Thursday, December 08, 2011

Wildlife Taking Over

  • A Lincoln Park neighborhood woman says she is fearful for people walking their dogs on the North Side after a very close encounter with a pack of coyotes Tuesday morning.

    As WBBM Newsradio [...] reports, Kate Dodge was out with her 20- and 50-pound leashed dogs, Gordy and Madara, before daybreak, when she saw the not-so-uncommon sight of coyotes near the corner of Clark Street and Armitage Avenue.

    This time, she says there were three coyotes.

    “They were maybe 50 feet from me, so we stopped,” she said.

    Instead of moving on, Dodge said, they coyotes approached.

    “Two stopped 20 feet away and kind of just branched out a little bit around me,” Dodge said. “The third one ran right in, and it was within a foot of us.”
Of course they did - they're hunting. Here's the truly hilarious quote of the year though:
  • “We’ve taken it for granted that we can mutually exist,” said Dodge. “I certainly don’t want to create any hype, but I was completely unprepared for this morning’s little episode.”

    “This coyote had no fear of me,” she said.
Co-exist? Not a chance in hell lady. You sound like that idiot that used to talk to Grizzly Bears in Alaska. Or the cougar victims throughout the Rockies. Once animals lose their fear of humans, all bets are off, and evolutionarily speaking, the animals are way better prepared for these types of encounters than men,. women and children. That isn't to say we should slaughter every animal we run across (which we're sure some bleeding hearts will accuse us of supporting), but wild animals conditioned to avoid humans and their habitats do much better in the long run.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Another liberal idiot who thinks Charles Darwin makes awards for funny people.

(God. how I want to bring back some dinosaurs!)

On a somewhat related side note, there was a big-assed snow owl by the Museum of Science and Industry about a week ago!

12/08/2011 12:15:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Coyotes are pack hunters and get more aggressive in greater numbers. A pack of four or more can easily take down a large deer. As you focus on one another will come from behind and attack. Time to take the rose colored glasses off and take them out before its a small child getting attacked.

12/08/2011 12:25:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Off topic:

A HUGE thank you to all of the CPD that helped with traffic control for Toys for Tots on Sunday. Your help and professionalism was noticed and greatly appreciated especially after the tragic accident a few years ago. Thank you!

-A CPD copper and a rider

12/08/2011 12:28:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

When the coyotes eat someone's kid(s) on their way to school will hizzhonor then call for the installation of million dollar coyote cameras for the kids safety so they can bring the coyotes to justice?

Just wondering

12/08/2011 12:34:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

McLush said we are to refer to them as a band of coyote!!

12/08/2011 12:35:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

These idiots have no clue. They're wild animals and they're supposed to be afraid of us, because we are supposed to be dangerous creatures. Did you ever look at the damn pigeons at 50 W. Washington? They are not afraid of us. I damn near kick them to get them out of my way.

12/08/2011 12:55:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I know coyotes, sir, and you are no coyote!

12/08/2011 12:57:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Was this another "wilding"? Is that what we are calling former Cabrini Green inhabitants? Coyotes? That really isn't nice to those poor creatures.

12/08/2011 02:36:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

When you brought up the word Coyotes, I thought they where three dudes bringing in illegals to Chicago!

12/08/2011 02:53:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

There is a reason our forfathers eliminated these predators from most of north america. They will eat weak humans and small pets
Coyotes, wolves, bears and mountain lions are not your friends.
I don't care what you remember from sat. Morning cartoons.

12/08/2011 03:29:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Now now SCC we have Co existed with the beast in 011 for years. LIFM

12/08/2011 03:49:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Im at Armitage and Sheffield. Ive seen the coyotes as close as across the street from me. Im walking the dog at 430-5am and they are out there. Big deal, Florida is WAY worse

12/08/2011 04:36:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Please dont shoot the coyotes; they are such a beautiful and majestic animal.

12/08/2011 05:17:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

May I show you why you're not going to have a pension?

The new food stamp caseload report is in covering the month of Sept.

http://frac.org/reports-and-resources/snapfood-stamp-monthly-participation-data/

Guess what?

We added almost a half million people to the load vs the prior month. We're at 46.3 million people on food stamps now.

In 2000 we had just 17 million people on food stamps. We working on a triple within a year or two at the current rate

Forget about all that jobs bullshit from the mayor and the state legislators and the president. Shovel ready government subsidized min-wage part-time temporary positions don't pay a living wage, don't pay one enough to feed themselves without this government aid.

So I ask you. Where in the hell do you think the money is going to come from to pay taxes that will support your pension? Where?

And it's even worse than the numbers appear at first blush.

The 46.3 million or one in seven people being served is only seven out of ten people that are considered eligible according to the USDA.

