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Old 08-21-2018, 01:26 PM
 
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Ohhh, that's awful! It's ironic, I was sitting outside watching one of my cats sitting by a bush near the water a couple of weeks ago, and thinking "If we were in Florida she'd have been snatched by an alligator by now".
i lived in a (very nice) neighborhood in the Pacific Northwest, all new construction, wooded lots, expensive homes, beautiful trees, young families with kids and pets. And every single cat got taken by coyotes. all of them.
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Old 08-21-2018, 01:50 PM
 
Location: Nantahala National Forest, NC
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Another example of why I'm terrified of alligators....and no longer live in coastal SC.
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Old 08-21-2018, 01:51 PM
 
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i lived in a (very nice) neighborhood in the Pacific Northwest, all new construction, wooded lots, expensive homes, beautiful trees, young families with kids and pets. And every single cat got taken by coyotes. all of them.
Ohhh that’s awful! I remember when a singer, I believe it was Jessica Simpson, had her little dog snatched by one. I heard the coyote populations are on the rise. At least up here, fox populations are also growing.
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Old 08-21-2018, 01:53 PM
 
Location: South Carolina
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Ohhh that’s awful! I remember when a singer, I believe it was Jessica Simpson, had her little dog snatched by one. I heard the coyote populations are on the rise. At least up here, fox populations are also growing.

oh yes in jersey they have fox population ? or coyote ? or both im sorry don't know much about nj . and yes the point being keep your eye on your pets period .
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Old 08-21-2018, 01:55 PM
 
Location: Not where I want to be
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It seems like there is a fair amount of alligator attacks on pets in Florida. Kinda scary.
This happened at Hilton Head, SC, not Florida.
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Old 08-21-2018, 02:00 PM
 
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oh yes in jersey they have fox population ? or coyote ? or both im sorry don't know much about nj . and yes the point being keep your eye on your pets period .
Yes, both. Although I’ve never seen a coyote myself, but there are a lot of forests and rural areas in NJ. Foxes have become so prevalent at the Jersey shore that they have to put up signs warning people not to feed them.
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Old 08-21-2018, 02:04 PM
 
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oh yes in jersey they have fox population ? or coyote ? or both im sorry don't know much about nj . and yes the point being keep your eye on your pets period .
Yes, New Jersey has always had red fox. I remember seeing a mama fox and her kits in the woods behind my house when I was a kid. I saw one in the woods at the end of my street one evening last year, and I have seen others several times from my train.

I believe we have had more incidents with coyotes, too, but the red foxes have always been around. The coyotes not so much.

I don't understand why people let their cats out to roam around. They will either be killed by wild animals or hit by cars, or in the case of one of my sister's cats, killed by the neighbor's dogs.

Keep cats inside!
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Old 08-21-2018, 02:09 PM
 
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i lived in a (very nice) neighborhood in the Pacific Northwest, all new construction, wooded lots, expensive homes, beautiful trees, young families with kids and pets. And every single cat got taken by coyotes. all of them.
Did these people not keep their cats indoors or did the coyotes break in?

RIP to this poor woman who tried to save her dog.
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Old 08-21-2018, 02:19 PM
 
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i lived in a (very nice) neighborhood in the Pacific Northwest, all new construction, wooded lots, expensive homes, beautiful trees, young families with kids and pets. And every single cat got taken by coyotes. all of them.
All of them...that were allowed to wander around outdoors.
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Old 08-21-2018, 02:36 PM
 
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Ohhh that’s awful! I remember when a singer, I believe it was Jessica Simpson, had her little dog snatched by one. I heard the coyote populations are on the rise. At least up here, fox populations are also growing.
We have (urban) coyotes around here and I've lived in Florida with the alligators. I knew a couple people that had their dogs snatched by the gators in the canals - in both cases, they were Rack Russells. The coyotes follow us around but I don't worry about them. When I'm walking my dogs, the last thing I'm worried about attacking my dogs is wild animals; very few dogs are harmed by wild animals but tens of thousands are killed and maimed by a *so-called* domesticated animal kept as pets.
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