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311 complaint of the day: Dorchester's not the Berkshires, enough with the child-eating coyotes

By adamg on Sat, 09/07/2024 - 12:10pm

A fed-up resident files a 311 complaint about two coyotes on Ellison Avenue on the Mattapan/Dorchester line:

They don’t belong here. They should be tracked down and exterminated before they eat someone’s pet or child. Please don’t tell me they belong here and we have invaded their territory. That kind of thinking is ok in the Berkshire’s. NOT in Dorchester.

Neighborhoods: 
Mattapan
Free tagging: 
Wildlife
Coyotes
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Comments

By Lee on Sat, 09/07/2024 - 2:11pm.

… or before we learn anything useful is an excellent course of action.

Nutcase noted.

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By Polybius on Sat, 09/07/2024 - 3:48pm.

"...I want my fears to be validated with violence"

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By anon on Sat, 09/07/2024 - 3:20pm.

They don’t belong in Roxbury either walking in the middle of the street daily it’s nothing that can be done they’re everywhere dangerous as hell but everywhere

By cinnamngrl on Sun, 09/08/2024 - 9:49am.

Do you want more rats?

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By Frelmont on Sat, 09/07/2024 - 4:57pm.

Tell that to the coyotes in the nearby Blue Hills.

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By SwirlyGrrl on Sat, 09/07/2024 - 5:38pm.

I seem to recall that middle school science covers ecologic niche and food web concepts in seventh or eighth grade.

So long as there are bunnies and rats to munch, and garbage to scavenge, there will be coyotes roaming. Need to work some of the other levers on the food web, starting with the ample buffet that humans provide for species further down.

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By Frelmont on Sat, 09/07/2024 - 8:18pm.

Had a large coyote pull out onto the opposite sidewalk a little ahead of me and my dog and it paid us no nevermind.

By Bob Leponge on Sat, 09/07/2024 - 9:08pm.

I saw one ahead of me in line at the UPS store. He was picking up a large box from the Acme company

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By SwirlyGrrl on Sun, 09/08/2024 - 11:36am.

And his hair was perfect

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By Don't Panic on Mon, 09/09/2024 - 1:19am.

Aoooh!

By SLJ on Sat, 09/07/2024 - 7:16pm.

…she actually saw domestic dogs?

By cinnamngrl on Sun, 09/08/2024 - 9:48am.

People don't let their dogs roam.

By scollaysq on Sun, 09/08/2024 - 2:09am.

His hair was perfect.

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By SwirlyGrrl on Sun, 09/08/2024 - 11:37am.

I'll learn to scroll down.

By JJ on Sun, 09/08/2024 - 9:11am.

Get some black paint and find a big boulder. Paint a tunnel entrance on the boulder. Coyote problem solved.

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By Cleary Squared on Sun, 09/08/2024 - 9:18am.

Coyote can find all the stuff he needs at Norfolk Hardware down the street (including paint and birdseed)…slightly more expensive than ACME, but well worth it.

(Disclosure: I work on Morton Street, and Ellison St is two streets down on a steep hill. Pleasant Hill Rd is even steeper.)

By Cleary Squared on Sun, 09/08/2024 - 9:35am.

Please don’t tell me [the coyotes] belong here and we have invaded their territory. That kind of thinking is ok in the Berkshire's [sic]. NOT in Dorchester.

I work in the neighborhood of Ellison St - those streets are on a steep hill (Druid St is the least steep, then Oakridge St, Ellison St and Pleasant Hill Rd) and is surrounded by urban wilds near River Street and Lower Mills. Sometimes, the turkeys and geese come in the neighborhood to look for seeds and food. It's actually a nice neighborhood.

Nevertheless, that 311 poster is referring to the is the (alleged) naïve, crunchy-granola mindset that invades the Berkshires.

By SwirlyGrrl on Sun, 09/08/2024 - 11:40am.

Step 2: after coyotes are removed, complain about "where did all these rats come from??".

By Cleary Squared on Sun, 09/08/2024 - 2:06pm.

…point taken.

It's sort of on the same concept as a decaying animal - while it's disgusting to watch it decay and be eaten by maggots, the maggots get the advantage of a bountiful food supply, and the soil is then enriched by the maggots wriggling to the ground. So having the coyotes around does a huge service - and as long as the coyotes are not bothered, everything works out.

(Previous reference to tow-headed children etc. removed.)

By Frelmont on Sun, 09/08/2024 - 6:16pm.

Why aren’t there more crows and turkey buzzards in the urbenvirons picking at the copious flatrabbits?

By Don't Panic on Mon, 09/09/2024 - 1:25am.

The crows all hang out in the big trees on the east and west ends of the football field at Norfolk Park.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/p/AF1QipNQ4q6qq9aF1_uY9oGXgOoFWNrOwUd-...
The turkey buzzards rarely seem to leave the Blue Hills reservation for some reason.
https://scontent.fphl1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/434859616_115492551...