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Citizen complaint of the day: The settled-in coyote of West Roxbury mosies on over toward the Lyndon School

By adamg on Sat, 11/05/2011 - 11:45am

CoyoteAn agitated citizen implores the city to do something (the city says it's a state thing):

This coyote is everywhere in west Roxbury what can be done about the wild animal before it Attacks someone. This was down the street from the Lyndon school.

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Comments

By SwirlyGrrl on Sat, 11/05/2011 - 11:56am.

Okay.

Basically, this canine is the ecologic equivalent of a stray dog.

Nothing much is special about its subspeciation here ... this is a dog. Not that a stray dog wandering around won't be a problem in many ways, not that it doesn't need to be dealt with in some way ...

Being a coyote won't mean that it is more likely to attack anyone - in fact, it is probably LESS likely to attack anyone. People need to learn a few things about the critters they share their space with. Plenty on the web about this, too.

By anon on Sat, 11/05/2011 - 2:17pm.

For the most part. They are strays but not feral.
Feral dogs and coyotes are another story.
It's not unwarranted for a person to be concerned about a coyote in their driveway in broad daylight.
Did you work an afternoon as a dog catcher for your latest expertise, Swirly?

Good Lord.

By Jeremy on Sat, 11/05/2011 - 4:09pm.

I would direct you to the facts, rather than hysteria:

"There have only been 4 coyote attacks on humans in Massachusetts since they were first confirmed in the state in the 1950s. Dogs, on the other hand, have attacked and killed 43 humans in the United States between January, 2010 and September, 2011. Coyotes have a healthy fear of humans and just want to be left alone."

Via MA Audubon: http://bit.ly/ucF0xK

By anon on Sat, 11/05/2011 - 7:13pm.

Except THIS coyote doesn't seem to have a fear of humans. That's the problem. So it's a wild animal behaving abnormally in a populated area. Call me crazy but that concerns me more than a stray domestic dog.

Of course dogs bite people more than coyotes. There are more than 70 million dogs living among people.

Equating coyotes and dogs in this instance is sheer nonsense.

By Brian Riccio on Sat, 11/05/2011 - 3:10pm.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/04/bella-the...

By csverdad on Sat, 11/05/2011 - 4:19pm.

If you've come across one on an early morning run you'd be absolutely certain that coyotes aren't like dogs at all -- regardless of what you read on Wikipedia.

By Biggie_Robs on Sat, 11/05/2011 - 5:17pm.

After reading your post, I'm absolutely certain that you don't know what "aren't like dogs at all" means.

By Dan Seitz on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 9:20am.

I have, and I'm with Swirrly: it is worrisome it has no fear of humans, but the flipside of that is that if it's not scared, it's not likely to attack. Leave it alone until the state/local pissing match wraps up and you'll be fine.

By billings on Sat, 11/05/2011 - 4:36pm.

you suck swirly, your new name should be swirly RAIN CLOUD!

By Brian Riccio on Sat, 11/05/2011 - 4:50pm.

It must be so hard to type with your nose, seeing how those knuckles dragging across your floor must making typing with your hands impossible.

By Stimpy on Sat, 11/05/2011 - 8:37pm.

Looks like a wolf-yote to me. Billings makes some valid points though

By tenfortyseven on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 7:42am.

I believe her husband used to work with the guy who invented the coyote.

By Pete Nice on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 8:02am.

to admit that I have literally laughed out loud about 5 times while reading UHUB comments and 3 of them have been at tenfortyseven or billings comments? They weren't the racist ones, but ones like this one above.

By Stevil on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 10:14am.

Pete -

I absolutely exploded in laughter at that one and read it out loud to my wife. Plus one for the both of you!!!

By billings on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 5:44pm.

That wily the coyote got nailed by a car 65 Mt. Vernon. St. Boston police came and looked @ it and said there was nothing they can do about it, unless it bites someone, and left! This took place around 12 pm today. It's just laying on someones lawn with a jacked up leg!

By anon on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 6:52pm.

I'm not from the area, but Animal Resque Leage of Boston (@arlboston) suggested to call the Mayors hotline to get in touch with Boston animal control.

Is there anyone who can check if it's still there and report it if so? It's sad that it's just suffering.

By billings on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 7:11pm.

From 65 Mt.Vernon St on the right. Not sure what the deal is. This happend around noon today.

By adamg on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 7:28pm.

Didn't see anything, but, of course, it's dark and I didn't feel like getting out and prowling around people's yards with a flashlight, even if I would be very polite to the cops who'd show up and I'd answer their questions.

By Ron Newman on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 6:53pm.

is that the one on Beacon Hill, or the one in Dorchester?

By adamg on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 6:58pm.

It's the one in West Roxbury.

By Jessica B. on Sat, 11/05/2011 - 6:44pm.

Thank you to Jeremy for posting the article that I intended to link to as well from the Mass Audubon. There have been a number of coyotes co-existing with humans in the Boston area for many years. Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge for example has had coyotes living in and near it for 5+ years and there have been no attacks on the 200,000 people who visit each year. They run the other way when in the presence of people. Leave the West Roxbury coyote alone, he is doing no harm.

By urbpan on Sat, 11/05/2011 - 7:00pm.

Please people. Coyotes are not coming to take our children away. I bet in Montana, where they have coyotes, wolves, mountain lions, and two species of bears, they would find this hysteria over coyotes pretty quaint.

As far as "doing something about them" goes, that's in the hands of a state agency that has limited funds and many responsibilities. Calming the fears of a few urbanites afraid of their wild neighbors is a pretty low priority.

By Stevil on Wed, 11/09/2011 - 11:20pm.

Drove by the Arboretum on the way back from rozzie square this evening about 10:30 pm and a very large, very healthy coyote was standing right on the corner of Center and Walter - hope he didn't try to cross center street which was still quite busy - looked like the twin of the W. Rox coyote.

By Gradon Tripp on Wed, 11/09/2011 - 11:44pm.

I saw this one a couple weeks ago on Walter St, crossing into the Arboretum.