I saw that in a movie once.
Thought the kid was a roadrunner. It won’t make that mistake again.
I saw a coyote in my driveway today for the first time in a long long time. If he hangs around I’ll have to change his mind about that.
Probably, of course, there are 30-million snowflakes out there who will scream "animal cruelty" and that he should have tried to reason with it... Snicker...
I was in a health center 2 years ago mid summer- waiting for my appointment in the waiting room- all of a sudden a woman comes walking in, calmly, starts talking to receptionist, and explaining she had just been bit by a red fox at a local beach- then the conversation evolves to how the fox had attacked her over and over, then she explains that she had to strangle the fox to get it to stop like it was just a routine day at the beach lol-
Then the husband shows up and tells the receptionist the fox is in the back seat of the car, dead- and he begins telling the receptionist his wife strangled the fox before he got there (Apparently he was parking the car after dropping her off near the beach)
Her legs were tore up- bleeding all over the place, her hands were all cut up-
I saw that in a movie once.
The key is to get their feet off the ground and keep them moving. The become too destabilized to bite.
It wouldn’t matter if a wolverine had hold of my child, I would give “going bizzirk” new meaning.
The funny thing is, at the moment it is pure instinct..
Afterward, while shaking I ask myself “Where did that come from?”
Has only happened with raccoons and they are tough enough.
It’s what happens when you grow up a hillbilly in Pennsyltucky.
NH.....
These coyotes are EVERYWHERE, it seems.
We just heard a pack of them howling, when we took the dogs out, a few minutes ago.
Scary.
Lots of coyote attacks lately. I’d bet they are all rabid. When I worked on the Alaska North Slope >80% of the Arctic Foxes carried rabies. This was the time of year it affected them the most because of the lack of food. Prolly the same for coyotes in some areas.
You have to kill the animal and homogenize the brain. A special stain is used to identify “Golgi Bodies” in the brain. Got Golgis, got rabies.
I have a video copy of a film I got from the head of the Virology lab at the University of Alaska Fairbanks that was obtained in 1950 and shows the last moments of an Iranian shepherd who had been bitten by a rabid wolf. That is NOT a disease to be trifled with.
I punted a possum one time that was harassing the neighborhood kids.
Felt like kicking an under-inflated football.
Possum did a few end-over-ends, hit the ground, and ran off into the woods.
Where is Kensington? In France?
Dad’s are just simply wonderful :-)
Unusual behavior. I’d bet that coyote was rabid.
NYT: White Supremacist Trump supporter steals the dinner of a member of an Endangered Species then murders him/her/them all while wearing a MAGA hat!
Coyotes were all but eradicated from the eastern states in the 19th and early 20th Centuries. In the 20th Century they returned to the east, primarily in two periods of migration, each passing through the Great Lakes basin. The Great Lakes watershed, which is a natural bottleneck for east-west or west-east migrations of terrestrial mammals, hosts more "natural" species hybridization than anywhere else on earth. Biologists believe it was while migrating across that region that the western coyote's bloodline became intermingled with domestic canines and both species of wolf.
So the eastern coyote is literally a whole different animal, physically and behaviorally. Also different to hunt or defend against.
Toxic masculinity? Likely academia would have been pulling for the coyote. This guy is exactly what Dad’s are for, providing and protecting.
Great paternal instinct!
Amazing dad!
FWIW Dislocation(violently)of the front leg of a canine at the shoulder tears the artery and they bleed out rapidly. If you can manage to dislocate both it is even faster(obviously).
Screw with a man’s child right in front of him, and you’d better prepare for a fight to the death.