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Almost lost one of my cats to a coyote this morning.
Normally, we don't allow the cats to venture outside in the mornings as there's a chance that they'd encounter a coyote coming up from the canyon we have behind our house.
I let the cats out around 10:00 am this morning and they did their 'normal' thing: eating grass near the patio, peaking around the corner to see what is in their territory, etc. After a few minutes, one of the cats decided to come back inside while the other one stayed on the patio.
Didn't think much of the cat outside until I hear the cat tearing around the corner and slamming into the screen door. When we heard that, we knew something had scared the cat silly.
As we opened the screen door to allow a fully-inflated/puffed up cat back inside, a freakin coyote come bounding up to the porch. It stood about four feet away staring at us as the cat tore inside the house. After about two seconds, the coyote decided that confronting two humans wasn't worth the chance of getting cat tar-tar this morning.
Katey was Madam Puffy Tail for quite a while and wasn't in the mood to be consoled about being almost eaten, so we left her alone.
What's freaky is that normally you don't see coyotes outside the canyon except at night or maybe the early morning.
They're doing some sort of construction down in the canyon - presumably to build more student housing for the University - and the coyotes (and the wabbits and other critters they eat) are getting squeezed out. I guess we'll have to keep the cats inside from now on.
I don't think Katey will be wanting to go outside anytime soon and if she does, how far will be m
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Cait said:
Scary. I've never seen a coyote in our neighborhood, but we don't let our cats out anyway. Thank
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Maeve said:
It does not matter WHAT time of day it is here. We see them all day. We lost our beloved Tozer to
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It does not matter WHAT time of day it is here. We see them all day. We lost our beloved Tozer to a coyote because our gate did not close properly and she slipped out. All we found was a tuft of her fur. :(
|| Posted by Maeve, October 3, 2004 08:52 PM ||Scary. I've never seen a coyote in our neighborhood, but we don't let our cats out anyway. Thank goodness you saved Madame PT.
|| Posted by Cait, October 4, 2004 05:59 AM ||I don't think Katey will be wanting to go outside anytime soon and if she does, how far will be measured in feet...
|| Posted by Mad Mikey, October 4, 2004 06:31 AM ||