COYOTE ATTACK AT MONMOUTH HOME
"It just came at him (the toddler), running real fast, and it just jumped on him and knocked him on his back," said Ryan Palludan, 11, Liam's uncle. "I yelled at it and kicked at it and got it off Liam. ... I thought it was a wild dog."
If Ryan hadn’t acted as quickly or aggressively as he did, his nephew might well have been killed. As it is, Liam will be getting some rabies shots just in case the animal was ill.
All this took place east of the Garden State Parkway between Holmdel and Red Bank a little southwest of Sandy Hook.
Part of the cause for the attack may have been the actions of a neighbor.
Elaine McCarthy, a neighbor and friend to the Palludans, said she tried to feed the strange canine Friday morning when she mistook the animal for a stray dog. It was not until she attended the Palludan memorial that she learned it was a coyote.Folks, if you don’t see a collar and tags, assume it’s a wild critter. DO NOT feed it in any case. Call animal control or get out the shotgun. If it’s threatening in anyway, put it down. Even if it turns out to have been someone's "pet" it has no business running wild or acting threatening.
If a wild critter gets accustomed to humans and does not fear or respect them, it needs to be culled from the population.
"It was not afraid of us," said Philip Palludan, the toddler's grandfather, explaining how the coyote walked at him after he turned his back to go into the house.
"It was the size of a German shepherd, but it was tawny and mangy looking. I had to shout at it again and wave my arms, and I'm a big guy, 6 foot 3 inches, but it wasn't afraid of me," he added.
They still haven’t caught the critter.
The coyote returned to the Palludans' yard three straight nights after the attack, and the state Division of Fish and Wildlife set snare-traps around the six-acre property yesterday.I think I might be sitting up on the porch with a spotlight and a shotgun and damn the laws.
2 comments:
some poison in some raw meat will do the trick also..out in Bow and Arrow country we used to lose a lot of calves to coyote and wild dawg packs..they will run together..they are smart and after you shoot one it is hard to get within a half mile of them after that. But when a calf is down and you find it just dose it with poison. Pisses off the greenies but helps get rid of the varmits..including some carrion eating varmits such as rats and crows
Here in Kentucky it's open season on coyotes, anytime, anyplace, no license, no limit.
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