Our son, when he was 5 years old, would hear them in bed at night and said the Ky Tee Oh’s were scaring him. Everything scared him at 5. Poor kid. Kyteeohs, love that word.
I heard on Seattle Now podcast recently that Kyteeohs do not eat cateohs and this is borne out by scat analysis. Cat eating coyotes are urban myth. I suspect they talked to same person you mentioned in article.
That being said, we did find 1/2 a cat in our Newcastle backyard once. Vet said it was likely racoon. It was truely 1/2 cat, front half, looking like it had been put through a band saw. Creeped me out for a while. Maybe that’s why we live in a secure hirise condo downtown now.
Thanks for this welcoming and kind perspective about the wild ones in our urban midsts!
Here in the foggy City by the Bay, Janet Kessler gives regular updates through her IG @coyoteyipps about the coyote individuals, families, and their lives in SF. Her website is https://coyotecoexistence.com/. She is very compassionately educating and raising awareness of these amazingly adaptable creatures!
Wish I would have read this last week...to have myth busting info close at hand.
On an otherwise peaceful morning on Magnolia Bluff last Friday, a clearly upset woman could be heard for 20 minutes, walking behind us and stopping everyone in their tracks: “Be careful! A coyote just ran in front of me!”
Lucky you, I thought. Instead I wish I could have told her to watch out for the dogs.
Lovely essay and completely agree. Coyotes in our midst give us hope! And they are quite mystical too.
Our son, when he was 5 years old, would hear them in bed at night and said the Ky Tee Oh’s were scaring him. Everything scared him at 5. Poor kid. Kyteeohs, love that word.
I heard on Seattle Now podcast recently that Kyteeohs do not eat cateohs and this is borne out by scat analysis. Cat eating coyotes are urban myth. I suspect they talked to same person you mentioned in article.
That being said, we did find 1/2 a cat in our Newcastle backyard once. Vet said it was likely racoon. It was truely 1/2 cat, front half, looking like it had been put through a band saw. Creeped me out for a while. Maybe that’s why we live in a secure hirise condo downtown now.
Thanks for this welcoming and kind perspective about the wild ones in our urban midsts!
Here in the foggy City by the Bay, Janet Kessler gives regular updates through her IG @coyoteyipps about the coyote individuals, families, and their lives in SF. Her website is https://coyotecoexistence.com/. She is very compassionately educating and raising awareness of these amazingly adaptable creatures!
Wish I would have read this last week...to have myth busting info close at hand.
On an otherwise peaceful morning on Magnolia Bluff last Friday, a clearly upset woman could be heard for 20 minutes, walking behind us and stopping everyone in their tracks: “Be careful! A coyote just ran in front of me!”
Lucky you, I thought. Instead I wish I could have told her to watch out for the dogs.