Posted on 09/06/2021 9:15:49 AM PDT by billorites
Two toddlers were attacked by a coyote in separate incidents in Arlington, officials say.
The first attack was reported at about 5:40 p.m. Sunday when a 2-year-old girl in her Epping Street yard was approached, bitten on the back and dragged by a coyote.
About 10 minutes later another 2-year-old female was approached by the coyote in her yard in Summer Hill Circle and scratched.
Both children were taken to an area hospital for evaluation. Their injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.
Arlington is about 7 miles northwest of Boston.
Officials believe that the same coyote was involved in both incidents. They are now trying to locate the coyote.
Last month a 5-year-old boy was playing in a sandbox on Cutler Hill Road in Arlington when he was bitten by a coyote.
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My wife carries one of those. I prefer the 9 mm.
Not at all. They are common in the daytime. I had some living underneath my suburban shed and the came and went all hours of the day. I ran them off.
Not wokeness per se, but just kind of trashy. When I was in college we referred to it as “Slummerville.” It was a tough town. It’s where the real gangsters operated.
That’s just the way I like it. Social distancing from liberals.
In New England, it is more likely a Coywolf than a Coyote.
Coyotes in the Northeast have a lot of wolf DNA and frequently are quite large, such as the size of a large German Shepherd
Yes, they’re called Coywolves.
I have a pic of one from one of my trail cameras.
They are very odd appearing.
Sometimes they might have the head of a wolf and body of a Coyote or the legs and tail Wolf and the rest Coyote. A mixture.
The will can not pack with wolves because the wolves will kill them, so they pack with coyotes.
They’re more aggressive than a full blooded coyote, and pursue their prey relentlessly.
Usually until they’re exhausted or the prey is.
I forgot to add…….they are the offspring of wolves and coyotes breeding.
Happens rarely but often enough to give Coywolves a noted population.
I’m betting my German Shepard wouldn’t be ammused
Had one in our backyard in S. Arlington — Virginia ... 1 mi from from the nearest woods. It leapt our 7ft fence like it could fly. Amazing — and unnerving for the wife who spotted him: german-shepherd size w/ light gray clumps of an otherwise mangy coat.
Thankfully, our dogs weren’t out at the time, but my neighbor’s yorkies were — and freaking out. Dunno why it left them alone, but thankfully it did. It was real quick from her yard and through ours, leaping the fences, so it wasn’t happy about where it was.
My 87-year old neighbor, a really strong old girl, gets up at 4 a.m. and walks 2.5 miles to the neighborhood park with a lake in the center. She reports seeing “big wild dogs” there. Definitely coyotes.
We’re telling all cat owners to keep their cats in at night. My Daisy comes in for sure. She’s feisty as they come. Neighbor lady had a dream about Daisy riding on the back of coyote and stearing it around. LOL. Reality would be far different outcome than the dream.
Agree.
It works quite well for that task.
This happened out in SoCal years ago when a coyote tried to drag off a two year that the parents thought was safe because they were in a Forest Lawn cemetery.
People and other animals like cats underestimate coyotes and their native intelligence. Nowadays parents have to be aware of more than two legged predators.
Somerville was long known as Slummerville, AKA, the land of the leaning porches. Has come up in the world remendously since the Red Line was extended there from Cambridge.
Now tries hard and even succeeds in outwoking Cambridge.
Does every woman you see in daylight have syph?
There are always someone saying we are in their territory and should be left alone. I say kill them. Kill them or you and your kids are on their dinner plate.
coyotes almost ate my baby
No, but my baby ate your dingo.
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