Where I live in IL we have them also. We have to watch out for hawks and the big owls.

I really hate to have to say this but what kind of a MORON leaves their dog outside alone when they are not home....it is very dangerous to leave a dog outside alone when you are at home. Some of these people have everything in life except for BRAINS!!!!!!!:(


Tina

unfortuantely, coyotes are a very real threat for wee furbabies. I have to be careful letting my guys out at night up here on Lookout Mountain. Coyotes are terrible. We tend to use the fenced in back yard at night instead of going to their usual daytime spot in the front yard. Hawks are another problem up here.

Any update?:(

Vanessa Williams' dog Enzo is FOUND!!!
 

:thumbup: Actress Vanessa Williams' missing dog returned; more details expected

By SHAWN COHEN AND ROB RYSER
THE JOURNAL NEWS


(Original publication: June 8, 2007)
MOUNT PLEASANT - The town's top cop is expected to explain in more detail later today the circumstances that brought the missing celebrity pet Enzo back to singer and actress Vanessa Williams.

But police Chief Louis Alagno said the return of the black-and-tan Yorkie that went missing from the actress' fenced yard on Memorial Day proves two things.

Number one, the disappearance was not the result of a celebrity dog napper in northern Westchester, as some have suggested, the chief said.

On Mother's Day, another celebrity pet - a blond dachshund named Gus - ran off the leash of former tabloid publisher Ken Chandler, and has not been seen since.

That incident happened in the Teatown section of Yorktown and prompted the owners to hire a pet detective and a public relations agent to find him.

Then on Memorial Day, Enzo went missing as Vanessa Williams was running an errand.

"I don't know anything about celebrity dog stalkers," the chief said today. "Her dog is back and we're just tying some loose ends up to determine why or how the dog disappeared."

The second thing Enzo's return proves is that the 1-year-old Yorkshire terrier was not snatched by a coyote, as the chief himself had speculated shortly after Williams filed a missing dog report.

All police were saying about finding Enzo was that he was dropped off at a shelter.

I'm so glad that she got her baby back. Hopefully this will teach her not to leave him unattended outside for any reason. Honestly, doncha wonder sometimes about people who have pets and don't know how to take care of them properly???
Anyhow, the real thing I wanted to say was that even if you have your dog on a leash, a coyote can take off with it. It happened here, in a relatively well-populated area. A woman was walking her Jack Russell terrier puppy and a coyote ran up behind them and snatched the dog away, pulling him out of his "collar", as the newspaper said. Of course, we here, wouldn't just attach a leash to a collar to walk our babies, would we:thumbdown , anyhow, but still....you can just never be too careful, especially during pup season; mom coyotes have to feed their babies, and with the environment and weather conditions like they have been, along with depleting their environments, we see them more frequently in places they didn't use to be. I would totally decompensate if my Max was taken by a coyote:cry:

I just find the comment "dropped off at a shelter" interesting. I wonder if that means whoever took him realized that the media attention was such that they had to give the animal up, OR if the dog got out of her area and someone found him?