This is some toxic masculinity for San Francisco.
Something doesn’t sound right. California/10th isn’t exactly in the woods which means the coyotes would have been roaming through city streets. Hmmm
I feel there is a market here for some kind of solution ....
There’s a market for terriers? I thought coyotes were too busy snatching women south of the border and bringing them north to sell to white supremacists.
Another SF smash and grab. Its everywhere!
So....no leash laws then?
At least it had a good life for 13 blessed years.
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.
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.
Pack of homeless dogs more likely.
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.
The coyotes around here, suburban Chicago in DuPage County, have completely lost their fear of mankind. We saw a large one trotting down a residential street at 3 in the afternoon the other day.
He didn’t have a care in the world.
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thought this was a code worded story for a moment....
I thought coyotes made so much money smuggling illegals across the border that they could afford go to order out. These just be welfare coyotes who vote for democrats.
Two parts of the report are noteworthy:
“One litter of seven coyote pups was spotted at the Botanical Gardens in Golden Gate Park last May, and two popular trails in the Presidio temporarily prohibited dogs during “pupping season” — which occurs from April through fall — because some of the coyotes’ den sites were in the golf course. “
And why they are permitted to have dens in the golf course?
“Though it’s difficult to track each individual animal, Campbell estimates fewer than 100 coyotes are living in San Francisco, where they began building dens in the early 2000s after police officers ceased the practice of killing the animals that crossed the Golden Gate Bridge into the city.”
It seems S.F.’s be kind to criminals programs followed its be kind to Coyotes program.
