May 21, 2025 • 41 mins
We’ve seen more and more reports of brazen behavior from coyotes over the last couple of years. We’ve talked about the coyotes in Nahant terrorizing residents and pets and tonight we will discuss the latest example of a coyote attacking a dog in Brookline. Local police are warning residents that coyotes can get bolder as they grow more comfortable in their surroundings. We wanted to talk to residents about your coyote experiences as we discussed preventative measures!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I'm telling you Easy Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
All right, we're talking about coyotes. We spoke during the
ten o'clock hour. There were several coyotes sightings in the
town of Brookline, Massachusetts, which it's Brookline is a separate town,
but for those of you who are listening in other
parts of the country, it is almost surrounded by Boston.
(00:27):
I mean, when you're in Brookline, you're as close to
being in Boston without being in Boston as you can be.
So if there are coyotes in Brookline, there are coyotes
in Boston as well. And I think we've got to
the point here in New England, at least in the
Greater Boston, it is time for us to start to
relocate these coyotes and get them back to central and
western Massachusetts. Now some of you might agree with that,
(00:50):
some of you might disagree with that.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
That's what this is all about. I'm concerned. We had
a caller at the end Lauren last hour, who talked
about the scarcity of coyote attacks. They are imposing animals.
It's as simple as that. So I'm going to just
open up the phone lines. We have one line at
six months seven two, five, four ten thirty one line
at six month seven nine three one ten thirty. Our coyotes.
(01:16):
We talked last hour to John in New York. He
said that he sees coyotes where he lives. Mark is
an Austin which is part of Boston, says he sees coyotes.
Patty and Wellesley, which is a suburb of Boston, said
that she saw a fox tonight run in front of
her car. Rachel h is an advocate for coyotes, and
I think she was in effect opposed to my plan
(01:38):
to relocate them. She feels that they were here first. Okay,
that's fine, you know so so so weren't dinosaurs, but
that's here to there. Uh so, let's let's just get
going here six one, seven two, five four to ten
thirty one line there six months, seven nine three one,
ten thirty. We're going to go to Alex and Millis.
(01:59):
I got to believe that coyotes and mill in mill Is, Alex,
how are you?
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Oh, yes, absolutely so. I haven't seen one in a while,
but I was walking my fifty five pound golden duo Apollo.
This It would be around the same time last year.
And we live on a scenic road, so in the
woods what my dog goes ballistic? He was pulling me
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and the coyotes. It was a coyote. It stood for
a few minutes like froze, and then it took off.
But I would describe it as an emaciated German shepherd
because it was like, you know, they're not they're not
what do you called. They seem to be on the
anorexic side, but.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
They're probably not eating as well as.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
As you would make And and you know the other
day I did run into two deers actually almost like
you know, they they came out of nowhere, and I
you know, I stopped in time. But uh, so you.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Were driving, I mean you were you were driving? I
was driving.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Yeah, yeah, okay, well yeah, we uh actually, uh the
only other thing I saw was there was a there
was a bunch of foxes. There was a dinner foxes,
uh in one of our neighbors in the back of
his shed and their dog was going, you know, going
over there. But they somehow relocated. But there were like five.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
So what would you do with kind? So do you
do you think Kita's were a problem here in you know,
in the inside of four ninety five. You're obviously in millers,
so you're not inside one twenty eight. Yeah, they have problem.
Would you relocate them or no?
Speaker 4 (03:43):
I would relocate them, but I'd say I would be
more afraid of the two legged kinyoes, if you know
what I mean, because you know they won't bother you
that much. I don't. I don't think they'll bother you.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Okay, fair enough, fair enough? Well we Uh, I think
it's time to say that, mister wiley coyote. Uh, we've
seen enough of you. It's time for you to leave.
We're going to get you into some areas in the
state where you'd be more than welcome. I just think
that it's it's I don't want to see a coyote
in my yard there, and I think there's a lot
(04:19):
of people there. There are people in the hot We
did stories in this year ago. They were very concerned
about it. But there were people up here saying, oh, no,
we want the coyotes. I want to hear from some
people who want to tell me they want the coyotes
as well. I'd love to know why.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Oh, one quick thing, Dan, Yeah, I put in I
put in some vegetables, you know, raised race fawer beds.
And there's this rabbit. But I don't think it's attracted
to the tomatoes. But I'm just wondering, uh, you know,
and I'm talking about a big rabbit. It looks almost
like a like an overgrown cat, and it just just
(04:54):
keeps coming near, you know, near our law and all
the time.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Well, if I were con your suggestion, I'd go with
the two iron.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Okay, Well, two eye is more effective in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
No, don't don't hurt the rabbit, not at all, you know, uh,
you know, feed them, give them some carrots. They love carrots. Okay, thanks, Alex,
I gotta go. Okay, Yeah, bringing the rabbit in here,
that's good. We'll talk about whatever. I'm not going to
relocate the rabbits, okay, let's just talk about coyotes. Gonna
relocate the coyotes. I got a couple of lines at
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six one, seven, two, five, four to ten thirty one
and six one seven, nine three one ten thirty. Everybody
says to me, you talk too much politics. We're not
gonna talk politics, Okay, We're just gonna talk coyotes. Uh,
have you seen a coyote in your neck of the woods,
in your neighborhood. Are you worried about them or are
you ready to live with them? Simple as that there
are people out there probably like them. I don't. I'm saying,
(05:50):
let's relocate them. I don't want to be neither to them.
Let's relocate them. Send them to New Hampshire. Of them
on or western Massachusetts. Get them out of eastern massache us.
That's my thought. Love to hear from you. You call
me cruel, but you know, just call me. We'll be
back on night Side after this.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Night Side with Dan Ray, I'm w B Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
All right, let's keep rolling. We got full lines again.
I like that. Let's go to Laura Laura Junior in
Lynn Laura Jr. Welcome back.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
How are you hey?
Speaker 6 (06:23):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
I'm nice to hear from you. Dan. I wish your
true happiness as well as all your listeners. Glennon Brighton,
I was in in Portland, ME. I don't know why.
Want she called always think about Jim Brady. I don't
know why. But also one of my favorite callers. I
think his name is Joe. He sounds like David or cheez.
I think you know, you might know who exact I know.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
I know Joe. Joe's a great good friend. By the way.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Yeah, he's a true instivation to me. I'm half Spanish myself,
and I looked up to him. I was born here,
but I'm trying to learn Spanish. But I feel scared,
but I look up to him. He's a true inspiration
to me.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Good. How do you feel about coyotes?
Speaker 5 (07:04):
Skin them? I totally totally agree with you about you
saying you want to remocate them. Totally agree. And I'm
not surprised that they're in Brookline because I used to
walk near there. I used to work at one of
your competitive radio stations in Brighton, and I used to
see wild turkeys like crossing the street. So I'm not
(07:28):
I'm not to process see kyotes. Another another one that
I wish that wasn't around. And you might laugh at this.
One of my biggest fires, Dan is dragonflies. That's my
biggest fires.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Dragonflies. I don't think they bite you. I did a
lot of insects. I don't like wasps. I don't like
any of those things. But do they bite the dragonflies?
Speaker 5 (07:50):
No, No, they don't. They they're harmless. They're good because
they eat wasps, but they eat mosquitoes the eb so
they're good for us, but for me, the big me
and a scary worker. So I wish they could be I.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Was Warri.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Kirlees. Yes, very scared of them. I would not want to.
