Posted on 06/26/2010 4:54:35 PM PDT by Willie Green
It doesn’t make practical sense that two rabid animals decided to gang up and attack the girl.
If she were riding lightrail this would have never happened.
Here in NW NJ, I hear them on occasion late at night. I thought they were afraid of people.
You mean, they knew each other had rabies?
Maybe it doesn’t make sense but the poor child will have to take rabies vaccine anyway.
Guess I’ll enlarge this article and post it on my front door, so the cops don’t ask a bunch of stupid questions after I shoot the coyote that’s been visiting my back yard....interior suburb house.
Coyotes are living along Buffalo Bayou in the middle of Houston, I know because I have seen them but I have never heard a single howl. I know what they sound like because I have heard them in south Texas but not here.
I'm joking. I hate pit bulls.
Rabid coyotes aren’t likely to be out palling around with each other. It takes cooperative behavior.
just people 2 big 2 eat
I don’t live too far from there. Coyotes are real opportunists. Maybe she was a small 6 year old, and maybe they were very hungry.
Coyotes rarely attack human adults. This was a six-year-old child.
Perch has a point, too. Rabid animals become erratic and crazed. It seems a far fetch to imagine two rabid coyotes working in tandem to ambush a little human the same way they ambush prey in the wild.
We have many coyotes in northwest Ohio and they have been known to take pets for food. As they lose territory, and they have no predators, they become more forward. They are also very difficult to hunt and often travel in groups. Last year one tried to take a toddler from a park in LA. This will get more common with time and I doubt these were rabid, just hungry.
Speaking of large dogs...and coyotes...
I was talking to a lady last week about these vile animals, and how in her neighborhood, someone had 3? 4? large dogs.
A pack of coyotes dug holes UNDER her fence, came into the yard and got the dogs. All of them.
Do regular, non rabid, normal coyotes usually pal around with each other?
Yep
.223 is your friend.
For every life that a pit bull saves....
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