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Post by nastygunz on Jan 19, 2012 18:21:50 GMT
Girl, 9, Attacked By Coyote Outside Home Heavy Coat Protected Girl, Mother Says
January 17, 2012
ATKINSON, N.H. -- An Atkinson, N.H., girl was attacked by a coyote while playing outside her friend's home in Haverhill, Mass., on Monday afternoon.
Alex Cazmay, 9, was not seriously hurt, but had some scratches and bruises on her arms. Her mother, Brianne Cazmay, said it could have been a lot worse if Alex hadn't been wearing a heavy winter coat.
"It bit me again and again, and then I ran inside," Alex Cazmay said.
Cazmay was taken to an area hospital for a tetanus shot and the first round of a rabies vaccine.
"Her bum is pretty swollen. It's got a big scratch across it, but that's nothing compared to what it could have been," Brianne Cazmay said.
Brianne Cazmay said she was frantic when she first got the call from the mother who was watching Alex and her friend.
"She was like, 'Hi, Alex is fine.' I'm like, 'But?' She was like, 'Alex was bitten by a coyote.' I was like, 'What?'" Brianne Cazmay said.
Brianne Cazmay said she's never even seen a coyote in person before. Alex showed her a picture of a coyote on her phone and said it was the one that bit her.
"You hear a lot about them going after small animals, because that's their prey, not usually people," Brianne Cazmay said.
The Cazmay family said it alerted Haverhill police and Animal Control about the incident. They said they have been on the lookout for that coyote.
Meanwhile, the Cazmays said Alex has not wanted to go outside since the attack. She will have three more rabies vaccines over the next several days.
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Post by ecgreen on Jan 19, 2012 18:31:17 GMT
They can be pretty brassy, but 99% of the time the will not directly approach a human unless they have a reason. I wonder what was going on? Too early for pups, maybe just a crazy/sick yote.
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Post by Willy-C on Jan 19, 2012 23:13:11 GMT
Carrying Yote repellent (40 cal semi auto) on hip has been a must for me and my bunny houndleys when running during the off season......but recent attacks have upped my decision to carry during our nightly walk in the dark neighborhood..... We cover approx 2 miles of wooded area so one of these toothy furry critters may figure out our routine one night....But not if I have any say on it.... ..........we had a close call a few years ago that I will never forget.....
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Post by NHGriff on Jan 20, 2012 0:08:30 GMT
I've had a few face offs with yotes while walking my 60 lbs dog. He won't chase them but will stand very still near me while they bark like mad at us. Once it was a den that she was protecting and the other times it was a recent kill. Other than that they usually bust out pretty quick when they hear us coming. Just tonight he trailed one through the snow very hard. His tail was going crazy and I could see the tracks in the snow ahead of him. I told him to give it up after about a quarter mile track. I wasn't armed and it was getting late.
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Post by ecgreen on Jan 20, 2012 19:45:40 GMT
I've had a few face offs with yotes while walking my 60 lbs dog. He won't chase them but will stand very still near me while they bark like mad at us. Once it was a den that she was protecting and the other times it was a recent kill. Other than that they usually bust out pretty quick when they hear us coming. Just tonight he trailed one through the snow very hard. His tail was going crazy and I could see the tracks in the snow ahead of him. I told him to give it up after about a quarter mile track. I wasn't armed and it was getting late. Sounds like you have a good yote dog there! Like you said, usually, they are protecting something if they are confrontational. I have had numerous yotes follow me when my dog is with me though, but never been an issue. I see no reason to carry a gun because of coyotes, but I understand why someone might want to. A walking stick on the nose btw will knock them out quick as anything. Killed my share of yotes starting with with a nose tap. Of course they where in traps...might be a little harder to whack one thats loose...lol
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Post by ecgreen on Jan 20, 2012 19:46:34 GMT
I am more worried about angry moose when I am out with me dog, btw.
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Post by Willy-C on Jan 21, 2012 3:22:35 GMT
Two years ago while bunny hunting with one dog on Federal land......my dog was on a good run almost a mile in the deep off the road.......
....at sunset I returned to my truck to leave firearms (being deer season also I didn't want to be in the woods with my scatter-gun.....dumb move).......
She was chasing the energizer bunny two hours after dark in a swamp.......then the yotes lit up in her direction (400 yds away).....my adrenalin must have kicked in cuz I ran in at full steam with only a 4" swiss army knife and penlight, yelling and hollering at the top of my lungs......
I called my buddy on the cell and told him "If you don't hear from me in 20 minutes call the authorities"
Expecting to see a blood massacre, amazingly not a scratch.....the war whoop I heard was the yotes feasting on the bunny she pushed right to them in waiting.....
Had I not been there to hear it for myself, I would've just lost a dog to yotes....
Since that night I have a policy of "collect dogs at sundown....shock collars if necessary........no exceptions"
I have two mutleys now and they are much easier to call in (with the help of Mr Tritronics)......
