Man saves grandson from coyote

Daily News ...Boston Herald ^ | October 6, 2005 | Lisa Gentes

[Radioactive]

Let me guess.......they found a road runner near the attack watching all the goings on......which makes the real problem here the road runner cartoons.

This coyote had watched the road runner cartoons as a young pup and got the idea of attacking this child because it knew that it could never catch the road runner without being doomed...so it went after the child.......it makes sense to me!

Meep! Meep!

[trussell]

I recently read a book called "The beast in the Garden". It's about the cougars in Boulder and Idaho Springs. One cougar killed a highschool kid who was an athlete and just on his training run.

The cats were getting use to being around humans, and had started seeking dogs as food. (It was originally believed that cougars were afraid of dogs because of their agressive nature and loud bark)

[Double Tap]

Well, your name fits.

[PoorMuttly]

So, we have coyotes eating the food suupply niche of wolves, mating with pitbulls and wolves, eating the deer sized animals the encroached-upon mountain lions are also eating, losing their fear of man, and 20 ft. boa constrictors eating 6 foot alligators in the Everglades and L.A. swamplands.

Wear bells and make yourself taste nasty with taco sauc....uh...pepper spray...so they'll be real sick after they get through eating you. That'll get 'em.

Trust me.

[Rapscallion]

"Unless they are sick, injured, or screwed around with they won't attack a human."

I am sorry to tell you that you are incorrect. Coyotes attack humans frequently in Arizona. It seems, more usually, people walking toward the coyote are attacked. But twice I have personally witnessed a single coyote running in the swail beside the road 40 feet behind an early morning jogger.

A workman walking to his car alone in a K-Mart parking lot at midnight, spotted a coyote standing under the light but between him and his car. He continued to walk toward the animal thinking it would run away. It did not. It charged him and tore his arm and face up very bad. Then it ran off.

Coyotes are just unpredictable.

[Sidebar Moderator]

Play nice or you won't be playing at all.

[PoorMuttly]

"It was originally believed that cougars were afraid of dogs because of their aggressive nature and loud bark, but it appears that the readily available bloody meat supply and dog's savory and complex bouquet proved very tempting, so the wolves just eat them, bark and all."

An appetizing taste treat for the entire pack, and associated hybrids.

[The Red Zone]

Since the critter was caught, its brain will be checked for rabies.

[luckystarmom]

We have coyotes in our neighborhood. I came home one night at about 1am and saw one. You have to be careful with trash, and animals. Lots of cats get killed in the area.

I won't go walking on the bike trails in the evening.

[Treader]

I killed two yotes, yesterday, in a restart field. Pelts ain't prime, but they needed killin'. They were on a neighbor's ranch, about 1/4 mile from pastured beefers. Just happened to be goin' fishin', and they met my gaze. Clean kills- one stood, the other didn't run far.

[editor-surveyor]

"Trust me."

Oh, I do, I do. :o)

Last saturday we had a stray house cat show up for breakfast at our picnic table up at the ranch (Tuolumne county), dragging a full grown female lynx along behind her! Lynx are not supposed to even be within 500 miles of us. Strange.

[Montana4Jesus]

Well, if that is the case you will remember the cross country skier that was killed by coyotes in Old Faithful several years back and the two college kids that were attacked by coyotes in the Bob Marshalls about 3 years ago. We have had several coyotes in the Hylite Hights area stalking cattle. They are learning to pack and are quite lethal. And yes, I do know the difference between a wolf and a coyote.

[glasseye]

Al's got a great page.

Check out the mini lathe.....way cool!

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

Uhhhhh....I'd be getting a rabies shot. In nearly 50 years I've never seen a coyote attack a human, or even heard of it. My guess is that they were messing with it

A coyote went after my dad, mother and brother, 40 years ago in central Texas. They were in a pasture, near a tree line, looking for our horses. It came at them several times and my dad kept it away by popping a rope in it's face.

[apackof2]

ok this is scary

I too thought that coyotes would not attack a person unless sick

When I was hiking this summer up in the mountains in Wyoming I heard a coyote yelping VERY close to the trail.
I admit it did scare as I took cover behind a stand of evergreens and picked up a large rock....I did have my dog with me and I wonder if she could have been the potential target?

I guess my bear pepper spray is not just for bears...

[Jeff Head]

Several years ago, on the outskirts of LA, I remember reading about a coyote that came into a sub division, and when a man was leaving for work and had left the door open for two miuntes while he went back in to get his keys, a coyote drug his two-year old son off the porch and into the weeds across the road.

When the Dad came out, he saw the coyote, yelled out at as it was putting its nose into the high grass, and scared it off. When he went to investigate, he found his two year old there...dead.

I'm afraid I would have had a mission after that...one of extermination.

Coyotes have vastly expanded their range...become larger...and more agrressive over the last 20 years.

Here in Idaho, the best coyote gun I have is my FAL.

[IrishCatholic]

On my farm there is a family of coyotes that berthed their pups on the far side of my lake. They can be heard at night hunting. They are shy by nature because they will be shot by those around me. I like them because they take care of the small critters that like to eat my crops.
I don't worry about my dog because he is an English Mastiff and almost weighs as much as me. When we walk the fields he is very attentive. I pity the coyote that thinks to take him on.

One point though is feral dogs interbreeding with coyotes. Part of the problem with these mixes is the natural behavior is thrown off. I wonder how much that comes into play.

[Double Tap]

Here is a pretty good article that is from National Geographic that might be of use.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/06/0607_050607_coyotes_2.html

[Rembrandt]

"I'm glad the bitch is dead - the term bitch by the way, is appropriate here."


Also appropriate when talking of the presumed Democrat nominee for President in 2008.