I saw that in a movie once.
Posted on 01/20/2020 8:26:16 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
Ian O’Reilly was walking with his wife and three kids on a trail near Judes Pond in Kensington around 11 a.m. when the wild animal jumped out of the woods and grabbed the 2-year-old child by the jacket, cops said.
That’s when “the dad went into protection mode,” kicking the coyote before choking it, said Kensington Police Chief Scott Cain.
The dad was bitten in the arm and chest and is being treated for rabies as a precaution. The animal didn’t break the toddler’s skin thanks to his heavy-duty snowsuit.
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Thought the kid was a roadrunner. It won’t make that mistake again.
I saw a coyote in my driveway today for the first time in a long long time. If he hangs around I’ll have to change his mind about that.
Probably, of course, there are 30-million snowflakes out there who will scream "animal cruelty" and that he should have tried to reason with it... Snicker...
I was in a health center 2 years ago mid summer- waiting for my appointment in the waiting room- all of a sudden a woman comes walking in, calmly, starts talking to receptionist, and explaining she had just been bit by a red fox at a local beach- then the conversation evolves to how the fox had attacked her over and over, then she explains that she had to strangle the fox to get it to stop like it was just a routine day at the beach lol-
Then the husband shows up and tells the receptionist the fox is in the back seat of the car, dead- and he begins telling the receptionist his wife strangled the fox before he got there (Apparently he was parking the car after dropping her off near the beach)
Her legs were tore up- bleeding all over the place, her hands were all cut up-
I saw that in a movie once.
The key is to get their feet off the ground and keep them moving. The become too destabilized to bite.
It wouldn’t matter if a wolverine had hold of my child, I would give “going bizzirk” new meaning.
The funny thing is, at the moment it is pure instinct..
Afterward, while shaking I ask myself “Where did that come from?”
Has only happened with raccoons and they are tough enough.
It’s what happens when you grow up a hillbilly in Pennsyltucky.
I saw that in a movie once.
“School or die!”
IIRC, A Christmas Story?
Something from Jean Shepherd.
NH.....
These coyotes are EVERYWHERE, it seems.
We just heard a pack of them howling, when we took the dogs out, a few minutes ago.
Scary.
There’s tons of coyotes in my hood here in Marin ca
I’m
Out on mountains at dusk often and it’s a WEIRD CACAPHONY
OUUUUUUUUUUUUUU! And baby sounding whelps
Lots of coyote attacks lately. I’d bet they are all rabid. When I worked on the Alaska North Slope >80% of the Arctic Foxes carried rabies. This was the time of year it affected them the most because of the lack of food. Prolly the same for coyotes in some areas.
You have to kill the animal and homogenize the brain. A special stain is used to identify “Golgi Bodies” in the brain. Got Golgis, got rabies.
I have a video copy of a film I got from the head of the Virology lab at the University of Alaska Fairbanks that was obtained in 1950 and shows the last moments of an Iranian shepherd who had been bitten by a rabid wolf. That is NOT a disease to be trifled with.
Yup- and rabies in the North East is high for some reason too- so be careful-
I punted a possum one time that was harassing the neighborhood kids.
Felt like kicking an under-inflated football.
Possum did a few end-over-ends, hit the ground, and ran off into the woods.
Yep. Coons can be large and ornery
[[I have a video copy of a film I got from the head of the Virology lab at the University of Alaska Fairbanks that was obtained in 1950 and shows the last moments of an Iranian shepherd who had been bitten by a rabid wolf.]]
I beleive that video is on youtube- Seen it- it aitn pretty at all
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-moG6JDmJdc
Caution,. it’s gross-
Where is Kensington? In France?
Dad’s are just simply wonderful :-)
A coyote almost ran into me in a driveway, Lake Tahoe.
It was dusk, and he was trotting down the street, head down looking for food scraps. Made a turn up the driveway and almost slammed into me. I yelled as he got a few feet way, and he did a u-turn. About a foot away as I backed up.
We used to have a lot of coyotes, way too many (Oregon Coast). They disappeared pretty much. Now we have mountain lions.
The husband whose wife strangled the red fox best always treat his wife kindly.
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