A recent study showed that aggressive coyotes are likely to be rabid, the Associated Press reported.
No huge surprise here---just continue to be careful if a coyote doesn't seem as wary of you as you are of it. Make some noise, throw a tennis ball, do something to scare it away (and ideally keep it away).
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3 coyotes were just "playing" in my yard at 6 weld street in Roslindale (right on JP line). It is 4:30 on 2/18/10.
Crazy! I actually have some video of it.
A coyote was captured 2 weeks ago in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. S/he was captured and dropped off in the Bronx, where the live in great number.
Hi. Saw a coyote yesterday morning in Franklin Park on the top of the hill near the shattack hospital and curcuit drive.
I was walking my dog with two friends and their two dogs. We saw the coyote laying lazy on a stone wall. After leashing our dogs up and a few distant pictures with the cell phone we walked on. A bit further down the hill with the dogs off leash the coyote followed us and engaged the dogs. My dog narrowly escaped being chased and much barking, crying yelling seems to put the coyote off a little. We leashed up and briskly headed out of the park. The coyote followed us until we left the wooded area although did not engage us again.
I am not sure if the coyote that followed us was the same we saw so docile on the top of the hill or a different one. Tall probably 60-75lbs. light brown, bright beautiful and fluffy. from a distance it look like a domesticated animal.
Do you know who at Franklin Park to contact about the coyotes? I am now nervous to even walk there with or with my dog. My dog did not encourage or get more than 100 ft. from the coyote by choice (she is very docile herself)
My husband and I saw a coyote this evening (2/27/10) crossing the road near the intersection of Goddard Ave and Newton St., just up the hill from Larz Anderson Park. It was approximately 11:15 PM. The coyote did not seem to be startled by the car, but waited for us to pass by and then crossed the street and heading towards Allandale Farm.
Ilona,
I think it would be best to try the Mass. Division of Fisheries and Wildlife. They should be able to point you in the right direction.
(508) 389-6300
or
http://www.mass.gov/dfwele/dfw/wildlife/living/neighborhood_wildlife.htm
Hi Jackie,
I'd love to post your video on jamaicaplancoyotes.blogspot.com. Are you willing and able to put it somewhere online (like Youtube, Vimeo, etc.) where I could then link to it?
You'd get full credit, of course.
Please do let me know.
Saw two coyotes trying to cross Centre St. by Faulkner over into the Arboretum last night. Unfortunately, we witnessed one of them get hit by an SUV (which did not stop!). We reported immediately to the police so they could contact animal control. By the time we looped back around to try to stop traffic from hitting what seemed to be a badly wounded coyote, we saw that it was gone. I hope it shook it off and made it safely to join his friend.
-Carl
September 3, 2010
My cat was killed by a coyote this morning. The coyote came into my backyard on Wren Street, on Bellevue hill in West Roxbury. The yard is almost completely enclosed, but not entirely. I never dreamed a coyote would go all the way around the driveway and enter the one narrow entrance to the back yard, complete with motion detector lighting. We've never seen a coyote down in this neighborhood before, nor heard any neighbors say they've seen one; I sure wish I'd read about them coming closer, and into Boston neighborhoods; I'd missed the news coverage and the Boston Globe article in May about them coming into J.P and Roslindale. It was 4:20 this morning, heard scuffling, cat cries; my partner ran out and saw the coyote attacking our darling calico cat, Lily. My partner scared the coyote away by yelling. I saw it,too, running away. It was quite large--light gray. We raced Lily to Angell Memorial, but she died from internal bleeding when we entered the emergency room.
We're heartbroken and regretful; please keep your cats inside at night, and maybe even during the day...even in Boston neighborhoods.
In early September 2010 I saw a big yellow coyote standing waiting to cross the road on the West Roxbury Parkway in between where the police station and rotary is and Washington Street...it was around midnight.
Last year I saw coyotes twice around 4am over by the end of the VFW Parkway near the Jewish Rehab (near JP near Arboretum)...the first time there were three of them, then another time one of them, large and wolf like...those seemed to be gray in color...They seemed large and fearless.
I've seen coyotes 3 times by the West Roxbury Parkway and Washington Street intersection where there are woods (Stoneybrook Reservation) by Bellevue Hill West Roxbury. I was driving up the parkway at 2am on Nov 23 and saw the coyote in the woods. I backed up the car and looked at the coyote for a moment-we looked at each other, and it ran back into the woods. It looked fawn colored. this maybe be the same coyote I saw about 2 weeks ago at midnight standing on the other side of the West Roxbury Parkway waiting to cross the street. I always drive up this road now looking to see if I will see it.
A coyote ran through my back yard on Sunday, 1/2, around noon (50 Lawn Street, Roxbury Crossing). I had no idea there were so many of them around and was very interested to find your blog.
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