Neighborhood on edge after coyote attacks 2-year-old girl in Irvine park

[Ned Flanders]

21. Love/hate relationship

I love/hate Canis Latrans. They're brilliant creatures, thriving despite (or because of) the urbanization of this country. But they are brutal killers, slaying their bigger prey slowly, killing them by biting their rear end area over and over until they get into the body cavity and, uh, well I guess I've painted an ugly enough picture. They killed over a dozen of my cats, but the worse was when Mom accidentally left Daisy out past dark and they slaughtered her in our driveway.

Growing up in Laverne, Southern Ca, they were everywhere. IDK if the drought was still bad in 1979, but that's when one of the neighbor kids almost got taken by a coyote. Another guy got bit trying to save his dog, while jogging. Check out the link for a long list of attacks. I had no idea they've gone after humans so often.

http://www.laalmanac.com/environment/ev15c.htm