| THIS IS WHAT COYOTES DO!!!! 10/28/9 Cape Breton park. Toronto singer killed by coyotes. Taylor Mitchell, a 19-year-old Toronto singer whose debut album was released in March, has died in a Nova Scotia hospital after being mauled by coyotes in a Cape Breton park. Mitchell was hiking Tuesday on the Skyline Trail in Cape Breton Highlands National Park when she was attacked by two coyotes. Another hiker, who was walking nearby, heard her cries for help and called 911. -snip- Read the story here. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 5/8/8 Lake Arrowhead, CA Coyote Drags Toddler From Front Yard. Animal Releases 2-Year-Old Girl When Mom Appears; 3rd Incident In 5 Days. A coyote grabbed a 2-year-old girl by the head and tried to drag her from the front yard of her mountain home in the third incident of a coyote threatening a small child in Southern California in five days, authorities said. The coyote attacked the girl around noon Tuesday when her mother, Melissa Rowley, went inside the home for a moment to put away a camera, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said in an incident report.Rowley came out of the house and saw the coyote dragging her daughter toward a street. She ran toward her daughter, and the animal released the girl and ran away, said sheriff's spokeswoman Arden Wiltshire. Full story click here ********************** 5/2/8 Chino Hills, CA. A nanny pulled a 2-year-old girl from the jaws of a coyote Friday when the animal attacked the toddler and tried to carry her away in its mouth, officials said. The girl was playing in a sandbox at Alterra Park in Chino Hills in San Bernardino County. Around 10:30 a.m., the caretaker heard screaming and saw a coyote trying to carry the child off in its mouth, officials said. The babysitter grabbed the child and pulled her from the coyote's grasp, the sheriff's department said in a statement. The coyote then ran off into nearby brush. The child suffered wounds to her buttocks and was taken to Chino Valley Medical Center and was later released, director of nursing Anne Marie Robertson said. She was later transported to Loma Linda University Medical Center to receive the rabies vaccine. Full story here ********************** A Middletown 11-year-old is a hero for helping save his toddler nephew from being mauled by a coyote. Ryan Palludan helped free 22-month-old nephew Liam Sadler from the animal's jaws and then chased the coyote into the woods. State wildlife officials are saying it could be the first coyote attack on a human in New Jersey. Full story here * * * * * * * * * 06/07/04 Simi Valley police shoot coyote suspected in child attacks SIMI VALLEY, Calif. - Police shot to death a coyote they believe attacked four children, including a 3-year-old who was hospitalized with bites to his neck, face, head and ear, authorities said Monday. Officers were first summoned to a home where witnesses said boys ages 2 and 3 were attacked as they played in their back yard. The coyote bit one of them on the right ankle and the other on the left ankle before neighbors chased it away, May said. The animal then surfaced a few blocks away, where it scratched a 7-year-old boy on the ankle. While searching the area for the coyote, the officers got a report that it had surfaced again, near Canyon View Drive, where it grabbed a 3-year-old boy by the head and attempted to drag him away. The officers located the animal and opened fire after it threatened to attack them, May said. It was struck by two bullets. . One boy, Weston Field, while on his porch, was bitten on the face, ear, neck, hand and head by the coyote. Links for more coyote stories: http://www.varmintal.com/attac.htm |
| THANK YOU This is what foxhunters do!! Thank you to all our foxhunting friends from Florida, Alabama and Georgia to North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Arkansas, Mississippi, Lousiana... Every state that supports foxhunting. To date, thanks to the generosity of foxhunters by helping with field trials and auctions, we have had the opportunity to help so many families. It all began when foxhunter's stepped up to help our family when our nephew was diagnosed with T-Cell ALL. Thanks to the kindness of the hunters, we were able to pay our brother and sister in laws bills so that they could stay 24/7 at the hospital with their only son Lucas, who passed away 8 months after he was diagnosed at the age of 10. Since then we have helped: +A family bury two of their children killed in a car accident. +A family pay their electricity bills and other bills due to the grandmother having cancer and unable to work. +A family paying off their credit card debts that were charged up by having to travel so far to take their 9 year old daughter to the hospital and doctors for treatment for leukemia. +A family bury their husband/father after he was killed tragically. +A family bury their father after he died and didn't have insurance. +A family who's little 2 year old boy has cancer and needed financial help. +People that was damaged during the hurricane and needed gas/food and dog food to tend to their hounds. +A ticket for a grandfather to fly to see his grandson who has a tumor and hadn't been able to make it there. +A family who's mother was terminally ill and needed financial support. +A family who didn't have any money for Christmas presents, and the women was dying, so we sent a gift card. +A family who's daughter needed surgery, and needed money to go to the hospital with. +Several smaller donations sent to various individuals in their time of need. +A family who lost their dad, missed work, and needed a little financial support. +Donated to other benefits and charities that needed help. +Bought groceries at Christmas time, for individuals that needed a little help. +Bought groceries at Thanksgiving, for families that needed some food. +Currently helping a friend in need that has Aplastic Anemia and is living everyday on someone else's blood. She will be having a bone marrow transplant this month, and bills need to be paid. +We have paid doctor bills for individuals that need help. +We have paid light bills and heating bills for individuals that need help. +We have helped send missionary's to hurricane ravished areas to help rebuild and help families. AND Not all these families are foxhunters. Alot of them didn't even know what foxhunting was, until we helped them. Thank you everyone for helping us help others. |