Erie boy bitten by coyote ( Colorado )

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 the hill when he sat down to take off his snowboard, his mom said. The coyote bit the boy and then circled back around. By the second attack, Tony had his board off, and he hit the coyote with it, according to his mom.

“I think this coyote’s behavior was very strange,” said Jennifer Churchill, spokeswoman for the Colorado Division of Wildlife. “When we say that attacks are very rare, that’s true. But every couple of years, something like this happens.”

Yes, coyotes and dogs can reproduce just like wolves and dogs. They’re called coydogs and generally have the same characteristics as wolfdogs. They are not afraid of people and are hard to control once they reach adulthood. Not to say it can’t be done, but I wouldn’t. When I lived in Southern California there were a lot of these dogs. Coyotes would breed with female dogs that were tied out, and sometimes they managed to get inside fences to do the deed. The puppies were cute, but around a year or two old, they would become more wild and uncontrollable.

I don’t golf, but got a few shootin irons with the bear, lion, coyote as the target for hole in one if needed! Have had close calls with bears, but no shots fired yet. The last encounter was maybe over a month ago. It was late at night and I was letting our really old dog outside for the night. She has arthritus in the hips and can’t go out the dog door to the back yard anymore. I opened the front door to open the front gate on the deck which is only a 2-foot reach. As I was opening the gate and calling the dog, a bear jumped up and ran that was lying in front of the gate. I estimate it was 300 lbs. The flood light turned on just as I reached out so the bear could have been there motionless until my surprise. Have previously had a window broken in and a small bear that tried to swat me trough the window when I looked out to investigate noise. That one was related to a bird feeder that we took down to avoid other similar incidents.

Jennifer is someone i have dealt with before. Unlike some of the AgencyPersons in FloriDUH’s Big Cypress National Preserve, she is no dimwit.

On the other hand, she IS an AgencyPerson. Therefore, she will be deliberately deceptive when agenda requires.

Never forget that while AgencyPersons ostensibly work for us, in reality, they work for their agency, their division within that agency, and their department within their division of their agency.

An Austrian wrote a book titled The New Class, which was devoted to his thesis that bureaucrats are teh same around the world.

I would add, and across time, as well. As proof of my extension of the central thesis of The New Class, consider this:
A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?

Cicero died on December 7, 43 BC - exactly 2,051 years ago.

Jennifer was the same AgencyPerson who refused to halt the enviro whacko demanded witch hunt that ensued when Mr. Cocar killed a cougar that was attacking his dog and then became a threat to Mr. Cocar.

Shamefully, the Colorado Devision of Wildlife failed, no make that refused, to make an immediate statement to the press refuting the animal rights whacko crowd’s character assignations of the Cocar family.

No AgencyPerson will admit what Dr. Paul Beier told a New York Times reporter, “Well, if we are going to have these predators, every now and again, they are going to eat us. I’m comfortable with that.”

Beier, like Jennifer Churchill, was rather less that either factually accurate. The reality is, according to Beier’s own published research, that when Americans were free to esercise their Second Amendment guarantee by shooting such predators as threatened them, such predators were careful to avoid man, woman and child.

When gunpowder speaks, beasts obey.

The Churchills and Beiers of Agencyland and academia try to keep that historic reality out of public discussion.

PS It just dawned on me that Jennifer has the same last name as the infamous ‘Fake Indian’ wade Churchill. Does anyone know if she is related to him?

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