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Auggie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 07:48 PM Original message |
Coyotes shot in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park by U.S. Department of Agriculture |
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Coventina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 07:52 PM Response to Original message |
1. Coyotes are considered vermin |
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TomInTib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 08:02 PM Response to Reply #1 |
7. I have owned some coyote hybrids. |
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Coventina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 08:11 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. I love all canides. They are an amazing branch of the Tree of Life |
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HeeBGBz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:57 PM Response to Reply #7 |
72. I had a part coyote pet |
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shance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:50 PM Response to Reply #1 |
66. Because some people like to kill things for "sport" so it justifies murdering them |
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Auggie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 03:42 PM Response to Reply #66 |
90. Amen |
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Coventina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 08:24 PM Response to Reply #66 |
91. Erm, you did read the part of my post that said I disagreed |
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demgurl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 07:52 PM Response to Original message |
2. We take away their homes..... |
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Beaverhausen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 07:54 PM Response to Original message |
3. This year, with the drought here in California, the coyotes are having a hard time |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 11:15 PM Response to Reply #3 |
14. But here by the park, there is plenty of refuse, plenty of food and |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 11:27 AM Response to Reply #3 |
37. They do just fine in SoCal suburban areas |
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Beaverhausen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:50 PM Response to Reply #37 |
68. well, if they are coming down into areas where they usually aren't seen, I don't think... |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 01:05 PM Response to Reply #68 |
75. Some kindly fool in my neighborhood started feeding them |
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pinto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 07:56 PM Response to Original message |
4. Dry year. Coyotes will be looking for food, deer will be running across the freeways for water, |
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proud patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 08:28 PM Response to Reply #4 |
93. eek that means the scorpians and tarantula's will be coming |
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robinlynne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 07:58 PM Response to Original message |
5. I saw one walking down my street in the middle of the city once. It was majestic, |
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TomInTib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 08:04 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. They are incredibly intelligent and inquisitive. |
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pinto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 09:25 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. (aside) I don't favor domesticating coyotes, fwiw. There's lots of |
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TomInTib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 11:00 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. I am just a fool for non-domesticated animals. |
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pinto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 11:10 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Probably. They are beauts. I love their awareness. And that lean look. |
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TomInTib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:29 AM Response to Reply #12 |
18. Mine came to me. |
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stevedeshazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 08:02 PM Response to Original message |
6. July 5th, 4 am |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 11:13 PM Response to Original message |
13. @ssholes! My pup and I have encountered coyotes more than once. |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 11:34 PM Response to Reply #13 |
16. I think there was concern they had rabies or were otherwise sick--they attacked a couple of.... |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 11:40 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. You may have a point there. In this corner of the park |
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Viva_La_Revolution (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 01:04 AM Response to Reply #16 |
25. I bet they had a den nearby... |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 09:32 AM Response to Reply #25 |
30. Regardless, it's still not typical coyote behavior to attack another dog larger than they are. n/t |
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Viva_La_Revolution (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 10:48 AM Response to Reply #30 |
33. It's not normal for two animals with rabies to be working together either |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 11:34 AM Response to Reply #33 |
40. You're missing the point. |
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Viva_La_Revolution (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 11:57 AM Response to Reply #40 |
43. not familiar at all with the park, grew up with coyotes... |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:02 PM Response to Reply #43 |
45. There may be just too many in the park right now. Doesn't |
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Viva_La_Revolution (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:08 PM Response to Reply #45 |
48. yes, nature meets 'civilization' |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:01 PM Response to Reply #40 |
44. I hope we're not facing a problem similar to the Yosemite bear problem. |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:04 PM Response to Reply #44 |
46. If you check out the updated story on sfgate, they talk about that. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:08 PM Response to Reply #46 |
47. If I'm seeing them on walks, there certainly are more. |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:09 PM Response to Reply #47 |
49. There's one line in the story that cracks me up.... |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:09 PM Response to Reply #49 |
50. LOL! That's hilarious! |
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Jim Warren (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:13 PM Response to Reply #16 |
51. Rhodesian Ridgebacks? |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:17 PM Response to Reply #51 |
53. No, the dogs were leashed. |
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Jim Warren (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:36 PM Response to Reply #53 |
61. Something's wrong alright |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:41 PM Response to Reply #61 |
64. I just don't understand why you see it as suspect. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 01:38 PM Response to Reply #61 |
85. I hear what you're saying and that was my first thought. |
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ProudToBeBlueInRhody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:34 AM Response to Reply #13 |
21. Only because you were there |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:47 AM Response to Reply #21 |
23. When I lived on my mom's ranch, we lost pets and livestock to coyotes. |
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ProudToBeBlueInRhody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 01:00 AM Response to Reply #23 |
24. I'm not familiar with that area..... |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 01:17 AM Response to Reply #24 |
26. I used to do a lot of camping and sat through many lectures |
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Gormy Cuss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 01:30 AM Response to Reply #13 |
29. One of the news stations (dunno which) reported that there was also a growling at humans event |
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ConsAreLiars (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 11:26 PM Response to Original message |
15. My one close encounter with a coyote |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:30 AM Response to Original message |
19. I'm usually on the side of the coyotes |
