<p>“Well, at least you have a few. Here in California, the California Grizzly Bear exists only on the state flag. Our native subspecies was hunted into extinction more than a hundred years ago.”</p>
<p>The New Jersey flag has two women on it, and neither has a spray tan.</p>
<p>Schmaltz - what time will you be appearing on the Comedy Channel? I want to watch.</p>
<p>like crows and pigeons, coyotes are one of those species that thrive in any niche where they can compete without well-adaptded predators.</p>
<p>“like crows, pigeons, cockroaches, and people from New Jersey, coyotes are one of those species that thrive in any niche where they can compete without well-adaptded predators.”</p>
<p>Dragonmom, I think we were all thinking that, but it took a lot of guts to come right out and SAY it.</p>
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<p>I resemble that remark.</p>
<p>Well Dragonmom, you need to talk to New York City pigeons, who have been complaining for years to the Mayor about the perigrine Falcon nuisance. Since those hunters have taken up residence in some of New York’s finest high-rise address, the pigeon population at toney residential towers has, shall we say, dispersed.</p>
<p>Schmaltz, are you in Fashionable Ferndale? I grew up near 9 & Woodward! </p>
<p>Come north, my friends. No coyotes … just panther sightings! :)</p>
<p>Afraid I’m not fashionable or flamboyant enough for Ferndale. I’m over in Farmington Hills (hey, if it was good enough for Elizabeth Berkley, it’s good enough for me). In my youth, I was one of the few Goy boys running the mean streets of Huntington Woods, up near 11 Mile and Woodward.</p>
<p>Well, the coyotes around here have never bothered me or my dogs while we take late night walks. And I’ve never heard about a coyote attack on an adult human, but then again, I have toured Wolf Sanctuaries (example Ely, MN) that feature the experts scoffing at the idea that there has ever been a proven wolf attack on humans (anywhere, anytime).</p>
<p>So I wonder what they think of this?</p>
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<p>So much for experts with agendas.</p>
<p>But I still don’t worry about the coyotes when I walk the dogs. I do keep the cat in at night, though.</p>
<p>[trying realy hard here to not make any inappropriate comments about that teacher and her crabs]</p>
<p>Ferndale has certainly changed since I lived there … I sometimes forget that! 
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<p>Just happened to read an article in our local paper this morning that states that my area is also experiencing coyote sightings. I am used to deer, but coyotes will be an interesting addition. Are they really all that ugly?!</p>
<p>^^Ugly? No, I wouldn’t call them ugly. They look like a medium-sized, skinny, somewhat unkempt-looking wild dog with a bushy tail. The ones in our area look a lot like this:</p>
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<p>^^that’s an interesting picture. There is a picture of a coyote in our local paper today. It doesn’t look anything like the picture you have. The one in our paper has much stronger looking legs and looks definitely like a wolf. As a matter of fact, if it didn’t say it was a coyote, I’d say it is a wolf.</p>
<p>^^Maybe you do have wolf hybrids. I picked this picture because this one has the same scrawny look of the coyotes I see around here all the time.</p>
<p>Well that is exactly what the CT Department of Environmental Protection said that I posted earlier.</p>
<p>The coyotes in the forest preserves north of Chicago are definitely really big and strong. They travel in packs and they do eat pugs. Admittedly, we live in the forest preserves. But, they aren’t little coyotes. They are as big as a golden retriever. Drive my dogs insane with the howling at night when they are in the neighborhood.</p>
<p>Kelsmom! Do you guys really see panthers?! Wow. Where are you, if that’s not too personal a question. H once saw a mountain lion when he was fly fishing on the Smith River. He said it was truly awesome, in the true meaning of the word.</p>
<p>I live in the northern suburbs of Detroit (about an hour north). We have had supposed panther sightings for years, even in my own subdivision. While I have never seen one, one of my neighbors swears she saw one a couple years ago. The subject of whether or not panthers live around here is one of much debate … the stories resurface in the local paper every so often.</p>
<p>Is my understanding correct that mountain lion = puma = cougar = panther? They’re all just different words for the same animal?</p>
<p>“H once saw a mountain lion when he was fly fishing on the Smith River. He said it was truly awesome, in the true meaning of the word.”</p>
<p>Once in Evanston I saw a whole bunch of wildcats getting the crap beaten out of them by some gophers, if you can believe that.</p>
<p>^^ You’re correct DonnaL. We also get rumors of mountain lions here in Northern IL. I think many of the coyotes that people think are mixed with wolves might be dog hybrids. I personally like hearing the yips of coyotes at night but I do keep my cat in.</p>
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