And back to that....I wonder....
I've read in a couple of places that the victim and her family were involved in animal welfare....I wonder, I really wonder....does anyone thing the poor innocent was trying to feed them???? Or something like that?
Young woman killed by coyotes
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And back to that....I wonder....
I've read in a couple of places that the victim and her family were involved in animal welfare....I wonder, I really wonder....does anyone thing the poor innocent was trying to feed them???? Or something like that?
I'm thinking this is the animal we are talking about.
This is a very sad story, but I would never have thunk a coyote would kill a grown human, so I guess you learn something new everyday. My condolences to all concerned.
It certainly is...
And I hate to play "maybe the victim was at fault", but this is soooo unusual. I do wonder if she was feeding them, or something else that was simply....not on.
There are folks, many from Toronto (or Montreal) that should not be allowed off the asphalt for their own safety.
no matter, the pack has learned humans can be prey, and must be destroyed.
Anything is possible but I think there would have been some evidence. If she brought food it would have been in a bag of some kind and I don't think the coyotes would eat that.
How sad. When they reported Coyote I was thinking about the ones that infest Vancouver. They are bold but quite small and would not be capable of killing anything larger than a rabbit or small dog.
That is exactly what I thought. Brazen enough to try to get into your garbage can but run like hell if you stamped your foot at them. I would call the Eastern Coyote a wolf.
You'd think so, but not necessarily. I know of a Dog (not one of mine) that ate and
later (4 days later and they though the Dog was going to die) excreted an entire
deflated soccer ball. It went in and came out in one piece. The Dog is fine, by the
way.
So.....a ziplock bag or something along those lines may not be found where this
attack took place.
I doubt it. Coyotes disable prey by attacking hamstrings. She probably didn't even know they were there until one or both clamped onto the backs of her legs. If she's had a walking stick she may have had a good chance to beat them off.
Coyotes are omnivores but I agree, I doubt they'd like granola bars. Perhaps trail mix, though. But there would have been mention of food lying about.
Nonsense. Coyotes take down 200 pound deer in my backyard and deer have damned sharp weapons on their feet.
why must they be destroyed??? Killing them is a cowardly act. Get off your high horse and realize that the land is for all nature, not just for a few dispicable individuals that just want to kill for the sake of killing.
Okay, look.......get real...please.
These are intelligent pack animals, focused on survival, and their next meal.....they have obviously just learned that a human being is vulnerable to attack....and have therefore automatically added them to the menu.
Except that, like most carnivores, they will also understand that the smaller the target, the easier the kill. Next it will be a child.
Now then, if you would like to join the other psycho on here in a fit of human self-loathing, indulging in twisted fantasy about the sight of human beings being eviserated.....well, I'd be surprised. I asumed you were saner than that.
Me, I'd shoot 10,000 brush wolves to spare risk to any human. Especially a child. Full stop.
in addition, you should understand that these animals do not travel that far from home territory, and this incident took place in a PARK, on a HIKING TRAIL......which is probably the root of the problem.
No hunting. Well, no COYOTE hunting........lots of human-hunting opportunity.
Oh, and when I was done with the 10,000????? There would still be more left to re-populate.
LOL, we are talking here about ONE attack. Obviously you don't have the intelligence that the coyotes have according to you.
Obviously, you know absolutely nothing about wildlife.......or nature. Do yourself a favour....stay in Toronto, preferably inside....less chance you'll get hurt. :roll:
Intelligent animals LEARN their hunting practises.......one attack INEVITABLY turns into more......read a little, not put out by PETA, educate yourself. Read Maneaters by Peter Hathaway Capstick. Your Walt Disney view of the world is a little........disconcerting.
Or, if you don't read, get the Oscar-winning movie The Ghost and the Darkness with Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas........it is a TRUE story about a pair of lions that killed over a hundred workers in Africa....simply for the joy of it. They weren't even eating most of them. And that kind of thing was not even unusual......once the pride (pack) figures out humans are easy prey.....serious trouble.
Kinda like humans with high powered rifles. As a friend says, if hunting is to be sporting, humans should not be allowed to go into the bush with more than a knife.