Posted on 11/29/2015 9:39:34 AM PST by BenLurkin
John Fischer, who lives in the 500 block of Oak Street with his wife, said the couple's three Chihuahuas started barking about 7:45 p.m.
Fischer, who was in the kitchen, didn't think much of the noise. The dogs were in the bedroom with his week-old granddaughter, and he assumed they were reacting to a visitor they were expecting.
But as he left the kitchen, Fischer glimpsed something running out of the bedroom and into the yard. It was a coyote, and it was carrying something.
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Fischer had enough time to see the animal had seized Eloise, an 8-year-old Chihuahua.
"The dog was screaming," he said. "It was awful."
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We have a 14LB Chihuahua and she is no match for anything except the cat next door whose butt she regularly beats.
We have had Coyotes and once a Bobcat come out of the bushes and try to make a run at her out on the street in our neighborhood. We always take gun on the nightly walks.
I live next to Laguna Beach and have Friends living there.
The Weather here invites living an Indoor / Outdoor Lifestyle, with the outside Patio becoming an extension of the Living Area, especially in the older and smaller homes.
Most of the older housing, like the one these people live in were built as as Vacation getaway Beach Cottages of less than 1000 S.F.
It is also a small town atmosphere where many People don’t have the paranoia of living in the typical Metro area.
That being said, the Dog could have been snatched from the backyard of the Home since most of the Houses are built on Hills overlooking the Ocean, prime Coyote territory.
I saw the Homeowner being Interviewed. What struck me is that he acted like the Coyote was infringing on the area rather than understanding that the People are the ones infringing in the Natural Habitat where the Coyotes live.
Then again, he was a typical Liberal Lagunatic (our local name for them) and opined how the Coyotes should be humanely caught and moved to another area. Clueless...
We live in coyote country, on the river. We used to keep
the dog feeder in the garage. One day, I saw a coyote come
blazing out of the garage. He hightailed it away fast. We
have a cat; but she is as mean as they come. I don’t see
her sitting still while something chewed on her. She’s
usually the one doing the chewing. . and scratching, and
biting.
My neighbors have been shooting at the pack that moved in here recently. I haven’t seen the coyotes but hear them at times. My dogs seem to be aware something is in the area.
I walk our 12 year old lab as often as possible on a trail that adjoins state park land near the river.
Last May it was just about dark and we hit the trail. Lab always stays close by except when he encounters deer scent, then follows scent a while and returns. This time he got onto a scent and did not return. Heard a yelp then a commotion and I blew the recall whistle (he gets a treat when the whistle blows). He came running back in the company of perhaps the most viscous German shepherd size dog I have ever encountered, and had the nerve to get behind me after bringing me this fierce varmit.
Was a coyote, and I had nothing in my hand except the leash. So I started yelling as loudly as I could and did not turn my back to the coyote. He eventually stopped following us. From that time on, I always carried a big stick with me, and the next time we encountered the coyote (or one of his brethren), he saw the stick and immediately went away.
I do not trust these coyotes at all. Even though my lab is about the same size, I realize a coyote could hurt him.
There are coyotes here all the time. They take advantage of the “fast food” of feral cats and the occasional unattended Chihuahua. Two weeks ago, I went down the driveway on my way out of town, and there was a coyote across the road. This was at about 0730, and a friend of mine was on his daily walk.
I stopped, rolled down my window, and told him to look behind him. He hasn’t seen any that close, before. But I run into them all the time. I think they are beautiful, but I understand, as we build farther and farther into their territories, their food supply is changing.
I hope they can adapt without becoming extinct, due to being considered “pests.”
Whenever a coyote is heard chantig "Allah Akbar, one should always say "Yikes", and head for the hills.
I used to live in Madera Canyon, with my late husband, as volunteer campground hosts for the National Forest Service in the early ‘80’s.
We saw plenty of coyotes, some coos deer, and lots of birds during the migratory season, but the scariest was the mountain lion my son met while he was on leave from the army. He took the binoculars and was on a hike, checking things out in the early morning.
I suddenly felt the urge to go find him, and it grew. I was pretty anxious, when, a few minutes later, he came trotting into camp, white as a ghost. The binocs had made the animal HUGH!!
I asked him if it was coming uphill, and he said yes, and I told him he probably could have watched it for a while longer, as it was probably full, after a night of hunting.
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Here in Ohio,I keep hearing about coydogs-coyotes breeding with feral dogs.Imagine a German Shepherd/coyote hybrid.Something like that would give my male Rottweiler a serious fight.
Wiley seemed to have an open account with the Acme Corp,why didn’t he just order some food?
In the Northeast, the coyotes breed with wolves, (coywolves) creating a nasty kind of predator that is not afraid of humans.
Just wait until the wolves get there.
These are liberal coyotes. They want to destroy.
As defective as many of their products are, I cant imagine their food is much safer to eat.
According to reports, the coyote made his escape wearing a pair of Acme Atomic Powered Roller Skates.
Oh, it is more than that. Their population is exploding and they have expanded their territory.
They have learned to exploit humans for food supply and shelter. They raid garbage cans besides eating pets. They live in abandoned houses, barns and other human made structures.
Humans have made it possible for coyotes to thrive.
This is from post #24.
There's a recent picture of a coyote on the roof of a building in downtown New York City.
I think there is actually a video out there of this coyote on the roof.
There is a coyote population in every large city in the country now.
It is not as big a problem as the Islamist but it isn't a small problem ;)
It’s in their nature
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