WARNING: PS: Coyote Attack - 3 year old little girl

Time to buy one of these when walking your dog or playing at the park:
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Trav25 said:
Coleman said:
Trav25 said:
What do we do to aggressive dogs that harm humans??
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What do we do to aggressive humans that harm humans??
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We sure don't let them continue with the thought that only another will take its place. Coyotes are smart. Word will go out that you can't mess with the humans.
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I am not sure that a trapped/jailed coyote will use his one phone call to alert the others of this human invasion. ;)

My copy of your post was to show that just because an animal attacks, doesn't mean we need to go on a witch hunt trapping every coyote we see.


 
There is a notion held by many municipal animal control services that eradication of the urban coyote is not effective because such control measures provide a natural vacuum in nature that can cause these animals to have even larger litters and ultimately increases the coyote population. In my opinion this is a crock. It's a meme perpetrated by certain nature propagandists who are not looking at the big picture. Because there are no natural predators for the [urban] coyote, they will expand according to their food source. Constant action in the eradication/displacement of any one of these pests can mean that fewer pets and young children will be killed or injured. Because there is already a vacuum in nature doesn't mean we shouldn't interfere. If we let coyotes run amok they kill too many cats, resulting in a plague of rats, squirrels and rabbits running around. Cats are natural hunters of vermin. Many rescue cats don't often make good indoor pets, and most indoor cats can become schizophrenic if they are denied their natural instincts. Nature propagandists should focus more on human birth control if they are that concerned about our invasion of nature's habitat, or at the very least, initiate programs teaching coyotes taste and place aversion therapy.
 
More coyote sightings in Portola Springs.  My husband saw one at around 6 p.m. today near Portola and Arrowhead as he was driving the kids home.  There was a lady with a small dog who was freaking out and a man who was trying to scare the coyote away.  My husband thought the coyote might have tried to attack the dog.  Half an hour later we spotted the coyote running down the sidewalk in front of our house.  Later we saw some kids riding on bikes followed by their father who held a baseball bat in his hand.

We saw a coyote yesterday by the pool/clubhouse at Ranchland and Arrowhead at around the same time.  Two men with sticks were trying to get the coyote to leave.  It's probably the same one.
 
I saw a coyote on the southbound shoulder of the 241 toll road just north of the north of the Irvine Blvd exit around 8pm on Saturday.  Wonder if they are coming down from the foothills before they are hungry and looking for food.
 
Saw a coyote crossing a street in Costa Mesa, like on harbor near the 405, middle of the city.  Very odd. It went to the drainage channels, maybe that was actually splinter, that oversized rat from tmnt
 
No one is worried a coyote might just walk into your house thru open California room?

I once had a dog walk into my house by nudging the front door open that my kids had gone thru to go to school. (Usually I lock my front door but back in the day they walked to school, and they would just close the door without locking it since they had no key and it must have not latched).
 
In RSM / Trabuco / Coto, we've had Coyotes hopping over the fences, snatching cats and dogs. Average fence out here is about 5-6ft high, not the short HOA fences you see in some back yards. It's likely to get worse until we get more rain.
 
Soylent Green Is People said:
In RSM / Trabuco / Coto, we've had Coyotes hopping over the fences, snatching cats and dogs. Average fence out here is about 5-6ft high, not the short HOA fences you see in some back yards. It's likely to get worse until we get more rain.
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that's F scary.. 
 
If a coyote is starving, it will take greater risks in seeking food.  Irvine has many green belts with bushes that they hide in during the day.  You can buy the stronger pepper spray stuff at Turner's Outdoorsmen.

"Cold Steel" here in LA makes an inexpensive "Ten Shin" walking stick that packs a wallop.  I don't own this product but have played with it at their shop (went there to buy the long-handle Thai machete).

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Just saw a pack of 4 coyotes roaming around in an Aliso Viejo neighborhood when I was driving back from a friend's house at around midnight.  Certainly made me stop and take a good look at them when they crossed in front of my car. :eek: ???

 
Friend at Portola Springs has video clips of coyotes visiting his house at night and snooping through his yard.
 
I see them while mountain biking all the time.  I also see/hear them in the neighborhood quite often.  I've been hearing stories recently about them growing a bit more aggressive. 
 
there are couple coyote incidents again.  I think i need to bring "something" to protect my family when we go out for a walk.  any suggestion?  baseball bat?  walking stick?

please dont tell me to use my chinese kung-fu  :)
 
yaliu07 said:
there are couple coyote incidents again.  I think i need to bring "something" to protect my family when we go out for a walk.  any suggestion?  baseball bat?  walking stick?

please dont tell me to use my chinese kung-fu  :)
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......maybe show the coyotes what the plan is with the cemetery.  They'll probably leave after knowing that...........
 
Heard there was another attack on a little boy in PS this past weekend, in his parents' garage while the mom was nearby.  It seems like the coyote sightings and incidents have increased dramatically in recent months.  My friends who just moved to PS said they heard coyotes howling every night for 20 minutes.
 
I know its not politically correct but why don't we shoot these pests like every other state does? 

Legal Status

Coyotes have no special protection in California and may be killed by any method that is not prohibited by federal, state, or local statutes. Since the passage of a state ballot initiative measure in November 1998, leghold traps cannot be used to capture coyotes except in situations where a human health and safety emergency has been declared by designated officials, or in selected situations where the existence of an endangered species is threatened by predation. Toxicants or poisons used to control coyotes are illegal, with the exception of fumigant cartridges available only to predator control specialists to asphyxiate coyote pups in their dens. No chemical repellents are registered for use in repelling coyotes from property or from livestock.
 
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