Posted on 10/17/2013 3:11:53 PM PDT by jazusamo
LONGMONT -- Andrew Dickehage probably will think twice before deciding to walk to work again anytime soon.
Dickehage, 22, had been having car troubles, so at 5 a.m. Monday he was walking on North 73rd Street near Niwot Road on his way to work at CCI, on the IBM campus. That's when three coyotes attacked him.
Dickehage said he was walking along and heard a twig snap.
"I didn't think much of it," he said. "I thought it was probably a bunny."
Dickehage said he turned on his flashlight to see what made the noise when the largest of the three animals attacked.
The coyotes lunged at Dickehage, biting and scratching him has he continue along about a 70-yard stretch of road, Colorado Parks and Wildlife spokeswoman Jennifer Churchill said.
Dickehage said the larger coyote launched at him a second time after the initial attack. That's when he "crushed its head with my flashlight." The two smaller coyotes then started to attack.
"They were continuously jumping on me one after the other after the other," he said. "It was nonstop. It was so dark all I could see was the glimmer of their eyes."
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You’re right but I imagine Andrew wishes he’d have been carrying that morning, hopefully this incident made a believer out of him and many more.
Had one howlin right outside my window (in S. Austin) one morning. Woke me RIGHT up. I’ve seen them several times, mostly in the early morning.
Niwot,
on the map looks just south of Numnutz
CCI is also a personnel outsourcing agency (not exactly ‘temp’ work but they do often subcontract to man call centers). My guess is that he works at an IBM call center for CCI.
Yep, just northeast of it too.
“Thanks for your input. I can well imagine he was really shaken.”
He was in shock, as I would have been.
Tracked one that ran down some does across my place. It was after a rain, with no crackling ground cover/leaves, and I got within 25 feet of the lead coyo-dog who was howling for the rest of the pack on the track of the deer. Was stunned at the size. This was a cross breed with maybe a timberwolf that got out of a breeder’s place or a wolf/alsatian crossbreed with the coyote. Game and Fish people say the coyo-dogs are out there, and ... larger.
So, this is a different animal. Moved to behind a tree, and he saw me and hauled tail— fast, too. Pack did not show up. I should have dropped him with the double ought buck load, first. We are on a culling campaign with the game and fish supervising (method is messy w/ a treble hook/hotdog).
Amen to that.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials say that if a coyote approaches you:
Do not run or turn your back.
Be as big and loud as possible.
Wave your arms and throw objects.
Face the coyote and back away slowly.
If attacked, fight back.
Fight back? Anyone who needs to be told this is probably dead meat walking. Hell yes, "fight back"! And have something with you to use to fight back. Several somethings. Lately I've augmented my carry piece with a tomahawk of which I am growing inordinately fond. Doesn't weigh much and it's only a "camping tool" if anyone asks.
That might not go down real well in the 'burbs but out here in the sticks it's just fine. This isn't Ponyland or Friendship Garden, and those rustling sounds aren't unicorns.
Forgot his little brass bells ?
Too many liberals with Disneyland views of wildlife.
Your tomahawk sounds like a winner to me along with your carry, especially in a case like this with more than one attacker.
Brass bells bump. :-)
Like a number of previously rare or unknown wild critters, coyotes are now common around my area of western Wisconsin. Bears, coyotes, opossums, wild pigs, and even the occasional mountain lion were unknown or rarely seen in these parts fifty years ago. Now, except for the pumas, they have regular colonies. I’m waiting for a wooly mammoth to show up.
Maybe they were tired of sheep and wanted to try the OTHER White Meat, Sheeple!
Should have carried a COLT M-4 with a 30 round magazine. Oh wait, that is Californicated Colorado!
when they snatch squirrels and pussy cats around here in Massachusetts, they don't make a sound.
Predators on the CO Rockies have been changing recently. Coyotes getting closer to people and becoming more aggressive. Saw some coyotes chasing and pecking at a large dog during the middle of the day a few weeks ago. Mountain lion sightings are more common in daylight, too.
That makes sense to me. The time of year may factor in too. This is a season when some animals go into more populated areas foraging for food.
Last month had a bobcat come in my backyard around lunchtime, bright as day. My son, who is prone to over exagerate looks outside and yells OMG!!!
I look out thinking at best a turtle crawled out from the pond and lay on the grass.
No, it’s a full grown bobcat on top of a hen that just had her hatchlings. Pissed me off to no end.
I really believe wildlife is getting more bold and it is not always due to the excuse they are running out of land.
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