coyote warning!

[allli.livejournal.com]

i just spotted a coyote trotting west down mallet st. right by powderhouse park... called 311 and they said the animal control officer was 'chasing him down'. hope your dogs and cats are in!

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[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

Did it have any dynamite?

[rufinia.livejournal.com]

No, but it had an ACME portable hole...

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

why would they chase the coyote down?

why would anyone let their pets outdoors in the city without supervision? especially in this weather.

thems what you call rhetorical questions.

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[ron_newman]

I just hope the coyote stays far away from Abbie, wherever he is. Not all pets are intentionally let outdoors.

[spatch]

Some pets decided to have an outdoor adventure on their own, unfortunately.

[myselftheliar.livejournal.com]

I'm just wondering, but how common *are* coyotes in New England?

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

Well, one turned up near Kendall Square a month or so back.

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

Wicked, in a word.

[dominika-kretek.livejournal.com]

My understanding was that they range just about all over the United States, maybe filling a niche left when wolves were driven out?

[sekala.livejournal.com]

Not so common in cities, /very/ common everywhere else in New England. It's wolves that are super rare.

[gwodder.livejournal.com]

my understanding now is that coyotes have been moving from west to east for a while, running foxes out of their terrain here as their own terrain "there" is erased by human activities

In western massachusetts right now, most of the grey wolf population is well interbred with coyote also. Coy-wolf. No citation available.

coyotes are great.

[inkscarred.livejournal.com]

The more we encroach on their land, the more one finds them in cities and suburbs.

[nikkicitez.livejournal.com]

I'm wondering if it's possibly part of the fibro. It happens to me a lot. . . . . . . Bruna - Rescued from a puppymill   Doody View Public Profile Find More Posts by Doody PM   # 2 kimmydawn Administrator Community Support Team     Join Date: Sep Location: Ohio Posts: My Mood: Wow, yes.

[pearlythebunny.livejournal.com]

I saw a coyote while I was in the UPS parking lot in Somerville. Luckily there was a chain-link fence between me and it. The coyote was in an area near the train tracks, which is fenced off.

I wonder if the coyote on Mallet came from the tracks nearby in Ball Square or near Tufts.

[sekala.livejournal.com]

Coyotes are much more likely to run from you than anything. They are opportunists unless they are in big packs usually.

[pearlythebunny.livejournal.com]

The coyote I saw completely ignored me as it loped along, although I have to believe it was aware of my presence. It was more interested in flushing out a rodent or something, I guess.

Somerville Animal Control

[grateful1311.livejournal.com]

KEEP YOUR OUTDOOR CATS INDOORS

Somerville ANimal Control continued...

[grateful1311.livejournal.com]

Sorry about that last comment, I posted it by accident ;) The coyote was chased from PowderHouse Pk to the Max Pac side of the unused end of the bike path. The coyote then ran BACK to PowderHouse Park and was last seen at approx 5:15pm on the corner of Wallace St and Broadway. Please, if you live near the bike path, PowederHouse Park, Wallace/Holland Sts area, keep your small aniamls indoors or on a leash by your side at all times. Coyotes are not notoriously vicious. That being said, if you see a coyote, DO NOT approach it. Call 911 and report the exact location of the coyote and it's direction of travel. Coyotes are not all that uncommon in urban areas. They travel, most times, down train tracks from places less urban probably in search of food and space. There have been sightings from the Lowell St bridge in the past but I have never personally seen a coyote run down Kidder Ave in the middle of the afternoon.
Any questions, please feel free to contact me either by commenting here or emailing me at ATerrio@ci.somerville.ma.us

[subtledagger.livejournal.com]

Jesus, some of you people are acting like there's a grizzly on the loose...

[derekp.livejournal.com]

We're an awful long way from anyplace that could sustain coyotes in recent history, aren't we? I'm confused, but I feel bad for the guy. I've seen coyotes in the wild before.. in THEIR element as opposed to ours... and it's really NBD. I hope they don't shoot the poor guy.

[sekala.livejournal.com]

coyotes turn into scavengers in cities

[duffless2323.livejournal.com]

I saw a cougar when I looked in the mirror today, this was near Teele Sq.

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

Cougar as in the animal or "cougar" in the colloquial sense?

[tt02144.livejournal.com]

I know people who have seen coyotes at Assembly Square, Bunker Hill Community College, and on Innerbelt Road in the last few years. Sightings are certainly increasing in number, and they probably are following the rail beds.

[pearlythebunny.livejournal.com]

Someone should tell the coyote that there's a flock of nonmigrating geese along Rt. 16, near Broadway.

[bettyw.livejournal.com]

The Cambridge E-Line newsletter has been posting a warning about coyotes (http://www.cambridgema.gov/deptann.cfm?story_id=1565) for several weeks.

[ron_newman]

What's the E-Line? (I thought that went to Mission Hill?)

[redcolumbine.livejournal.com]

That's probably who picked a fight with a skunk just outside my window.