Brookline selectmen tomorrow hear a request by residents of Corey Hill to let them do something to get rid of the coyotes they say have invaded their hillside, which crests along Summit Avenue.
The coyote presentation is scheduled for 7 p.m. at Town Hall.
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Billings reports it was hit by a car around noon on Mt. Vernon Street, and that for awhile, it was just lying on somebody's lawn with its leg up, because police who responded said there was nothing they could do. It didn't appear to be there this evening, so with any luck it was either put out of its misery or taken somewhere for care.
An agitated citizen implores the city to do something (the city says it's a state thing):
The la-di-da coyote of West Roxbury observed in action:
In this video, note that the guy with the camera is not letting his young son investigate the snow because of the coyote.
Another West Roxbury resident takes note of the daytime-roaming coyote that seems completely at ease with modern civilization:
This coyote has been hanging around for a couple weeks. It is completely unafraid of humans and is out during the day. This makes me think that there is something wrong with it. This photo was taken in my neighborhood at the corner of Church and Rendall.
A police officer assigned to track down a coyote spotted this morning on Pelton Street off the West Roxbury Parkway found the canine, but the animal decided not to wait around for Animal Control and escaped into the woods around the water towers on Bellevue Hill.
A concerned roadrunner sends up a flare from Fairmount Hill in Hyde Park:
There are coyotes all over the place up here.
Illustrating the complaint is a high-quality photo of an eviscerated rabbit.
Around 6:30 p.m., Mary Churchill tweeted:
Coyote on the loose in Roxbury - Montrose and Moreland. Police in hot pursuit.
Take a look at this map of coyote sightings in Brookline, prepared by the Brookline PD's crime-analysis unit. Also see this analysis of the sightings and then prepare yourself with these tips. Don't let them intimidate you!
Steve tweets that State Police, DCR rangers and Boston animal control have converged on Castle Island to pick up a coyote found wandering around there.
Pet Cabaret posts an alert District E-5 sent out this week about the cat-munching coyote.
Wicked Local West Roxbury reports Animal Rescue League investigators are blaming a coyote for what was left of a cat found on Garnet Road on Sunday.
Penny Cherubino photographed a woman walking her pig on the Commonwealth Avenue Mall in the Back Bay yesterday.
And then there's this video of three coyotes cavorting behind somebody's house on Weld Street in Roslindale (taken by a woman who obviously was keeping her toddler securely indoors):
John Bassett of the Brookline Neighborhood Alliance sent out e-mail tonight alerting residents:
Boston Police report workers from the Franklin Park Zoo had to use a tranquilizer gun to subdue a coyote hit by a car on Howard Avenue this morning:
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