I never saw them here up here and Lynn, thank god,
but they I guess, Oh you.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Got him in, Lynn, Laura, j you got him and
Lynn trust me on that. I mean they have him
over in the high They got him in, hid, you
got him in and trust me.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
Yeah, thank god. I've never seeing them, and I don't
want to feel them. I like to keep it that way.
I thought I saw wild turkey, said to last summer.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Oh yeah, they're around. Wild turkeys have made a big comeback.
Don't mess with wild turkeys, particularly two or three of them.
They'll come at you, Lawland. I'm hoping Joe's listening tonight,
because Joe's a great guy. I'm sure he will have
loved to have heard what you had to say.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Mostly, keep on the work there, have a go on you.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Too, low, don't be stranger. Okay, thanks, Match, We keep
rolling here. We're gonna get everybody caught up. Robin Medforday, Rob,
you're next night side. Welcome.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Hi Dan, Thank you, sir. I'd like to thank you.
I'd like to offer a few observations, some information right ahead, Okay,
as recently as nineteen fifty six, if you were to
go ninety three north from Boston to Wellington Circle, there
was no highway there. There was a little shallow pond
(09:20):
and there was a stream that came down from Pine Hill.
Now that stream has since been put underground. And at
about the urban wildlife, I see a possum comes out
of the sewer. They've just relocated. They're still around. There's
a possum that comes out, crosses the street around one
(09:41):
thirty in the morning, goes down the other sewer. I've
seen coyote around, but it's not to worry. If you
just see one coyote. If there is a bunch of them,
get your flashlight out.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Okay, someone else mentioned that. By the way, someone else
mentioned that's good to know they.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Will not only yes, they're frightened that that works.
Speaker 6 (10:04):
That was a great Oh.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
And also let me say the man with the tomato
is tomato leaves the poisonous to rabbits, so he's not
to worry about his tomatoes with a rabbit. Now out
here in Medford, I'm seven miles north of Boston, near
Wellington Circle. I've seen coyote only one at a time,
(10:27):
and I checked with the wildlife folks and they said, oh, yes,
they're familiar down at Actually I don't want to say
where they're living, but they actually know where. There's a
den of at least a few living in Medford down
towards the river, and they don't really bother anybody. But
(10:51):
I have also noted in the area there's red and
white sail hawks. There are turkeys around. The males can
be very AGGRESSI in the springtime because they're trying to
show off. People should beware that. Back in nineteen fifty
six when this was like I said, that stream and
(11:12):
that little pond where Wellington's, where Roosevelt Circle is, we
had five hundred beers in Massachusetts. That population has increased
to about eighty five hundred bears in Massachusetts.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Yeah, we talked about that the other night, and they're
going to increase in two thousand and six, they're going
to increase the amount of time that people can hunt bears.
The fella from mass Wildlife the other day said it
was about five thousand bears and they want to keep
the population stable. They're not looking to reduce it dramatically,
(11:46):
but they need to stop its growth. According to I
think the fellow we had is Dave Waddles from Mass Wildlife.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Great guy. I've also seen gear rabbits in the area, chipmunks,
squirrels and and skunks and porcupines, I think, you know,
I have some some cardinals, I think, and the fox
occasional fox. But basically not to worry it if you
(12:20):
come across. I mean I worry it now, even just
letting I have a little a little dog that I
don't want them to be out. You know, you never know.
They are capable of snatching. Even the hawks are able
to snatch a little dog.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
So but.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
A question to you, Dan, is there an abundance of
skunks in Washington.
Speaker 7 (12:43):
D C.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Yes they are. There are a lot of skunks in Washington,
D C. And many of them had the letter D
or R associated with their name.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Now, can the coyotes maybe come and eat the Boston rats?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
That was that would be a real purpose. I would
welcome the coyote and that way they could dine, they
could dine in the rats. Very interesting, Rob, Rob, there
was a very creative call. I really have to say,
hats off. You're one of the the excellent callers of
the night. I do appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Okay, well, god bless you, sir. I'm gonna need a
bigger hat.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Well, that's not a problem. You just keep working, working
and call the show more often. Okay, thank you very much,
appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Okay, thanks a great night.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Okay, we'll get good night. We'll get one more in here,
but maybe one or two more in here. Let me
go next to Brad and Lynn. Second call it from
Linda this hour. Hey Brad, have you seen any coyotes
in Lynn? Oh?
Speaker 6 (13:41):
Yeah, all the time. They're everywhere.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Yeah, that's why I was trying to convince Laura Junior.
So I'm hoping he's still listening.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
I actually I was in when I called it live
in hont actually.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
And oh you had a lot of them in the
hont Yeah.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
I called him a couple of years ago when it
had the shop shooting.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Yeah, whatever happened to that. But whatever happened to that,
did they uh did did they eliminate that population?
Speaker 7 (14:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (14:10):
They they suddenly one family suddenly went away, and then
another family suddenly went away, and then there was just
like maybe I think one of I don't know, there
was only a couple left. I still see them all
the time, but not like.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
So they weren't they weren't taken out then by sharpshooters.
They they left it. They wrote a chord.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
Oh no, they were blasted. They set up a thing
down the dump and they had a federal protection order
and stuff at a federal plate. And I want to say
that the truck was from the Midwest. I think that
came in here.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
So there was action take bottom.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
Yeah yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They blasted him
right in the dump and but oh yeah, unfortunately all
were left with There's a lot of rotors, we got
a lot of mice, we got a lot of rats.
We've got a bunch of overpopulated with the rabbits. Because
the coyotes killed the scarms, the squirrels, I don't know
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whatever else was out here. The foxes, you know, they
killed all that stuff because they were the apex predators.
So now that man took out, we took out them
and uh and all the other you know, squirrels and
you know, the skarms and the other things. They're off
back in town eating the things. The raccoons. I mean,
(15:32):
I haven't seen a raccoon out here in years now,
and uh they used to be. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (15:39):
But yeah.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
As a sad note though, too, as we're seeing is
like like because we've got a lot more rats and
rolled into mice and the little you know, ground creatures
running around, people put out the traps and they bade them.
And then we also got a lot of eagles and
hawks and stuff around. You have a flying and people
(16:01):
are saying those are getting sick again. So I don't know,
we was getting kind of it's like the kuy And
that brings back to your point, whatever your barometer was
in Easter ninety three. I mean, there's got to be
something to be done because I mean, all of a sudden,
you had that family here like what three four years ago,
(16:23):
just eating everything out of sight.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Yeah. Now, I remember that story in the Haunt, and
it was interesting. Half the town seemed to want to
get rid of them, and half the town wanted to
keep them.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
I just think that I.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
Mean, if you had your cat and your dog, you know,
you want to get rid of them. If you don't
have an animal you have, you're probably like, you know,
don't see him out of sight, out of mind. But
you know, okay, I mean I used to see him
every day. I mean I saw nine of them, ten
of them walk by me when I was outside one day.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
That would be a little frightening when when they were
in that much of a pack. I've heard them when
they when they kill at night. I have coyotes near
where I live and during the summertime when the windows
are open and they have to kill at two o'clock
in the morning, it's wild. I mean they just y.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
I heard one a couple of weeks ago. I jumped
out out I could have whichever one was outside my
window screamed, and then the other one, I don't know
wherever it was, screamed. And it's usually only two of them,
but they make it starm like there's like fifty of them.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Yeah, it's frightening, It's absolutely fine.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
Yeah, but all right, well, well I'm sure we'll have
something other issue to to ten without here, But now
now it's rated.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Yeah, that's a problem. That is a problem, man, and
that's got to get out of control.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
I mean I see them walk by me all the time.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
It's you know, I don't know, they're they're pretty ugly.
