Originally Posted by Sweet Apple (Post 3011945)

Originally Posted by LilMissy (Post 3013131)

The coyotes here are very bold as well. Last week one walked right through the school yard while hundreds of children were outside playing at lunch time. Just a few days before that, I had my kids playing at the school playground after school. Missy was with me. For some reason, I turned around and glanced behind to see a coyote approaching. I scooped Missy up and the coyote passed by my kids and I. It was so close that if I leaned over I could have reached out and touched it (no joke). The coyote that was euthanized about 3 weeks ago was captured in the school field. I see them walking up my street regularly, and have come out in the morning to a coyote standing at the end of my driveway. They are a problem because they DO take people pets, many cats go missing in our neighbourhood, and they do bite children. I have proof. Here is a link to the article where a toddler was bitten a few times by a coyote while she was playing in her front yard. This happened exactly 3 blocks from my home. In my earlier post I said that she was bitten in the arm and chest, but that was actually another child. This one was bitten in the neck and head. :(

Coyote killed after attack on Port Coquitlam toddler

Originally Posted by yorkieusa (Post 3013459)

This reminds me of a few years ago when I was on the riding mower and I wasn't quite done, so I had to finish with the headlights on. I looked across the lawn and there was a coyote just standing there. I took out across the yard on the mower trying to scare him away and he would barely leave. I didn't scare him at all.

I live in a housing addition and a few houses up there is a huge culvert. A guy who lives next to it works nights and comes in about 3 a.m. He told me one night he counted 23 coyotes coming up and they went through that culvert.

Kacee has a fenced-in yard, but I have never let her go out by herself. It isn't just coyotes that I would worry about. It could be something as simple as a snake, not to mention all of the other creatures out there.

Originally Posted by Maximo (Post 3013918)

:eek:

:eek: I don't know if I would go outside!

YorkieUSA, you are so right about snakes and creatures...I live in the woods and nighttime is soooo dark here....this is why I prefer piddle pads.

Originally Posted by dwerten (Post 3012007)

here is a pic of a lady on my maltese group where a coyote was looking in their slider