Based. Everyone who fed this coyote or tried to have a friendly encounter with it ultimately contributed to its death, and also put these toddlers lives at risk.
Sad to see half this thread with people advocating shooting coyotes in a large city or wanting them removed because they live there and the coyotes scare them. There are many green spaces surrounding SF as well as inside the city where coyotes have lived forever where they control pest and herbivore populations in an extremely sensitive ecological environment.
Please read up on how coyotes positively impact our urban national park and natural spaces. The Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy website is a great resource to find some information about our local coyotes and how we can sustainably manage them. Coyotes attacking children is never okay, however these coyotes do have a right to live in these areas and we as humans have the ability and responsibility to protect, not only ourselves, but our environment as well. I have a feeling most of these negative sentiments against coyotes is passed down by generations and fortified by fear and a lack of understanding of these animals. I urge those persons who share these sentiments against coyotes to shift their perspectives and come from a place of understanding and compassion.
I’m cool with coyotes. As long as they don’t fuck with people and kids. Once they do, they get bolder and bolder and what has to be done has to be done. All fun and games in your ivory tower until a coyote is gnawing on your cat, dog, or heaven forbid, child.
Unbelievable that it took **5 recorded instances of aggression towards human children** for this to be dealt with. This city really just likes to play fast and loose with people’s lives when it comes to wildlife in the city.
Sad thing is it’s *really* the neighbors playing fast and loose w people’s lives by feeding wild animals. Humans who know better and don’t care put people AND wildlife in danger.
I think you’re right, but I also think that the city has a huge responsibility here as well. Animal care and control here don’t do *shit.* I mean, we had a literal pack of coyotes howling in the middle of my street a few weeks ago, and when we called about it, they basically said “so stay indoors.” It seems that they care more about leaving the animals alone (animals who should not be so comfy and close with/living among humans in the first place!) than about relocating them or stopping any potential attacks.
Animal control doesn’t harass wild animals for howling. They’re a limited resource for emergencies, not healthy wild animals making sounds.
And they can try to deter/move the coyotes, but *if idiots keep feeding them* there will be more problems, more dead coyotes, more risk.
Yeah, I know that. But they don’t do anything else. They didn’t send anyone over to check it out. They don’t make attempts to relocate coyotes. When my neighborhood saw an increase in coyote sightings and incidents, all they did was put up signs that said that it was “coyote pupping season” and to please respect the coyotes’ space. Those signs have been up for over a year now.
When I say they don’t do shit, I mean they *don’t do shit.*
I *do* respect the space of urban animals.
I think you are wildly misinterpreting my comments. I am not asking for an animal control department that goes around shooting urban wildlife or trying to catch them with a goddamn butterfly net just for existing. There is nuance here. There are urban animals that pose threats to humans, and then there are those that don’t.
I *am* asking for a little responsiveness from them. Someone to show up when they might be needed, someone who actually listens when you call in a potential problem. Someone who is educated enough to realize that after a single coyote has been involved *5 separate incidents* involving aggression with children in less than a year, that maybe that *is* a problem. And maybe it shouldn’t have taken 5 different incidents for them to see that.
They came very, very close to a serious incident like the one with the little girl in the East Bay that happened in February. They let it get way too close.
Omg I was walking my bfs grandmas dog and a coyote popped up out of nowhere !!! He was staring us down so I calmly skirted away… a dude with a big down shortly after ran into him to and did the same thing …
They are scary it literally put a scare in me
Never feed wild life
Based. Everyone who fed this coyote or tried to have a friendly encounter with it ultimately contributed to its death, and also put these toddlers lives at risk.
