re. coyotes
susan bundlie
I took the dog out for her last-pee-of-the-day a few nights ago and as
we walked into the front yard I became aware of the strangest sounds
coming from somewhere behind the houses across the street and from our
next-door neighbor's back yard. They sounded like high-pitched
warbling, sort of, or sound effects for a space invasion movie
involving little creatures flying through the air. I can't explain it.
Dogs were barking all over the neighborhood and I got that feeling of
hair standing up on the back of my neck.
I came in the house and told my husband and daughter about it, but
couldn't quite describe what it was or why it had seemed so weird. A
friend later told me it was coyotes--that they bark and warble like
that and form circles around their prey (which would have been my
little dog if she hadn't been on a leash with me in attendance!). I
called the city police yesterday and they confirmed that we have a lot
of them in this area.
We live in a big suburb of a large metropolitan area!
Susan
On Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 06:02 PM,
[email protected] wrote:
we walked into the front yard I became aware of the strangest sounds
coming from somewhere behind the houses across the street and from our
next-door neighbor's back yard. They sounded like high-pitched
warbling, sort of, or sound effects for a space invasion movie
involving little creatures flying through the air. I can't explain it.
Dogs were barking all over the neighborhood and I got that feeling of
hair standing up on the back of my neck.
I came in the house and told my husband and daughter about it, but
couldn't quite describe what it was or why it had seemed so weird. A
friend later told me it was coyotes--that they bark and warble like
that and form circles around their prey (which would have been my
little dog if she hadn't been on a leash with me in attendance!). I
called the city police yesterday and they confirmed that we have a lot
of them in this area.
We live in a big suburb of a large metropolitan area!
Susan
On Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 06:02 PM,
[email protected] wrote:
> We have coyotes roaming around here in New York State (especially in
> the
> Catskills, although we live in the lower Hudson Valley and they're
> around
> here, too), so I'd imagine there'd be some in Rhode Island, too. On a
> very
> still night, you can sometimes hear them. Chilling and thrilling!
> It's
> very cool on the rare occasion you get to see one (and I have!).
[email protected]
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 09:10:04 -0600 susan bundlie <strandbe@...>
writes:
Irish Terrier (we inherited him when my grandpa died, and my grandpa used
to beat him, so it's somewhat understandable) who barked at
hallucinations and never was fully housetrained and ran away a lot. Once
the paperboy found him outside at 5 am surrounded by a pack of coyotes,
and rescued him. I'm pretty sure my cat was a coyote victim, too...
We also used to have javalinas that would come right up to the gate, a
whole family of them.
Last night I was walking Nan out on the farm, and since it's really empty
right now (no crops, no leaves on the trees) we could hear a long way.
We're heard coyotes before... last night we could hear sheep (some of the
folks around here keep sheep n the winter) and some yipping, barking
noises. We couldn't figure out if it was coyotes at the sheep, the
sheepdogs with the sheep, or coyotes and dogs with the sheep. I'm
guessing it was all three....
Dar
writes:
> I took the dog out for her last-pee-of-the-day a few nights ago and asI grew up in Tucson, up in the foothills. My family had a mentally ill
> we walked into the front yard I became aware of the strangest sounds
> coming from somewhere behind the houses across the street and from our
> next-door neighbor's back yard.
Irish Terrier (we inherited him when my grandpa died, and my grandpa used
to beat him, so it's somewhat understandable) who barked at
hallucinations and never was fully housetrained and ran away a lot. Once
the paperboy found him outside at 5 am surrounded by a pack of coyotes,
and rescued him. I'm pretty sure my cat was a coyote victim, too...
We also used to have javalinas that would come right up to the gate, a
whole family of them.
Last night I was walking Nan out on the farm, and since it's really empty
right now (no crops, no leaves on the trees) we could hear a long way.
We're heard coyotes before... last night we could hear sheep (some of the
folks around here keep sheep n the winter) and some yipping, barking
noises. We couldn't figure out if it was coyotes at the sheep, the
sheepdogs with the sheep, or coyotes and dogs with the sheep. I'm
guessing it was all three....
Dar