...an adult, but small pets and children should be supervised at all times. He says coyotes are more visible this time of year because it's breeding season and they're looking for food, but Swayngham says the SCDNR...

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... killed them, 10TV's Kurt Ludlow reported. Melody Martin's beloved pet Chihuahua Dusty was attacked and killed by a coyote while outside her home near Blendon Woods. SLIDESHOW: Images From Report "I had let...

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...park to trap and kill coyotes that have been attacking neighborhood pets. FOX 4's Richard Ray reports some people think it's a bad idea. Many pages in this Fox Television Stations, Inc. web site feature links to...

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...but he said he had heard experts say coyotes would attack only pets less than 15 pounds. He said his dog weighed 30. "I'm fearful that there's going to be a real problem to another family," LaHood said. "Ours...

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...aren't healthy enough to hunt normal prey. Of the five coyotes he removed from Glen Ellyn, Erickson said two had mange, a skin disease caused by parasitic mites. Still, Prendiville said he doesn't believe...

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...about coyote attacks on pets. But the issue has taken on special urgency in the Pointes now that officers there have been given the "green light" to go after them -- with some success. Letters to the editor in the...

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...typically do not survive the attacks. Scat analysis collected near Claremont, California revealed that coyotes relied heavily on pets as a food source in winter and spring. At one location in Southern California,...

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...be put down, police said. According to Wheaton police, the attack took place in the morning in the 1500 block of Camden Place, a south side neighborhood that abuts a golf course. A resident saw the coyote...

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...its home along the Chicago golf course. In fact, folks here say the wild animals have been stalking their pets for years and growing bigger, bolder and more dangerous. Some neighbors say the animals are a...

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...but it does happen, said Carrell. He advises feeding pets inside, not letting them stray, and if a coyote is seen, making loud, threatening noises to frighten it away. Rob McQuiston, a Magnolia resident for...

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Deer are blamed for landscape destruction and Lyme disease, though these problems are preventable by planting things that deer don't like to eat and using tick tubes to kill ticks in suburban backyards. As...

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...it off by yelling, banging pots and making other loud noises. But sadly, if a coyote runs off with your pet, you probably won't see it again. "Unfortunately there's no chance a coyote's going to pick up a...

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...conservation department to trap and remove animals such as squirrels and coyotes, says that through July 31, he had removed 21 coyotes from urban areas, compared with five to seven in a "normal" spring and...

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...back crying, so we knew that our dog was dead," said Jazmine Baltazar, whose family found the remains of Spike, their pet chihuahua, in the park behind their home. "I liked him a lot. He was like my little...

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