Posted on 04/08/2011 7:58:48 PM PDT by smokingfrog
Marni Adams was driving down Clifton Road at 7:30 a.m. last Sunday on the way to meet a group of her friends for their regular run.
But her otherwise routine morning took a decided twist when she was confronted by a coyote walking across Clifton near Caldow Street with a cat in its mouth.
Call it a maternal instinct. Or a passion to help an animal in need. Whatever it was, it motivated Adams to stop her car, jump out from behind the wheel and attempt to rescue the cat.
Adams quickly caught up to the coyote and began screaming at the startled animal in hopes it would release its grip on the feline.
“I was making wild sounds, trying to scare the coyote,” Adams recalled. “I could see by the erect cat’s claws that it was alive, trying to fight free. The coyote came to a stop, dropped the cat, proceeded to run up the hill, stopped once to look back and then left.”
Adams was aware of recent complaints from local residents about coyotes snatching pets that were running loose, and she has seen coyotes often as she lives near Knox Mountain.
She said the protocol for what to do if confronted by a coyote with a pet cat in its mouth didn’t enter her mind, as her first instinct was to help the cat.
Other than being angry and hissing, Adams said the cat amazingly didn’t suffer any wounds.
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Must have been a gentle soft mouthed coyote. I once saw our Welsh terrier literally tear a large stray cat in half with just one bite and a severe shaking. Always gentle and even tempered, we never suspected the terrier would react that way, but when the cat bowed up and attacked, she went berserk and all hell broke loose.
Will not get an argument from me ... animal gets me for lunch, I guess I am his.
One hot summer day here in AZ, saw a coyote chasing a jack rabbit, they were both walking and carrying canteens.
So if a coyote takes a small child you would tell Mommy, "it sucks to be you."
Maybe you should get a bigger cat.
Read slowly, story is about a coyote and a cat. They both have fur and four legs and they kill and eat things. Now discussion of what if’s should be left to the what if’s thread. Sort of like, what if a frog had wings, etc, etc,
Org is a hypocritical race baiter. Don't take him seriously.
Hi Orgy.
What has this to do with a coyote taking a kitten? Seems far fetch from the original article.
Well should the coyote get to eat any people as long as they are not Indians?
If that was somebody’s pet, the coyote stole it and should have been shot if possible.
He does and he will be stuck in the old connibear.
Free roaming cats are also pests or varmints.
Did not see one word about the coyote was running down the road with a people. Did run into a guy a couple of years back that had a pet coyote. Did not ask him if it killed people.
What if someone suggested Michael Vic was a man of questionable character and another person called them a skin head?
At the end of the day, you're still a race baiting idiot. You likely also pick your butt and eat your boogers. Those are your better qualities.
Your tag is a great suggestion please go some place far away and follow that suggestion.
“Illegal immigrants” that’s two words not one, picky picky
Still the same old cross threading idiot, want to talk to the mods.
I don’t want to argue with you. You do make a point though. Nature sometimes is misunderstood. Coyotes snatch cats quite often where I live and I blame the cat owners for letting them outside. Coyotes are only doing what god taught them to do. I keep my cats inside. I wish the Coyotes would snatch some of Deer that eat my plants and shrubs though. Take care.
“She said the protocol for what to do if confronted by a coyote with a pet cat in its mouth didn’t enter her mind...”
There’s a Protocol for that? Other than “bang!” I mean ?
“I’ll remember that when I see a carnivore with you in it’s mouth. Don’t get me wrong I am a people lover too but if you get caught you lose.”
This is why I declined to go wilderness camping in Yellowstone with the gf’s family. I adamantly refuse to put myself in any situation where I might have to fight a grizzly bear for the toilet paper.
Maybe you should mash the abuse button. Then they look at your posting history as well as the FReeper you report. Go for it. Operators are standing by.
;-)
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