And well, I would hope that they could, that they
could put out some sort of poison to deal with
the rats.
Speaker 6 (17:59):
And well, we have all the rocks and the sea
walls and the seaweeds and the little voids and the
crags and whatnot, and they love it high tide they
come in here, stuff you know that gets washed in.
And they just said, oh, you could sit out there
at low tide and watch them walk around all night long.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
I wouldn't want to do that, but I understand. I guess.
I guess it's very but they should have they should
they should have some sort of way to get rid
of rats. I mean, because that's that will destroy your city.
That will destroy your city.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
We did before it was like, you know, the we
had enough ractoons and squirrels and you knowsconsor you know
whatever was eating whatever, and maybe the birds. But now,
I mean, since since they're all gone and the balances shifted.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
I got you.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
I got it on the little island out there.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Brad, Thank you very much. It's a beautiful place in
lind It really is a beautiful place to hunt.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
Lynn Marble, it has marble at Neck, Lynn has Linen Neck.
They just gave it a different name.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
I got you, I got you. Beg you, Brad, talk
to you, sir, have a great night, Okay, don't want
to short jury and change anyone to get Laurie coming
up on the other side, Christine and Matt if you'd
like to join the conversation, I have a line at
six one seven, two, five four ten thirty and one
A six one seven nine three one ten thirty. Have
you seen coyotes in your neighborhood? And folks, if you're
out there and outside of New England, I'd love to
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know if it's a problem where you are, because we
have all of a sudden found out that there are
coyotes in Brookline, Massachusetts. And Brookline, Massachusetts is as suburban
a community as you could name. I mean, it's the
equivalent of I guess Chevy Chase, Maryland or whatever the
(19:44):
nice suburbs are around any any major American city. But
it's people are concerned in Brookline, and I say it's
time to start relocating coyotes away from Boston and may
be away from where you live as well, better left
to know if it's a problem. We'd be back on Nightside, Laurie.
(20:04):
We'll lead it off on the other side, coming back
right after this.
Speaker 9 (20:07):
Brookline police are telling the public to be on alert
after they say coyotes attacked to dog Monday night. CBS
News Boston reports that investigators say brazen behavior from coyotes
is being spotted more and more around Brookline.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Please say.
Speaker 9 (20:20):
The two coyotes emerged from a wooded area and attacked
a dog in the Sergeant Beechwood area while it was
on a walk. Neighbors say they've been seeing coyotes for years,
but now they don't seem to be afraid of humans.
I'm Dan Watkins.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
You're on Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's
news radio. They get Dan Watkins. That's exactly what we're
talking about tonight here on Nightside. As a matter of fact,
that we'll get this story in the Globe. Says during
the Monday incident, the owner was able to free the
dog and escape the area. Police did not release the
exact address of the attack. H So we're just talking
(20:57):
about Brookline, but if you know the boss An area,
you know Brookline. Let me go to Laurie in Idaho.
She knows the Boston area, but she knows Idaho. I
will bet you you have more than coyotes in your neighborhood, Laurie.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Oh, we do. And I just will say quickly that
when I was living in Massachusetts, that's when they started coming.
People in Westwood and Chelmsford started seeing them during the day.
And that was fifteen years ago anyway, So it's they've
been working their way east. But they are much larger
in the Northeast than they are at least here and
maybe other parts of the country. So they are the
(21:31):
biggest predator on the block. So it makes them very
brazen and very I don't like them. I can't stand
the yip parties. So we do have them out here.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
They are ye, the yip party, even when they have
a kill you made.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Yeah yeah, that horrible, annoying chorus of just it's creepy,
Yeah yeah, I can't see it.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Are they aggressive? Or if you were walking down the
road somewhere where you live and a coyote came out
of the woods, would they confront you or would they.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Show Here's the thing.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
I've never seen them except baby in the headlights at
night because they are hunted by the wolves in the mountain,
lions and the golden eagles. So they are much more
timid out here. There were nowhere near brazen. You hear
their parties out in the woods or out not even
in the woods. You can hear them from downtown, but
I have not seen one in the daylight out here ever.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Wow, well, the the reverse is true here. We just
had a spate of sightings in Brookline. And of course
what happens now is there are a lot of people
who have cameras on their home, so therefore you wouldn't
have had that twenty years ago, so someone would have said, oh,
I saw a coyote last night. Now you can they
go to the videotape.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Yeah, they're the biggest predator in the neighborhood. There's nobody,
you know, around where they're living that goes after them
except for humans hunters. So they're brazen and they're brave
out here. They're timid because they're afraid they're going to
get caught by a mountain lioner or a golden eagle overhead.
They will go eagle will pick up a coyote and
take off with it. So they're timid out here because
they have true apex predators around them.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
So an eagle can pick up a coyote. It looks
to me like gold the.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Golden eagles bigger than a bald eagle.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Yeah, you know, you know your your predators and you're
a neck of the woods out there. That's that's for sure. Well,
I just think we need to trap them and relocate them.
I'm aging to go shoot them or kill them. I
don't want to do that. Then kind of get them
out of here because they will take over our neighborhoods
here and the people they will. It's a very tolerant community,
(23:38):
if you know what I'm saying. And there's been a
lot of uh hue and cry from Brookline residents. We
had a woman on last hour, Nicole Roberts, who seems
like a really nice woman. I you know, I feel
for them, It's as simple as.
Speaker 8 (23:52):
That I do.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
And I don't like them. I don't like them at all.
I can't stand them. I'm very grateful that I've never
seen them out here, but I used to see them
in New England and I I just.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Think it's interesting that of all the places in the
world where I assume coyotes would be fairly prevalent, it
would be a place like Idaho.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
But you may they are, but we don't see them
because they're scared of the people that they are pray for.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
Yeah, they're out here.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
You can hear them, you just don't see them.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
But the predators, the predators that the coyotes in Idaho
are afraid of, are not predators that go after humans.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
Not generally. I mean, this is the one thing you
have to worry about with a kina. This is the
other thing that's concerning about nine is rabies.
Speaker 10 (24:32):
You know.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
So if you're yell and howl and do the airhorn
and they don't run away, you probably should be concerned
because they might be sick. But no, we've never had no,
we don't get wolf attacks or mountain lions. They're in
the woods. You see them. But if you if you
behave yourself, they don't bother you. But they're out there.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Well, you have struck a balance of nature in Idaho.
That probably for us. For someone from New England, probably
you learned a lot while out there. I hope Laurie
loved you.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
I learned it, but I still have got in the window.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Well, that's what you that's what you've learned. That's that's
a valuable lesson. Lauren, love your Paul. Thank you so much.
We'll talk later. Thank you, good night all. Just keep
rolling here. I'm going to go to uh, Matt Is
in Brighton. Matt, what's going on? I assume you probably
have more rats in Brighton than you have coyotes.
