FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA
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.
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