Off Subject (Coyote)

[kenbev]

I know this is not about Handi.s but thought you people would Know....Will a coyote attack a human? We are getting a few of these animals around here and I just don't know anything about them. I saw one today while deer hunting. He was out of range and out of sight quick or I would have busted a cap on him...

[Mac11700]

Normally from what I've seen...no...not unless it is wounded or sick..(dis-temper or rabib)...now...a coy-dog..(half breed) usually doesn't have the same fear as a full blooded coyote...and might...I've been around a few of them before while deer hunting and pheasent hunting and had to shoot them...

Mac

[twocan]

I was cutting wood one morning years ago. I had my 3 year old girl with me, as we got out she tripped and fell. Then she starts to cry that little girl cry and i had 2 yotes at about 30 feet in no time. Im pretty sure they would have got her if she would have been on the other side of the truck. From there i went bought me a call and i have been thining them out.

[acloco]

Yes, they definitely will.

You would be VERY wise to keep the population down.

[aulrich]

It seems to be getting worst around here one or two kids get bit by a coyote every year, right in the middle of the city.

[MSP Ret]

Here on Cape Cod we have had at least 3 verified coyote attacks on humans in the last year or 2. A 12 year old boy waiting for a School Bus in Sandwich, a greenskeeper at Cape Cod National (?) a VERY private golf course in the Harwich/Brewster area and a woman about 35-40 who while in her backyard in the Marstons Mills area of Barnstable was attacked and bitten severely on the hands and arms until her husband came to her assistance with a stick and beat off the coyote who then turned on the husband, he was able to beat the coyote back and the local police arrived and shot the coyote. Of course there are still animal lovers who still regularly write to the local newspaper that coyotes are good and we are bad. There is one local coyote "expert" who says he has been studying them for years and wants to stop all coyote hunting in the Town of Barnstable as well as severly limit deer hunting with his final adjenda to end all hunting and shooting and I am sure then to attack private ownership of firearms..try to convince those that have been attacked and bitten by these Cape Cod Coyotes. Bred and crossbred with dogs for a few years now, many look like small german shepards with many weighing in the 50-60 pound range....<><....