Speaker 11 (25:27):
Oh yeah, no, we got we got it all. Definitely
more rats. You know. I grew up originally in Newton,
lived down south in Florida and never saw any coyotes.
But in Newton they're all over. And here's the thing.
Then there's some of them are called kyo wolves, which
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is a hybrid between a coyote, a wolf, an Eastern wolf,
and a domestic dog. So some man, these things are
getting up to fifty pounds and they're quite big. It's
gonna happen more up north in the main area, but
they've definitely come into the area around Newton and stuff.
I live in Brighton. I haven't seen a coyote in Brighton.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
But I had.
Speaker 11 (26:17):
One of those doorbell cams, but I use it as
a trail camera, and I set it up in my
backyard in Newton, and every night, I swear after April
when they mate, and I wouldn't get birth the females
to their pups. I would always catch one a camera
around four am, and I hear them quite a bit.
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So they need to get moved out. It's unfortunate because
of you know, they're too comfortable with humans. They will
pick off a dog right in front of its owner,
especially the small ones. And they're getting big. They're getting big, and.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Well, I told her last hour. I don't know if
you were listening, but for the audience that wasn't listening
last hour. We moved into our neighborhood here this is
going to be twenty years ago. We were warned about
the presence of coyotes and a neighbor of ours, who
was a very smart, athletic woman, had been gardening and
she had a small dog in her yard off leash,
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I believe, and a coyote came out and grabbed the dog.
And this is twenty years ago. She chased the coyote
and was able to save the dog. She basically got
the dog out of the coyotes mouth. This is a
brave woman. She spent eight thousand dollars eight thousand dollars
in surgery to repair the dog. A year later, once again,
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she's gardening in her backyard. The dog is there and
another coyote or the same coyote came out, grabbed the
dog and this time never saw the dog again.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (27:54):
I mean, one unfortunate part is miss I in when
my I have a black lab and she was a puppy.
This is you know, probably in twenty twenty three or so,
I had one that was coming up to it. It
was dark out, but it was coming up to me
and it wasn't a third. It didn't fully approach me,
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but it got with intense fifteen feet. You know, if
I don't want to say, you know, on the air,
what I would do, you know for protection wise legally,
but you can't even go after these coyotes. Mass wildlife,
you know, doesn't want to recognize that there's you know,
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kyo wolves and hybrids and stuff like that, and it's
harassment of the coyote to defend it. Basically, Well, I.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Don't know that I would suggest that.
Speaker 11 (28:49):
When I called them no.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
But I'm suggesting that pepper spray is legal now in Massachusetts.
I don't even think you need.
Speaker 11 (28:57):
I'm not talking pepper spray, but I hear you.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Well, I'm just saying that you need something. And I
think women who are out at night should have pepper
spray because I think I think it's legal. I don't
even think you need an f I D card they
used to need. But I think we were the last
state in the Union to make pepper spray easily accessible
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and legal. And I just think that if you have it,
and if you know how to use it, and if
it's a windy night, make sure that you're not you know,
got to have a spray and blow back in your face.
But on a minimal there's no great wind. If something
came at you, whether it was a you know, a
coyote or any animal, I think that would disable them.
(29:42):
So that's my thought. Someone to be a ball by it.
But I think we've got to protect human beings and
family pets before coyotes, in my opinion. I know not
everyone will agree. If they don't, feel free to give
us a call. Matt, I've got a schoo here. We'll
let you go. Thank you man, talk soon. Thanks for
appreciate you. Falling in. Let me get Christine in here. Hi, Chris,
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how are you tonight? Welcome?
Speaker 12 (30:06):
Good?
Speaker 1 (30:08):
You got any Christine? You got any I know you
got Christine's. Do you got any coyotes in your neck
of the woods?
Speaker 12 (30:14):
I do, we do.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Oh. Oh, it's awful. And that a.
Speaker 12 (30:20):
Couple of years ago. We were all outside walking and
during the day, and we have a neighbors. They killed
the neighbor's sense and they went after this little dog.
The poor dog didn't make it. Oh, it was awful see.
Speaker 13 (30:33):
It and hearing it.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
You heard you heard? You heard that attack?
Speaker 12 (30:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Oh oh yeah. And and the dog, the dog was
helpless to defend him herself.
Speaker 7 (30:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Do you remember what what breed it was that that
was killed.
Speaker 12 (30:53):
They said it was a you know, they got like
the fluffy ears.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Oh, they're beautiful dogs, cocker span those dogs.
Speaker 12 (31:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Well, my feeling is we got to allow that. People
should be able to trap them or have the authorities
trap them and get them out of here.
Speaker 12 (31:18):
Have you seen them in Rockford? They're traveling in past
I'm not surprised.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
I'm not surprised.
Speaker 12 (31:25):
You know, we've had around two we have here. Fisher cats. Oh,
it's awful.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Oh, fisher cats are nasty. Nasty. I don't think I've
ever confronted a fisher cat, but I'm told that is
a nasty animal, even nastier than coyotes. You know, there's
a minor league baseball team up in New Hampshire the
I think it's the Toronto Blue Jays, a double A
team in Manchester called the Manchester fisher Cats. A lot
(31:53):
of people don't know what a fisher cat is, but
that is a nasty, nasty animal to confront. Oh god.
Speaker 12 (32:01):
Couple a couple of weeks ago, I was leaving the
German Center and this turkey was out front, and I'm
like thinking, oh, no, big thing. Well, the things started
chasing me, and I'm like what do I do? I Like,
I was like yelling and everything, and so finally I'm like,
you know what I have. I have my bag on
my hand. I swung at the thing. He finally like
(32:22):
took off.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Yeah, but I was like, uh, people, we talked last
hour about that. Turkeys, particularly just two or three of them,
they get they get real brave, and they'll they'll be
nasty and they'll come and they'll peck at you and
really and they'll bite you. So you gotta be careful
out there. It's it's it's a brave new world, Christine.
Speaker 12 (32:42):
Do you know this? This this woman and she was
who was driving by deadim almost they need them line,
and she saw this animal come out. Oh it was
so mandy. And they called it a It was between
the walls of the coyote, a hybrid thing. They called
it a cucka bearra Wow, never heard of that. It
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was so gross looking like it looked like a big nest,
like a big hyena. License.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Oh yeah, that's.
Speaker 11 (33:14):
No.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
The world's a change in Christine. We gotta take we
gotta take action here. And I really mean that. I
think we should trap these and get them out of here, just.
Speaker 12 (33:23):
Just topt they've all let massachuts will allow it.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Well, that's the problem you have, all of these, you know,
these folks who consider themselves to be better human beings
than you and me and all. We can't bother the coyotes.
So now I'm not in that camp. Christine, love your calls.
We'll talk soon. Thanks so much a lot of good
information in this call. Thanks, good night. All right, Well,
I got Kelly in Marblehead coming up. I got Tim
(33:49):
and Wooburn and I got some room for you. If
you want to call now, feel free, But if you
if you wait much longer, you'll never make it. Six
one six, nine thirty. We've talked a couple of hours.
A lot of coyotes spotted recently in the town of
Brookline and Brookline. They're not happy about it, and that's
(34:13):
why we're talking about it. We talked last hour with
a woman who was confronted by some coyotes. Nicole Roberts.
