Trump’s fault?
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.
” nice puppy....”
80 miles north is not Pittsburgh. That’s all woods.
What are coyotes doing “north of Pittsburgh”. That was not their “natural habitat” until the envirowackos got involved. Thank you envirowackos.
A few years ago a guy shot a coyote in his back yard, in a neighborhood about two miles from Downtown Pittsburgh.
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.
“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.
Just a single rabies vaccination? We no longer do the series of shots?
Legal to hunt. I have no qualms taking one down if it shows up here. My pets and kids are more important.
There is a good reason for Henry rifles & .22 LR ammo.
The Eastern Coyote is back in a big way, but they are largely only a danger to small children and animals and generally pretty timid... but I live 6 miles from downtown pittsburgh and I have come across them in my neighborhood.
Only 1 adult has ever been killed last I saw by an easter Coyote.
Given the nature that the Coyote attacked this woman, I’d say its a safe bet the thing was rabid.... which unfortunately has also been running rampant around here for years as well (rabies that is).
I live in rural N. Idaho. We’ve lost a small dog and a cat to ‘yotes in the past 2 years. I hunt them regularly but they have more luck avoiding me than I have killing them. It’d be easier if there weren’t so many darned trees in the way around here ;-)
What really concerns me is cougars. Last week there was a report in the Spokane Spokesman-Review about a cougar that was tranquilized and collared by a biologist up near Chewelah, WA that weighed 197 lbs. That is a BIG kitty! There are good deer and elk populations so they haven’t developed a taste for humans (yet).