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Citizen complaint of the day: Menacing pack of varmints patrols the parkway near the Arboretum
By adamg on Mon, 01/08/2024 - 3:33pm
A scared citizen files a 311 complaint about the northbond stretch of Centre Street that is really the parkway where houses sit in front of the Arboretum just before the Giant Rotary of Doom in Jamaica Plain:
I have been encountered by coyotes several times and I am walking an English Bulldog. In the 1000-1020 Centre Street Jamaica Plain area of Boston. It is very scary, they do not scare and are big and at one time there were 5 of them.
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What does he want the city to
What does he want the city to do? Teach him some grammar?
Too funny!
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Now watch them grammar. https
Now watch them grammar. https://clip.cafe/she-wore-a-yellow-ribbon-1949/i-want-youse-all-pay-att...
Its a look into the mind of
Its a look into the mind of an entitled, crazy dog owner. Unfortunately, they are everywhere these days. Who could have predicted that animals live in a huge park?!?
Love the city's response!
Love the city's response! "Left a voice message for the constituent educating her about wildlife."
Some black paint
Applied to the side of boulders in shape of tunnel entrances should do it.
I have a hangnail
Should I complain to 311?
Wolves
The solution for the coyote problem is wolves. HTH
Chinese needle snakes?
n/t
One year from now: "The
One year from now: "The solution to the wolf problem is gorillas."
Depends on your point of view, I suppose
If you consider the "coyote problem" to be "coyotes aren't well-suited for the climate of north-eastern America", you're exactly right — and the solution is hybridization with wolves. The "eastern coyote" is a mix between the western coyote and eastern wolf. (The wolf, of course, had its own problem — too skittish for city life....)
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/08/coy-wolf-hybrid-toro...
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(duplicate)
Easy fix
Maybe he could try walking his dog somewhere else.
Bear Spray
My sister-in-law's go-to for any sort of potentially negative wildlife interaction problem.
As a road cyclist I have never had issues with coyotes but have had multiple encounters with free-range doggos giving chase and attempting to bite. Ditto for living near the Fells - even with deer sleeping in my yard in the winter, its the dogs and not the 'yotes.
While I respect coyotes my greater concern is "domesticated" dogs on the loose ... excuse me, "under voice control".
Real concern
Why do uhub commenters ridicule people on this issue (besides the obvious trolling answer)?
I’m not a dog owner, but it can be a pretty scary situation, and a relatively new situation, to come across a coyote when out and about.
Is it so out of touch to ask what may be done?…relocation efforts by the appropriate agency comes to mind.
Which concern?
The 311 ridicule is a feature here- Adam finds a 311 ticket he finds funny or otherwise driving of engagement, makes a post on it, and the results manifest themselves.
As for the coyotes, until they start threatening people, we're talking nature, just like squirrels, turkeys, and mice, except carnivorous. Keep an eye on your pets and be prepared to defend them in the best way possible. Here's what the humane society says to do.
Well, in this case...
It's because we're talking about right in front of the Arboretum, a well-known home for a whole lot of wildlife and an obvious place for the coyotes to be, this has happened before to this dog owner in this very spot, and this dog owner continues to go back there. If this is a real issue for this person, the person and the dog should relocate their walks, not the other way around.
This is like going to Castle Island to eat lunch and continually wondering why the seagulls are such an issue.
Seen a few
in Brighton recently. Running down the middle of the street late at night, lone coyote, on two occasions. Don't know if same animal. BUT, there have been fewer rats around for weeks. and I like that.
This is not a problem
Coyotes existing are not a problem -- Fluffy has no inalienable right to roam freely through the city, nor should we spend our public resources to help establish such a right.
Besides that, I run down this crap-ass stretch of Centre frequently at night, and can assure everyone there are no coyotes on that slim, cracked quarter mile of sidewalks sandwiched between a highway-speed four lane road and the fence, or the monastery and adjoining property. The coyotes are more than happy to stay on the other side of the property line in the arboretum (& won't bother you in there either, even at night).
...but I bet English Bulldogs
...but I bet English Bulldogs are probably awfully tasty
I want to see
Wile E. Coyote riding an ACME rocket sled.
He needs to meet the afterburner duck
He'll have to ask the duck to find out where to get that gear.
I'd recommend an Airhorn.
I'd recommend an Airhorn. Coyotes hate loud noises. The bulldog and her neighbors probably won't like it either but it's better than having him dognapped and eaten while on a leash.
Relative danger
There's an interesting aside in the Urban Coyote Research Project's section on coyote attacks on pets. After recommending airhorns, walking sticks, etc., it adds this: