Bobcat eats family pet, captured and released.

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92. I said "many occassions."

I've seen half a dozen cats on fewer than thirty hikes that were less than five miles from the city. Last Thursday I came home early (4:00 p.m., broad daylight) and found a coyote standing in my driveway. I live 10 minutes from downtown LA, on a busy street, in a densely populated part of town. I hear coyotes almost nightly. Sunday, I went for a hike in Griffith park. My friends and I went to the Roosevelt cafe (at the golf course). While we were eating breakfast (about 11:00 am, broad daylight) I noticed a dog following some golfers. It dawned on me slowly that it was odd that there was a loose dog on the course, and that it wasn't just a dog, but a coyote. It followed the golfers at about ten paces for five minutes or so. The grounds keeper finally came out in a cart and chased it away. Wild animals that live in or near the city behave differently, and I see them quite frequently. Two coyotes in the heart of Los Angeles in three or four days is fairly frequent, but not, as you say, "all the time." Same with the cats. Point is, they are often enough out in broad daylight.