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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: smokingfrog

Further down in the article...”Indica (the cat) had gone missing that morning after being let outside to go to the bathroom.”

Don’t they have indoor plumbing in BC yet?


61 posted on 04/08/2011 10:09:54 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (lee lexico desozibed)
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To: Grizzled Bear

Please, oh, please elucidate.


62 posted on 04/08/2011 10:11:52 PM PDT by doc1019 ( The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.)
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To: PLMerite

Believe me. There is no place like sleeping at home in you own bed with running water, toilets and heat. It’s the best.


63 posted on 04/08/2011 10:12:05 PM PDT by Wiggins
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To: org.whodat

No comprende, senor.

You got a right to your opinion, it is a free country, but around here you might want to reconsider rooting for the coyote instead of the cat.

Coyote = not a pet = predator and dangerous animal

Cat = might belong to a family who loves it, even if they let it roam

Now, I lurve me some red-tail hawks. Some people think they take cats and small dogs. I am unconvinced of this, but hawks are endangered and coyotes are not, so I go with the hawks. I’d never shoot a hawk. Coyote, in a heartbeat.


64 posted on 04/08/2011 10:12:07 PM PDT by West Texas Chuck (Why yes, I do speak Spanglish - "Hasta la later on, amigo. Pardon, would you have any salsa verde?")
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To: org.whodat
Oh, sorry, I'm a little slow. You mean one of these:

Nah, I'll put 'em out quick and clean, no torture.

65 posted on 04/08/2011 10:19:33 PM PDT by West Texas Chuck (Why yes, I do speak Spanglish - "Hasta la later on, amigo. Pardon, would you have any salsa verde?")
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To: West Texas Chuck

Hawks will really take about any small animal, but letting pets run loose
and breeding just results in more unwanted animals. The animal control people kill them everyday so why get upset over an animal doing what comes naturally. The idiocy of comparing this to an human is just that idiocy.


66 posted on 04/08/2011 10:21:07 PM PDT by org.whodat
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To: West Texas Chuck

Hawks will really take about any small animal, but letting pets run loose
and breeding just results in more unwanted animals. The animal control people kill them everyday so why get upset over an animal doing what comes naturally. The idiocy of comparing this to an human is just that idiocy.


67 posted on 04/08/2011 10:21:18 PM PDT by org.whodat
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To: West Texas Chuck

Hawks will really take about any small animal, but letting pets run loose
and breeding just results in more unwanted animals. The animal control people kill them everyday so why get upset over an animal doing what comes naturally. The idiocy of comparing this to an human is just that idiocy.


68 posted on 04/08/2011 10:21:23 PM PDT by org.whodat
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To: terycarl

The cat should have been a munchie for the coyote. Stupid humans should not let their pets out to run free.

Cats running loose because of irresponsible owners are just as big a nuisance as a wild coyote.


69 posted on 04/08/2011 10:23:47 PM PDT by CSI007
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To: org.whodat

Yeah, you have a point there, sorta.

My cats don’t run loose, and they are all fixed, so I don’t worry about assidental reproduction.

I have friends and family members who catch wild cats and have them fixed so they don’t produce more. That is not an easy task, I respect them for caring more about the animals than having them euthanized. It is a cross I will gladly bear. I don’t kill anything for fun. I kill a few fireants out of spite, but that’s just me.


70 posted on 04/08/2011 10:29:38 PM PDT by West Texas Chuck (Why yes, I do speak Spanglish - "Hasta la later on, amigo. Pardon, would you have any salsa verde?")
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To: DJ MacWoW

Same goes for those cute little masked coons...I hate them, they carry rabies, kill your chickens, turkeys and anything else they can, sometimes just to kill....good only to drown. City people haven’t a clue, neither do those idiots at organizations like peta......GG


71 posted on 04/08/2011 10:32:57 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: Sea Parrot

Musty have been a gentle soft mouthed coyote.


That was my thought exactly. In my experience such predators give the prey a good crunch and shake to kill it or at least disable it. I cant imagine a cat not going berserk in the mouth of anything, nor can I imagine a coyote being gentle mouthed with same.

Maybe the woman ended up scaring the sh!t out of a mama cat and her kitten.


