A Coyote Catching and eating a squirrel in a city with people around

[rayg]

The scene may be disturbing to some people so please use discretion in wanting to watch it

Two things that makes this video unusual is that the squirrel is completely black and it took place in a city with people close by and some watching

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuCJAKjOdTw&list=PL467ED123F61B1C5B&index=4

[Phloating Phlasher]

All black squirrels are common in parts of NYC. Maybe other places too?
'Yotes are survivors, they thrive in urban environments.

[Art]

Welcome to the circle of life.

I personally wouldn't walk that close to a coyote but apparently the 'yotes are as comfortable around people there as the squirrels.

I've seen housecats eat rats and squirrels exactly the same way, head first almost like they were eating a candy bar. You could hear those bones pop.

Both gray and fox squirrels have black variations, more common some places than others. Down here you don't see the black version very much but they do show up now and then.

[5thDragoons]

Wile E. gots to eat, too. SW

[Allen]

Both gray and fox squirrels have black variations, more common some places than others. Down here you don't see the black version very much but they do show up now and then.

My brother shot a solid black squirrel with a bright red tail when he was young. My dad took it to a taxidermist to be stuffed/mounted and the guy went out of business taking the squirrel with him.

Fox squirrels here are rare and some of them get as big as a big tom cat. They are solitary animals. If you see one that is all you see. They don't plunder and get into bird feeders and such like the common gray squirrels.

[Vern Humphrey]

My brother shot a solid black squirrel with a bright red tail when he was young. My dad took it to a taxidermist to be stuffed/mounted and the guy went out of business taking the squirrel with him.

Fox squirrels here are rare and some of them get as big as a big tom cat. They are solitary animals. If you see one that is all you see. They don't plunder and get into bird feeders and such like the common gray squirrels.

That's why there's fewer of them.

[Ken The Kanuck]

The squirrels native to my part of the world are called Douglas squirrels. Unfortunately some folks decided to bring the bigger eastern gray and black squirrels out here. Pretty much run off the Douglas squirrels as they are so much smaller. Pretty soon all we will have are eastern wetbacks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_squirrel

KTK

[Allen]

Wile E. gots to eat, too. SW

If his cartoons had continued perhaps we would have seen these episodes.

[JimF]

How many of those onlookers thought the coyote was just a dog?
I’m guessing about half!

[Art]

How many of those onlookers thought the coyote was just a dog?
I?m guessing about half!

I'm guessing you're right, and its probably more than half.

My mother grew up until she was 12 0r 13 on a working cattle ranch before her family sold out in the mid 1920s, so knew about local wildlife. At that time there weren't any coyotes in southeast Texas, boy has that changed! One day she was walking in town with her father and saw a fellow walking with an unusual looking dog on a leash, when she mentioned it to her father he said "Doll, that's not a dog, that's a Coyote." Yep there was a guy in town who had a pet 'yote. I don't think that's a real swift idea but when I was a kid there were people who had pet skunks (one of my sisters-in-law) and racoons too, one fellow I know had a pet crow . The old boy with a crow said that bird was the biggest troublemaker you can imagine, not only very smart but very mischievous. The bird could break into things you'd never imagine and would not only steal stuff but would hide it. In my mature years I've gotten to where I believe wild animal pets are a generally bad idea for too many reasons to go into here.

[Ken The Kanuck]

Here is one for you Art.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canuck...ee%20in%202015.

KTK

[Vern Humphrey]

There's a big cat preserve at Turpentine Creek, Arkansas, right outside of Eureka Springs. They have about a hundred big cats, including a full-grown tiger that someone had as a pet. He decided he didn't want it any more, so he drove up to Ponca, on the Buffalo Wilderness, and kicked it out of his truck!

About four days later, it showed up at his house again and this time he called the big cat preserve.

[Allen]

A picture of a zoo keeper and my wife years ago. Cat weighed about 40# then.

[Vern Humphrey]

A picture of a zoo keeper and my wife years ago. Cat weighed about 40# then.

At Turpentine Creek they say do NOT pet lions and tigers!

[Allen]

At Turpentine Creek they say do NOT pet lions and tigers!

These cats and other young animals go home with the zookeepers at night where they play and have run of the house. They get use to certain people.

The cat in the picture is a male. His sister was colored as a normal tiger (Bengal). At the time of the picture the cat had a fractured leg due to jumping off a coffee table and landing wrong at the zookeepers home. When my wife was bottle feeding him she would have to shift him around a little due to his weight. Once the shifting caused him discomfort (due to the injured leg) and he let out a growl while in her lap. Needless to say, my wife wasn't expecting that. I saw and petted the cat after it became fully grown. They were declawed but still had their teeth.

As far as the general public touching wild animals, everyone is going to approach them a little differently with some people being cruel so yeah, it's best to post such signs telling people look but don't touch, pet or irritate the animals. The zoo where these animals are kept have secondary perimeter fence's so people can't reach in far enough to touch.