Posted on 06/11/2007 6:54:40 PM PDT by george76
Five-year-old Brayden Gazette was crossing a neighbor's lawn near his Monmouth County home last month when a coyote burst out of the pine woods and bit him on the head.
Twenty-month-old Liam Sadler was in a relative's backyard in April when a coyote grabbed him by the neck and tried to drag him off.
The rare daylight coyote attacks on humans were interrupted before the yellow-eyed beasts could kill. Nevertheless, brazen coyotes have rattled residents across North Jersey's Monmouth and Bergen Counties, where scores of sightings have been reported and where numerous pets have been killed or mauled this spring.
In a state known as America's most densely populated, the eerie nighttime yip-howls and almost daily reports of sightings and attacks signal fresh strife in New Jersey's struggle with its wildlife.
Last year, authorities killed several bears that were marauding in urban areas. Persistent but unconfirmed reports of cougars and panthers continue to plague South Jersey residents.
"There is considerable community concern about coyotes," ... "We have 3,000 of them in all 21 counties of the state.
"The problem now may be a bold pack of coyotes that are ...seeing children as a possible source of food. We don't know."
Middletown Township Administrator Robert Czech said the township had begun to feel like it's "the Colorado of the East." ...
Capturing or killing them is the goal, Czech said. "This group of coyotes has decided it's going to go after young children because of their size.
"If they can't be contained, then I hope they terminate them."
Also, the number of bear-human encounters has risen steeply.
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
In The Beast In Tne Garden, one of the girls who was a friend of that high school student killed and eaten by a puma while he was on a run near the school said the following -”IT WAS SUCH A NATURAL DEATH”! ! !
Boulder had already taught its public scruel students that being puma food was “such a natural death”.
AMerica must purge all socialists from the schools.
.44 Henry Big Boy, shoot, shovel, shut up.
Perhaps, but I think these are coyotes. They’re all over the place now. Thanks for your reply.
Ok. Here’s my story, since you missed it along with the meaning of my post. Before I moved to Los Angeles I lived in the country in Arizona where coyotes were common, & wild dogs were occasional. Coyotes are not wild dogs. Of course, there was interbreeding when the domestic dog bred with the coyote and joined her pack. We kept the cats indoors at night. And if the coyotes ran the horses, we got the guns out. But other than that, it was live and let live. It is a myth that there is wide spread attacks of humans by coyotes or coyote/dog mixes. They don’t want to be around humans, especially adults. The one in my post came back last night. But when he realized that I was present he took off. If you live in the country or even in areas of a city where there are wild animals present, you don’t need to live in fear, rather learn to live knowing that they are around. Don’t leave the cats/dogs out at night. Don’t leave dog/cat food out. Build a fence over 7 feet, and make sure to maintain it. There is a new fence with a top that rolls therefore making the animals unable to get out or in.
I must respectfully disagree. We built our houses in the hills, and farther into what was once open spaces. The animals adapt. The dogs will either cower and submit to the coyote leading to interbreeding, or be eaten.
My nephew used to work at Yosemite. Some of the funnier questions he was asked,
“Where do they keep the bears?”
and
“Whose dogs were howling all night?”
and...
“What time do they turn off the waterfalls?”
The one that I mentioned in my original post came back last night to see if there was any cat food. I rattled the blinds and it ran a few feet, then stopped and looked back to check the threat. I rattled the blinds even more strongly and it ran off. Then I went out and did my best mountain lion imitation. Hey, it works with my cats. We’ll see.
Too bad you can’t interact with the one that visits you. BTW, is it a dog or coyote? With the former there is hope.
True. Not only that, but coyote can't have been just western, then forced by loss of habitat to the ease coast - that doesn't make sense. It actually says there is plenty of food supply - they are breeding easily and roaming in search of more territory, all the way across the country in less than 100 years. Sounds more like there are fewer predators. The answer to that, of course, is to allow the most efficient predator ever reduce their numbers - the American Hunter.
Thanks.
and liberals wonder why we make fun of them.
And of course, every evening they and the local dogs all sound off together. The weird thing with that is that they all, as if on cue, abruptly ~stop~ all at once, so abruptly that the sound echoes off into the distance.
Not necessarily true. There isn’t just one reason for coyotes, or any animal coming into towns. One can be the loss of a sustainable food supply, the other is the encroachment of Humans on the habitat.
Loss of food supply doesn’t necessarily mean a over abundance of coyotes. It can mean that the usual prey has either moved away because of loss of habitat, or failed to reproduce sufficiently.
“There are too many coyotes in lots of places, they are not endangered.”
There are many places that have hunt coyotes to the brink of extermination due to the public’s perpetuation of this idea. In this case, the prey (rabbits, opposums, racoons, squirrels, porcupines, snakes, etc.) population rises, and the public decries them as nusances, rather than learning to live with the predators.
Tolerating dangerous predators in the midst of your abodes is stupid or a harsh Darwinism.I include toleration of both human and animal predators as unwise.
LOL! So true, that’s because we are governed by a bunch of corrupt, panty waist, nanny like, liberal idiots.
We’ve had an extremely dry year here in the SoCal desert...maybe a tenth of an inch of rain over the past year. I’m assuming this has really affected to food chain, because now (our home is on the edge of civilization with desert behind us) we’re seeing coyotes almost daily in broad daylight - something you’d never ever see during a normal year. They’ve gotta be really hongry!
No, it really wanted the feral cats.
Coyotes are not endangered animals. They are generally too smart to be caught in live traps. Aggressive coyotes like the ones in the story should be killed, since they are a threat to humans.
Without the threat of hunting, coyotes are quickly colonizing America's suburbs. There is plenty of food -- poodles, yorkies, cats, fat backyard squirrels, even deer.
The DNR in west virginia encourages people to kill them whenever possible.
You’re nailed it.
I, for one, am happy to read of wildlife stalking city slickers’ kids.
It pleases me no end to see stupid people getting the ultimate rewards for their actions.
We have the same problem here in Massachusetts. Coyotes come into our yard quite often, and almost made off with the little dog next door. We have a six foot high chain-link fence and large dogs, knock wood.
>>The one thing that has changed in the dynamic in the relationship between humans and coyotes more than anything else is that the animals have clearly figured out that people pose no threat.
Ding! Ding! Ding!
We have a winner!
Worth repeating.
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