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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.
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Extermination because of what might happen…
… or before we learn anything useful is an excellent course of action.
Nutcase noted.
"I don't want to be confronted with reality..."
"...I want my fears to be validated with violence"
They don’t belong in Roxbury
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
its the rats that don't belong.
Do you want more rats?
Tell that to the coyotes in
Tell that to the coyotes in the nearby Blue Hills.
Will someone send this poor soul back to middle school?
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.
Had a large coyote pull out
Had a large coyote pull out onto the opposite sidewalk a little ahead of me and my dog and it paid us no nevermind.
I saw one ahead of me in line
I saw one ahead of me in line at the UPS store. He was picking up a large box from the Acme company
I saw a coyote drinking a piña colada at Trader Vic's
And his hair was perfect
Aoooh! Urban Coyotes
Aoooh!
How much you wanna bet
…she actually saw domestic dogs?
Nope
People don't let their dogs roam.
I saw one drinking a Pina Colada at Trader Vic's.
His hair was perfect.
Someday ...
I'll learn to scroll down.
city people just don't know how to deal
Get some black paint and find a big boulder. Paint a tunnel entrance on the boulder. Coyote problem solved.
Norfolk Hardware has it all
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.)
Ouch...that sick class burn
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.
True men don't kill coyotes
Step 2: after coyotes are removed, complain about "where did all these rats come from??".
Too quick on my part...
…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.)
Why aren’t there more crows
Why aren’t there more crows and turkey buzzards in the urbenvirons picking at the copious flatrabbits?
The crows all hang out in the
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...