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Coyote releases grip on cat when suddenly confronted
bclocalnews.com ^ | 8 Apr 2011 | Barry Gerding

Posted on 04/08/2011 7:58:48 PM PDT by smokingfrog

Marni Adams was driving down Clifton Road at 7:30 a.m. last Sunday on the way to meet a group of her friends for their regular run.

But her otherwise routine morning took a decided twist when she was confronted by a coyote walking across Clifton near Caldow Street with a cat in its mouth.

Call it a maternal instinct. Or a passion to help an animal in need. Whatever it was, it motivated Adams to stop her car, jump out from behind the wheel and attempt to rescue the cat.

Adams quickly caught up to the coyote and began screaming at the startled animal in hopes it would release its grip on the feline.

“I was making wild sounds, trying to scare the coyote,” Adams recalled. “I could see by the erect cat’s claws that it was alive, trying to fight free. The coyote came to a stop, dropped the cat, proceeded to run up the hill, stopped once to look back and then left.”

Adams was aware of recent complaints from local residents about coyotes snatching pets that were running loose, and she has seen coyotes often as she lives near Knox Mountain.

She said the protocol for what to do if confronted by a coyote with a pet cat in its mouth didn’t enter her mind, as her first instinct was to help the cat.

Other than being angry and hissing, Adams said the cat amazingly didn’t suffer any wounds.

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To: goat granny

Hi GG. Around here coyotes kill the raccoons too. They’ll kill anything that walks if they can bring it down. They got a deer up by the pond in back. A little black dog too. Nasty sight.


101 posted on 04/09/2011 8:16:00 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are at your door! How will you answer the knock?)
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To: PLMerite

Protocol:

1) Aim firearm-of-choice at coyote
2) Fire.
3) Prepare for the cat’s fear and indignation after hearing the loud “BANG”.
4) Dispose of coyote carcass and send the annoyed, frightened (but hopefully grateful) cat on its way. :-)


102 posted on 04/09/2011 8:17:16 AM PDT by Immerito (Reading Through the Bible in 90 Days)
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To: Grizzled Bear

We didn’t want Boots eating anything but mice and rats. ;-)


103 posted on 04/09/2011 8:18:21 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are at your door! How will you answer the knock?)
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To: DJ MacWoW
Cats are domestic, coyotes are not. There's world of difference.

HA! Tell that to the next Non-Domestic sparrow your cat brings home in its mouth, plays with until it kills it, then eats.

Predators are predators. The natural diet of cats are rodents and birds. NOT Special Kitty and Meow Mix...

IMHO... ;-)

104 posted on 04/09/2011 8:19:19 AM PDT by muffaletaman
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To: DJ MacWoW

-——Cats are domestic,-——

I had an identical situation in my yard. I had to literally pry a chipmunk from the mouth of a very angry neighbors cat .

Cats are wild predators who choose to live in the company of Humans


105 posted on 04/09/2011 8:22:07 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. N.C. D.E. +12 ....( History is a process, not an event ))
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To: sergeantdave
"Then they’d pack up with other mutts, go feral and terrorize the area."

Of course you are correct, as far as you go. But it isn't necessarily just the ones that "go feral". If allowed complete "wandering freedom", even good "live at home" dogs can and do "pack up", and even the singleton aggressive mutt can be a problem. I've seen WAY too many stories (even in the local weekly paper) of a person out walking their pooch, and an aggressive hound attacking the dog and/or the person.

106 posted on 04/09/2011 8:22:49 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog
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To: muffaletaman

Again. Cats don’t hunt livestock and children. Coyotes do. And my cats don’t eat the birds I feed. But they DO keep down the mice and rats. And on 80 acres there’s a lot of them.


107 posted on 04/09/2011 8:32:15 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are at your door! How will you answer the knock?)
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To: bert

Chipmunks are a small nuisance animal and a good reason to have cats. So are mice and rats. Btw, cats usually don’t eat chipmunks as they taste bad but they will kill them. Farm cats are useful. Coyotes are not.


108 posted on 04/09/2011 8:34:42 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are at your door! How will you answer the knock?)
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To: smokingfrog

OhhKkkk....


109 posted on 04/09/2011 8:34:55 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: Eaker

Ammo conservation. I like it!!!


110 posted on 04/09/2011 8:35:38 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: Slings and Arrows

Jamie Johnson loves his cat. That’s how I hold my Rocket. He loves a cuddle.


111 posted on 04/09/2011 8:50:43 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: smokingfrog

Although allergic to cats, I like them alot. However, coyotes eating a cat is not the end of the world. The country is overun with excess cats and dogs. In Wisconsin one can hunt cats there are so many.

Coyotes have to eat too. The cats are also killing off many species. Here in Michigan warblers are at risk. We have 50,000 stray dogs in Detroit. Postal workers are being attacked.

Who says coyotes don’t have a right to live.


112 posted on 04/09/2011 9:05:42 AM PDT by School of Rational Thought (Winning 24/7, Tiger's blood)
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To: School of Rational Thought
Who says coyotes don’t have a right to live.

Every farmer with dead livestock.

113 posted on 04/09/2011 9:50:30 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are at your door! How will you answer the knock?)
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To: TheOldLady

Now I have to hug my brood. BRB.


114 posted on 04/09/2011 10:08:26 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2
The rascals are getting craftier and more high tech too......Here a red fox is going shopping for dinner....

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115 posted on 04/09/2011 10:51:07 AM PDT by NWFLConservative
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To: Slings and Arrows

My neighbor almost lost her little Chihuahua last week to a coyote...she let the little nervous rat out without a leash OR supervision. I bet she doesn’t do THAT again!


116 posted on 04/09/2011 11:21:16 AM PDT by Monkey Face ("...By small and simple things are great things brought to pass...." Alma 37:6)
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To: Grizzled Bear
So if a coyote takes a small child you would tell Mommy, "it sucks to be you."

Only if its a dingo.

117 posted on 04/09/2011 11:24:15 AM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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To: King Moonracer

Well played, sir!

***D, I, N, G, O...and Dingo was his name-o***


118 posted on 04/09/2011 11:31:03 AM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: smokingfrog

Happy to be home with its owners is Indica, an 11-month-old Bengal Tabby cat, joined here by Marni Adams, Jamie Johnson and Emelia Templeton

119 posted on 04/09/2011 11:46:47 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Upstate NY Guy

I got the impression that they were running (driving) towards each other.


120 posted on 04/09/2011 11:47:55 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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