Coyote Attack in Dallas Leaves Child in Critical Condition

AmmoLand ^ | May 11, 2022 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

On May 3rd, in the Lake Highlands neighborhood of the Dallas metroplex, a coyote attacked a two year old toddler on the front porch. It was about 8:30 a.m., according to AP. From Fox4kdfw:

DALLAS – A 2-year-old child is in critical condition at the hospital after being attacked by a coyote in Dallas. 

Police said it happened around 8:30 a.m. Tuesday morning in the Lake Highlands area while the child was sitting on the front porch of a home on Royalpine Drive, which is not far from White Rock Creek.

Another coyote attack on a toddler had happened a week earlier in Huntington Beach, California.

In Vancouver, Canada, a spate of coyote attacks triggered an official response in 2021. 45 people had been bitten by August of 2021. By the end of the year, eleven coyotes had been culled. No more attacks were reported. Vancouver park authorities made it illegal to feed coyotes.

In Texas, Governor Rick Perry made headlines when he shot an aggressive coyote which appeared to be menacing his dog, while out near Austin, Texas, in December of 2015.

The attack in Dallas was unusually severe. Most coyote attacks on people are bites or nips, where hospitalization is not needed. The Toddler in Dallas survived the attack, was in critical condition at the hospital, but is now recovering at home. From ksat.com:

DALLAS – A 2-year-old boy who was attacked by a coyote
on the porch of his Dallas home is recovering after surgery, and officials searching for the coyote said Thursday that three that were acting aggressively have been killed.

As coyotes have increased in population and adapted to urban areas, coyote attacks have increased.

[luckystarmom]

I don’t live there anymore. I actually don’t live in the city. I do know about coyotes, snakes, deer, and other vermin.

You’ve never lived in Dallas. You’ve never been to the house where this happened. You don’t have family that currently live in the neighborhood. And I venture to say that you don’t have friends that currently live in the neighborhood with one being a few houses down.

I stand by my statement that I have never heard coyotes at night and my family, friends, and I have never seen a coyote in that neighborhood until the latest episode.

[waterhill]

You are correct, I have no friends in that shithole.

[waterhill]

Lived in Richardson when I was in the 2st and second grade back in 76 or so. Wallace Elementary. Coyotes, raccoons, armadillos. And cougars, oh lord.