(NY)11-pound Lhasa apso is carried off into woods (Coyote Alert!)

The Associated Press ^

[12GA]

A pet dog was killed and carried into the woods by a coyote that jumped a fence into a back yard in Westchester, the dog's owners said.

[12GA]

I really dislike these varmints. If that was my dog, I'd be spending the next few nights in the woods with my .30-30 looking for a little payback.

[Alberta's Child]

They aren't too good for your house pets, but I've always been intrigued by coyotes. There's something about a smart, cunning animal like a coyote that's always fascinated me.

[Eala]

In our rural locale, lots of dogs and cats "disappear."

OTOH, coyotes are moving into suburban areas. A few years ago we even had an incident in downtown Seattle where a coyote got trapped on an elevator in the Henry Jackson Federal Building.

[Bikers4Bush]

Leg hold traps.

[Jeff Chandler]

I've heard that coyotes are good prey to hunt.

[Kakaze]

" We are devastated," Patricia Borawski said. "My husband slept with his head on the dog's bed and cried out her name." "

Good Lord!

Be a man for crying out loud, get a gun and go blow the varmit away.

[Jeff Chandler]

A few years ago we even had an incident in downtown Seattle where a coyote got trapped on an elevator in the Henry Jackson Federal Building.

No wonder. They can't read the buttons.

[No Blue States]

""My husband slept with his head on the dog's bed and cried out her name."

I agree, what a pansy, It wasnt a kid.

[Kakaze]

Next time it might be a kid. The animal knows it can hunt there now.

[No Blue States]

Hopefully not, but if so crying on its pillow would then be justified.

Hunt it down and kill it anyway.

[r9etb]

There are a lot of foxes in the downtown residential areas of Colorado Springs. The fox population builds up for a few years, and then the coyotes will move through, eat a bunch of foxes, move on, and the cycles starts over again.

It's really pretty cool.

Off-topic, I was out running with my dog this morning, and he spotted a skunk. He sorta veered that way, but didn't take out after it like he would a squirrel -- he's a pound-pooch, so I wonder if perhaps he'd learned about skunks the hard way....

[PBRSTREETGANG]

"A dingo took my baby!"

[Labyrinthos]

I really dislike these varmints. If that was my dog, I'd be spending the next few nights in the woods with my .30-30 looking for a little payback.

Except in Westchester County you are not allowed to hunt with a rifle. Personally, I would rather have the coyotes than the hundreds of Canadian Geese that used to crap all over my yard.

[12GA]

They are difficult to hunt. In these parts, when you call them in, they see/smell you before you can get a shot off. No wide open plains where you can pick them off with a .223 around here.

[dead]

I am with you.

A grown man crying on his doggie bed is the real tragedy here.

Kill the coyote. Buy a new dog. And stop crying.

[Labyrinthos]

Follow the link if you want to see the photos (I don't know how to post them):

http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/wednesday/localnews/stories/lo031004s4.shtml

Poughkeepsie Journal
Wednesday, March 10, 2004

Not-so-wily coyote caught in city
Young animal cornered in parking garage
By Dan Shapley
Poughkeepsie Journal


Spencer Ainsley/Journal
This coyote, thought to be less than a year old, was captured Tuesday morning between the second and third levels of the municipal parking garage across from the Mid-Hudson Civic Center in downtown Poughkeepsie. The young animal was later transported to Trevor Zoo at the Millbrook School.

Spencer Ainsley/Poughkeepsie Journal
Officials at Trevor Zoo at the Millbrook School declared the young coyote in very good health.
A 33-pound young coyote caused a stir in Poughkeepsie Tuesday morning, after being discovered in a parking garage on Market Street.
Responding to calls two drivers made to the police department about 8 a.m., Dana Davis, an animal control officer for the city, used a six-foot ''snare pole'' to corral and then cage the coyote. A snare pole has a retractable loop that can tighten around an animal's neck.

''The person that called it in to me thought it was a dog,'' Davis said. ''Many people would think it's a little shepherd-mix dog.''

While it isn't unusual for the police department to take calls about coyotes in the city, this is the first animal that needed to be removed, at least in the four years Davis has worked in the department.

''There are coyotes in the city,'' Davis said. ''Many times they're just running through someone's backyard. I think this particular coyote got in there and didn't know what to do. He was frozen with fear.''

The coyote is thought to be less than a year old. Though it struggled against being captured, it wasn't aggressive, Davis said.

It huddled quietly, shaking a little, in the back of Davis's van Tuesday morning before its trip to the Trevor Zoo in Millbrook. A small crowd of police officers, including a German shepherd police dog named Drago that joined the force a week earlier, gathered around the van, admiring the coyote and swapping stories and jokes.

Coyotes returned to the Hudson Valley in the 1960s, having extended their range from New England and northern New York.

They eat just about everything -- fruits, vegetables, small animals, livestock and rodents, roadkill and garbage. Because they find a lot to eat where people live -- including the occasional house cat or small dog -- they are often seen in suburban and urban environments.

Coyotes, considered a fur-bearing animal, can be hunted in New York statewide, except for New York City and Long Island, until March 28.

A checkup at the zoo turned up no parasites -- unusual for any wild animal -- and Trevor Zoo Director Jonathan Meigs said the coyote was overall in very good health. There was some question about whether the animal was a coydog -- a cross between a coyote and a dog -- but experts shown pictures believe it is a coyote, Meigs said.

Meigs has been in contact with the Department of Environmental Conservation to choose the best place to release the coyote back to the wild.

''The DEC doesn't want to move the animal too far from its home base and stick it out in other territories,'' Meigs said, ''but you don't want to let it go in a parking garage either.''

[12GA]

Then I'd use a 12GA pump or auto loaded alternating with slugs & 00 Buck.

[dead]

Off-topic, I was out running with my dog this morning, and he spotted a skunk. He sorta veered that way, but didn't take out after it like he would a squirrel -- he's a pound-pooch, so I wonder if perhaps he'd learned about skunks the hard way....

After all the kids moved out, my mother got a little weeny poodle dog. One night, up in the Poconos, she made my brother take it for a walk. As they're walking along, the poodle dog (“Belle” no less) spots a bear and starts barking and straining at its leash to go after it. My brother turned the other way and ran, dragging the dumb fearless poodle behind him.

[Guillermo]

so I wonder if perhaps he'd learned about skunks the hard way

Have you ever thought about asking him?

[Puppage]

coyotes are moving into suburban areas

More like suburbia is moving into the coyotes area.