Coyote victim

[Nighthiker]

Came across another small dog the victim of a coyote attack. The owners let the dog out, front door on a regular basis. Not sure if the coyote was planning on a meal and got scared off. Dog did not make it.

[big_load]

This is so true... This came up not long ago when the mountain lions were coming down into Sabino Canyon. People wanted them killed - even though no one had been attacked. Just seeing them there made them worry for their lives and the lives of their children.

Most humans are incapable of accurately assessing risk. Those same folks probably drive around in cars, and even talk on cell phones while they're doing it. That's far more dangerous than any wild animal, but so far they haven't declared an open season on the nut behind the wheel.

[keepmoving]

"Most humans are incapable of accurately assessing risk."

Very true. These same people who want all the 'dangerous' mountain lions in Sabino Canyon killed are the same ones who fail to bring adequate water with them or get lost and end up needing rescuing. But lets kill the wildlife because its a bigger risk to their safety... :roll:

[writelots]

Most humans are incapable of accurately assessing risk.

I think it's all about the unknown. We all are so familiar with the danger of automobiles, crosswalks and caffeine that we become numb to it. But a cougar? Now there's something you'll never know about until it's hit you, and you have zero control over. Well, except for just not going where there could be cougars...but who wants those kinds of restrictions placed on their freedom?

[azbackpackr]

It really seems also that a human never need starve in these urban-wildland interface neighborhoods... Pigeon pie, BBQ javelina, roast quail, etc. You could probably eat a coyote, for that matter. I mean, in parts of SE Asia, China, the Rosebud IR and other exotic locales they do find dog to be quite tasty. I myself have eaten mountain lion. Then there are your snakes...breaded and fried. You could just move into one of those foreclosed houses and put out dogfood and water, (which you could steal from the neighbors, since they keep putting it out) and voila, dinner would show up nightly! All you need is a bow and arrows, some snares, and other stealthy hunting tools.

LOL...you are so funny...I think we can tell you have finished your exams and papers.

YUP and a summer of loafing and hiking awaits...I have already started doing both, in fact.

[kevinweitzel75]

I am a avid hunter, and do as much as I can afford. But I never hunt anything that I don't eat. Bear, mountain lion, javalina, duck and coyote are some of the animals I don't hunt because I don't eat them. I have had mountain lion before, and it was pretty good, but something that I don't...need to eat. I don't hunt bull elk because cow tastes better. Nature has given us these animals to use as we need not to kill because they are "in our way". I would only kill if a human life were in danger as a last resort.