KATHIE LEE AND KIDS IN TEARS AS COYOTE KILLS BELOVED POOCH

NY Post ^ | February 1, 2003 | JOE McGURK

[SandfleaCSC]

Kathie Lee Gifford is grieving for her beloved dog, Chardonnay, who was killed near the family

[wardaddy]

This happens frequently around here in Nashville. Coyotes don't come around our Dobie which is good for our cats but the cats are usually on the lookout for our Dobie anyhow.

Gotta Keep Em Separated!

[mlmr]

When you don't hunt the deer the coyotes will come and eat anything small to medium.

[Red Jones]

Ahhh! in texas you can shoot them. I'm envious.

As time goes on the coyotes learn that they have nothing to fear from humans. Where I live they used to be much more rare. But as time goes on they've started to come through the neighborhood every night. By morning they're gone. But in LA they've had suburbs bordering on coyote areas for alonger period of time. In LA they can trot down the street in daylight hours even. How infuriating that the citizens must put up with this.

[oceanperch]

Who can post a real photo of a coyote.

I live in rural central Oregon Coast and never see anything but the two does if I am outside around midnight and telling my Labs to hush. Well coming home one night a grey pointed nose with pointed ears crossed in front of my van so what was that. I know it was not a dog. He held his head down I thought it may be a fox but it was grey, It was not as big as a wolf or have that beautiful face of a wolf. It was smaller than my labs.

Another question when we are get to get out and travel I travel from 2am to 8 over the mountain ranges. How come I never see wild animals?

Only once a family of raccoons crossed in front of me and my son saw the last one stop and stare and just busted up laughing then I said oh oh and then thump. I still talk about that story with him and that was years ago.

Can somebody tell me if there are grey foxes?

I read of areas where bears are out of contol here on the coast but out here where I live nothing. I had the Forrest Ranger come and talk to my son about bears and that they have never been sighted out in our area (we live in the hills of the coast range). My son has a fear of bears afraid he will be attacked while sun bathing if not behind the fencing around our home.(he is a quad. so cannot run) Also we live on the Yaquina Bay just 4mi inland so I cannot figure out why I never see anything wandering around. Neighbors say my dogs scare everything off.

BTW sorry Kathie lee that dog was more loyal to you than that dog of a husband ever was. Should dump the husband and get more dogs.

[WFTR]

Who are the freaks that really want to know this sort of news story? Who are the lousy reporters that think this is worth putting on the newswire?

What kind of idiot would open this thread and post a response? ...... Oh, Oooops ... I guess that's both of us.

WFTR
Bill

[WFTR]

Too bad nobody is going to do anything about it.

They'll do something if a gang member dies.

[Wondervixen]

I think it was the Man Show that did that joke...

Adam Corrola: Isn't Coyote her kid?

Jimmy Kimmel: That's CODY.

[FITZ]

As time goes on the coyotes learn that they have nothing to fear from humans.

I wonder what used to control the coyotes? Wolves? I remember before in Northern Michigan, you'd often see foxes but now it's all coyotes ---I think they've killed off the foxes. They're very brazen too ---I've know someone who had animals inside a barn and the coyotes went right inside to get them.

[Red Jones]

the coyotes have become so bold because nobody ever shoots them any more (except in texas I'm told). this is how wild animals are.

[Arkinsaw]

What kind of idiot would open this thread and post a response? ...... Oh, Oooops ... I guess that's both of us.

Hmmmm, you do seem to have a point there. Perhaps I should take those Valiums offered earlier.

[evolved_rage]

Oh Yeah??? My mis-read of the title made me laugh....

[WFTR]

Hmmmm, you do seem to have a point there. Perhaps I should take those Valiums offered earlier.

Hey, it's not as if someone caught us watching Donahue.

[Don W]

Coyotes understand FEAR!.

If every time you see a coyote, you shoot it dead, the other coyotes in the area WILL learn not to enter your "zone". That is what kept them away from us in the past, and works everywhere it is tried.

Stay away or die. Simple, yet quite effective.

[sissyjane]

My dog and I were chased by a coyote last summer.My dog was pregnant at the time.I threw my arms up and screamed as loud as I could,and it stopped charging.Called animal control,and they weren't interested.This happened along a very busy street,and I was on the sidewalk.i called Fish and Game.They sent an agent out,who called the USDA. They in turn came out and in a week dispatched the mother coyote and her brood to the happy hunting ground in the sky.

[dfwgator]

Peta must respond! Which side to take- dog or the predator?

When animals stop eating each other for food, then PETA can come to me and tell me to stop eating animals as well.

[Salamander]

What they don't mention is that these are "Eastern Coyotes" or "Brush Wolves".

The story is that, on their eastward march, the common coyote interbred with Canadian wolves.

These are *not* the little uber-fox-like critters they have out west.

They have nearly the size of a wolf (or small-to-medium German Sheperd) and the lack of of fear of humans, like the coyote.

Very bad combination of traits, really.

Thanks to our last ultra-liberal guv, Glendening, we're lousy with'em now.

I have Ibizan Hounds which are like big heavy Greyhounds, sorta, and I don't worry *too* much about the adults taking care of themselves, since they hunt, chase and kill critters up to and including deer and antelope in their native land.

*But* I also have a 5 month old Beezer pup whom the coyotes would relish as a snack.

"Mom" lets everybody out to pee after nightfall with a .12 ga loaded for bear close to hand.

Far-Western MD now also has a severe black bear problem, thanks to the same "Bambi Worshippers".

Nature is *not* Walt Disney.

This bad cold spell has made them especially bold.

They run the perimeter of my fence at night trying to find a way in to the geese.

To the person who wanted them in N.VA....you'll have them soon enough, if you don't already.

Another thing they've done, by way of "adaptation" is drop the stereotypical "howling" jazz.

They have learned to not give away their presence.

We've had a plague of them for 7-8 years and I've never heard a single howl, even though my Dad saw 3 on the ridge above his cabin, not a hundred yards from my house.

Keep in mind, I love all critters....unless they try to hurt mine.

[Salamander]

[FreedomPoster]

>>Is this a good reason for a nightvision scope?

If I lived somewhere rural where coyotes were common, it would be all the excuse I'd need.

[185JHP]

That thing was really top-shelf humor. It was as good as the thread about Jerry Springer having a bunch of philosophers on his show. Not written by an amateur.

[cubreporter]

Cruel!