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Wildlife: Have you had a dangerous encounter?
- February 12, 2010 12:33 PM |
- By POV
A New Brunswick woman who wrestled with a coyote Wednesday (Feb.10) was
still shaken hours afterwards, but managed to walk away needing only a
tetanus shot and a bandage.
Marie Simon of Saint-Charles, near Richibucto, said she went into her backyard about 2:30 a.m. to let her puppy Sampson out.
"He started pulling to go back in the house," Simon said. "[I] thought it was just a puppy thing, and I heard a snarl, and I turned around and I thought it was just a dog -- and ended up it was coming right at [me]. All I could see was teeth."
The ordeal with the coyote lasted about 10 minutes.
"Finally, it went to go at my neck and my jaw, " she said. "And I just seen it there, and I just got my left and went right at its mouth, and I connected with the mouth and the coyote yelped."
The coyote took off down a path, and Simon went to the hospital, where she got a bandage for a scrape on her hand.
In October, a 19-year-old folksinger from Toronto was killed by two coyotes in Cape Breton Highlands National Park.
Read more:
Have you had a dangerous encounter with wildlife? What was the outcome?
Marie Simon of Saint-Charles, near Richibucto, said she went into her backyard about 2:30 a.m. to let her puppy Sampson out.
"He started pulling to go back in the house," Simon said. "[I] thought it was just a puppy thing, and I heard a snarl, and I turned around and I thought it was just a dog -- and ended up it was coming right at [me]. All I could see was teeth."
The ordeal with the coyote lasted about 10 minutes.
"Finally, it went to go at my neck and my jaw, " she said. "And I just seen it there, and I just got my left and went right at its mouth, and I connected with the mouth and the coyote yelped."
The coyote took off down a path, and Simon went to the hospital, where she got a bandage for a scrape on her hand.
In October, a 19-year-old folksinger from Toronto was killed by two coyotes in Cape Breton Highlands National Park.
Read more:
Have you had a dangerous encounter with wildlife? What was the outcome?
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