Fifth Person Attacked by California Coyote Says It Is Terrorizing People
On 2/26/21 at 12:27 PM EST
A California man said he didn t see it coming when a coyote bit him on the leg in Lafayette on February 18.
Five people including two young children have been attacked by a coyote in the same general area of California since last summer, with two incidents reported this month, according to local police and news reports.
The five attacks have all taken place in and around the regions of Lafayette and Moraga, according to The Mercury News.
In the most recent incident, 20-year-old John Stevenson was bitten on the leg in Lafayette while he was sat down outside of a Quik Stop. The coyote then let go after Stevenson stood up, NBC Bay Area reported. As a result he has had to take tetanus and rabies shots. Footage taken after the incident showed four puncture wounds on either side of Stevenson s leg.
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The California Department of Fish and Wildlife announced Wednesday that the same coyote is responsible for four separate attacks over the past several months in.
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Residents of the bucolic towns of Lafayette, Moraga and Orinda have long known to guard their pets and backyards from coyotes prowling in the shadows, behind trees and around garbage bins. They howl behind my house every night, said Melodi Dewey, a Lafayette resident. There s a pack of them on the other side of my fence. I have to keep my dogs from going outside at night.
But Dewey and others in the Contra Costa County area dubbed Lamorinda are warier than ever these days and just as surprised as wildlife officials after a string of coyote attacks this year left three people bitten and injured, the latest one Tuesday behind Diablo Foods in Lafayette.
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String of coyote attacks on humans in East Bay’s Lamorinda area rattles some nerves, surprises wildlife officials [Mercury News]
Dec. 21 Residents of the bucolic towns of Lafayette, Moraga and Orinda have long known to guard their pets and backyards from coyotes prowling in the shadows, behind trees and around garbage bins.
“They howl behind my house every night,” said Melodi Dewey, a Lafayette resident. “There’s a pack of them on the other side of my fence. I have to keep my dogs from going outside at night.”
But Dewey and others in the Contra Costa County area dubbed Lamorinda are warier than ever these days and just as surprised as wildlife officials after a string of coyote attacks this year left three people bitten and injured, the latest one Tuesday behind Diablo Foods in Lafayette.