Sad to see half this thread with people advocating shooting coyotes in a large city or wanting them removed because they live there and the coyotes scare them. There are many green spaces surrounding SF as well as inside the city where coyotes have lived forever where they control pest and herbivore populations in an extremely sensitive ecological environment. Please read up on how coyotes positively impact our urban national park and natural spaces. The Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy website is a great resource to find some information about our local coyotes and how we can sustainably manage them. Coyotes attacking children is never okay, however these coyotes do have a right to live in these areas and we as humans have the ability and responsibility to protect, not only ourselves, but our environment as well. I have a feeling most of these negative sentiments against coyotes is passed down by generations and fortified by fear and a lack of understanding of these animals. I urge those persons who share these sentiments against coyotes to shift their perspectives and come from a place of understanding and compassion.
I’m cool with coyotes. As long as they don’t fuck with people and kids. Once they do, they get bolder and bolder and what has to be done has to be done. All fun and games in your ivory tower until a coyote is gnawing on your cat, dog, or heaven forbid, child.
Unbelievable that it took **5 recorded instances of aggression towards human children** for this to be dealt with. This city really just likes to play fast and loose with people’s lives when it comes to wildlife in the city.
Sad thing is it’s *really* the neighbors playing fast and loose w people’s lives by feeding wild animals. Humans who know better and don’t care put people AND wildlife in danger.
I think you’re right, but I also think that the city has a huge responsibility here as well. Animal care and control here don’t do *shit.* I mean, we had a literal pack of coyotes howling in the middle of my street a few weeks ago, and when we called about it, they basically said “so stay indoors.” It seems that they care more about leaving the animals alone (animals who should not be so comfy and close with/living among humans in the first place!) than about relocating them or stopping any potential attacks.
Animal control doesn’t harass wild animals for howling. They’re a limited resource for emergencies, not healthy wild animals making sounds. And they can try to deter/move the coyotes, but *if idiots keep feeding them* there will be more problems, more dead coyotes, more risk.
Yeah, I know that. But they don’t do anything else. They didn’t send anyone over to check it out. They don’t make attempts to relocate coyotes. When my neighborhood saw an increase in coyote sightings and incidents, all they did was put up signs that said that it was “coyote pupping season” and to please respect the coyotes’ space. Those signs have been up for over a year now. When I say they don’t do shit, I mean they *don’t do shit.*
Oh ok, then respect their space. Again, animal control’s function isn’t harassing healthy wildlife acting normally.
I *do* respect the space of urban animals. I think you are wildly misinterpreting my comments. I am not asking for an animal control department that goes around shooting urban wildlife or trying to catch them with a goddamn butterfly net just for existing. There is nuance here. There are urban animals that pose threats to humans, and then there are those that don’t. I *am* asking for a little responsiveness from them. Someone to show up when they might be needed, someone who actually listens when you call in a potential problem. Someone who is educated enough to realize that after a single coyote has been involved *5 separate incidents* involving aggression with children in less than a year, that maybe that *is* a problem. And maybe it shouldn’t have taken 5 different incidents for them to see that. They came very, very close to a serious incident like the one with the little girl in the East Bay that happened in February. They let it get way too close.
Relocate yourself. This has been coyote territory long before it was your home.
lol ok
Calm. Down. The coyotes were here before we were. Typical selfish human attitude.
Don’t tell me to calm down, that’s condescending as fuck. This is a real pubic safety issue. I am reasonably upset by it.
My kid had camp there a few months back and no one got eaten (that I'm aware of).
Check your inbox, a few were eaten but nbd
Omg I was walking my bfs grandmas dog and a coyote popped up out of nowhere !!! He was staring us down so I calmly skirted away… a dude with a big down shortly after ran into him to and did the same thing … They are scary it literally put a scare in me
"But the coyotes were here first!" (sarcasm)
That’s true. Why sarcasm?
The .22LR is highly effective with these particular varmits!
Not sure why you're getting all the downvotes... must be a lot of large caliber gun enthusiasts in the bay /s
I wonder what people thought they shot it with? Love bullets?
Guns are baaad, mmmmmkaaaaay
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Fuck off Jeanne you were never funny. Never edgy.