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!

Comments

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

Did it have any dynamite?

[rufinia.livejournal.com]

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

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

Handy, those. This also explains the "Free Birdseed" piles I saw on Holland.

[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.

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

unfortunate to be sure.

i hope such animals are spayed/neutered too.

nice harsh weather we're having for roaming pets.

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[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

I was going to say, you've got a point. I've never met an animal that would voluntarily go outside in weather like this!

[spatch]

Unfortunately, the critter decided to duck out last Sunday, when the weather was still just mediocre. I worry about him after this weekend, tho, that's for sure.

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

Crap, I forgot about your critter. Sorry. :-/

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

You never met my old cat. Very sweet, but dumb as a post. He would have happily ambled outside in this weather.

[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?

[myselftheliar.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I grew up on Long Island NY and we really didn't get many coyotes. Foxes however... egh. Yappy little buggars.

[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.

[ron_newman]

And another (or the same one) in the North End.

[srakkt.livejournal.com]

the closest approaches are too populated for coyotes to get onto LINY, apparently. Everything I've read suggests that coyotes are niche-filling, rather than indigenous, in this part of the country.

[sekala.livejournal.com]

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

[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.

[thespian.livejournal.com]

Maybe we only have one, and like the homeless people, they chase him out of one neighbourhood so he has to go somewhere else until the heat dies off?

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.
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