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Post by ecgreen on Jan 22, 2012 12:49:16 GMT
I have heard many stories of coyotes attempting to lure a domestic dog into the wild. I have seen many times where coyotes act playfully to my dog. Coydogs gotta come from somewhere...
The only beef I have with coyotes is when they kill fox in my traps!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by mjflores on Jan 22, 2012 13:58:35 GMT
Coyotes are a necessary evil. We need some to keep the woods and roadsides cleaned up, but they certainly changed behavior in the past 15 years or so and it doesn't fit well within our design. I think we'd all be happy if there were not so many of them. As a coon hunter we never used to worry about them, they were just junk you had to break your dog from running. Now, in some towns they'll hear your dog treed and start moving in on them. One coyote against a hound isn't anything to worry about but 3 or more and your hound is in trouble. 2 years ago I hunted a corn field over in Loudon. It's a big field high on a hill, and the backside goes downhill for probably a 1/4 mile into a large swamp. Cruiser headed in off the field and struck a coon probably 100 yards in the woods and trailed it downhill, treeing him on the edge of the big swamp. When he started treeing a bunch of coyotes started yipping and carrying on. As I walked down the hill toward Cruiser the coyotes were still carrying on and getting closer at a fast rate, faster than I was walking. I sped up my pace and got to Cruise, and by that time the coyotes had closed the distance to probably 75 yards of him...close enough that I could hear them pacing by the leaves crunching and wow are those yips and howls loud when they're that close. I never felt in danger, but leashed up my dog to keep him close. I dont know if they were being territorial and wouldn't have come closer, or if they would have moved in and attacked him. I know of others who have had yotes come in and clean off hounds from a tree so who knows. I know of other guys in other states who have had hounds killed by yotes, and have been followed all the way to their truck by them. I know I'd never cut a beagle loose in that spot in Loudon. So I guess if we could thin down their numbers and put more fear into them when it comes to humans and dogs I'd be happy. A lot of guys have turned to running yotes with their hounds...in those woods I bet there arent any problems with yotes attacking dogs! At least we dont have the gray wolf problems like out west...there are guys loosing 3 or 4 hounds at a time to those things!!
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Post by ecgreen on Jan 22, 2012 15:48:17 GMT
MJ, that is interesting to hear. I have never heard of hounds getting killed by yotes. I guess their behavior is changing.
A real problem with thinning down the numbers here in NH is loose domestic dogs. Hunting coyotes has never proven to be an effective method of number reduction, but trapping has. I know guys back in NY who trap 100+ every year. But here in NH, people ignore dog laws and there are a lot of what is legally called " dogs at large" - which is a dog off leash and off its owners property. I actually did not set any coyote traps this year. Part of the decision to do that was the huge number of domestic dogs roaming the country side. Catching them is not the problem, you just let them go. The problem is the owners who get angry even though they are the ones who broke the law. I will trap coyote next year, but I am not sure if I will do it this far south.
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Post by glockgen4 on Jan 23, 2012 5:29:42 GMT
But that is the problem in this part of the country. We can't put the fear of human into them because they are always so close to us. They see, hear, smell and everything else us on an almost daily basis. So what if we sometimes take a shot at one and miss, they forget about that before to long any ways. We have way smaller pieces of land than other parts of the country. At any given point, we are in the woods for some reason around here.
And as far as reducing numbers. trapping may reduce the population locally for a time, but if you research it you will find it written that the Coyote is the only animal that despite all efforts from humans to kill or control them, have thrived and grew in population. every where.
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Post by ecgreen on Jan 23, 2012 12:29:32 GMT
You are correct glockgen. Mark June, a famous coyote trapper and biologist did a study and came to the conclusion that you would need to trap 70% of all coyotes every year for 50 years to kill all of them. That is impossible. Even so, trapping is the best tool we have right now to keep numbers down.
Ya know what the best coyote control is? Wolves.
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Post by glockgen4 on Jan 23, 2012 14:56:37 GMT
Ya know what the best coyote control is? Wolves. True, but I would rather have a Coyote problem than a Wolf problem. What if you trap or shoot the Alpha female? In the Coyote "pecking order" she is allowed to breed. But if you kill her and she has two female off springs, do they now both breed and by chance double that population? Coyotes are weird!
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Post by firestormhtr on Jan 23, 2012 22:03:54 GMT
Same thing i heard,you kill the alfa female and shes has 2 femailes in the little they will breed like crazy,to make up for the yotes lost.Who knows,just more to shoot.I was lucky enough last bow season to shoot 3,they seem to be everywhere i was.Might go to fish and game this week and get my night permit.
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Post by Willy-C on Jan 23, 2012 23:13:53 GMT
.Might go to fish and game this week and get my night permit. Go For It..!!......Whackem and Stackem.....
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