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Police: Woman mauled by coyote, left 'drenched in blood' ( Pittsburgh )
kwtx ^ | Mar 20, 2018

Posted on 03/21/2018 6:08:48 AM PDT by george76

BROOKVILLE, Pa. Authorities are on the hunt for a possibly rabid coyote that mauled a Pennsylvania woman, leaving her badly wounded and "drenched in blood."

Brookville borough police say a night shift employee of an assisted living community was attacked

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Brookville Police Chief Vince Markle says the woman was "drenched in blood" and required over 20 stitches and a rabies vaccination.

He says the woman may also need reconstructive surgery.

Brookville is about 80 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.

(Excerpt) Read more at kwtx.com ...


TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: coyote; mauledbycoyote; pittsburgh
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1 posted on 03/21/2018 6:08:48 AM PDT by george76
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To: george76

Trump’s fault?


2 posted on 03/21/2018 6:10:50 AM PDT by jagusafr
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To: george76

Any one concerned with your own safety should get a practice dummy and learn to be comfortable with sticking your thumbs deep into eye sockets. Works on humans equally as well.


3 posted on 03/21/2018 6:12:56 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: george76

” nice puppy....”


4 posted on 03/21/2018 6:13:29 AM PDT by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: george76

80 miles north is not Pittsburgh. That’s all woods.


5 posted on 03/21/2018 6:13:34 AM PDT by varyouga
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Coyotes are not usually that aggressive against people: Could be rabid. Stopped to pet the “nice doggy” in the woods?


6 posted on 03/21/2018 6:15:06 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE
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What are coyotes doing “north of Pittsburgh”. That was not their “natural habitat” until the envirowackos got involved. Thank you envirowackos.


7 posted on 03/21/2018 6:19:43 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: Mr. K

There’s a big coyote in the woods behind my house. It snatched a Pomeranian off the porch of a condo while the pet’s owner was nearby. The coyote carried the dog into the woods and killed it. When police arrived 15 minutes later they found the dog’s head and collar.


8 posted on 03/21/2018 6:22:37 AM PDT by Peeps47 (Democrats are as corrupt as they are incompetent)
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To: george76

A few years ago a guy shot a coyote in his back yard, in a neighborhood about two miles from Downtown Pittsburgh.


9 posted on 03/21/2018 6:23:06 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: FlingWingFlyer

The entirety of North America was and is the natural habitat of the coyote.


10 posted on 03/21/2018 6:24:08 AM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Do you know if there is a bounty on them in Pennsylvania? There is in Virginia.


11 posted on 03/21/2018 6:24:44 AM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
I live about 35 miles south of Pittsburgh. Last weekend my neighbor and his buds went coyote hunting and brought back three of them. They had them laying on the hoods of their trucks having a beer about 9 in the morning!
12 posted on 03/21/2018 6:26:36 AM PDT by 4yearlurker ("There stands mother under the oleanders,open the windows." A dying cowboys last words,1879.)
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To: george76

Many if not all NE coyotes are really Coy-wolves. Coyotes that mixed with Wolves up in Canada a the coyotes moved east to fill the niches left by the extermination of the eastern Timberwolf.

The most dangerous ‘coyotes ‘ are coy-wolves and especially coy-dogs as the dog gene makes them not fear man. Pure timber wolves have a definite fear of man for good reason.


13 posted on 03/21/2018 6:31:05 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you)
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To: WayneS
The entirety of North America was and is the natural habitat of the coyote.

Incorrect. The natural habitat was the middle tier of the Midwest.

The coyote has spread like wildfire by adapting to suburban life via scavenging.

14 posted on 03/21/2018 6:32:02 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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“Brookville Police Chief Vince Markle says the woman was “drenched in blood” and required over 20 stitches and a rabies vaccination.”

“He says the woman may also need reconstructive surgery.”

Coyotes attacking humans is extremely rare. I did some reading on the subject last year because a female friend was concerned about going outside as she lived in an area with a large population of coyotes. As of 2015 there had only ever been two recorded deaths from coyote attacks in all of the United States and Canada.

Additionally, not trying to sound insensitive or anything but, 20 stitches is nothing. I can’t imagine reconstructive surgery needing unless she was bitten on the nose, ears or a couple other areas of the face.

I’ve had over 500 stitches in my life so I have a little bit of experience with this. Was in a nasty car crash when I was in my twenties and went through the windshield. That required about 200 stitches in my head, face and ears. A scar revision surgery, acouple Dermabrain procedures and time was all I needed to recover most of my pre-accident good looks. Lol.

Hope she recovers quickly. It had to be quite traumatizing.


15 posted on 03/21/2018 6:32:16 AM PDT by PresidentFelon
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To: PresidentFelon

Once again correcting the autocorrect function: “Dermabrasion procedures”


16 posted on 03/21/2018 6:36:28 AM PDT by PresidentFelon
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I shot one in my Pajamas...


17 posted on 03/21/2018 6:37:21 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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“drenched in blood”


The drenched in blood part of the headline and use in the body of the article caught my attention.

not sure why. would expect that in a fictional novel, not reporting.........................


18 posted on 03/21/2018 6:42:54 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
What are coyotes doing “north of Pittsburgh”. That was not their “natural habitat” until the envirowackos got involved. Thank you envirowackos.

80 MILES north of Pittsburgh... If you ever get to Pittsburgh, drive 80 miles north. Pittsburgh is in the mountains. You don't have to drive very far north to get out of the suburbs and into rural towns. By the time you get to Brookville, your in a small rural town on the edge of State Forest, which was probably established by someone who liked the mountains, woods and streams, but before anyone was being called envirowackos or earthfirsters. The coyotes have been there before, during and after that Billy Penn guy arrived.

19 posted on 03/21/2018 6:42:56 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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Not true. Wolves push Coyotes out. We got rid of the wolves, then the coyotes advanced. It was a good trade, Coyotes are a much smaller problem. Of course, we are trying to fix that now.


20 posted on 03/21/2018 6:44:20 AM PDT by D Rider
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