Coyote Drags Toddler From Front Yard

Animal Releases 2-Year-Old Girl When Mom Appears; 3rd Incident In 5 Days

(CBS/AP)  A coyote grabbed a 2-year-old girl by the head and tried to drag her from the front yard of her mountain home in the third incident of a coyote threatening a small child in Southern California in five days, authorities said.

The coyote attacked the girl around noon Tuesday when her mother, Melissa Rowley, went inside the home for a moment to put away a camera, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said in an incident report.

Rowley came out of the house and saw the coyote dragging her daughter toward a street. She ran toward her daughter, and the animal released the girl and ran away, said sheriff's spokeswoman Arden Wiltshire.

Rowley took her daughter to a hospital where the toddler was treated for several punctures to the head and neck area, and a laceration on her mouth.

She was then flown to Loma Linda University Hospital for further treatment. Her injuries were not life-threatening. She was released from the hospital Wednesday afternoon and was expected to fully recover.

State Fish and Game wardens and county animal control authorities set traps for the coyote and were monitoring the neighborhood high in the San Bernardino Mountains about 65 miles miles northeast of Los Angeles.

On Friday, a nanny pulled a 2-year-old girl from the jaws of a coyote at Alterra Park in Chino Hills, a San Bernardino County community about 30 miles east of Los Angeles. The girl suffered puncture wounds to her buttocks and was treated at a hospital.

A coyote came after another toddler in the same park Sunday. The child's father kicked and chased the coyote away.

That incident prompted Fish and Game officials to temporarily close the park, which is near Chino Hills State Park, a natural open space of thousands of acres spanning nearly 31 miles.

Across the country coyotes are moving into cities and suburbs showing up in unusual places - like the one that wandered into a Chicago sandwich shop last year, reports CBS News correspondent John Blackstone.

Blackstone reports that the advice for people who encounter coyotes in the city or anywhere else is to make plenty of noise - that should scare them away.

[blackyowe]

The coyotes are getting the message loud and clear, the humans have gone soft and there is nothing to frear.

[algoresarse]

Sharps 50-140, Sharps 50-140 3.75 inch brass

Posted by ToolMangler at 09:29 PM : May 10, 2008
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nice

[toolmangler-2009]

..what kind of rifle? what kind of load?

Posted by obamawhama at 06:26 PM : May 09, 2008



Sharps 50-140, Sharps 50-140 3.75 inch brass

[downsteamjim]

PETA is upset because with all the junk food we eat the coyote could have been poisoned.

[cfin5]

I only shoot the "bad" yotes, not the good ones. Uhm, somebody already got to those.

[obamawhama]

Posted by LeFeaoux at 12:02 AM : May 09, 2008
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get one better...ever tried to lead a team of 3 to take out a sniper?

[obamawhama]

Posted by LeFeaoux at 12:10 AM : May 09, 2008
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seeesh a simple .22 would suffice for a small fox..
btw you guys should stop shooting paper and try something a bit more challenging..try a 1000lbd rhino less than 45 yards away at full speed..what kind of rifle? what kind of load?

[bretster7]

What? Not one comment blaming this on Bush!!! I thought everything was his fault, and only a messianic democrat will solve all the ills of the world. Come on, I am sure you can blame this on Bush if you put you thinkin'' caps on and try really, really hard

[guysdigdirt]

glock4me:
you are a faaaaaag!
Posted by gce65 at 08:56 PM : May 08, 2008------

What''''s with that comment? Lip off to his face and we will see who the fancy man is.
Posted by cfin5

Well said, but I think gce65 was just trolling to see if he could rustle up a date for the weekend. gce65 seems like a clueless eunick to me.

[minnick8-2009]

I think the human population needs to be thinned out.
By Newster1

So you are back advocating in favor of thinning out the human population, yet you haven''t killed yourself yet. What is taking you so long?

[cfin5]

Good point about the drought. These in the pictures are little and manged up compared to our midwest yotes. Last year my Uncle popped one almost the size of a German Sheppard. One thing they always do after a few hundred is stop and look behind themselves,.....and he did know it. Put a hard one through at 400 or so. They''ve ate plenty of Turkey dinners here. It''s not right to leave them be anymore.

[lefeaoux]

Que Lastima ! Pero,los Lobatos son animales y peligroso.

Posted by MagicMerlin8 at 10:41 PM : May 08, 2008

Este no es Mexico pendeco! Habla engles!

[lefeaoux]

LeFeaoux, I guess the recoil on my .308 is mild because the rifle is nearly 12 pounds. A little heavy to carry in the woods, but very effective from a rest or bipod. Google "DPMS SASS" for a photo. At 100 yards I get 3-shot groups with centers inside a 0.75-inch circle, which is pretty good for a semi-auto I guess. Hitting a tennis ball size group at 300 yards. Kinda picky on what you feed it. Might tighten up that group with careful reloading and a better scope. I wish I had the opportunity to shoot at greater distance like your 700-800 yards.

