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...
Seems to me you are the liberal denying property rights to humans and handing them over to wild animals. Give much to the Sierra Club?
I detest your kind and their “wild animals over people” statements.
Maybe you are in the wrong place. Here we support property rights. For humans, that is.
Further coyote and wolf are simply vermin to be eradicated. Only the agenda 21 folk want them proliferating in rural areas.
And what would be the natural habitat for humans? We're infringing? Sorry, that's an incorrect assumption...we humans have always "infringed" on areas where wild critters live since the dawn of man.
That's because we humans live wherever we want. In short, we are not infringing, we are taking over. The critters will have to like it or lump it.
That does not mean we don't have to be careful and respect other critters in the area. But they don't own that area... if we want to live there, we own it.