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Springtime must be coyote time: There's another coyote in the news, but this time in the Bronx. A coyote has been spotted at Van Cortlandt Park, and is now duly named "Jacob," after Jacob Van Cortlandt (if it's a girl, she'll be "Vannie," not Cortney). Parks officials want Van Cortlandt Park visitors to be on alert, as coyotes are interested in eating small animals, even turkeys! A coyote in Van Cortlandt Park makes more sense, as it's right near Westchester County - it's still a mystery how Hal managed to find his way to Central Park last month.
There's a spring wildflowers hike in Van Cortlandt Park on April 29. We went on a school tour of the Van Cortlandt House Museum when we were little, we think. And there used to be buffalo in the park!
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jacob is a horrible name. only losers have that name.
I hope he doesn't end up like me.....
It's not so much of a mystery how Hal got into Manhattan-there is a little bridge across the Harlem River at Spuyten Duyvil-it's the Amtrak bridge-it's also wooded along the Hudson all the way up from there, so he very well could have just walked along the river, then gone across the bridge into Manhattan-that's how they speculate a lot of wild animals get into the city-across that bridge.
"They've been known to eat household pets"?? Funny how I grew up seeing coyotes all the time and never heard of them eating anything bigger than a gerbil. So I guess if you let your pet hamster run around in Van Cortlandt Park, off leash, the coyote will EAT IT!!!! FEAR OF COYOTES!!
Well, some of those little rat-dogs running around DO look a lot like rodents, if you remember the falcon that picked off some lady's chihuaha in Bryant Park a few years ago. Better to just tell people to keep an eye on little Pfoofie than to have an errant coyote mistake him for a bunny rabbit, then all the imbeciles will come out & start clamoring for an extermination campaign...
A fair enough point...I could hardly blame a coyote for mistaking a chihuahua for a snack, most of them do look more like rats than canines. I would have paid money to see the look on that lady's face when the falcon grabbed her chihuahua.
I don't think a BX coyote will have to worry about any small dogs..every dog I see is a pitbull..
Make sure your when your gramps is in the park that he doesn't mistake it for a dog....nice doggie! heheh..