Many residents have spotted coyotes on Hudson and June and other blocks in Hancock Park. This presents a danger to small children in backyards, unattended. Please exercise extreme caution, and notify LAPD if you spot one.
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Maybe it’s a sign? The begining of the fulfillment of Yeshaya’s Nevuah that we read today, Achron Shel Pesach?
“A suckling will play by the hole of a viper; and a newly weaned child will strech his hand toward an adder’s lair. They will neither injure nor destroy in all My sacred mount; for the earth will be as filled with knowledge of Hashem as water covering the seabed!”
Last summer I saw them in my woodsy Spring Valley neighborhood three times and heard the howling once. Two times I spotted one outside my house in the very early morning hours (just after dawn), and one was dead along the Palisades Parkway by the Nanuet Mall.
In nearby New City last summer two coyotes attacked a 95 pound dog (a doberman). In another Rockland County town last summer, a coyote attacked a dog on a man’s leash one night as he walked it, but he successfully beat it away with a flahslight.
Apparently coyotes can be quite dangerous – in the winter their diet consists almost entirely of deer, which are very large prey (in the summer less so). I never let my children play alone outside, only under direct supervision. (Which is how it should be, regardless of coyotes.)
I guess Phoenix was in town but got lost on the way to Staples??!!
bas torah
what exactly can your “kochy v”otzem yadi” do to protect children or adults from a koyote?
children should of course be supervised at all times , but thats only a form of hishtadlus
mark,
as perhaps the only person who understood your comment, i found it funny!
By the way, raccoons have been spotted in Boro Park.in 59th Street area.If you call 311 they say that it’s part of New York City wildlife. I argue that NYC wildlife is 2 legged
mark
i think you mixed up yw with nhl.com
my guess is that Wile E. was in town to pick up a package from The Acme Corporation.
What is you point, Sabra?
She is telling you to be carefull, and you say that she is not relying on Hashem ,but rather saying “Kochi Viotzem Yodi”?
She is also telling you to watch your kids.
What do you say, don’t watch them it is too much Hishtadlus?
Sabra, first you imply that my belief that children should be supervised reflects a lack of bitachon (as reflected in the expression “kochy v’otzem yadi”), then you turn around and agree that children *should* be supervised, calling it hishtadlus…
You are all saying places on the East Coast where these are more common…June and Hudson st are in the middle of the CITY, rather than the canyons or valley. This is unheard of for LA.
I know that this is not about the main subject but…. Talking about watching your kids – All those Boro Park mothers who leave their children in carriages in front of the stores should be arrested for child abuse. They are putting their children in danger by putting them in a PUBLIC PLACE unsupervised. If you can’t take your children into the store, just don’t shop there!!
Malkyt – you said it perfectly!
Malkyt – why is it different from people who tie up their dogs to a post and go into Starbucks?
bup –
if someone steals a dog – it is not such a big deal as compared to if someone steals a kid chas v’shalom (now all the peta nuts are going to start attacking me).
go back and check the punishments in the Torah for stealing an animal vs kidnapping and see if you want to retract your statement
it was sarcasm
but the same laws against leaving children in a car applies to leaving pets in a car, right? So why not with regard to this also?
Regardless of the law, the Law values humans more than animals so of course you are right md. However, the peta nuts aren’t going to notice you.
About 30 years ago someone left an infant in front of a store in Boro Park. The baby was wearing a beautiful, white, embroidered snowsuit that cost $150 which this Kolel couple could not afford, but the wife was making her husband crazy so he finally gave in and let her buy it. It was a freezing day and the mother, as many other mothers in boro park do, left the baby in the carriage in front of the store. The mother heard the baby screaming and she came out to see her baby minus the snowsuit! She’s lucky they didn’t take her baby!!