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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.
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Wildlife officials using DNA testing to link coyote to 3 separate East Bay attacks From a push up position, I looked back and on my left calf was a coyote.
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MORAGA, Calif. (KGO) California wildlife officials announced on Friday that they have confirmed through DNA testing that a single coyote is responsible for three separate attacks on people in two East Bay communities.
One of the animal attacks sent a Moraga man to the hospital with a serious leg wound earlier this month.
Kenji Sytz recalls he felt the sharp pain in his leg as he was in the midst of an early morning workout at Moraga s Campolindo High School.
DNA ties same coyote to 3 East Bay attacks, officials say
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Coyote bites grocery store employee’s leg in Lafayette
In Lafayette, a coyote bit a grocery store employee s leg Tuesday night. It was the fourth such attack since April in the region.
LAFAYETTE, Calif. - Authorities believe a coyote that bit an employee at a Lafayette grocery store on Tuesday is linked to two other attacks in the area.
The most recent incident happened at the Diablo Foods Grocery Story on Mt. Diablo Boulevard, only about 1.6 miles from where another man was attacked earlier this month at Campolindo High School in Moraga.