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Bit of excitement in my neighborhood too

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    jon-nyc
    wrote last edited by jon-nyc
    #1

    We get coyote sightings relatively often here. But in the last week there’s one that has pretty much moved in to our village and the villages to our north and south.

    She doesn’t seem to be rabid, just hungry. She’s attacked two dogs at least and tried to go after a three year old boy but the brave mom and her own dog saved him.

    Here he was on my street yesterday.

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    I don’t think too much about it during the day but I have this not-fully rational fear about it at night when I take out the garbage (2x per week) and the recycling (2x per week). I’ve taken to carrying some industrial strength scissors with me when I do it. Not sure how they’d help, but I feel more comfortable with them.

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      jon-nyc
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      For those out west, Eastern Coyotes are a different subspecies than western. They’re actually a mix of coyote and grey wolf so they’re larger. They look like unkempt or even mangy shepherds.

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        Oh fun, the NY Post covered our little coyote problem.

        https://nypost.com/2026/06/27/us-news/ritzy-hudson-river-community-thrown-into-chaos-as-coyote-torments-kids-pets/?fbclid=IwdGRjcASvJgBwZG9mA2ZkaWQWUJlDwmdoJha_E1nIxnuT-GuufMLgtGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkCjY2Mjg1NjgzNzkAAR6ohU2HO4LCwTWUykYKhAeZrpB9y_Ebp5xfFhC59w-GwNa8dRKARAiTnV6LUA_aem_T60gCr59Z0oxvNtQQQUTAg

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          Yikes!

          Assuming it’s not rabid, it probably wouldn’t attack a full-grown human, but your fear probably isn’t that irrational.

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            wtg
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            #5

            We had a coyote in our town a few years back that killed a small dog. We get a lot of wildlife in our neighborbood due to the cemetery and golf course that are just to the east of us.

            @jon-nyc :

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              jon-nyc
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              I need a small can I can have on my bike. Notwithstanding this particular critter, my bigger concern is what I might run into on the trail.

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                We have (Western) coyotes in our neighborhood. Don’t let your pets out unaccompanied! There is one in particular in our neighborhood that is not afraid of humans. We’ve been asked to haze it (loud noise).

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                • AdagioMA AdagioM

                  We have (Western) coyotes in our neighborhood. Don’t let your pets out unaccompanied! There is one in particular in our neighborhood that is not afraid of humans. We’ve been asked to haze it (loud noise).

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                  @AdagioM said:

                  We’ve been asked to haze it (loud noise).

                  Oh, I thought you got to make it carry a brick around campus and call you sir.

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