Posted on 12/16/2021 1:56:34 PM PST by nickcarraway
It was the usual evening routine for Lyndsay Przybyl and her 13-year-old terrier, Roscoe.
Przybyl, 39, who works as a bartender in downtown San Francisco, had just wrapped up her Tuesday night shift,... She clipped Roscoe’s leash to his collar and they went outside for a walk, heading toward 10th and California where her boyfriend, Tim Sowards, 41, lives.
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“Just like I’ve done a million times,” she recounted to SFGATE over the phone. “It’s something I’ll never do again.”
There were four of them in total, and as they began to circle Przybyl, Sowards and Roscoe, the dog suddenly darted after one of them.
“I yelled for him to come back, and right when I did that, a coyote just snatched him up by his neck and took off,” said Przybyl. “It all happened so fast.”
Without hesitation, Sowards proceeded to run after the animal, and she said she could hear Roscoe “screaming his guts out.”
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Meanwhile, Sowards continued to clap and yell at the coyote, which eventually dropped Roscoe onto the curb. The dog was still alive, but the coyote was lingering over him in a territorial way, said Przybyl.
That’s when Sowards took his chance. He charged at the coyote, scooped up Roscoe and sprinted back toward the house relatively unscathed, save for a few scratches from the cement.
“I was in complete shock,” said Przybyl. “I kept saying, ‘I can’t believe you did that,’ over and over again. He said there was no other option. If he hesitated, we could be in a completely different situation right now.”
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“I’m forever grateful for them and my boyfriend. He’s truly a hero,” said Przybyl. “I’m tearing up just talking about it. … There was a lot of panic and regret.”
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This is some toxic masculinity for San Francisco.
Coyotes doing what Coyotes do.
My wife has been watching American bald eagle nest cams for a few years now.
When she started I warned her that they were indiscriminate hunters.
Wasn’t long until one showed up in the nest with a juvinile domestic animal......I’ll just leave it at that.
Something doesn’t sound right. California/10th isn’t exactly in the woods which means the coyotes would have been roaming through city streets. Hmmm
I feel there is a market here for some kind of solution ....
They are getting very bold, they no longer fear people and now roam in cities a lot.
Coyotes have been roaming in urban areas of San Francisco more than ten years now.
There’s a market for terriers? I thought coyotes were too busy snatching women south of the border and bringing them north to sell to white supremacists.
I’ve told this before but years ago, I had to fight a Golden Eagle to save my little Portuguese Podengo.
It did not care that there were 6 other big dogs or a human in the yard.
If she hadn’t been emotionally scarred from her previous life and prone to flattening out on the ground if anyone moved too fast towards her, she’d have been eagle food.
I saw the eagle spiraling down and ran out to her as fast as I could go, scooping her up like a dropped football and ran back to the house, with that damn flying lizard clawing me and whacking me with its wings, the whole way, trying to make me swat at it and drop her.
I run recon at night before I let the dogs out.
Jacklight and AR.
I love ALL animals but I love MINE more.
You have no idea how BIG a Golden Eagle is, until one is on your back.
I hate reading the local lost and found pets groups.
A lot of people looking for the cats that never come home.
Just the other day, one person commented that there were a “lot of large bird feathers” in her back yard after the cat went missing one night.
Probably one of the huge owls.
Ugh.
I feel there is a market here for some kind of solution ....
A bang stick.
I don’t know San Francisco but a quick check of the map shows that’s about a block away from “Mountain Lake State Park”, so I’d guess that’s where the coyotes slouched in from.
You mean a widdle kitteh....
boo hoo(I t’ought Y t’aw de eagle tore dee puddy tat)
They live in NYC too. #coyotes
A lot of feathers? Sounds like the cat at least made a good last stand fight!
Another SF smash and grab. Its everywhere!
So....no leash laws then?
I see a yote around my house, Ima shoot it dead. No question...
At least it had a good life for 13 blessed years.
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