Appreciate her taking the time to join us as a
guest at the top of the ten. We've had some
interesting calls. Let's keep it rolling, Let's finish strong. My
proposal real simple. It is time now for us to
trap and relocate coyotes. Move them to parts of the
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state or parts of the region where be more comfortable,
and we will be more comfortable when they are in
other parts of the state and other parts of the region.
And those of you who are listening out of New England,
Laurie was kind enough to call in from Idaho. Love
to hear from you. We've had a few folks from
out of state tonight. John from New York called in
(34:55):
earlier and we talked with Bernie in New Hampshire. Pat
in ro the island. Feel free. We got some cops.
Some lines open join us six one seven, two fat
four to ten thirty six one seven. Those lines are
now filled. The only line that's open six one seven,
two five four to ten thirty. Back on night Side.
Speaker 10 (35:14):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
All right, I don't know if we can run the
table here. We're gonna give it a shot. Let's go
to Kelly in Marblehead. Hey, Kelly, welcome, How are you?
Speaker 7 (35:25):
I'm well?
Speaker 1 (35:25):
How are you tell me about coyotes? Should they say
or should they go?
Speaker 8 (35:30):
Oh?
Speaker 13 (35:30):
They gotta go, They gotta go. I love all the critters,
but the coyotes gotta go. They they got a cat,
my beloved cat, years ago, within a stone's throw of
the front door. So an awful, it's devastating. And there's
so many of them, so many of them.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Yeah, it's just it's got out of control and it's
only gonna get worse.
Speaker 13 (35:49):
And it's too and you can predict the role, you know,
it turns over because they migrate to the different neighborhoods.
But we'll see a zillion bunnies, tons of bunnies. Then
all of a sudden, you don't seem any bunnies anymore.
They've all disappeared. Oh yeah, then you'll see another run
of bunnies, and then the coyotes come back after the
bunnies again.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
But oh yeah, it's nature, Kelly, I could agree with you, boy,
Thank you very much. I don't know if you're a
regular caller, but I want you to become one.
Speaker 13 (36:17):
I love your first time first time, but I love listening.
But the thing is.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
Too run of bause is the first time? Call it?
Go right ahead? I'm sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 13 (36:29):
Well, I got one of those whistles on Amazon, those
shrill whistles, sure you know, to walk with. And then
somebody said, well is the whistle going to scare them
or is it going to call them to you? So
I'm like, oh, well, get.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Some pepper, get some pepper spray.
Speaker 13 (36:46):
Yeah. Well, and but the whistle's a lot easier. I
can see me holding the leash if I'm walking the
dog and the bags and the flash light and hold
a minute. I got to get my pepper spray and
you know, spray it in the right direction.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Oh yeah, the whist although you could just put in
your mouth like a referee. That'd be perfect. Here.
Speaker 13 (37:03):
There you go, There you go.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
I love it. Come on back soon. Well yeah, I
really appreciate it. Thank you, well, love it. Thank you
about you too, Tim and Wilbur and Tim want to
get you in at least a couple more.
Speaker 7 (37:15):
Go ahead, Tim, you won't believe this because I don't
believe it. I'll listen to the program. Since eleven o'clock, right,
I slept and I woke up, okay, sitting in my
car and what the heck of eleven? Toy and I
hadn't seen a coyote? You all winter? White comes walking
up to my driver side door. For the coyotes?
Speaker 1 (37:37):
How about that? Huh?
Speaker 7 (37:38):
Timely, I haven't seen in all winter. He comes right
up to the car door and he's standing there for
about five or ten seconds, and he left.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
No, I'm glad he left him left.
Speaker 7 (37:50):
No. Will they attack humans?
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Uh? There have been very infrequent examples of that. But
do I think they have the capacity? I certainly do.
I think any animal has the capacity to attack a human.
Speaker 7 (38:04):
Wow, Now I have jack rabbits, right, bunny rabbits. Bunny
rabbits a million, and then I got a million squirrels,
the bunny rabbits, I get a kick out. I like them.
But this guy comes walking right up to the car
and I said, I'm sitting here listening to this program.
I got about Kyo. He said, I love the clock
and here he comes, mystic I would not.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
I'm glad you did not get out of the car
because we don't want to lose you. Okay, okay, all right,
thanks him, all right, thanks to checking in. Okay, let'
see if we get a couple of more in here
real quickly, Jeff and wit. Jeff, you're next to a
nice I go right ahead.
Speaker 10 (38:40):
Yeah, I'm like the lady of Marblehead. But with me,
it was my chicken. One came right in the yard,
grabbed it. I've called the police, I've called the dog officer,
and nobody wants to deal with them. They say, don't
call us. So I'd like to get rid of them.
But we need a plan to have people actually work
on it.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Well, that's what we're trying to do tonight. We're trying
to stir it up a little bit. Jeff. And the
fact that you called in, even though you called in late,
it was very helpful. Look, you know you have a
right to have some domestic chickens in your yard and
not have to worry about coyotes. We got to do something.
We got to move them out, simple as that.
Speaker 4 (39:13):
Oh yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Jed, thanks thanks for calling. Let me get one more
in a least. Let me go to Lino in Wakefield.
Lino next on nightside. Welcome.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
Yes, sorry, man, how are you doing good?
Speaker 1 (39:25):
We're tight on time. You've called late, but you go
right ahead. You want to should coyotes?
Speaker 5 (39:30):
Should they go the sugo?
Speaker 1 (39:33):
Then sugar? That's the problem.
Speaker 6 (39:34):
And they don't have any predo they you know here
in New England they are not even no pre only humans.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
Yeah, you're the Laurie from Idaho is making that point
when when there were no other predators. Yes, they they
will proliferize. Great point, Lino, first time call her, Your
first time call.
Speaker 12 (39:55):
Her, first time call.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Got to give Lino a round of applause. Here, good night,
good night. I'm gonna try one more rob real quickly
and we'll try to get it done quickly.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
Here.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
Let me go, Jimmy and Asheville. Jimmy, I'm gonna give
you thirty seconds.
Speaker 8 (40:08):
Go all right. The big point about the coyotes. They
get worse during droughts because they can't drink, and then
they get especially fierce and rabid during the drought period.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
I appreciate it. You got it in final point. Thank
you much, Thank you everybody to the callers in the line.
I apologize got a call earlier. We're done for the night, Rob,
great job tonight, very busy night. Marie, a great job
as always. My name's Dan Rayl and there's always all dogs,
all cats, all pets go to him. And that's my
pell Charlie rays who passed fifteen years ago. That's where
all your pets are who have passed. I know you
(40:46):
love them and they loved you, and I believe you'll
see them again. We'll see again tomorro night on Night's side.
Have a great Thursday. Everyone. Please stay dry and stay safe.
Drive safely tomorrow. Don't want to lose any night side listeners.
I'm on Facebook at a couple of minutes
It's Night Side with Dan Ray.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I'm telling you Easy Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
All right, we're talking about coyotes. We spoke during the
ten o'clock hour. There were several coyotes sightings in the
town of Brookline, Massachusetts, which it's Brookline is a separate town,
but for those of you who are listening in other
parts of the country, it is almost surrounded by Boston.
