Two Oakville girls fight off coyote in backyard

theglobeandmail.com ^ | 20 Jan 2012 | John Musselman

[smokingfrog]

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Two young girls who fought off a coyote that jumped their fence and attacked the pair in their Oakville, Ont. backyard tell their story.

[smokingfrog]

The coyote was tracked down and shot.

[2111USMC]

Good deal.

Can’t believe the mother told them that it probably just wanted to “play”. The little girls have more common sense than their stupid mother.

[Uncle Lonny]

coyote?

Actually the “politically correct” term is “Song Dogs”

No joke. This is the actual term used by environmentalist wackos defending the coyote in local letters to the editor.

[SumProVita]

Will the animal rights people go berserk over this (such as those who passed legislation requiring exterminators in Washington DC to NOT kill rats and vermin....but instead to remove them AND THEIR FAMILIES to another location 25 miles outside of DC)?

The insanity grows...

[Venturer]

They just introduced Coyote’s to my county here in Maryland, supposedly to trim down the Deer population, but we wonder what will trim the coyotes as they start breeding.

[afraidfortherepublic]

What adorable little girls! I love the one who said that the coyote was “looking for lunch — her”!

Canid ping!
Wildlife ping!

[smokingfrog]

I thought that was extremely odd as well.

[2111USMC]

but we wonder what will trim the coyotes as they start breeding.

Here in Iowa, .223 seems to be the most popular method.

[Jim Ralls]

.45 ACP is also quite good

[ought-six]

I hate coyotes. Fortunately, they are “in season” year-round here in Illinois. Still, they do serve a purpose, as they tend to clean up the gut pile from a field-dressed deer in nothing flat.

[ought-six]

I hate coyotes. Fortunately, they are “in season” year-round here in Illinois. Still, they do serve a purpose, as they tend to clean up the gut pile from a field-dressed deer in nothing flat.

[immadashell]

The coyote was tracked down and shot.

Maybe...how do they know this is the one?

Coyotes normally travel in packs. I know the ones in area do because when they decide to train the pups to mark their turf the howling sounds like there are about fifty out there.

[immadashell]

They just introduced Coyote’s to my county here in Maryland, supposedly to trim down the Deer population, but we wonder what will trim the coyotes as they start breeding.

We have a family (pack?) of coyotes in the acreage next to us here in Upstate NY. We haven't seen any appreciable drop in the number of deer, but the feral cat population has been cut in half what it was five years ago.

[AnTiw1]

I was living in the Red Desert area of WY for a few years right at the period of time when PETAs were spraypainting fur coats and wearing fur was non-PC...and the price of a prime winter coyote pelt was reaching $200 pre-PETA, after fur became non-PC it plummeted to $25. My memory is that within three years we had a big surplus of coyotes, this followed hard after a die-off in our rabbit population due to rodent plague. The coyotes were taking dogs out of yards, cats from under houses, and starving coyotes whose normal role was keeping the rodent population under control and scavenging, were now tackling deer and even elk. There a birthing ground in that area where the antelope go, and the buck antelope were unable to protect birthing mothers from the hundreds of coyotes that were coming across the prarie. Coyotes literally dragged the emerging babies from doe antelope in labor, by the heels.

In a few more years it balanced out again. A bad winter, half of them died off, and poor pup survival the next year, maybe cannibalism to, not sure. All the animal populations took a moderate blow, but they seemed to recover slowly while more and more coyotes died until they became scarce. Hunting was bad for a few years, then populations came back, the coyotes last of all.

Just goes to show you that libs are supposed to be the saviors and capitalists are supposed to destroy the world, but the truth is often the reverse.

[Oatka]

We have a family (pack?) of coyotes in the acreage next to us here in Upstate NY. We haven't seen any appreciable drop in the number of deer, but the feral cat population has been cut in half what it was five years ago.

Back in the '70s we moved into a new tract area that previously was an open field just outside Oceanside, CA. Within days there were "Missing" posted going up, looking for cats with all kinds of cutesy names. A local warden told me that cats were like candy to the coyotes. In a year or so it got too crowded for them and they moved on, but they sure played Hell with the local cat population for a while.

[JRandomFreeper]

.22-250 here in Texas. Brother and I both have rifles just for that. And he reloads really nice rounds that can reach out and touch them at 300 yards.

/johnny

[Fast Moving Angel]

"we wonder what will trim the coyotes"

[ponygirl]

I live in the middle of a major metropolitan area and we have a pack of coyotes living right outside our walled “compound.” Sometimes they are able to get inside and go after the rabbits and cats. We had feral cats living in a sewer pipe in one section of the property, but they have now disappeared. One of my neighbors walks his chihuahua off-leash really early in the morning and they have come face to face with coyotes on a number of occasions. So far they’ve been lucky and they have run off, but one day his friendly little dog is not going to be so lucky.

[y6162]

I’m a cter. I had a coyote trot through my backyard. Big f-er too.

I had my paintball gun on standby but never got a shot.

[JRandomFreeper]

They are adorable. I couldn't watch the whole thing. My daddy/grandpa genes kicked in and I wound up teary eyed about 30 seconds after the girls started talking. Makes me want to go kill coy dogs.

Those girls were in mortal danger. And that can't be allowed.

/johnny