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"Inside The War Against Southern California’s Urban Coyotes" [1]

"Kristin Muller said she was sickened by the sight of the half-eaten remains of her cherished cat, Milkshake, on a neighbor’s lawn.

Security camera video, she told the Manhattan Beach City Council, revealed that Milkshake “was ambushed and killed from behind at 3:46 a.m.”

It was one of three cats her family believed were lost to coyotes in just two months in the city’s Liberty Village community, despite desperate efforts to protect them by dousing the yard with gallons of wolf urine.

“You can’t stop these horrific coyotes,” she told the council in June. “They remember. Then they come back and keep coming back every single night until they eventually catch their prey.”"

Louis Sahagún reports for the Los Angeles Times September 20, 2022. [2]

Biodiversity [3]
Wildlife [4]
National (U.S.) [5]
California [6]
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Source: LA Times [2], 09/21/2022
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/inside-war-against-southern-california-s-urban-coyotes [2] https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2022-09-20/southern-california-coyotes-population-escalating-war [3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/biodiversity-1 [4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/wildlife [5] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national [6] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/california [7] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81