jerry pdx See coyotes all the time in pdx, we have "wildlife corridors" they use to travel throughout the city. Far as I know there's never been an actual attack on a human though there have been reports of coyotes getting aggressive toward children or small women. They do attack pets so people need to keep an eyes on their pets around here, but if people secure their garbage and watch their pets coyotes mostly eat prolific breeders like rats, mice, rabbits and invasives like nutria which is good for the city. They also kill feral cats which is good for songbirds because coyotes don't climb trees and get into birds nests like cats do. Urban coyotes get a bad rap but are actually more beneficial than not we just have to reinforce the fear of humans in them. We had a pack of coyotes hanging around and stalking a neighbors pets in my 1st house because it was close to a wild area they liked to hang out in. They had gotten really brazen and were showing little fear of humans so I got my old pump BB gun and gave it a couple of pumps, then popped one of them in the hindquarters, he yipped and then took off running but the others milled around confused so I popped another one, he took off too and the others went with him. We never saw them again. A low power BB gun shouldn't penetrate coyotes hide because it won't penetrate a human one, I know because when I was a kid we used to shoot at each other with those BB guns, we just didn't pump it more than once or twice...well, unless you were feeling extra mean. Stupid 70's kid stuff, didn't have nerf guns back then, lucky we didn't put out an eye.
North of Seattle we have coyotes (the four legged kind--when I first saw "coyotes" I feared it was the illegal alien smuggling kind), wildcats, raccoons, and a few years ago the nearby school was locked down because a mountain lion was prowling around the school. I often hear owls at night and sometimes a bald eagle flies over the house. None of the wildlife bothers us--I love animals. When I was younger I fed raccoons on my lap and the babies climbed all over me. When my favorite raccoon saw me she would come to me and follow me to the house to get fed. Raccoons are not vicious--if you are nice to them they are nice back. I no longer feed them because I have a dog and don't want him to get entangled with them--raccoons can defend themselves, but they would rather be fed and petted.
"Honey,wake up,I heard some noise in the backyard--go out and look."
ReplyDelete"Ohh,I was just in the middle of a great dream about...never mind,I 'll check it out."
(Seconds later)
"What was it?"
"The wildest,hungriest,most rabid pack of coyotes I've ever seen in my life."
"Hmm,the neighborhood's getting better,last month it was a bunch of nig*ers."
--GRA
jerry pdx
ReplyDeleteSee coyotes all the time in pdx, we have "wildlife corridors" they use to travel throughout the city. Far as I know there's never been an actual attack on a human though there have been reports of coyotes getting aggressive toward children or small women. They do attack pets so people need to keep an eyes on their pets around here, but if people secure their garbage and watch their pets coyotes mostly eat prolific breeders like rats, mice, rabbits and invasives like nutria which is good for the city. They also kill feral cats which is good for songbirds because coyotes don't climb trees and get into birds nests like cats do. Urban coyotes get a bad rap but are actually more beneficial than not we just have to reinforce the fear of humans in them. We had a pack of coyotes hanging around and stalking a neighbors pets in my 1st house because it was close to a wild area they liked to hang out in. They had gotten really brazen and were showing little fear of humans so I got my old pump BB gun and gave it a couple of pumps, then popped one of them in the hindquarters, he yipped and then took off running but the others milled around confused so I popped another one, he took off too and the others went with him. We never saw them again. A low power BB gun shouldn't penetrate coyotes hide because it won't penetrate a human one, I know because when I was a kid we used to shoot at each other with those BB guns, we just didn't pump it more than once or twice...well, unless you were feeling extra mean. Stupid 70's kid stuff, didn't have nerf guns back then, lucky we didn't put out an eye.
North of Seattle we have coyotes (the four legged kind--when I first saw "coyotes" I feared it was the illegal alien smuggling kind), wildcats, raccoons, and a few years ago the nearby school was locked down because a mountain lion was prowling around the school. I often hear owls at night and sometimes a bald eagle flies over the house. None of the wildlife bothers us--I love animals. When I was younger I fed raccoons on my lap and the babies climbed all over me. When my favorite raccoon saw me she would come to me and follow me to the house to get fed. Raccoons are not vicious--if you are nice to them they are nice back. I no longer feed them because I have a dog and don't want him to get entangled with them--raccoons can defend themselves, but they would rather be fed and petted.
ReplyDelete"Raccoons are not vicious--if you are nice to them they are nice back."
ReplyDeleteYou have to be careful around coons. Coons can carry rabies. Coons.