So in rough numbers I think we can add about another 19 million people to the 46.3 million and we then have 65.3 million eligible and that would be as of the report for Sept.

Should we estimate that for Oct and Nov we've added about 1 million people and now we have 66 million eligible for food stamps and about 47 million collecting food stamps.

With a USA population of about 300 million we're talking 22% of the population, over 1 out of 5 people don't make enough money to feed themselves. AND IT'S STILL GROWING.

Forget the governor and his saving and creating jobs krap. What kind of jobs?

Some politicians will scream that people should get a job. HA. Propaganda. The problem is systemic. Isn't it funny how over 28 million people since the year 2000 all of a sudden people got lazy and decided not to work anymore?

28 million people added to the 2000 total of 16.7 over the last 11 years.

The sad part about it is, is that the mayor wants us to lock up and prosecute the people that see where this is all headed in order to keep the status quo and to prevent the needed changes. And so we martyr ourselves, our families and our futures, our pensions and wages.

The people that are being shoved into poverty certainly can't pay for your pensions and the corporations refuse to be taxed with the politicians blessing so there you go!!

Book it dan-no There will be no pensions! By the G8 or shortly after many will be lucky to even have a job!

12/08/2011 05:17:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

She should have shot one of them. Oh that's right, Illinois no gun laws.

12/08/2011 06:20:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The Lincoln Park bimbo's should keep their stupid pets on leashes and out of the Louise May Alcott School Playground.


Posted signs and of course...getting a Beat car to enforce is impossible even with you have CPS security calling the desk of 019.

12/08/2011 06:30:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

“Two stopped 20 feet away and kind of just branched out a little bit around me,” Dodge said. “The third one ran right in, and it was within a foot of us.”

Something like this actually happened to me in the Rock Island station once, but they had hoodies on and they were hu....

never mind.

12/08/2011 06:34:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

As someone who works with a pack of dogs every day, I can assure this lady that all is well... Nothing to see here. Move along, move along.

12/08/2011 07:27:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I like to think of the coyote as the K-9 division of rodent control. We've had them out here in the western burbs for years.

Here's a quick tip, don't send your kid's out dressed as Mickey Mouse on Halloween.

12/08/2011 07:46:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

We've been spotting cougar prints along Lake Michigan just south of Sheboygan, and Wisconsin DNR finally acknowledges that there are cougars (officially at least three) are roaming the state.

12/08/2011 07:52:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

tell Wildlife to go SOUTH

12/08/2011 08:10:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wild animals have used the train tracks and rightaways to enter and cross the city for years. I don't know how you would stop that.

12/08/2011 08:21:00 AM  
Blogger TWENTY and OUT said...

When I read the heading I thought for sure this was going to be about something that happened on Michigan Ave. In fact, in a funny way it reads just like several Red/Blue/Brown/Green line stories and Mag Mile stories.
File this under things that make you go HHHMMMMMmmmmmm

12/08/2011 08:37:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Once animals lose their fear of humans, all bets are off," Where have I heard that before? Oh yeah,"Once people lose their fear of the Police all bets are off" Sound like any parts of Chicago (and not Lincoln Park)you know?

12/08/2011 08:40:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I've always rooted for the coyote's comeback, and deer, because now they are overpopulated perhaps the wolf will begin to return and their have been several Illinois sightings in the past 2 years of wolves. Once they are established and wander into the cities maybe they will take care of the problem with little kids hanging out after dark. Go nature!

12/08/2011 08:44:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

But did they get on the Red Line?

12/08/2011 09:15:00 AM  
Anonymous Konceal Karry said...

o-exist? Not a chance in hell lady. You sound like that idiot that used to talk to Grizzly Bears in Alaska. Or the cougar victims throughout the Rockies.
"Once animals lose their fear of humans, all bets are off"

The results of society's anti-police movement. I'm referring to our 2-legged animals of course

12/08/2011 09:22:00 AM  
Anonymous "Boomer" the German Shepherd said...

COYOTES:

My master and I live at Clark and Armitage. Welcome to Beat 1814...

Coyote steaks all winter sure beats Purina chow. I like mine bloody raw. Master prefers "medium rare" with a good pinot noir. I'm just salivating to hunt you down on my midnight prowls. Woof! Woof! Growl!

12/08/2011 09:27:00 AM  
Blogger Michael said...

she should get a few rottweilers and she won't have to worry about coyotes screwing up her morning romp--- or she can go annie oakley and get herself a little pocket rocket, the coyotes can't sign complaints.....

12/08/2011 09:29:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

We CAN coexist, with coyotes, corrupt polititioans, clouted bosses. They are all part of God's creation....except for the clouted bosses they are part of the corrupt politicians creation, but you know what I mean...ohhh look a pretty tree to hug.

