[SandfleaCSC]

[spunkets]

""I found her lifeless body out on the ice surrounding our property."

That means a coyote didn't get it. A coyote wouldn't have left anything laying around. At this time of year, the male would have brought the food back to the den for the pups. They eat it and regurgitate it for, "baby food". At other times of the year there may have been some bigger bones left, but nothing recognizable as, "a lifeless body". This might have been done by stray dogs.

[Capriole]

For all the folks who advocate getting a shotgun and killing the coyotes that way: doing this gives you a moment of satisfaction, but it can't really affect the numbers of coyotes. Some studies have shown that if coyotes are killed off the survivors just breed more to replace the dead ones. They're so well-adapted to suburban living that their numbers grow. Trapping isn't successful for the same reason. The only thing that really works on them, as another poster indicated, is a pack of sighthounds, but even the sighthounds are not going to reduce the overall coyote population.

Coyotes in the neighborhood wouldn't be an entirely bad thing if they really helped control the deer population. But in general they don't. They prefer smaller, easier game, like cats, small dogs, rabbits, squirrels, little rodents, etc. Deer are too much work.

I don't know what the solution is. I don't like them eating my family cat, which they did a few years back, and I don't like them occupying an ecological niche once very nicely filled by foxes. It's a puzzlement. But it doesn't have anything to do with liberal politics. Human policies haven't so far had much influence on coyote numbers, no matter what was tried. Often you have liberal yuppie scum moving into a suburban neighborhood and then fruitlessly demanding that local authorities devise a way to keep the little puffball dogs safe. And there is no way, shotguns or no shotguns, traps or no traps. The moral of the story is: keep your little dogs and your kitties INDOORS unless you want them to be coyote snacks.

[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!

[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.

[Lion Den Dan]

Kathy Lee is not one of our particularly admired people but Mrs.LDD would be glad to help Kathy out. She is quite a hand when it comes to shooting coyotes. I neet to put up a new clothesline for laundry as the existing one is full of tails.

[foolscap]

I'm surprised she didn't somehow work in a statement about Frank's affair. I am always amazed how she is so willing to keep dragging up that situation in public. It's almost seven years after the fact and she still gives interviews about it. It seems if you have forgiven someone as much as she says she has forgiven Frank that you would have the common courtesy to just shut up about it. If I have to hear again about how a weekend of good sex and Bible reading healed their marriage I think I'll gag. Probably old Chard did "suicide by coyote" just to escape the shame of living with her. Can Frank be next? Frank is so obviously PW I'm sure the coyote will think he's a cat.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

"Who wants a bunch of traps around?" said one neighbor. "Everyone knows you just have to keep track of your dogs."

And this is the REAL problem. Liberal suburbanites blaming the victim instead of the attackers.

Shoot the Coyotes. Problem solved.

[Cacique]

I would rather have a coyote for a pet than a poodle.

I view pets as having the same function as my gun. To kill thine enemy and vanquish him. Guns aren't toys and pets shouldn't be either.

[OldCorps]

Hahaha,

who wudda thunk that clueless Kathie Lee would have a fifi fluff dog named after some girlie wine. I call them kick dogs. Kathie's husband must be a wimp. NO real man would allow other men to know he had wimp dog.

I can just hear Kathie lee in her best tom dasshole whine:

"we have to do something about those mean spirited coyotes"
yea baby, why don't you go waste some more of my tax dollars on worthless, gubmint programs.

Move along folks, nothing here, just another clueless liberal being a victim of her own stupidity.

[China Clipper]

Kathie Lee Gifford is grieving for her beloved dog, Chardonnay,

I never remember, is it white wine, rose, or Chardonnay that goes good with Bichon Frisse?

[Redcloak]

Um... How do we know that this was done by a coyote? Gifford states that she found the dog "out on the ice". Who's to say that it wasn't a local dog that did it? Was there an ACME label nearby?

[Koblenz]

An update to all who are interested. I live in Riverside, and have a small dog, so I'm interested in this story. Someone did finally set a trap for the coyote: a padded leg trap. It caught a coyote, who then managed to rip the trap out of the ground. It's been seen for the last several days dragging around the leg clamp. Fish and Game officials have been unable to locate the coyote so they can kill it.