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Meeting to see coyotes graves in the Park on Oct 1, Wednesday.
I seem to get announcements of meetings, etc, through emails who got them from someone else. I’m not on Councilman LaBonge’s email list, and THAT’S OKAY. But someone sent me this: The Councilman would like to meet for a walk-through at the coyote encounter site at Zoo Dr. Thursday 10/1 @ 3 pm. We’re inviting public. The walk will begin in the Victory/Zoo Drive area. He didn’t know the exact location, but it should be easy to find. In my experience, “inviting the public” means anyone who’s a mind reader will find out about the meeting and join the city and neighborhood council regulars. It’s sort of an invitation by happenstance.…
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Coyote Killings Part 2
I think I have the answer. Animal Services of Los Angeles did it. The Times says (my bolds): “When he woke up, the coyote was sitting there,” said Capt. Wendell Bowers of the Los Angeles Department of Animal Services. “Coyotes nip at each other when they want to be fed. This one was waiting for something to eat. It wasn’t trying to eat the man’s foot. It nipped at him.” Bowers said there was no reliable information about a coyote attack last month that reportedly involved someone who was in the park after closing time. Officer Gregory Randall, the department’s wildlife specialist, said the city’s procedure is to notify the…
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Random coyotes tortured and killed in Griffith Park.
Today I saw visitors come here looking for “coyotes killed in Griffith Park” and I knew my day was ruined, even with the start of Dancing with the Stars tonight. From LA Unleashed, an LA Times blog: Two recent incidents in which people were bitten by coyotes in Griffith Park have caused wardens to take an unfortunate step: dispatching U.S. Department of Agriculture wildlife services trappers to kill some of the park’s coyotes. The second bite happened Wednesday, when a man apparently napping near the park’s Travel Town section said he awoke to find a coyote biting his foot. He was not seriously injured, wildlife biologist Kevin Brennan of the Fish…
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Coyote shakedown
Los Angeles Animal Services has only one Wildlife person. That is Officer Greg Randall. (I do not know what kind of officer works in Animal Services, but it is not a police officer, because I asked him. A vet? I’m not sure. And looking into the black hole of City Hall is not for the faint-hearted. Just try to make sense of these websites and the chain of command. I dare you. ) Anyway, if you call the City of LA about any wild animal, after a very long wait on the phone, you’ll be directed towards him and only him. He is the word. I first heard Officer Randall…