12/08/2011 09:46:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Go down to the lakefront around Montrose harbor, especially around the gold course on Waveland. There are coyotes everywhere. Next it will be lions and tigers and bears, oh my!

12/08/2011 09:46:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The Lincoln Park bimbo's should keep their stupid pets on leashes and out of the Louise May Alcott School Playground.

Posted signs and of course...getting a Beat car to enforce is impossible even with you have CPS security calling the desk of 019.

12/08/2011 06:30:00 AM

LOL are you serious? Do you think we have time to chase after pets without leashes? Have you been paying attention to this blog? We are shorthanded and constantly in a backlog. And do you really thing calling the desk gives you quicker or preferencial treatment. The desk does not dispatch jobs.

12/08/2011 09:51:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Back in the '80s, Illinois had a bounty on them. $25 for the ears and tail, and you could hunt them with a small caliber rifle. I bought many a beer in college with those $25 bounties.

12/08/2011 10:01:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

At my other home in Wisconsin myself and my neighbors have no problem with varmints such as rat,coyote,opossum. There is always the 22LR ready to do its job. Keep a.380 in my pocket for any possible event away from home, but I feel very safe up here. Can't remember the last time i read about a gun incident in the local paper. There are weapons designed for these exact problems. Your phony Democrat fat cat politicians do not allow you to have one, let alone shoot it outside.

12/08/2011 11:18:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sounds like those coyotes are just a bunch of Democrats looking for a free meal at the expense of some poor homeowner...

12/08/2011 11:20:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Illinois needs help with its vermin problem both out on the street and in democrat politics.

12/08/2011 11:23:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Book it dan-no There will be no pensions! By the G8 or shortly after many will be lucky to even have a job!

oh shut up

12/08/2011 11:31:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What's the big deal here just like if a mugger approached what's the difference? carry some pepper spray with you. Id rather run into a coyote than a stray dog. Leave the wild animals alone until they actually attack a human. people start panicking at the first sight of something they are not used to. Jesus it's just a big dog that's actually less likely to attack you than a dog.

12/08/2011 11:38:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

all of a sudden Yuppie hunting is a bad thing ?

12/08/2011 11:48:00 AM  
Blogger mmchavez said...

Wow, in St. Louis we have Coyotes and packs of feral dogs. THey havent attacked anyone yet, but close encounters happen. Best part is, our Mayor shut down our Animal Control Department...there is literally NO ONE to call but the police. I just sound my air horn or set off fireworks to scare 'em.

12/08/2011 12:02:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

as she defended herself with her louis voitton purse..

12/08/2011 12:09:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
May I show you why you're not going to have a pension?

The new food stamp caseload report is in covering the month of Sept.

http://frac.org/reports-and-resources/snapfood-stamp-monthly-participation-data/


-------------------

You're right. We should all support the "occupy" movement. Except, where will the free college, free healthcare and loan repayment money come from?

12/08/2011 12:42:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Look Lady, if you ever encounter another coyote, all you have to do is drop an anvil on its head (preferably one made from "Acme Co."). Works every time!!!

12/08/2011 12:47:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Melrose and Lakewood, saw one on Halloween around 1:30am. There are rabbits all over the place around there too. More than enough to sustain a large pack I'm guessing.

12/08/2011 01:01:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

All of this begs the question, is America turning into a 3rd world country? My daughter studied In Mumbai, India last year. She told me that in the outskirts of Mumbai, lions would travel from the forests to the outside perimeter of the city and kill people. Now, India is much, much, much poorer than America. America is much wealthier than India. But honestly, where will our country be in let's say 5 to 25 years? My son in law is from Ohio. We went over to his parent's home over the Thanksgiving Day weekend. All I can say is most of northern Ohio looks like small little ghost towns. All of their industry is gone. Gone as in gone. I couldn't believe my own eyes.

12/08/2011 01:13:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If you are worried about being killed or seriously injured by a coyote stay in the house or better yet check into a mental institution.

I know a man woman or child is more than 100,000 times more likely to be killed or injured by a 2 footed BEAST in the City of Chicago.

12/08/2011 01:17:00 PM  
Anonymous Taxpayer said...

Book it dan-no There will be no pensions! By the G8 or shortly after many will be lucky to even have a job!

12/08/2011 05:17:00 AM
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Better heed what this guy says. He as a better handle on what is happening than most of you out there.

Don't take for granted that you are going to get a platinum pension, let alone one that is sustained.

Times are tough. FOR EVERYONE.

