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The next time someone posts to the NM forum about their concern for coyote attacks, perhaps it would be good to refer them to this article. After all, when is the last time you read about a person being actually attacked by a coyote in NM? This is in today's news:
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RYE, N.Y.
A coyote has attacked a 3-year-old girl playing in her backyard in suburban New York, the second coyote attack on a child in the same suburb within four days.
The latest attack occurred as Rye Police Commissioner William Connors was addressing a group of residents about the last coyote attack.
On Friday, two coyotes attacked a 6-year-old girl in her front yard. She was treated for scratches and bites at a hospital and released.
The two attacks happened about 1.5 miles apart.
The next time someone posts to the NM forum about their concern for coyote attacks, perhaps it would be good to refer them to this article. After all, when is the last time you read about a person being actually attacked by a coyote in NM? This is in today's news:
The only coyotes I worry about in Colorado or New Mexico are the two-legged human kind. They are far more dangerous, slimy, disgusting pests than the 4-legged kind.
Coyote attacks on people are pretty rare in NM. However they use to be pretty rare anyplace! Killing domestic animals, pets, wildlife etc. is a common occurance. I know one person here on the mountain that lost her small dog while she was walking it, on a leash
Most stray small dogs and cats don't last long around here.
But anyway, I don't like to take chances so at 0400 tomorrow morning I'm headed out with a couple of friends to see about thinning the population some
Last fall a Canadian woman was killed by two coyotes. I read an article in National Geographic that said they were actually wolf hybrids... which is the worst mix. The boldness and adaptability of coyotes, and large enough to attack and kill humans. Apparently these are fairly common in the NE but not around here.
Just had an encounter this morning within the city limits of Alamogordo. Took my dog out to exercise off lead in a open undeveloped field and had two adult coyotes approach at a steady trot toward my dog who had ranged out to about 30 yds. from my wife and I. Our dog only weighs 40# and stands about knee high and like an idiot I didn't bring any self defense items with me as I usually do. I called my dog back to me and of course he, like he's trained to do returned at a run and still had'nt noticed the coyotes as yet. As he passed me to catch up to my wife who was walking back to get the car and bring it up, the coyotes broke into a fast trot. I (and go ahead and start laughing at this point) starting throwing whatever was at hand toward the coyotes and yelling at the top of my lungs while standing my ground. They broke off and kinda circled so I kept myself between them and my wife and dog and continued to throw rocks and yell while backing towards the car.
Apparently they tired of all the insults and broke contact and trotted off to about 20 yds and continued to watch us until we left.
To those of you that live in town the location is just past the train tracks off of First St and before the loop/bypass road. The area was around the solitary bldg. ruin on the left.
We have noticed a lot of jackrabbits in that area and i'm sure they're numbers are what drew the coyotes in.
Just had an encounter this morning within the city limits of Alamogordo. Took my dog out to exercise off lead in a open undeveloped field and had two adult coyotes approach at a steady trot toward my dog who had ranged out to about 30 yds. from my wife and I. Our dog only weighs 40# and stands about knee high and like an idiot I didn't bring any self defense items with me as I usually do. I called my dog back to me and of course he, like he's trained to do returned at a run and still had'nt noticed the coyotes as yet. As he passed me to catch up to my wife who was walking back to get the car and bring it up, the coyotes broke into a fast trot. I (and go ahead and start laughing at this point) starting throwing whatever was at hand toward the coyotes and yelling at the top of my lungs while standing my ground. They broke off and kinda circled so I kept myself between them and my wife and dog and continued to throw rocks and yell while backing towards the car.
Apparently they tired of all the insults and broke contact and trotted off to about 20 yds and continued to watch us until we left.
To those of you that live in town the location is just past the train tracks off of First St and before the loop/bypass road. The area was around the solitary bldg. ruin on the left.
We have noticed a lot of jackrabbits in that area and i'm sure they're numbers are what drew the coyotes in.
Wow what an experience.
We had a coyote kill our beloved cat up at our place in northern NM.
I was hiking in Denali Nat'l Park & had a coyote back me up an embankment snarling. She has a pup down below me in the stream bed. I was by the park road, a shuttle bus came along & drove her away.
It's no wonder there are so many coyote trickster tales.
It's no wonder there are so many coyote trickster tales.
Now you've got me wondering. As we live and work on a Navajo reservation were they coyotes or shape shifters? However it was early morning so I gotta go with coyotes.
I'm so sorry you lost your cat as we do understandably dote and get overly attached to our animals. Our little rez dog has become one of the family.
I spent 10 years teaching out on the Navajo reservation & only saw coyotes LOL. Actually, I heard them more than I saw them. We adopted one of the millions of dogs dumped at our BIA compound & he too has become one of the family.
I used to be skeptical about coyote attacks, until I started seeing signs in Colorado informing the public what to do when encountering a coyote. It seems that coyotes coming into urban areas are more used to people, and a greater threat.
Still, I wasn't really taking it seriously.
Then one Sunday morning, I was walking my pup, Bigun, along a construction clearing across the river from Golden, CO's river walk, trying to find if the trail continued on the other side. There were sports fields up the hill, and I figured I could pick up a trail there.
Just as my eyes cleared ground level of one of the fields, I noticed a statue of a coyote in the middle of the field -- or at least that's how my brain first registered it. It didn't move a muscle. Then, I realized that no one would make a statue in the middle of a ball field -- and certainly not that rangy looking. What was chilling was it stared right at my eyes the whole time.
I backed down the way I came, and dragged Bigun along -- hoping he wasn't going to give us away. I looked back several times, but it never followed.
I don't ever want to encounter another. I don't want them killed, but I also don't want them around me. Guess that makes me a NIMBY.
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