(00:27):
I mean, when you're in Brookline, you're as close to
being in Boston without being in Boston as you can be.
So if there are coyotes in Brookline, there are coyotes
in Boston as well. And I think we've got to
the point here in New England, at least in the
Greater Boston, it is time for us to start to
relocate these coyotes and get them back to central and
western Massachusetts. Now some of you might agree with that,
(00:50):
some of you might disagree with that.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
That's what this is all about. I'm concerned. We had
a caller at the end Lauren last hour, who talked
about the scarcity of coyote attacks. They are imposing animals.
It's as simple as that. So I'm going to just
open up the phone lines. We have one line at
six months seven two, five, four ten thirty one line
at six month seven nine three one ten thirty. Our coyotes.
(01:16):
We talked last hour to John in New York. He
said that he sees coyotes where he lives. Mark is
an Austin which is part of Boston, says he sees coyotes.
Patty and Wellesley, which is a suburb of Boston, said
that she saw a fox tonight run in front of
her car. Rachel h is an advocate for coyotes, and
I think she was in effect opposed to my plan
(01:38):
to relocate them. She feels that they were here first. Okay,
that's fine, you know so so so weren't dinosaurs, but
that's here to there. Uh so, let's let's just get
going here six one, seven two, five four to ten
thirty one line there six months, seven nine three one,
ten thirty. We're going to go to Alex and Millis.
(01:59):
I got to believe that coyotes and mill in mill Is, Alex,
how are you?
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Oh, yes, absolutely so. I haven't seen one in a while,
but I was walking my fifty five pound golden duo Apollo.
This It would be around the same time last year.
And we live on a scenic road, so in the
woods what my dog goes ballistic? He was pulling me
(02:25):
and the coyotes. It was a coyote. It stood for
a few minutes like froze, and then it took off.
But I would describe it as an emaciated German shepherd
because it was like, you know, they're not they're not
what do you called. They seem to be on the
anorexic side, but.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
They're probably not eating as well as.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
As you would make And and you know the other
day I did run into two deers actually almost like
you know, they they came out of nowhere, and I
you know, I stopped in time. But uh, so you.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Were driving, I mean you were you were driving? I
was driving.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Yeah, yeah, okay, well yeah, we uh actually, uh the
only other thing I saw was there was a there
was a bunch of foxes. There was a dinner foxes,
uh in one of our neighbors in the back of
his shed and their dog was going, you know, going
over there. But they somehow relocated. But there were like five.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
So what would you do with kind? So do you
do you think Kita's were a problem here in you know,
in the inside of four ninety five. You're obviously in millers,
so you're not inside one twenty eight. Yeah, they have problem.
Would you relocate them or no?
Speaker 4 (03:43):
I would relocate them, but I'd say I would be
more afraid of the two legged kinyoes, if you know
what I mean, because you know they won't bother you
that much. I don't. I don't think they'll bother you.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Okay, fair enough, fair enough? Well we Uh, I think
it's time to say that, mister wiley coyote. Uh, we've
seen enough of you. It's time for you to leave.
We're going to get you into some areas in the
state where you'd be more than welcome. I just think
that it's it's I don't want to see a coyote
in my yard there, and I think there's a lot
(04:19):
of people there. There are people in the hot We
did stories in this year ago. They were very concerned
about it. But there were people up here saying, oh, no,
we want the coyotes. I want to hear from some
people who want to tell me they want the coyotes
as well. I'd love to know why.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Oh, one quick thing, Dan, Yeah, I put in I
put in some vegetables, you know, raised race fawer beds.
And there's this rabbit. But I don't think it's attracted
to the tomatoes. But I'm just wondering, uh, you know,
and I'm talking about a big rabbit. It looks almost
like a like an overgrown cat, and it just just
(04:54):
keeps coming near, you know, near our law and all
the time.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Well, if I were con your suggestion, I'd go with
the two iron.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Okay, Well, two eye is more effective in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
No, don't don't hurt the rabbit, not at all, you know, uh,
you know, feed them, give them some carrots. They love carrots. Okay, thanks, Alex,
I gotta go. Okay, Yeah, bringing the rabbit in here,
that's good. We'll talk about whatever. I'm not going to
relocate the rabbits, okay, let's just talk about coyotes. Gonna
relocate the coyotes. I got a couple of lines at
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six one, seven, two, five, four to ten thirty one
and six one seven, nine three one ten thirty. Everybody
says to me, you talk too much politics. We're not
gonna talk politics, Okay, We're just gonna talk coyotes. Uh,
have you seen a coyote in your neck of the woods,
in your neighborhood. Are you worried about them or are
you ready to live with them? Simple as that there
are people out there probably like them. I don't. I'm saying,
(05:50):
let's relocate them. I don't want to be neither to them.
Let's relocate them. Send them to New Hampshire. Of them
on or western Massachusetts. Get them out of eastern massache us.
That's my thought. Love to hear from you. You call
me cruel, but you know, just call me. We'll be
back on night Side after this.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Night Side with Dan Ray, I'm w B Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
All right, let's keep rolling. We got full lines again.
I like that. Let's go to Laura Laura Junior in
Lynn Laura Jr. Welcome back.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
How are you hey?
Speaker 6 (06:23):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
I'm nice to hear from you. Dan. I wish your
true happiness as well as all your listeners. Glennon Brighton,
I was in in Portland, ME. I don't know why.
Want she called always think about Jim Brady. I don't
know why. But also one of my favorite callers. I
think his name is Joe. He sounds like David or cheez.
I think you know, you might know who exact I know.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
I know Joe. Joe's a great good friend. By the way.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Yeah, he's a true instivation to me. I'm half Spanish myself,
and I looked up to him. I was born here,
but I'm trying to learn Spanish. But I feel scared,
but I look up to him. He's a true inspiration
to me.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Good. How do you feel about coyotes?
Speaker 5 (07:04):
Skin them? I totally totally agree with you about you
saying you want to remocate them. Totally agree. And I'm
not surprised that they're in Brookline because I used to
walk near there. I used to work at one of
your competitive radio stations in Brighton, and I used to
see wild turkeys like crossing the street. So I'm not
(07:28):
I'm not to process see kyotes. Another another one that
I wish that wasn't around. And you might laugh at this.
One of my biggest fires, Dan is dragonflies. That's my
biggest fires.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Dragonflies. I don't think they bite you. I did a
lot of insects. I don't like wasps. I don't like
any of those things. But do they bite the dragonflies?
Speaker 5 (07:50):
No, No, they don't. They they're harmless. They're good because
they eat wasps, but they eat mosquitoes the eb so
they're good for us, but for me, the big me
and a scary worker. So I wish they could be I.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Was Warri.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Kirlees. Yes, very scared of them. I would not want to.
I never saw them here up here and Lynn, thank god,
but they I guess, Oh you.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Got him in, Lynn, Laura, j you got him and
Lynn trust me on that. I mean they have him
over in the high They got him in, hid, you
got him in and trust me.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
Yeah, thank god. I've never seeing them, and I don't
want to feel them. I like to keep it that way.
I thought I saw wild turkey, said to last summer.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Oh yeah, they're around. Wild turkeys have made a big comeback.
Don't mess with wild turkeys, particularly two or three of them.
