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6-year-old boy dragged, attacked by wild coyote at California softball game
New York Post ^ | Aug. 9, 2025 | Chris Harris

Posted on 08/10/2025 12:02:28 PM PDT by george76

A 6-year-old Southern California boy was dragged and attacked by a coyote at a softball game ..

Enoch Palomar was attending his sister’s game at Del Amo Park in Carson when the attack unfolded...

A person filming the action on the field captured audio of Enoch’s screams as the wild animal was biting him behind the softball field. ,

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“It just kept biting me and I was trying to kick it,” Enoch told KTLA. “It was too fast and it just jumped. I was trying my hardest and then it didn’t work, and then I yelled.”

Enoch’s mom, Melissa Palomar, heard his screams and sprinted over to help him.

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In recent years, California’s coyotes have been wandering into urban areas, where they’re known to go after small dogs.

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife estimates the state has a coyote population somewhere between 250,000 and 750,000.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Sports
KEYWORDS: attacked; california; coyote; coyotes; dragged

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To: 17th Miss Regt

I live in North Fort Worth which has really been built up in the last 20 years but there are still sightings of coyotes every morning on the ND page. There are also, at least 3/4 of the respondents saying we stole the coyote’s’ land, and they should be protected. Unbelievable how many dingbats have moved to Texas.


21 posted on 08/10/2025 12:52:30 PM PDT by heylady
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To: drypowder
...just making a living, they need to eat as we all do.

I've said the same thing many times. Not evil, just nature.

22 posted on 08/10/2025 12:57:51 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: george76

How did a 6-year-old get dragged by a coyote at a softball game filled with people? Didn’t anyone see it approaching? Didn’t anyone run up to it as soon as it looked like it was going to attack???


23 posted on 08/10/2025 12:59:35 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: george76

at what point does FWC, or whatever org, puts together a streamlined program to KILL them. We have a python hunt in FLA every year. We should something very similar for coyotes but on a very large scale.


24 posted on 08/10/2025 1:05:49 PM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

One reason I stopped having cats is because I was tired of feeding the coyotes.

I had two beautiful white cats that were brother and sister.
One disappeared and the other just cried and cried it was so sad.


25 posted on 08/10/2025 1:08:13 PM PDT by missthethunder (Since the 1980 Rona Barrett interview. IYKYK. )
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To: Disambiguator
Daytime coyotes have been seen where my mom lives in Seizure World, Seal Beach, CA., but than there is many acres of open ground with Joint Forces Training Center Los Alamitos on one side and Naval Weapons Station Los Alamitos on the other. Coyotes are all over Buena Park and Huntington Beach and not too many years ago a coyote tried to take a very young child dragging it into bushes at Forest Lawn in Cypress, CA.

All the wildlife displaced by development are moving back in, coyotes, skunks, opossums, raccoons, hawks have all returned to urban areas and they are not one bit fearful of man.

26 posted on 08/10/2025 1:13:20 PM PDT by Mastador1
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To: george76

A friend of mine was walking on a parkway in Charlotte, behind some residential homes. He saw some young children playing in their backyards.

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw something rushing at him. It was a large coyote. He began kicking and stomping the critter. After a long ordeal, he stomped the animal to death.

He decided no one would believe him, so he went back to his truck to get his phone, intending to take a picture of it. He also brought a large knife.

When he got to the spot where he killed the coyote, it was gone. He was looking all over for it when he saw the vicious animal charging him again. He had another long battle with it and eventually stomped it to death again. In the process, he broke a couple bones in his leg. This time he slashed the animal’s throat to make good and sure it was dead and he hung it up in a tree. He then called the police.

It turned out the coyote was rabid. My buddy had a couple scratches and a broken bone. Doctors monitored him and he never had to take rabies shots.

That coyote could easily have killed those small children playing in their backyards.

My friend never goes in the woods anymore without a large knife.


27 posted on 08/10/2025 1:17:47 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: george76

My son was about that age when he came in from playing in the yard to tell me there was a coyote hunched down and creeping up on him from the field next to the yard.
Our border Collie / Australian Shepherd mix ran it off.
Good boy, Charlie.


28 posted on 08/10/2025 1:19:16 PM PDT by samiam5
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To: Mastador1

They’re not getting shot at enough to make them afraid.


29 posted on 08/10/2025 1:24:32 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: george76

These guys had a coyote caught and let it go!

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KoyycZDQl9Q


30 posted on 08/10/2025 1:27:51 PM PDT by Rio
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To: george76

It’s a good thing Rabies shots aren’t as bad as in the old days...


31 posted on 08/10/2025 1:30:42 PM PDT by null and void (We are living through the greatest of all ICE Ages.)
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To: george76

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife estimates the state has a coyote population somewhere between 250,000 and 750,000.

put a few dollars bounty on them and kids with 22s will eliminate the threat.


32 posted on 08/10/2025 1:31:08 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Trump has arrived and it is awesome to have a real President.)
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To: LittleBillyInfidel

“ They can rocket up a mountain at top speed, and it’s like something seen in a horror movie.”
20 gauge shotgun will take care of that problem.


33 posted on 08/10/2025 1:31:36 PM PDT by 9422WMR
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To: Disambiguator

Plenty of coyotes in North Texas, too. Saw one strolling down the street. A few hundred yards from an elementary school. They’re more common in the rural areas.


34 posted on 08/10/2025 1:31:38 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
Didn’t anyone see it approaching? Didn’t anyone run up to it as soon as it looked like it was going to attack???

Nah, they were all watching the game...

35 posted on 08/10/2025 1:33:02 PM PDT by null and void (We are living through the greatest of all ICE Ages.)
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To: Mastador1

The idiots among us pressed for laws punishing people who do the natural act of eliminating dangerous predators that harm people and domestic animals.


36 posted on 08/10/2025 1:41:17 PM PDT by hoosierham (Freedom isnt free)
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To: null and void

And many,if not all,public sports forbid means of protection.


37 posted on 08/10/2025 1:42:44 PM PDT by hoosierham (Freedom isnt free)
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To: spacejunkie2001

It will take a county to put it all together as a model for the rest of the country. Otherwise, no one is moving. Pure laziness.

County meeting. Sheriff. Civilian Marksmanship Programs and Gun Shops. Call for volunteers and PSAs. Registration. Training. Planning.

Execution. After-Action. Publish.

Now, a smart governor would use this opportunity to bolster the state militia or sheriff auxiliaries. One can dream.


38 posted on 08/10/2025 1:57:04 PM PDT by Salvavida
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To: Salvavida

I know they’re doing it in GA, probably by county (could be state approved) but we need to do it country wide as the coyotes have no natural enemy (except the car) and they breed like cats.


39 posted on 08/10/2025 2:03:40 PM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: missthethunder

😔


40 posted on 08/10/2025 2:14:49 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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