Posted on 9/8/2005, 1:20:01 PM by Toespi
Information needed regarding traits of a coyote attack. My niece's dachshund was found yesterday morning in their fenced backyard, eviscerated. This happened in California, the high desert area, a populated community and subdivision. Whatever animal attacked had to have jumped an 8' completely secure fence. There wasn't any noise or sounds and only the dog's head and spinal cord were left intact. It had to have happened between 1 AM and 5:30 AM. The pet must have used the doggy door to go outside and was then attacked. We are deeply worried because of the populated area and animal control does not seem to be too concerned.
Coyotes can jump and would LOVE to eat a weiner dog. They can be lethal to small children as well. Also, people out biking/running in remote areas can be "packed" by a group of coyotes. They're fast as well.
sorry about the dog. Coyotes never attack people. Elongated rabbits and clawed rabbits- yes.
Here is a link for your niece.
http://www.mdia.org/coyotes.htm
Such calls to them are likely commonplace (moreso now since predators cannot be culled) and therefore doesn't worry them personally until the problem visits them at their own front door. Sorry, but you may need to take this into your own hands. Check with a lawyer as to what your rights are in case you happen to catch a predator in your yard and unload a glock into it.
No doubt abou it.
Chupacabra.
Sorry about your niece's dog. Yes, sounds like a coyote attack. A strand of eletrified wire around the top of the fence will help greatly. Get a standard fence charger for livestock as it will shock but not kill accidentally.
This is and has been SOP forever in SoCal. Even within the city limits of San Diego. Sorry for the trauma and loss - but it's nothing new.
I live in high desert Arizona and see coyotes scurrying around our neighborhood from time to time. It's not an Animal Control issue since it involves wildlife. Try your state Game & Fish Department (but don't expect them to offer more than advice).
In PA, they are shoot on sight, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year.
BS there has never been a child attacked by a coyote. Where do you live?
woof.
I would not give a quarter for a box car load of those yapping weiner dogs.
They CAN, but when was the last documented attack, much less lethal attack, on a human?
Also, people out biking/running in remote areas can be "packed" by a group of coyotes.
So they were attacked by a pack? You may be right about all this, but I recently spent some time on several different websites about coyotes and never saw that. Please refer me to the proper info? thanks
We watched one in Visa CA last year that trotted down to the corner and waited for the light to change before he crossed the street to scamper off into the sagebrush.
It was awesome.
Coyotes hunt in a pack and generally make some noise ( a chilling yelping sound) when attacking. Often there is nothing left of the family pet except some fur. Remains from larger animals, like deer, may include some large bones, but little else. Coyotes do not normally jump even six foot tall fences, let alone an eight foot tall fence.
These observations are based on coyote kills behind our house in a subdivision west of Houston, Texas. One of the animals killed was our family cat.
Perhaps you should suspect a bob cat as the predator in your case. Bob cats can climb fences and are almost silent in their attack. However, I do not have knowledge of the way a bob cat leaves it's kill, so I cannot comment on the sad way you found your pet.
T,
In eastern MA last spring a coyote grabbed a guy's 2-year old in his backyard the second his back was turned.
He was an off-duty cop, and in his own yard, so didn't have his service weapon. He ended up kicking it and beating it off with a shovel.
In eastern MA. Very densely populated, if suburban. If it can happen there, it can happen anywhere.
I'm sorry to hear about the dog- it's always hard to lose friends.
Don't rule out the Skunk - they burrow under fences etc. and they decapitate as well as eviscerate.
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