They'll come at you, Lawland. I'm hoping Joe's listening tonight,
because Joe's a great guy. I'm sure he will have
loved to have heard what you had to say.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Mostly, keep on the work there, have a go on you.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Too, low, don't be stranger. Okay, thanks, Match, We keep
rolling here. We're gonna get everybody caught up. Robin Medforday, Rob,
you're next night side. Welcome.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Hi Dan, Thank you, sir. I'd like to thank you.
I'd like to offer a few observations, some information right ahead, Okay,
as recently as nineteen fifty six, if you were to
go ninety three north from Boston to Wellington Circle, there
was no highway there. There was a little shallow pond
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and there was a stream that came down from Pine Hill.
Now that stream has since been put underground. And at
about the urban wildlife, I see a possum comes out
of the sewer. They've just relocated. They're still around. There's
a possum that comes out, crosses the street around one
(09:41):
thirty in the morning, goes down the other sewer. I've
seen coyote around, but it's not to worry. If you
just see one coyote. If there is a bunch of them,
get your flashlight out.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Okay, someone else mentioned that. By the way, someone else
mentioned that's good to know they.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Will not only yes, they're frightened that that works.
Speaker 6 (10:04):
That was a great Oh.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
And also let me say the man with the tomato
is tomato leaves the poisonous to rabbits, so he's not
to worry about his tomatoes with a rabbit. Now out
here in Medford, I'm seven miles north of Boston, near
Wellington Circle. I've seen coyote only one at a time,
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and I checked with the wildlife folks and they said, oh, yes,
they're familiar down at Actually I don't want to say
where they're living, but they actually know where. There's a
den of at least a few living in Medford down
towards the river, and they don't really bother anybody. But
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I have also noted in the area there's red and
white sail hawks. There are turkeys around. The males can
be very AGGRESSI in the springtime because they're trying to
show off. People should beware that. Back in nineteen fifty
six when this was like I said, that stream and
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that little pond where Wellington's, where Roosevelt Circle is, we
had five hundred beers in Massachusetts. That population has increased
to about eighty five hundred bears in Massachusetts.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Yeah, we talked about that the other night, and they're
going to increase in two thousand and six, they're going
to increase the amount of time that people can hunt bears.
The fella from mass Wildlife the other day said it
was about five thousand bears and they want to keep
the population stable. They're not looking to reduce it dramatically,
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but they need to stop its growth. According to I
think the fellow we had is Dave Waddles from Mass Wildlife.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Great guy. I've also seen gear rabbits in the area, chipmunks,
squirrels and and skunks and porcupines, I think, you know,
I have some some cardinals, I think, and the fox
occasional fox. But basically not to worry it if you
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come across. I mean I worry it now, even just
letting I have a little a little dog that I
don't want them to be out. You know, you never know.
They are capable of snatching. Even the hawks are able
to snatch a little dog.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
So but.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
A question to you, Dan, is there an abundance of
skunks in Washington.
Speaker 7 (12:43):
D C.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Yes they are. There are a lot of skunks in Washington,
D C. And many of them had the letter D
or R associated with their name.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Now, can the coyotes maybe come and eat the Boston rats?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
That was that would be a real purpose. I would
welcome the coyote and that way they could dine, they
could dine in the rats. Very interesting, Rob, Rob, there
was a very creative call. I really have to say,
hats off. You're one of the the excellent callers of
the night. I do appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Okay, well, god bless you, sir. I'm gonna need a
bigger hat.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Well, that's not a problem. You just keep working, working
and call the show more often. Okay, thank you very much,
appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Okay, thanks a great night.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Okay, we'll get good night. We'll get one more in here,
but maybe one or two more in here. Let me
go next to Brad and Lynn. Second call it from
Linda this hour. Hey Brad, have you seen any coyotes
in Lynn? Oh?
Speaker 6 (13:41):
Yeah, all the time. They're everywhere.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Yeah, that's why I was trying to convince Laura Junior.
So I'm hoping he's still listening.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
I actually I was in when I called it live
in hont actually.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
And oh you had a lot of them in the
hont Yeah.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
I called him a couple of years ago when it
had the shop shooting.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Yeah, whatever happened to that. But whatever happened to that,
did they uh did did they eliminate that population?
Speaker 7 (14:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (14:10):
They they suddenly one family suddenly went away, and then
another family suddenly went away, and then there was just
like maybe I think one of I don't know, there
was only a couple left. I still see them all
the time, but not like.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
So they weren't they weren't taken out then by sharpshooters.
They they left it. They wrote a chord.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
Oh no, they were blasted. They set up a thing
down the dump and they had a federal protection order
and stuff at a federal plate. And I want to say
that the truck was from the Midwest. I think that
came in here.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
So there was action take bottom.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
Yeah yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They blasted him
right in the dump and but oh yeah, unfortunately all
were left with There's a lot of rotors, we got
a lot of mice, we got a lot of rats.
We've got a bunch of overpopulated with the rabbits. Because
the coyotes killed the scarms, the squirrels, I don't know
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whatever else was out here. The foxes, you know, they
killed all that stuff because they were the apex predators.
So now that man took out, we took out them
and uh and all the other you know, squirrels and
you know, the skarms and the other things. They're off
back in town eating the things. The raccoons. I mean,
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I haven't seen a raccoon out here in years now,
and uh they used to be. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (15:39):
But yeah.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
As a sad note though, too, as we're seeing is
like like because we've got a lot more rats and
rolled into mice and the little you know, ground creatures
running around, people put out the traps and they bade them.
And then we also got a lot of eagles and
hawks and stuff around. You have a flying and people
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are saying those are getting sick again. So I don't know,
we was getting kind of it's like the kuy And
that brings back to your point, whatever your barometer was
in Easter ninety three. I mean, there's got to be
something to be done because I mean, all of a sudden,
you had that family here like what three four years ago,
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just eating everything out of sight.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Yeah. Now, I remember that story in the Haunt, and
it was interesting. Half the town seemed to want to
get rid of them, and half the town wanted to
keep them.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
I just think that I.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
Mean, if you had your cat and your dog, you know,
you want to get rid of them. If you don't
have an animal you have, you're probably like, you know,
don't see him out of sight, out of mind. But
you know, okay, I mean I used to see him
every day. I mean I saw nine of them, ten
of them walk by me when I was outside one day.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
That would be a little frightening when when they were
in that much of a pack. I've heard them when
they when they kill at night. I have coyotes near
where I live and during the summertime when the windows
are open and they have to kill at two o'clock
in the morning, it's wild. I mean they just y.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
I heard one a couple of weeks ago. I jumped
out out I could have whichever one was outside my
window screamed, and then the other one, I don't know
wherever it was, screamed. And it's usually only two of them,
but they make it starm like there's like fifty of them.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Yeah, it's frightening, It's absolutely fine.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
Yeah, but all right, well, well I'm sure we'll have
something other issue to to ten without here, But now
now it's rated.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Yeah, that's a problem. That is a problem, man, and
that's got to get out of control.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
I mean I see them walk by me all the time.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
It's you know, I don't know, they're they're pretty ugly.
And well, I would hope that they could, that they
could put out some sort of poison to deal with
the rats.
Speaker 6 (17:59):
And well, we have all the rocks and the sea
walls and the seaweeds and the little voids and the
crags and whatnot, and they love it high tide they
come in here, stuff you know that gets washed in.
