I live about 3 miles from where this took place. It has gotten a lot of attention in local media.
It happened on Friday/04th November. It was the middle of the night and the dog couldn’t be found for a day or two. They thought he might have been killed based on the blood and a scrap of his tail they found in the woods. And even then, the doctors weren’t sure if he was going to pull through. Thankfully it seems he’ll be fine.
The other thing to know about this is that it happened “ITP” (inside the perimeter) in a completely non-rural area that was developed for suburban housing/shopping about 60-70 years ago. The fact that a pack of coyotes is (edit: *was*, heh-heh) prowling around a neighborhood like that is very concerning. Every year or so, you might see one of them alone. But such a large pack, getting aggressive — bad news.
(This post was last modified: 12-03-2022 10:56 PM by Native Georgian.)
We have a pack of coyotes that live in the woods right behind our backyard fence. Right inside the city limits on a creek.
We won't let our little poodle/doxie mix out at night without accompanying him in the yard. He barks back and forth at them sometimes, and we can hear them yipping at times during the night.
I have a coyote deterrent loaded and ready to go if the need ever arises.
A Ring doorbell camera filmed a coyote attack on a toddler who was standing in the driveway of her suburban Los Angeles home Friday afternoon.
The shocking footage captured the animal trotting along a sidewalk toward the young girl, then knocking her over as if she was a doll. The coyote then started to drag the girl toward the sidewalk before being chased away by her father, video shows.
“I heard her screaming and crying and I thought she fell down and I saw the coyote was there,” Ariel Eliyahuo, the toddler’s father, told KNBC4.
This attack happened in Woodland Hills, a wealthy enclave in northern Los Angeles. It is at least the second toddler coyote attack filmed this year in suburban Southern California neighborhoods.
A coyote stalked and bit a toddler on April 28 next to the Huntington Beach pier as the girl played in the sand while her mother stood nearby.
After circling the family for several minutes, the coyote quickly darted in to grab the girl and toss her around the area. She was rescued by her mother and went to the hospital due to animal bites. The incident was caught on a city surveillance camera.
Coyotes have been encroaching on densely populated Southern California neighborhoods in greater numbers over the past two decades. In the days leading up to the Los Angeles attack, authorities notified residents that a coyote was in the area.
“I saw her pants were stained with blood, then I took them off and noticed they had scratches,” said the girl’s mother, Shira Eliyahuo. “We had to get a rabies shot and just hope everything is going to be ok.”
The animal has not been caught. Coyotes that attack humans are euthanized and their brain stems tested for rabies, officials said.
(12-04-2022 03:15 AM)TripleA Wrote: We have a pack of coyotes that live in the woods right behind our backyard fence. Right inside the city limits on a creek.
We won't let our little poodle/doxie mix out at night without accompanying him in the yard. He barks back and forth at them sometimes, and we can hear them yipping at times during the night.
I have a coyote deterrent loaded and ready to go if the need ever arises.
Our subdivision backs to a creek and is surrounded on three sides by woods. I hear them all the time at night. Usually, it sounds a lot like it does in the movies---sometimes they are super close---maybe just a few blocks from us. But every once in a while, when they are just the right distance away and the conditions are just right----it sounds kinda like a wild party is going on in the woods. Really strange---almost human sounding.
(This post was last modified: 12-05-2022 07:59 PM by Attackcoog.)
