. No they aren’t pets, and they’re scrawny and fugly looking.


16 posted on 08/31/2007 11:54:31 AM PDT by TheSpottedOwl (Midnight Hallway Hockey scores: Cats 3-Humans 0)
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To: yorkie

17 posted on 08/31/2007 11:54:58 AM PDT by decimon
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To: Jeff Chandler

We leave out the shot up Feral Hog carcasses for them to clean up.


18 posted on 08/31/2007 11:59:27 AM PDT by Deguello
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To: Deguello

>>We leave out the shot up Feral Hog carcasses for them to clean up.<<

Javelina? It is against the law to even injure one of those critters in AZ~.


19 posted on 08/31/2007 12:02:03 PM PDT by yorkie
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To: TheSpottedOwl
"fugly looking."

That brought an evil smile to my fugly face! Could we rename that dumb TV show... "Fugly Betty?" (seems fair to me)

20 posted on 08/31/2007 12:04:22 PM PDT by SierraWasp (Thou shalt not steal!!! Our greedy governments in Sacramento and Washington hate competition!!!)
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