Pet killed by coyote on Sunset Hill

Bird Slowly Killed by Pet Cat on Sunset Hill

Happens pretty much every day yet doesn’t seem to make the news. If you are ok with your pet running around killing wild animals than you should accept the same can happen to your pet.

However about a 1,000% higher chance your “free range” pet will be flattened by a car than ripped apart by a coyote or hobo in Ballard Commons. But yeah lets freak out about a native animal that inhabited this area hundreds of years before people and their non-native pets arrived.

@Amy
“Don’t cry or post anything when a coyote takes a pet from u, or if they attach a small child.”

What would they attach a small child to? Are you thinking like Wile E Coyote attaching himself to ACME produced rockets to catch the Roadrunner?

Worrying about dog bites/attacks makes sense; worrying about coyotes doesn’t make much sense.
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Dog bites – how big is the problem? According to the CDC:
– About 4.5 million people are bitten by dogs each year.
– Almost one in five of those who are bitten, a total of 885,000, require medical attention for dog bite-related injuries.
– In 2006, more than 31,000 people underwent reconstructive surgery because of dog bites.
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Coyote attacks? According to one study (Coyote Attacks on Humans in the United States and Canada, White & Gehrt, 2009), there were 142 coyote “attacks” resulting in 159 victims bitten over a period of 46 years, 1960-2006. That’s about 3 per year. More good information can be found here- http://www.rockies.ca/coyotes/ecology.php
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You should be much more worried about being struck by lightning than being attacked by a coyote. In the U.S. there are annually an estimated 360 injuries and 40 lightning fatalities (noaa.gov). Compare that to 3 coyote attacks per year and then to 4.5 million annual dog bites causing 30,000+ people to need surgery.
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Life is short. Worry about dogs, then lightning, then coyotes.

Hey Circle,
You forgot something:
“Wall Street chases YOU”
raising your gas and housing prices, scarfing up your retirement savings, demanding government protection with your taxes……while you worry about progressives.

@ Circle: thanks for neutering Distraction. People like them have drank all the Kool-aid and are now drunk on ignorance. It’s Like Obama never existed. Perhaps “banning” coyotes will make some here happy. Works well for so many things. Only thing new here today are all the new people here who’ve just figured this out.

Coyotes stalk and attack not only pets, but people, children on a national basis-there are daily media reports on pet attacks and a human is reported attacked weekly on average. Do not believe that coyotes do not attack humans. Urban coyotes have become progressively more aggressive and dangerous. They need to be removed and kept removed. “Co-existence” is an idiotic animal rights policy that has led to the coyote overpopulation situation we have now. They are not fuzzy pets, they are dangerous carnivorous predators. Further on the East Coast, there has been a serious uptick in the incidence of rabies in the coyote population.