72 posted on 04/08/2011 10:39:26 PM PDT by freedomlover (Make sure you're in love - before you move in the heavy stuff)
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To: West Texas Chuck
We live along the upper yukon. Had wolves in my garbage cans at 3 am back in Oct, a first for that but they have gotten into buckets of fish eggs that I use for bait other years.

THen, back in Feb, I saw tracks at bottom of my lane, so I called neighbor and told him to watch his dogs as a wolf was following their tracks on the main road. He called that night at 6 in evening, had just shot a female, 100 lb wolf that tried killing one of his dogs. He had just let the dogs out and heard them growlin, looked out and saw wolf at bottom of his lane. He ran in grabbed shot gun, ran out, wolf had his springer spaniel by neck on ground. He ran up hollaring and wolf wouldn't let go of dog, he shot wolf at like 10 feet, then wolf let go of dog and stumbled down lane and died, blood all over lane. He later said the wolf had grabbed his dog by butt and then when dog spun around, wolf latched onto dogs neck. I thought t was strange that wolf didn't let go of dog with neighbor right nx to him yelling.

We have had young wolves, yearlings walk up our lane and look our dog team over, but only singles and I'd walk out on porch and wolf would get up and stroll back down my lane. Many young wolves haven't seen many people. My kids would call them in at bus stop with mouth sqealer in mornings when they were hanging around. I like having wolves around, just not too many which means you need ariel wolf control to keep their numbers down or bounties on their hides, no joke.

I see all kinds of wolves when the caribou come through, some on the river lookin for dead salmon, and some when just out hunting. They sure are killing machines, but I like hearing them in winter at 4 am too.

73 posted on 04/08/2011 10:44:43 PM PDT by Eska
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To: freedomlover

Now that right there is funny. I’ll have to search YouBoob for cats and coyotes licking each other the way the deer and bunnies do.

I have a pal who found pieces of his cat after the coyote got through enjoying the tasty bits. He ain’t a happy camper.

Now, if it was a squirrel being et, I’m good with that. I hate them things, my screen name everywhere but here is SquirrelCutter.


74 posted on 04/08/2011 10:44:44 PM PDT by West Texas Chuck (Why yes, I do speak Spanglish - "Hasta la later on, amigo. Pardon, would you have any salsa verde?")
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To: Eska

DANG, that’s the real world.

Mosquitos and black flies started biting up there yet?


75 posted on 04/08/2011 10:47:04 PM PDT by West Texas Chuck (Why yes, I do speak Spanglish - "Hasta la later on, amigo. Pardon, would you have any salsa verde?")
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To: West Texas Chuck

Naw, still snow everywheres, going down to zero some nights. But she’ll be warming up quick, our road was supposed to be open. ( we live at the end of the Taylor, 200 mile dirt road that washes out consistently) Still glaciation everywhere, 2 foot deep, I’m waiting another couple weeks to make first run. I have an armalite AR-10 338 fed and 2 brand new thousand dollar leupolds waiting at the gun store, and paid for too. I need to run down the road here pretty quick.


76 posted on 04/08/2011 10:57:49 PM PDT by Eska
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To: Eska

That’s some pretty nice armament, wish I had some of that. I don’t have squat for rifles, mostly handguns. Buddy of mine started building AKs recently but we have yet to see one of ‘em. He claims to be building a pink one for his woman, but I think it is for him ;)

Stay safe up there FRozen FReeper, you got my total respect. ‘Course, that and $10 will buy you a cup of Frappachino or whatever at the local Starbucks.


77 posted on 04/08/2011 11:14:03 PM PDT by West Texas Chuck (Why yes, I do speak Spanglish - "Hasta la later on, amigo. Pardon, would you have any salsa verde?")
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To: org.whodat

If a frog had side pockets, he’d carry a pistol and shoot coyotes.


78 posted on 04/08/2011 11:28:50 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
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To: AmericaUnite; Slings and Arrows; Glenn; republicangel; Beaker; BADROTOFINGER; etabeta; ...

79 posted on 04/08/2011 11:29:46 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: smokingfrog

Cat owners-keep your cats indoors!


80 posted on 04/08/2011 11:38:15 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (When the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn (Pr.29:2))
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