Normally I'm not so anti-wild life and I love nature as much as the next guy but this is just getting out of hand.
Tampa Bay has over 3 million people living here and the peninsula I live on covers much of it and the city I live in has something around 300 thousand residents. And its construction isd getting heavier every year.
Last year a number of cats were found dead and chewed up and a number of coyotes have been spotted. While my neighbor was gone I was looking after his 3 cats and one of them who is very shy would not come back into the house for 3 days. After he got home he looked exstensively everywhere I had not, and he pieces of it chewed away in some bushes. Needless to say I felt like shit even though there was not much more I could have done.
This year, one of the other cats was found chewed in half in my front yard and the last one had a slight leg problem and has been MIA for months. Only a few weeks after that 2 loose pit bulls attacked an old lady in front of her retirement home just 2 blocks down the street and killed her small dog. Luckily 2 construction workers were on break and managed to tie them up for when animal control came and got them.
My dad called animal control about the coyote problem (and there have been a number of local news articles about them) and it turns out since they are endangered, they can do nothing about them. Even racoons can be captured and sent to exile on an island nearby where they have nice lives sneaking into peoples camping tents and going through trash cans for food. A few years ago one was living in our attic and we rented a trap/cage and they came and took it off to the island.
Anyone else having similar stuff going on near them? Our two cats luckily are pretty smart and come back home at night but I'm still pretty scared that one of them will end up dead. Personally, I would not have such a problem with it if I lived out in the country but I find the fact that our fairly heavily populated city will do nothing about it (and we are forbidden from killing the coyotes, although that hasnt stopped people from walking around with sticks and baseball bats and golf clubs) pretty ridiculous.
Anyway, its definitely been on my mind and I needed somewhere to vent about it. What says the people of BF2s?
Tampa Bay has over 3 million people living here and the peninsula I live on covers much of it and the city I live in has something around 300 thousand residents. And its construction isd getting heavier every year.
Last year a number of cats were found dead and chewed up and a number of coyotes have been spotted. While my neighbor was gone I was looking after his 3 cats and one of them who is very shy would not come back into the house for 3 days. After he got home he looked exstensively everywhere I had not, and he pieces of it chewed away in some bushes. Needless to say I felt like shit even though there was not much more I could have done.
This year, one of the other cats was found chewed in half in my front yard and the last one had a slight leg problem and has been MIA for months. Only a few weeks after that 2 loose pit bulls attacked an old lady in front of her retirement home just 2 blocks down the street and killed her small dog. Luckily 2 construction workers were on break and managed to tie them up for when animal control came and got them.
My dad called animal control about the coyote problem (and there have been a number of local news articles about them) and it turns out since they are endangered, they can do nothing about them. Even racoons can be captured and sent to exile on an island nearby where they have nice lives sneaking into peoples camping tents and going through trash cans for food. A few years ago one was living in our attic and we rented a trap/cage and they came and took it off to the island.
Anyone else having similar stuff going on near them? Our two cats luckily are pretty smart and come back home at night but I'm still pretty scared that one of them will end up dead. Personally, I would not have such a problem with it if I lived out in the country but I find the fact that our fairly heavily populated city will do nothing about it (and we are forbidden from killing the coyotes, although that hasnt stopped people from walking around with sticks and baseball bats and golf clubs) pretty ridiculous.
Anyway, its definitely been on my mind and I needed somewhere to vent about it. What says the people of BF2s?
Last edited by Spearhead (2009-08-14 12:21:21)
