[dts32041]

"Beep Beep"

[popdonnelly]

But looking on the bright side, they have a lot fewer rats in the park.

[Boundless]

... but park rangers shot and killed the older female
Sunday and have taken the head to the Ohio Department of
Health to be tested for rabies. "It's just a precaution
because we don't believe she was rabid, just that she was
territorial," Cleveland Metroparks spokeswoman Jane
Christyson said Tuesday.

"And if the test comes back negative, we'll re-attach
the head and release the coyote."

I'm sure the human-hater lobby is winding up to ban
humans from the park.

[MarineBrat]

I've run into coyotes in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and I can tell you that it would have to be something like a fear of rabies for them to take this many precautions, because coyotes are puny little things, certainly not able to endanger an adult human unless there were many of them attacking at once, which I have never heard of.

My buddy and I used to go night hiking north of Kernville, CA., near Horse Meadow, trying to sneak up on packs of coyotes, using only a full Moon for illumination. They never let us get close to them, though you could hear packs of them yipping much of the night. Those were fun times! A little scary, but fun.

BTW, in case we ran into a bear or mountain lion, we did carry a 1 million candle power spot light and a 6-cell mag light, and "equalization." Never needed any of it.

[Clemenza]

Much to my chagrin...

[Marysecretary]

We have coyotes on the lower end of our property (only 1.34 acres)which borders on wetlands. You can hear them. Now and then they attack the geese who are laying eggs near the creek below us. It's a horrid sound.