Posted on 12/16/2021 1:56:34 PM PST by nickcarraway
It was the usual evening routine for Lyndsay Przybyl and her 13-year-old terrier, Roscoe.
Przybyl, 39, who works as a bartender in downtown San Francisco, had just wrapped up her Tuesday night shift,... She clipped Roscoe’s leash to his collar and they went outside for a walk, heading toward 10th and California where her boyfriend, Tim Sowards, 41, lives.
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“Just like I’ve done a million times,” she recounted to SFGATE over the phone. “It’s something I’ll never do again.”
There were four of them in total, and as they began to circle Przybyl, Sowards and Roscoe, the dog suddenly darted after one of them.
“I yelled for him to come back, and right when I did that, a coyote just snatched him up by his neck and took off,” said Przybyl. “It all happened so fast.”
Without hesitation, Sowards proceeded to run after the animal, and she said she could hear Roscoe “screaming his guts out.”
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Meanwhile, Sowards continued to clap and yell at the coyote, which eventually dropped Roscoe onto the curb. The dog was still alive, but the coyote was lingering over him in a territorial way, said Przybyl.
That’s when Sowards took his chance. He charged at the coyote, scooped up Roscoe and sprinted back toward the house relatively unscathed, save for a few scratches from the cement.
“I was in complete shock,” said Przybyl. “I kept saying, ‘I can’t believe you did that,’ over and over again. He said there was no other option. If he hesitated, we could be in a completely different situation right now.”
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“I’m forever grateful for them and my boyfriend. He’s truly a hero,” said Przybyl. “I’m tearing up just talking about it. … There was a lot of panic and regret.”
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Coyotes have become the most urban of animals. As long as there is plenty of woodland somewhere in the city, there are probably coyotes.
FWIW there have been coyotes seen here in Montgomery County (Maryland). We are in the suburbs not that far from D.C.
A dog I had a while ago - deceased at age 17 as of a few years ago - was small but aggressive. He would bark and run at things that were way bigger than him. When I was walking him and we saw another animal - regardless of its size - I would just pick him up and walk carrying him instead of trying to control his frantic lunging and snapping. (He was a great dog! But what a handful. He would also get tired on some of our walks and I would carry him in a duffel bag.
One day we were sitting out on the porch at this house and a coyote came walking along the road - I saw it before my dog did, in fact. I tried to grab him before he saw the coyote but I was unsuccessful. He was up to the road and out of view before I could think another thought about it. Grrrrr! He must have known it was a coyote too. (The reason I was his owner was because his previous owner’s landlord’s dog had been bitten by him.) But he went after that critter and I was like OH SH*T! and ran in the direction he’d gone as fast as I could and after about two seconds I heard him squealing and barking. I was so scared! (and it sounded like it was way down the road, too, on the neighbor’s property!)
So I wandered around the neighborhood thinking I was going to find my dog all torn up but I didn’t hear him anymore, or anything else. I went back to the house and my dog was waiting for me on the front porch. He had a couple of deep bites in his back but he was otherwise okay. That was several years before his death.
I tried to call the local vet but they were uninterested in seeing him. I put neosporin on his wounds and he got better after a week or so.
Coyote’s in San Francisco? Color me skeptical.
“Y” and “W” are vowels.
*California/10th isn’t exactly in the woods *
It’s 2 blocks from the Presidio. You know the National park. The Presidio includes the GG Bridge with connects to Marin County. They cross the bridge at night looking for easy food in SF.
You can get them at S Mart...
Coyotes love golf courses too, especially now that a lot of them do that ‘natural’ tall rough thing. Good varmint hunting.
At the rate we are sliding into the abyss it may not be long before we read about coyotes feeding on a corpse in a city.
There’s actually plenty of suitable coyote habitat in San Francisco. The Precidio is mostly wildland, Golden Gate Park has lots of room, and all along Land’s End is brush and rough country. SF is not as purely urban as many people think it is.
One of my neighbors had a yappy mutt. A great horned owl snagged it.
I’ve also seen a large raven kill a juvenile ground squirrel.
Oh T. G.!
Probably coydogs, who run in packs, and unafraid of humans. In Ontario Canada they killed a child. They are a cross between a coyote and a wolf, giving them their social organization, and larger size..
our recently adopted border collie was not yet fixed. When she went into heat, it was a coyote booty call on my lot.
Going out - Had her leashed up, spotting light, and .22 when she went out. when I turned on the spotter, they bolted...
Yeah my wife also feeds squirrels and birds.
Couple of times she’s seen what looked like a large amount of dove feathers in the back yard but no blood or carcass...last time it happened I checked the security cam.....a swallow tail kite came down on a dove feeding on the ground.....it looked like an explosion of feathers.
Again, just a wild animal doing what they do.
Pack of homeless dogs more likely.
They are clever, hopping freight cars and going everywhere.
Both two legged and four legged.
Coyotes roamed freely near my family home. All our cats fell victim except Tina, who managed to live to old age—probably because her dark brown coloring allowed her to camouflage better than the others.
(Ironically she was the least pretty and friendly kitten in the litter. We only kept her because no one else wanted her. She ended up blessed with longevity.)
Gun companies used to make a small revolver just to shoot dogs or coyotes chasing bicyclists. The Velodog.
The government of SF would hyperventilate if someone there carried one to keep coyotes away.
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