For those who want to make inane comments here is a little on Coyote attacks on "children" and many of these attacks are not reported by wildlife officials in fear we might start killing Coyotes.
Not to mention domestic animals like pets who are frequently attacked by Coyotes now.
The natural fear of Coyotes to humans is gone for the most part, and in States like California Coyotes and even Mountain lions prey on children, and adults.
http://varmintal.com/attac.htm
Note the disease below is from a child attacked.
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/NEW+COYOTE+DANGER;+ANIMAL+DISEASE+COULD+BE+THREAT+TO+HUMANS-a083622843
Even Liberal Chicago is worried about a Coyote problem.
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/02/coyote-danger-focus-of-wheaton-meeting.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/30/coyote-attacks-3-year-old_n_630451.html
So yes I am thinking about the children for legitimate reasons, not some liberal stupidity. Unlike you city folk up here where I live we don't run to the local unit of Government and cry about things, we just deal with them and hunters are reporting a sharp increase in Coyote challenging hunters, and it often turns out bad for the coyote. Fact is many hunters who live up here has a long standing distrust of government and do not and will not report any self defense shootings of prey animals like a Coyote. Not to mention out of season subsistence hunting where these attacks take place. Now adding in that the type of hunters we have up here that literally live off the food/game they take, do know the difference between wild/feral dogs and a coyote pack.
One must remember that Coyotes are scavengers and pack hunters which make them uniquely dangerous. They will raid your suburban trash can for a meal in a heartbeat, or grab you beloved fluffy. With the out of control growing numbers in every State other than Hawaii, we are seeing them everywhere in major cities and even down town Washington DC, new York and other heavily urbanized areas.
So much for the inane think about the children silliness.
Oh and contrary to the DNR Wolves have crossed the Mackinac straits and are now breeding in the Northern Lower Peninsula. The idiotic comments by the DNR wildlife biologists/liberal animal activists that Wolves can not cross the straits is met with howls of laughter by those who have during hard winters actually crossed ion snowmobiles, during bar runs. Granted this is not a typical winter but we have had many times a hard freeze over of the straits which brought ice breakers in to reopen them. Of course this is the same DNR who for decades claimed Wolverines were extinct in Michigan till it was proven that some still thrive in the Thumb area.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4374309/
Oh and we still have Mountain lions in Michigan. The DNR has denied this for decades.
Most are in the Northwest lower Peninsula of Michigan so far that have been seen. And no contrary to the DNR claims they were pets dumped, there's a long unbroken history of sightings by hunters in the Boyne Valley between Vanderbilt and Boyne City in the swamps.
So this about the children is a reality and children have been attacked by Coyotes, but CNN won't report these attacks.
