California 2-Year-Old Dragged From Yard by Coyote in Third Such Attack in Five Days

Associated Press ^ | May 07, 2008

[kingattax]

LAKE ARROWHEAD, Calif. — A coyote grabbed a 2-year-old girl by the head and tried to drag her from the front yard of her mountain home in the third incident of a coyote threatening a small child in Southern California in five days, authorities said.

The coyote attacked the girl around noon Tuesday when her mother, Melissa Rowley, went inside the home for a moment to put away a camera, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said in an incident report.

Rowley came out of the house and saw the coyote dragging her daughter towards a street. She ran towards her daughter, and the animal released the girl and ran away, said sheriff's spokeswoman Arden Wiltshire.

[kingattax]

three incidents in five days. arnold better be doin something about them coyotes.

[writer33]

This is because of global warming. The food suppy chain has begun its depletion, and now it’s only a matter of time before coyotes attack in waves.

[EveningStar]

Wait for the CADL to step in.

[ClearCase_guy]

Build the wall!

Oh. Different coyote. Sorry.

[Flavius]

i see legislation coming with a ban on canine teeth

[dschapin]

Yikes, that would be a sight to scar a mothers heart and mind permanently.

[clee1]

Yet you’ll do 5 years in prison if you shoot one (a coyote).

[ElkGroveDan]

My brother who’s the DFG biologist down there is supposed to be on Fox with Greta in about 20 minutes regarding these attacks.

[Alouette]

Is it still legal to shoot coyotes or are they “endangered species”?

[DoughtyOne]

I am dumbfounded by parents who do not stay with their young children. What moron leaves their young child unattended?

In each of these instances, an adult somehow got misdirected long enough for the Coyote to bite the child before they intervened.

When I had young kids, that coyote would have been dead meat before touching my child.

[RC2]

He will......like all liberals, he will make it illegal to shoot them and force the people to feed them on a regular basis. That’s how carzy this country of ours is getting.

[DoughtyOne]

Sounds to me like the chidren are the endangered ones.

I guess they can’t get endangered status. They’re just humans.

[mylife]

There used to be a bounty on them

[kingattax]

w33...are we doomed ?

[umgud]

We could always mix fun with safety and protection.

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Will be watching Greta then - what is DFG?

Of course PETA will blame the little girl and mom for being so inconsiderate of the coyote as to scream when it was carrying the child away for its next meal....denying this wonderful creature it’s “natural” ability to seek and find its food....

[rawhide]

Rowley took her daughter to a hospital where the toddler was treated for several punctures to the head and neck area, and a laceration on her mouth. She was then flown to Loma Linda University Hospital for further treatment, although her injuries were not life-threatening.

[Alouette]

“Dingo bait”

[clee1]

That was before the fruits and nuts in Kalefornicatia became fruitier and nuttier.

[writer33]

Doomed I tell you. Doomed!

:-)

[mylife]

Even back then it wasnt worth it you had to skin em out and it was like 5 bucks a hide

[kingattax]

[kennyboy509]

It’s gonna take a few deaths to smarten up a california liberal into getting laws changed to control preditory wildlife.

10 more years and maybe the same amount of human deaths.

Liberals learning curves are pretty flat.

[CindyDawg]

She was playing in her yard. You can not keep an eye on them every second.

[ElkGroveDan]

what is DFG?

Department of Fish and Game.

[CindyDawg]

Yep. SSS

[clee1]

I’d have just considered it my civic duty and coughed up the $0.20 for a .223 round. That, and the effort to scoop the critter up and toss it in the trash.

[tsmith130]

"A dingo ate yer baby."

(sorry...couldn't resist. Seinfeld reference)

[PLMerite]

“Oh. Different coyote. Sorry.”

Well, it doesn’t actually say which type of coyote...

[vetvetdoug]

I lay the fault at the feet of the gun grabbing & controlling panty waisted pussies that think that coyotes should not be killed on sight. Coyotes will never be exterminated, they are survivors. Thinning the population will keep the children safe. Let's do it for the children. A coyote in my neighborhood knows to stay well out of sight and if it comes within 350 yards of me its a dead one.

[burroak]

What will you get if you put dishes of antifreeze around your property?

[ElkGroveDan]

That was before the fruits and nuts in Kalefornicatia became fruitier and nuttier.

That kind of statement makes you sound like an idiot. Were you trying to spell California? San Bernardino is a rock-solid conservative county, one of the most reliably conservative regions of the country.

[Alouette]

Seinfeld reference

I thought it was a Meryl Streep reference.

[NathanR]

I suspect the term would be “urban wildlife”, like possums. Then if so, it would be illegal.

[2111USMC]

Yet you’ll do 5 years in prison if you shoot one (a coyote).

Really? Around here, the only question asked is "what caliber did ya use?".

[mylife]

Here in TX they hangem on fence posts along with bobcats as a warning to their brethren

[clee1]

Probably the same 5 years... but the charge would be different.

[ktscarlett66]

My kids played outside in our yard most of the time without me watching them. Didn’t all our mothers say “GO OUTSIDE and PLAY!!!” ???

[DoughtyOne]

Sounds like it.

[NonValueAdded]

“Mom had gone inside to put away a camera.” Wanna bet that was after taking the picture of the strange looking “dog” lurking near the back yard? Situational Awareness failure!

[tbw2]

In California law or national law?

[CindyDawg]

You can’t watch them every minute and they need to learn independence. When my 3 y/o grand daughter comes over, I let her play by herself in the back yard. She doesn’t know that I watch her from the table though.

[Farmer Dean]

Buy a good dog and assign it the task of guarding the kids.

[CindyDawg]

I sure hope not.

[clee1]

That kind of statement makes you sound like an idiot.

Thanks for your opinion, but who asked you?

Were you trying to spell California?

No. I know how to spell California, thanks. I learned how in the 3rd grade. My spelling was intentional: The starting "K" was in honor of your State's continuing down the leftist path, and the "fornicatia" portion was devoted to your State's love of sexual perversion in its myriad forms.

San Bernardino is a rock-solid conservative county, one of the most reliably conservative regions of the country.

Didn't know that, but am glad to hear it. You may consider a move, though. You are hopelessly outnumbered by the fruits and nuts in the rest of your State.

[South Dakota]

She was playing in her yard. You can not keep an eye on them every second.

my dog would have and the coyote would have been dead meat

[Smokin' Joe]

Thinning the population will keep the children safe.

It also teaches the survivors to be wary of humans, and makes them far less likely to view us as lunch.

Meanwhile, the wolf population grows, cougar are populating river bottoms and the breaks along the upper Missouri and its tributaries, and the dirt-worshippers still hate humans.

[CindyDawg]

That’s a good idea. I’ve got a Bosten Terrior coming but I don’t know how good a guard dog she will be. My gentle, old lab passed away last year. Nothing came in her yard.

[clee1]

Arounf here too. We’uns don’t cotton to critters whut take off our young’uns.

[clee1]

Great idea!