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Swamp Rat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:30 AM Response to Original message |
20. Bastards! |
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ProudToBeBlueInRhody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:38 AM Response to Original message |
22. Sounds like they were rabid |
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GreenPartyVoter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:32 PM Response to Reply #22 |
59. Yikes! |
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pinniped (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 01:19 AM Response to Original message |
27. I bet those dogs were off-leash. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 09:35 AM Response to Reply #27 |
31. I know there's a den in the corner of the park close to my place |
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Emit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 01:30 AM Response to Original message |
28. I lost three cats to coyotes this year |
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shance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:53 PM Response to Reply #28 |
70. It's hard. My friend lost her cat to a coyote. She makes sure they are all inside at night now. |
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Emit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 01:09 PM Response to Reply #70 |
77. Yup -- that's what happened to ours over the span of the last year |
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countryjake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 10:43 AM Response to Original message |
32. Jeez, they were probably protecting pups or something... |
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ProudToBeBlueInRhody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 11:50 AM Response to Reply #32 |
42. UNLESS they were rabid |
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countryjake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:14 PM Response to Reply #42 |
52. Where's the report that Rabies has been detected in San Francisco? |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:19 PM Response to Reply #52 |
54. They don't have to be rabid to be dangerous. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:21 PM Response to Reply #54 |
55. And, they've learned how to read, too. Once a bear can read |
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countryjake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:27 PM Response to Reply #55 |
56. ROTFLMAO! |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:30 PM Response to Reply #56 |
58. I used to take our family to Yosemite every year for two weeks |
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countryjake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:46 PM Response to Reply #58 |
65. Ya, I hiked there decades ago, where finding two trees... |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:50 PM Response to Reply #65 |
67. I didn't know there were ever grizzlies in Yosemite. |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 01:02 PM Response to Reply #67 |
73. How do you think that big ol' grizzly ended up on our state flag? |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 01:32 PM Response to Reply #73 |
82. Shows you how much I know. Thought that was a black bear! |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 01:34 PM Response to Reply #82 |
83. I think we may be the only state that has an extinct animal as its official state animal. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 01:35 PM Response to Reply #83 |
84. Really sad. |
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countryjake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 01:07 PM Response to Reply #67 |
76. They moved 'em all back in the 60s & 70s... |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 01:10 PM Response to Reply #76 |
78. That is 100% incorrect. |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 01:04 PM Response to Reply #65 |
74. Grizzlies were extinct in California by 1908. |
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countryjake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 01:23 PM Response to Reply #74 |
79. I know that... |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 01:26 PM Response to Reply #79 |
81. No, the park has never attempted to reintroduce them.... |
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countryjake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 01:43 PM Response to Reply #81 |
86. He was speaking to those people staying at that resort... |
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countryjake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 02:30 PM Response to Reply #65 |
89. Correction... |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:29 PM Response to Reply #55 |
57. BWAHAHAHAHA! There's that whole "culinary interest" thing again. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:34 PM Response to Reply #57 |
60. We are as flies to these beautiful animals, Shakespeare. |
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peacebuzzard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 10:57 AM Response to Original message |
34. Another story gone wrong. |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 11:28 AM Response to Reply #34 |
38. I have to disagree |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 11:24 AM Response to Original message |
35. As humans crowd out the traditional lands of various species, |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 11:26 AM Response to Original message |
36. I think the coyotes in my 'hood got a cat or small dog last night |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 11:29 AM Response to Original message |
39. Shooting coyotes in the wild is SOP in the Midwest |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:39 PM Response to Reply #39 |
63. A maniac anti-gun, anti-hunting, animal rights state? |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 02:12 AM Response to Reply #63 |
95. This isn't an ecological problem |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 12:38 PM Response to Reply #95 |
99. Of course it is an ecological problem. And since there was |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-19-07 04:48 AM Response to Reply #99 |
104. Too many coyote/human interactions is an ecological problem |
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shance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:54 PM Response to Reply #39 |
71. As in Texas. They are essentially treated like rats there. |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 11:35 AM Response to Original message |
41. the coyotes woke me up the other morning with their howling... |
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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:38 PM Response to Original message |
62. Coyotes are adapting successfully. |
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noonwitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:52 PM Response to Original message |
69. They found one in Detroit recently |
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lettre de cachet (73 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 05:05 AM Response to Reply #69 |
97. Bell Creek Park |
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madhoosier (130 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 02:25 PM Response to Reply #69 |
101. There have been several in downtown Chicago. |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 01:25 PM Response to Original message |
80. there is no place to relocate coyotes, there is a huge overpopulation |
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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 02:20 PM Response to Reply #80 |
88. Are you talking about coyotes, or humans? n/t |
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ComerPerro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 01:47 PM Response to Original message |
87. maybe you can open a coyote sanctuary and take them in to your home, |
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shance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 04:53 AM Response to Reply #87 |
96. Whereas youd love to open a slaughterhouse for eu de coyote meat, hmm? |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 08:26 PM Response to Original message |
92. Thanks for the warning. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 09:53 PM Response to Reply #92 |
94. Be careful out there! -- Hill Street Blues |
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Hell Hath No Fury (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 12:34 PM Response to Original message |
98. Locals are NOT happy with this.... |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 12:39 PM Response to Reply #98 |
100. I don't even know if I HAVE a supervisor -- Chew. |
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Hell Hath No Fury (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 02:49 PM Response to Reply #100 |
102. The Supe who doesn't live in SF? |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 02:50 PM Response to Reply #102 |
103. Good call! I'll do the same. |
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