12/08/2011 01:30:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Once animals lose their fear of humans, all bets are off, and evolutionarily speaking, the animals are way better prepared for these types of encounters than men, women and children." -- SCC

...and here they come boiling up out of the subway. As one writer put it this past summer, "Shirtless, hats on sideways, 2,000 strong, and looking for trouble."

12/08/2011 02:35:00 PM  
Anonymous Hot Pursuit said...

Ive seen a lot of weird things over the years, a lone coyote...

few years back working a surveillance had to step out into the alley for a minute and returning had a bunch of dogs, (ghetto elk) running down towards me... geez running in packs if it were for the traget getting tipped off we could have had a field day cleaning up.... oh well, there probably protected now by some federal group.

12/08/2011 03:26:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Does Coyote taste like chicken....

12/08/2011 03:26:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I thought you was talking about the westside

12/08/2011 03:33:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I was at a Lincoln Park bar and saw a pack of cougars!!!

12/08/2011 03:40:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The coyotes should have bit this Liberal biotch on her ass. They were here first.

12/08/2011 04:02:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

“I certainly don’t want to create any hype..."

...let alone begin throwing rocks and hitting with sticks and roaring at the top of my lungs just because I'm about to have my throat torn out and be pulled apart and eaten as meat by a pack of wild animals.

These 50,000-year-old Dawn Of Man situations are so, like, well, awkward, I mean, OMG.

LOL.

RRR!

*

12/08/2011 04:13:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Please dont shoot the coyotes; they are such a beautiful and majestic animal...."

--12/08/2011 05:17:00 AM

...as they fight over your insides...

12/08/2011 04:16:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

To get rid of the coyotes just give them a crate full of ACME rockets....


.....Meep Meep

12/08/2011 04:52:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Come down...those were 3 dogs that decided to dress like cayotes.

12/08/2011 05:05:00 PM  
Anonymous A Band of Coyote said...

Just as in a pride of lions, a murder of crows, etc., the correct collective noun for coyote is a band of coyote.

12/08/2011 05:26:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Deer at 71st and King. Also had a Deer trapped in a back yard at 67th and State...

12/08/2011 06:15:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Melrose and Lakewood, saw one on Halloween around 1:30am...

12/08/2011 01:01:00 PM
Sorry that was just me stumbling home from a costume party---I went as Wile E. from the old cartoons.

12/08/2011 07:56:00 PM  
Blogger leomemorial said...

I think we should start voting for the wildlife to run our state.....

12/08/2011 11:11:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I would give my next pension check just to see a pack of Coyotes invade the 5th floor at City hall and eat Racoon Eyes!

12/09/2011 12:32:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

they didn't want to sniff her, they wanted a bite out of her dogs. The coyotes keep the rat population down, but watch your little dogs and don't let your cat out.

12/09/2011 01:05:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

GOOGLE "coyote" and "recipe" for some fine dining experiences and recipes.

Coyote crock pot stew with apricots is yummy.

12/09/2011 07:18:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Know when coyote hunting season is in Il?
All year every day all day long.
There is a reason for that.
But we send the M/U out to rescue them...only in shitcago!

12/09/2011 09:18:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Was chased by a lil red fox on the bike path last night about 1130 pm from the b-ball courts to Sheridan Rd on the north side. Man was he fast. When i looked back he would slow just a bit but when I turned to ride he would dig in and try to flank me.

12/09/2011 11:17:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Practice your calls, leave bait (borrow a liberal neighbors "purse dog" or fresh killed pigeon) Use a .22 rifle loaded with ".22 cb longs", quieter than an airgun. Throw the peltless carcasses in a liberals yard.

12/09/2011 04:37:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Am betting that one of the dogs she was walking was a female in heat.

12/10/2011 12:15:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

the idiot 'naturalists' introduced 500 wolves into U.P.Michigan a decade ago with goal of having a wolf population of 500.
But now there are 1,500 and growing fast with NO predators.
A woman walking on a road around a northern Wisc lake this past summer came up a pack of 5 wolves that had just killed a deer in middle of road, houses nearby.
Mark my words, it is just a SHORT matter of time and and wolf packs will notch their first human kills in Wisconsin. Already, several have been killed by cougars in California.
In a decade, there may be MANY humans gettting attacked, killed by bear, wolves, cougars.
And no matter what, NEVER stick your foot in a creek, lake or pond in florida, 2 million gators and counting

12/10/2011 04:46:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"On a somewhat related side note, there was a big-assed snow owl by the Museum of Science and Industry about a week ago!"

--12/08/2011 12:15:00 AM

Spectacularly beautiful bird and extremely funny and engaging at the same time. From the pics, I got the feeling that he liked people OK.

12/11/2011 03:25:00 AM  

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