Coyote attack on kids

wow! That's interesting. I'm very curious to hear if the coyote had rabies. I can't imagine that he would attack a human out of hunger, would he?!

Blueridge, keep us posted if you hear if the yote had the rabies or not, would 'ya?
 
Lots of coyotes go after small dogs in the offleash parks in calgary ,that the first time I ever heard them attacking kids.
I will follow this and see if it did have rabies or not.
I know one thing there getting fearless in the city. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif
 
I have heard that in a town near my home, that the coyotes have learned which is the best night to come into town to go through trash. People had said that they are seeing a lot of stray dogs when they are taking their trash out the night before pickup, but it turns out that somebody realized that they were coyotes not dogs. I would think that it would only be a matter of time, that the coyotes may try to attack a child when summer gets here and kids will be outside later in the warm evenings and the coyotes are out rooting around in trash. Then it will be intersesting what people say about all the hunters who they say shouldn't kill all those poor defenseless animals.

kevlars
 
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Animals, IMO are very well equipted to quickly & pretty accurately. Size-up a potential food source or danger, & strength/weakness.
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Our 100lb. male German Shephard constantly is sizing me up daily. If I show any slight sign of weakness, he'll cue right in. Hmmmm, it's opportunity-time, WRONG.

He's 10yrs old now. Some years back, I went to take him by the collar. He lunged for my throat. Needless to say, a battle was not far away. Later that day, he was lying on the LR floor on his L-side(we still were angry with each other).

I slowly slid up by him, petting him. Talking softly, making little eye-contact. Once I got my R-hand near his muzzle. I "quickly" clamped his muzzle shut. Grabbed his throat with my Left hand & flopped my body on top of him( I weigh, 220lbs) pinned him good. At this point he wanted BLOOD! I looked him right in his R-eye & bit his R-ear hard, while not blinking...eye-eye. After a 15-20 min cool off period(he needed it, not me LOL!). I slowly slid off. No more attacks after that.
 
re:calgary supposedly people/kids were feeding coyotes from their hands in the neighborhood
re:kirby, are you saying you or your dog atack each other? for fun?
 
waxman,

Nope... Wife's dog. Just had to let him know where "he" fit into our little pack. He is VERY strong-willed & strong, & quite the opportunist. By the way, I don't encourage this. But I had to do something. My wife watched this ordeal & about crapped. Things were coming to a head. So we had a show-down, eh.
 
Should try and sneak a silencer and a night vision scope into Canada, and secretly take out the ones in the city. Might be able to build the silencer.


Pi*s off a Liberal, buy a gun.
 
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About 2 years ago there was a coyote attack on a 11/2 old child that happened right in a park about 1km from my home. I live in the subburbs of Canadian city of almost 2 million people. Over the years there have been numerous children and adults bitten by coyotes. But this attack really got me. There was a mid afternoon kids baseball game at the park. Lots of adults and kids around. From what i read in the paper, people noticed a "stray" dog hanging around.

It was walking near, but not close to the people. Around the bleachers etc. One mother had a 18 month old old on a blanket. She was sitting with the child watching her other boy play baseball.

She noticed the "stray" dog and didn't think much about it. It was quiet and just hanging around peacefully. At one point she got up off the blanket to go do something (i can't remember what..) move only a few feet away from the blanket, and while she was away the coyote moved in and grabbed the child by the face and ran off.

The mom flipped out. Which attracted attention from the other adults. A few of which started running after the coyote. The child was a bit heavy for it to drag so it dropped the child and took off. The child was clear of rabies but had a lot of stiches. I can't remember how many i think about 20 or so on the side of the face.

The story made the front page of our local paper and i think even made it to our regional paper (vancouver sun/province).

Personally, i don't blame the Coyote. It's doing what coyotes do. I do think the people at the park that day should have paid better attention to the coyote. At last report i think there are about 5,000 of them living in the lower mainland. A good reason to have some sort of coyote education plan to be taught in our schools. I think this would make a difference to decrease the attacks on kids. Failing that..45acp is sub-sonic... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
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Our 100lb. male German Shephard constantly is sizing me up daily. If I show any slight sign of weakness, he'll cue right in. Some years back, I went to take him by the collar. He lunged for my throat. Needless to say, a battle was not far away.



Kirby.....my wife is a Veterinarian, and we have always had dogs & cats inside our home. Most of our animals are "rescue" cases that we adopted out of pity instead of euthanising them when their owners were no longer interested enough to pay for their medical care. They usually become a part of the family, not just a pet.

BUT......

The first time one of them tries to be aggressive with me, her or my son, he is OUTTA HERE . This is MY turf. I AM the Alpha Male here, and if he/she wants a nest to rule, they can go find one of their own. GONE! No questions asked!

And in your particular case, speaking from many, many, many years of experience being around aggressive animals.......

It ain't over yet. Don't turn your back on him too often.
 
S. Dakota,I can think of two toddlers right off the top of my head who were killed by coyotes. One in Colorado and one in L.A. County, CA (of all places). In both cases, the parents left them unattended in their back yards! My guess is that there have been more cases that I haven't read about. Makes sense if you think about it. Why would any animal capable of and willing enough to kill sheep, fawns, sick deer and even sick, elk caught in snowdrifts be any less willing to take an infant or toddler? They're opportunists and survivors of the first order. I do NOT blame the coyotes here (although these particular song dogs needed to be eradicated IMO)---I blame the mediocre excuses of parenthood in these cases! I hope they got the full wrath of the law in both cases but knowing the way the law works these days, I wouldn't bet on it! --- Mike
 
I often park at warehouses and spend the night (delivering first thing in the morning). I have seen coyotes in the middle of L.A., Dallas, Albuquerque, Denver, Salt Lake City, and Oklahoma City.

We have wild animals in the cities to a much greater extent than most people realize. Dumsters around fast food places, grocery stores/warehouses, parks, schools, etc., make for easy pickins.
 
Jeff Mock. Could you send me a better image of the story about the Coyote Attack on Kids with the date so I could include it in my Coyote Attacks on Children page:

http://www.varmintal.com/attac.htm

My email address is on my page down at the bottom of the Index on the left.

Thank you. Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
 
Varmint Al,

I read the article and we watched it on the news for about a week here. Not sure if your interested in this info or not but i have two friends who've been stalked by coyotes.

One friend deer hunting near edmonton sitting up against a tree mid day, see's coyote slowly working its way towards him and what looked like stalking him from the front but that was just the decoy coyote. That coyote was hunting with a partner, hair went up on back of neck when heard movement behind him at very close range was the second coyote on the sneak coming his way...he jumped up turned and shot as fast as he could from the hip but wasn't even close. His adrenaline had him shaking for awhile after that one.

And just a couple weeks ago a friend of mine who i just got into bowhunting was walking to his stand early a.m. at first light(not quite first light, moonlight more like it) and was stalked to about 10' from behind....he had to turn and arms up in the air and 'flinch' at it with a verbal 'roar' to make it bugger off. I asked him why he didn't just nock an arrow and give it one he said he never thought of it but was a good idea. He said it creeped him out a little and when he turned around it was so close thats just what his reaction was. He's a big kid too...so i dunno what this coyote was thinkin?

Wish that crap would happen to me. Thought you might find it interesting.

B
 
Blankinator, I had a similar experience to your friends. Calling by a small sandpit on a moonlit night. Saw one coming along the shore and took aim when he went around a clump of grass. Next moment I hear a loud crunching right behind me as a second one broke the snow crust on final charge! I whirled around to catch a blur disapearing into the shadows. They both got away. Definately an adreneline rush!
 
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