Coyotes in the Suburbs Get More Aggressive?
The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that a pack broke a door trying to get at dogs in suburban Riverside.
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Coyotes in the Western Suburbs Get More Aggressive?
The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that a pack broke a door trying to get at dogs in suburban Riverside.
Coyotes are timid and more afraid of people than we are of them, experts say. "Coyotes are actually very timid by nature," Channahon police Lt. Mark Fischer said in a 2010 story. But while they are not aggressive towards people, they can go after small animals, especially if food is scarce. That seems to be exactly what happened in Riverside, a western suburb of Chicago. The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that a pack broke an exterior door of a residence while chasing down a dog that had been outside. In October we compiled a map of places you had seen the coyotes in our area. Riverside Police Sgt Bill Gutschick said in the Sun-Times story "in his 25 years on duty, this was the first time he’s heard of coyotes trying to get into a home …
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GlockG22Shoots40s
12:20 pm on Wednesday, January 30, 2013
We are all God's creatures... and humans are top of the food chain... I have coyotes around my home all the time, deer too... I'll let them live until they get some bright idea that my puppy is a dinner snack... then I'll unload my glock in their general direction... unless a rifle is handy. more ›