Comments on: Woman Saves Cat From Coyote

By: Jill,foothills rambler

Jill,foothills rambler — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:33:52 +0000

your responses to the coyote/cat/human encounter were sobering. So little interest in such a beautiful, adaptible, yes wiley and actually legendary citizen of the west. As always, humans seemed to be long on stereotypes and short on science.Let’s all use our big brains here. 1 coyotes evolved with prarie dogs, mice, rabbits, foxes, badgers, weasels,mule deer, cougsrs, bear,elk…the list is very long. Draw a huge sort of web and fill in their names all over the place. They all depend upon each other. The connections will amaze you. All naturalists siply stand in awe. Run to the library and grab a book by Edward O Wilson, David Attenborough, Rachel Carson.Farley Mowat(Never Cry Wolf- this film will knock your socks off if they are still on.)
2 as predators coyotes keep rhodent populations under control- in equilibrium if you will.They cull out the weak and sick,hard on individuals but so good for the herd(see esp. Mowat.)
3Show your beloved pet how much you love them..keep them in!! Outdoors they face disease, cars and yes predators. Outdoors in the natual world, your cats kill so many of our beautiful native song birds that their numbers are crashing.
Let the wild ones kive free(and don’t feed ‘em and keep yourpets idoors, please(and your dogs under your careful and loving control
Love your Mother! Nature,that is. jill, foothills rambler

By: purringfur

purringfur — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 22:47:07 +0000

Coyotes are a big problem here, and I live where there is open land and forest. I can’t stand to hear the eerie yowling and yipping of the packs at night. We try to never walk the dogs after dark because my neighbor walked his dog on the road at night once, and he could hear the pack of coyotes “pacing” them the entire way just beyond the flat pasture… Another neighbor used to shoot coyotes regularly because they picked off his chickens one by one and came around his cows & horses.

I know escapes can happen because my cat has escaped twice in his life, but I try to make triple sure I know that my kitty is not near the door when it gets opened.

Thank you to the brave woman who rescued the kitty!

By: johnypaycut

johnypaycut — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:02:59 +0000

Coyote’s are a huge problem, i had feral cats plus 1 that lives with me.
the buggers used to come in my yard to hunt the cats? i chose a course
of action that ended that! i went on the attack, chased ‘em off every time
the howled or came near.. it took almost a year? (firecrackers work to)
if you take action they’l leave your pets alone. (however you must be
persistant, and contine to be aggressive) each time they showed up i chased ‘em off (howling pack hunters always anounce they’r intent?)
1 howl ,an i was outside yelling my warning , if it was close the firecrackers come out, after ’bout a year i won.. no lost cats,after 3years.
we have a truce.. as long as you leave my cats alone i won’t shoot ?

By: Donna

Donna — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 13:06:21 +0000

Chaoslillith: You can feed all creatures.But, a domestic pet as a meal for a wild animal is kind of sickening. I understand nature, but will all ways admire the women that saved the cat.We feed all creatures on our rural land. Meat is put out for the fox and coyote , bread and corn for the birds and turkeys and deer.Feral cats are fed every day.We believe less violence happens in nature, with full tummies. Also is true of humans. Bravo to the lady that saved the cat. Feed wildlife,………..but stay safe. All creatures have a need to survive. We must learn to co-exist in peace.

By: Chaoslillith

Chaoslillith — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 18:05:31 +0000

I feel sorry for the coyotes, it’s hard enough for them to get a meal thanks to humans spreading like the plague that we are. I think the lady should have just let them go. She loves animals yet she just took a meal from the coyote. I have indoor cats now, growing up I had outdoor cats because their job was to keep the rodent, snake and other creature population down at my house. We expected there to be a certain amount of loss because they were part of the food chain. It’s tragic to lose your cat, but imagine how the coyote feels. They just lost a meal.

Just pointing out the other side to this story.

By: kaefamily

kaefamily — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 06:27:31 +0000

A good friend of ours recently lost her 11 year old adventurous indoor cat to coyotes :-(

By: Amanda

Amanda — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:38:41 +0000

Nancy G, sometimes even my cats escape on me. If they want out they will get out even if they have to rush the door and get hit by it closing as they do so!

It happens, obviously they didn’t want the cat out on purpose.

By: KarlaSanDiego

KarlaSanDiego — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:35:05 +0000

I love her too!! We need more Fosters. Bravo

By: TEALCSMOMMY

TEALCSMOMMY — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:57:23 +0000

Wow, that was awfully brave of that lady!

By: Nancy G.

Nancy G. — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:01:29 +0000

Please, from now on, keep your “indoor cat” indoors! He just used up about 6 of his 9 lives.

By: Vivian

Vivian — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:24:46 +0000

I love that woman! I wish the world was full of people like her.

By: Lynne

Lynne — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:18:20 +0000

“Foster was also so focused and emotional about the cat because her husband had just passed away a few days before.”

I understand. It does make you a little crazy. Bless her heart. I know that family is eternally grateful to her.