Posted by Glock4me at 10:24 PM : May 08, 2008

.75" groups at 100yds isn''t too bad at all. Reloads will ABSOLUTELY tighten that group up if you can find the right load. I used to shoot 1/4" and sometimes 1/8" groups with my Remington .243 when I was still reloading. I actually still have 2 boxes of those reloads and they are about 12 years old, lol. I used 44 gr of IMR4350, 87gr Hornady''s with Winchester brass and they shot sweet! I got hard-up a few years ago and sold all my reloading equipment to my uncle. I am thinking about starting-up with it again.

[techaroo]

"The AUTHORITIES SHOULD"

True sign of an entitlement minded liberal.

[lefeaoux]

LeFeaoux, I guess the recoil on my .308 is mild because the rifle is nearly 12 pounds. A little heavy to carry in the woods, but very effective from a rest or bipod. Google "DPMS SASS" for a photo. At 100 yards I get 3-shot groups with centers inside a 0.75-inch circle, which is pretty good for a semi-auto I guess. Hitting a tennis ball size group at 300 yards. Kinda picky on what you feed it. Might tighten up that group with careful reloading and a better scope. I wish I had the opportunity to shoot at greater distance like your 700-800 yards.

Posted by Glock4me at 10:24 PM : May 08, 2008

Wanna hear a cool, TRUE story? I was walking out in the middle of nowhere in the desert (I used to love to do that) and a Border patrol agent saw me and came over to check me out. We shot the shiite for a minute and he saw my gun, a Ruger 22-250 (I loved that gun!). He asked me if I was any good with it and I looked around and about 300-400 yds away I could barley see a rabbit moving on a hill-top in the distance. He spotted it with his bino''s and I leveled-off on a fence post and fired. I took his back-bone out and cut him in half. The agent looked at me and said "dammmmmmmm"! LOLOL. Totaly blew his mind!

[glock4me]

Yep! .308''''s make AWESOME sniper rifles also! Personally, I prefer a Remington .270 because they do mega damage, are good out to 700-800 yds with the right scope, are cheaper to shoot and they don''''t kick quite as bad as the .308


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Posted by LeFeaoux at 10:11 PM : May 08, 2008


LeFeaoux, I guess the recoil on my .308 is mild because the rifle is nearly 12 pounds. A little heavy to carry in the woods, but very effective from a rest or bipod. Google "DPMS SASS" for a photo. At 100 yards I get 3-shot groups with centers inside a 0.75-inch circle, which is pretty good for a semi-auto I guess. Hitting a tennis ball size group at 300 yards. Kinda picky on what you feed it. Might tighten up that group with careful reloading and a better scope. I wish I had the opportunity to shoot at greater distance like your 700-800 yards.

[lefeaoux]

Hey CFIN5, I guess that gce65 is upset that we are in favor of killing coyotes. I guess vermin stick together. So, in the spirit of p---ing off that guy, do you like to use a small caliber (e.g., .204 Ruger, .223) or do you like overkill and seeing the "red mist" of a vaporized varmint by using a .308 Winchester or greater? Personally, I like the 308 because it doubles as a deer rifle.

Posted by Glock4me at 09:19 PM : May 08, 2008

Yep! .308''s make AWESOME sniper rifles also! Personally, I prefer a Remington .270 because they do mega damage, are good out to 700-800 yds with the right scope, are cheaper to shoot and they don''t kick quite as bad as the .308

[ubrew12]

Theres a drought on in Ca, 3 years running.

Coyote''s feed on animals that aren''t there anymore. So, they''re looking for other opportunities.

[prinzowhales]

innovant--Its not the coyote''s land...not land worked by ranchers and farmers. There''s lots of land left for coyotes to run around hunting for their supper... they prefer lamb...chicken...ducks and children. You don''t share land with these critters...you either control them or they overrun your land and destroy your animals...Want to make a friend?--Go share your sandwich with a bear at Yellowstone...be sure to bring your kids and camera for pictures!

[cfin5]

Hey CFIN5, I guess that gce65 is upset that we are in favor of killing coyotes. I guess vermin stick together. So, in the spirit of p---ing off that guy, do you like to use a small caliber (e.g., .204 Ruger, .223) or do you like overkill and seeing the "red mist" of a vaporized varmint by using a .308 Winchester or greater? Personally, I like the 308 because it doubles as a deer rifle.

Posted by Glock4me at 09:19 PM : May 08, 2008------We thin''em out around here for the livestocks sake. Children playing in the woods and making tree forts is always in the back of our minds for their safety. I use a new caliber (17 remington fireball) and reload my own with 25grn. bullets as hot as they''ll fly true. If I miss, there is virtually no ricochet,.....that''s bad. Gotta go!