Pat Meadows writes:

Pat On 13 Mar 2003 15:39:20 -0500,
wrote


We did too, a very active girl. But, sadly, she is no
longer on the top of the food chain in our densely populated
area, a coyote killed her 10 yards from our house. So much
for kitty control.

Pat Sorry to hear it. There are coyotes in our general area,
Pat but no one has seen them as close to town as we live. We're

We are 100 yards from town center, and five miles from
downtown Boston.

Pat in Pennsylvania, and coyotes have moved eastwards, as you
Pat probably know, but they're certainly not as common as they
Pat are in the west.

Pat Ms. Katycat comes in every day at 3:30 pm - dinner time for
Pat her - and she spends her nights indoors. Always.

Good, they are safer from coyotes in daylight, not safe,
but safer. That is too bad, as our cat got a lot of
pesky rabbits at dawn and dusk.

Pat So we have hopes this will help with the coyote situation.
Pat So far, so good. Fingers crossed.

Pat I'm actually more worried about cars, but our road is very
Pat quiet and she seems to run away whenever a car goes by, so
Pat this is good.

Most of them are pretty smart about cars. Coyotes are smart
about hunting cats (wait until they are too far from a tree...).



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