Coyotes Kill Woman!
— A nineteen year old singer-songwriter from Toronto, Taylor Mitchell, was attacked and killed by coyotes as she was hiking alone in a park in eastern Canada. Police who were in the area reached the scene quickly and shot one of the animals, apparently wounding it. The injured coyote and a companion coyote managed to get away, however.
The woman was in critical condition when paramedics arrived with multiple bite wounds over her entire body. Despite being airlifted to a Halifax hospital, she died last Wednesday morning.
Coyote attacks are extremely rare because the animals are usually shy. A retired biologist with the Nova Scotia department of Natural Resources said that its possible the coyotes thought that the victim was a deer or other prey…
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FOXSYLVANIA 
October 30, 2009 at 7:51 pm
If that biologist thinks deer are occasionally bipedal, like bears, it’s no wonder he retired!
There are only two reasons coyotes would attack a lone human hiker: rabies; or, a taste for humans acquired by previous–and doubtlessly unrecorded–attacks on people. And, rabid canines are notorious loners.
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October 31, 2009 at 12:30 pm
I know of one coyote who can’t even seem to nail a road runner… 😉
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November 2, 2009 at 8:29 pm
That’s why he changed his name to “Ralph,” and helps train sheepdogs (who seem to be part boxer).
😉
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November 3, 2009 at 12:00 am
Perhaps he works part-time for “Acme” corporation as well!
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November 3, 2009 at 5:54 pm
That would make him a DINK (“Double Income/No Kits”).
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