Originally Posted by
Burton
Any information I personally post in this forum is intended to be accurate and helpful. Nice to hear that the coyotes in areas you've visited are little puppy dogs. I'm originally from Nova Scotia and there the coyotes have interbred with stray dogs, run in packs, and have become a problem so serious that the government has put a bounty on them. You just have to do a Google search using 'Nova Scotia coyote attacks' to confirm that over the past four or five years there have been numerous attacks, maulings and deaths from coyotes in that province.
Lighten up, Burton! I have no doubt about you trying to be accurate. That's why I asked you about those aggressive coyotes. You see, this is a public forum. If you make a statement, others might comment on it or (gasp!) even share an experience that is different from yours.
I did take your advice and Googled for information about these attacks. This is what I found:
There are two recorded fatalities in North America from coyote attacks. In 1981 in Glendale, California, a coyote attacked toddler Kelly Keen, who was rescued by her father, but died in surgery due to blood loss and a broken neck.[62][66] In October 2009, Taylor Mitchell, a 19-year-old folk singer on tour, died from injuries sustained in an attack by a pair of coyotes while hiking in the Skyline Trail of the Cape Breton Highlands National Park in Nova Scotia, Canada.[67] Recent studies have shown, however, that the large northeastern coyotes responsible for this attack are coyote-wolf hybrids (or coywolves) due to absorption of wolves when coyotes moved into eastern North America.[68]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyote
One death caused by coyotes in Nova Scotia. Unfortunate? Definitely. Worth getting alarmed about? I think not.