re: #229 Floral Giraffe

When I lived in the Hollywood Hills, we had a wounded coyote ( looked like it’d been hit by a car on one side) that was VERY agressive. It took several neighbor’s small dogs while on leash, within 10 feet of a human.
The article also says that people have been “nipped” by coyotes in the park, and they are testing a killed animal for diseases.

Wounded animals are very often going to be in shock and/or scared and they will be aggressive, even your own pets may be that way toward you if wounded. Illness can do the same thing.

Wed morning when I went to get my paper, there was a dog on the side of the street that had been hit, I guess, by a car. He was alive, but was having trouble walking - he couldn’t lift up his back end, and he was limping on his back legs - like he had a spinal injury or something.

He didn’t want anyone to get close - I called animal control, but the dog, I guess, was desperate to get “home”, and sort of dragged himself off before the animal control guy got there. I hope the dog got home and taken to the vet - he was so pitiful.