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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
Damnit. Beat me to the joke
Damnit. Beat me to the joke :)
Aoooh! Urban Coyotes
Aoooh!
How much you wanna bet
…she actually saw domestic dogs?
Nope
People don't let their dogs roam.
Not with coyotes around they
Not with coyotes around they don’t.
Rats are everywhere and we
Rats are everywhere and we need coyotes now more than ever.
I saw one drinking a Pina Colada at Trader Vic's.
His hair was perfect.
Someday ...
I'll learn to scroll down.
It's all good fun until one
It's all good fun until one bites you on the ass.
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...
When I was in Hyde Park,
When I was in Hyde Park, around the corner from the Blue Hills, we would see turkey vultures perching on fences. Huge birds.
Our crows died from West Nile Virus
It was horrifying - in the spring of 2001 they were blotting out the sunset in big numbers, the next few months dying everywhere, and then they were all gone. It was extremely hard to explain to my crow loving 5 year old what the hell happened. Meanwhile, me and my lab tech, whose wife worked at the state lab, were bagging and tagging the victims on the daily when biking and running in the morning and getting them in to our -20 freezer for transfer each evening.
They are only now rebounding from that disaster. Just this year my now grown son has been making friends with his local crew because there is a local crew again.
Oh, crap! I did not know that
Oh, crap! I did not know that (have faint recollection). Just looked it up. 100% fatal to corvids.
Crows are smart. I’ve seen their dastardly genius applied to a pigeon in the mid-nineties. I’ve lately been seeing a murder* of them here and there, if three to six a murder make.
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2022/06/cornell-documents-first-crows-s...
* Audubon contributor is not a fan of some human weirdities.
https://www.audubon.org/news/no-its-not-actually-murder-crows
All set on our own
I think we all understood the intentions of the poster without your skilled interpretation. Most folks here are pretty book smart and culturally keyed in. But you stepped right up anyway.
Hm?
Translation?