Kansas News Coyotes in Leawood!

[Craigb]

What I am wondering about, is what has happened to their normal source of food? For them to come into town looking for food is very rare indeed! Coyotes are normally very skittish and would not come around human beings for any reason. Something has had to have happened to what they usually eat. Might be worth someones time to find this out! Poaching of their food sources is one thing that could be happening. To some who have come into this country, hunting is looked upon as they're right, legal or not means nothing! Also, it could be more predators taking what is their food of choice. Too many chiefs and not enough Indians, so to speak. I think it would be well worth someones time to find our what is going on to cause this type of behavior!

[K C Muffin]

I believe that neighborhood or subdivision is less than 2 years old. And it's growing by leaps and bounds. To me, that means that construction has moved in and taken their food sources as well as shelter. When our neighborhood was new and still being built, we had regular visits by deer, but never coyotes. I don't know that there weren't coyotes in the fields across the street from our subdivison, though. Or down by the creek that runs through the neighborhood. I just don't believe they were that brave to come into the subdivison in broad daylight.

[Made in the USA]

Sorry 357, I guess I misread the "endangered" part.
As for the food source, there are plenty of rabbits out here. Also, I notice that the jackrabbit population has really grown. Another "dust bowl"?
If you go into Dodge at night, or any town for that matter, you would be surprised at what you see Muffie. I have seen many coyotes, fox, deer, etc around Dodge City at night. In the daytime, not quite as much.

[K C Muffin]

Yuk! I couldn't live with that! I don't want to live in the country. I don't mind driving out there and looking at the landscape, but I don't want to live there!

I'm thinkin'.......I wonder if the city would build a great big fence to keep out the varmints................

[357 mag]

One of my co-workers has a scanner going in her office all day, she said yesterday afternoon DCPD officers were chasing a deer on the east side of town.

[gadwall]

As someone who has studied wildlife management all my life i can say there is more wildlife the suburbs then you can imagine. Calling and shooting coyotes can be done safely in most suburban areas. Shotguns loaded with #4 bird shot can handle coyots at close range and will not carry far nor ricochet indescrimitly. Or the city could hire a NADC trapper to thin them out. You will never eliminate them has obviously there is food and cover for them or they wouldn't be there in the first place. Trap and tranplant is not an option as there is no habitat available for them that is not allready occupied.

[Made in the USA]

California 2-Year-Old Dragged From Yard by Coyote in Third Such Attack in Five Days

Wednesday, May 07, 2008

LAKE ARROWHEAD, Calif. — A coyote grabbed a 2-year-old girl by the head and tried to drag her from the front yard of her mountain home in the third incident of a coyote threatening a small child in Southern California in five days, authorities said.

The coyote attacked the girl around noon Tuesday when her mother, Melissa Rowley, went inside the home for a moment to put away a camera, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said in an incident report.

Rowley came out of the house and saw the coyote dragging her daughter towards a street. She ran towards her daughter, and the animal released the girl and ran away, said sheriff's spokeswoman Arden Wiltshire.

Rowley took her daughter to a hospital where the toddler was treated for several punctures to the head and neck area, and a laceration on her mouth. She was then flown to Loma Linda University Hospital for further treatment, although her injuries were not life-threatening.

State Fish and Game wardens and county animal control authorities set traps for the coyote and were monitoring the neighborhood high in the San Bernardino Mountains about 65 miles miles northeast of Los Angeles.

On Friday, a nanny pulled a 2-year-old girl from the jaws of a coyote at Alterra Park in Chino Hills, a San Bernardino County community about 30 miles east of Los Angeles. The girl suffered puncture wounds to her buttocks and was treated at a hospital.

A coyote came after another toddler in the same park Sunday. The child's father kicked and chased the coyote away.

Alterra Park is near Chino Hills State Park, a natural open space of thousands of acres spanning nearly 31 miles.

[jackknife]

Yep, we have had 3 attacks in the last week or so. It's pretty crazy.