And they just said, oh, you could sit out there
at low tide and watch them walk around all night long.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
I wouldn't want to do that, but I understand. I guess.
I guess it's very but they should have they should
they should have some sort of way to get rid
of rats. I mean, because that's that will destroy your city.
That will destroy your city.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
We did before it was like, you know, the we
had enough ractoons and squirrels and you knowsconsor you know
whatever was eating whatever, and maybe the birds. But now,
I mean, since since they're all gone and the balances shifted.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
I got you.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
I got it on the little island out there.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Brad, Thank you very much. It's a beautiful place in
lind It really is a beautiful place to hunt.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
Lynn Marble, it has marble at Neck, Lynn has Linen Neck.
They just gave it a different name.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
I got you, I got you. Beg you, Brad, talk
to you, sir, have a great night, Okay, don't want
to short jury and change anyone to get Laurie coming
up on the other side, Christine and Matt if you'd
like to join the conversation, I have a line at
six one seven, two, five four ten thirty and one
A six one seven nine three one ten thirty. Have
you seen coyotes in your neighborhood? And folks, if you're
out there and outside of New England, I'd love to
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know if it's a problem where you are, because we
have all of a sudden found out that there are
coyotes in Brookline, Massachusetts. And Brookline, Massachusetts is as suburban
a community as you could name. I mean, it's the
equivalent of I guess Chevy Chase, Maryland or whatever the
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nice suburbs are around any any major American city. But
it's people are concerned in Brookline, and I say it's
time to start relocating coyotes away from Boston and may
be away from where you live as well, better left
to know if it's a problem. We'd be back on Nightside, Laurie.
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We'll lead it off on the other side, coming back
right after this.
Speaker 9 (20:07):
Brookline police are telling the public to be on alert
after they say coyotes attacked to dog Monday night. CBS
News Boston reports that investigators say brazen behavior from coyotes
is being spotted more and more around Brookline.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Please say.
Speaker 9 (20:20):
The two coyotes emerged from a wooded area and attacked
a dog in the Sergeant Beechwood area while it was
on a walk. Neighbors say they've been seeing coyotes for years,
but now they don't seem to be afraid of humans.
I'm Dan Watkins.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
You're on Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's
news radio. They get Dan Watkins. That's exactly what we're
talking about tonight here on Nightside. As a matter of fact,
that we'll get this story in the Globe. Says during
the Monday incident, the owner was able to free the
dog and escape the area. Police did not release the
exact address of the attack. H So we're just talking
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about Brookline, but if you know the boss An area,
you know Brookline. Let me go to Laurie in Idaho.
She knows the Boston area, but she knows Idaho. I
will bet you you have more than coyotes in your neighborhood, Laurie.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Oh, we do. And I just will say quickly that
when I was living in Massachusetts, that's when they started coming.
People in Westwood and Chelmsford started seeing them during the day.
And that was fifteen years ago anyway, So it's they've
been working their way east. But they are much larger
in the Northeast than they are at least here and
maybe other parts of the country. So they are the
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biggest predator on the block. So it makes them very
brazen and very I don't like them. I can't stand
the yip parties. So we do have them out here.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
They are ye, the yip party, even when they have
a kill you made.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Yeah yeah, that horrible, annoying chorus of just it's creepy,
Yeah yeah, I can't see it.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Are they aggressive? Or if you were walking down the
road somewhere where you live and a coyote came out
of the woods, would they confront you or would they.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Show Here's the thing.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
I've never seen them except baby in the headlights at
night because they are hunted by the wolves in the mountain,
lions and the golden eagles. So they are much more
timid out here. There were nowhere near brazen. You hear
their parties out in the woods or out not even
in the woods. You can hear them from downtown, but
I have not seen one in the daylight out here ever.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Wow, well, the the reverse is true here. We just
had a spate of sightings in Brookline. And of course
what happens now is there are a lot of people
who have cameras on their home, so therefore you wouldn't
have had that twenty years ago, so someone would have said, oh,
I saw a coyote last night. Now you can they
go to the videotape.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Yeah, they're the biggest predator in the neighborhood. There's nobody,
you know, around where they're living that goes after them
except for humans hunters. So they're brazen and they're brave
out here. They're timid because they're afraid they're going to
get caught by a mountain lioner or a golden eagle overhead.
They will go eagle will pick up a coyote and
take off with it. So they're timid out here because
they have true apex predators around them.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
So an eagle can pick up a coyote. It looks
to me like gold the.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Golden eagles bigger than a bald eagle.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Yeah, you know, you know your your predators and you're
a neck of the woods out there. That's that's for sure. Well,
I just think we need to trap them and relocate them.
I'm aging to go shoot them or kill them. I
don't want to do that. Then kind of get them
out of here because they will take over our neighborhoods
here and the people they will. It's a very tolerant community,
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if you know what I'm saying. And there's been a
lot of uh hue and cry from Brookline residents. We
had a woman on last hour, Nicole Roberts, who seems
like a really nice woman. I you know, I feel
for them, It's as simple as.
Speaker 8 (23:52):
That I do.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
And I don't like them. I don't like them at all.
I can't stand them. I'm very grateful that I've never
seen them out here, but I used to see them
in New England and I I just.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Think it's interesting that of all the places in the
world where I assume coyotes would be fairly prevalent, it
would be a place like Idaho.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
But you may they are, but we don't see them
because they're scared of the people that they are pray for.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
Yeah, they're out here.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
You can hear them, you just don't see them.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
But the predators, the predators that the coyotes in Idaho
are afraid of, are not predators that go after humans.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
Not generally. I mean, this is the one thing you
have to worry about with a kina. This is the
other thing that's concerning about nine is rabies.
Speaker 10 (24:32):
You know.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
So if you're yell and howl and do the airhorn
and they don't run away, you probably should be concerned
because they might be sick. But no, we've never had no,
we don't get wolf attacks or mountain lions. They're in
the woods. You see them. But if you if you
behave yourself, they don't bother you. But they're out there.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Well, you have struck a balance of nature in Idaho.
That probably for us. For someone from New England, probably
you learned a lot while out there. I hope Laurie
loved you.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
I learned it, but I still have got in the window.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Well, that's what you that's what you've learned. That's that's
a valuable lesson. Lauren, love your Paul. Thank you so much.
We'll talk later. Thank you, good night all. Just keep
rolling here. I'm going to go to uh, Matt Is
in Brighton. Matt, what's going on? I assume you probably
have more rats in Brighton than you have coyotes.
Speaker 11 (25:27):
Oh yeah, no, we got we got it all. Definitely
more rats. You know. I grew up originally in Newton,
lived down south in Florida and never saw any coyotes.
But in Newton they're all over. And here's the thing.
Then there's some of them are called kyo wolves, which
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is a hybrid between a coyote, a wolf, an Eastern wolf,
and a domestic dog. So some man, these things are
getting up to fifty pounds and they're quite big. It's
gonna happen more up north in the main area, but
they've definitely come into the area around Newton and stuff.
I live in Brighton. I haven't seen a coyote in Brighton.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
But I had.
Speaker 11 (26:17):
One of those doorbell cams, but I use it as
a trail camera, and I set it up in my
backyard in Newton, and every night, I swear after April
when they mate, and I wouldn't get birth the females
to their pups. I would always catch one a camera
around four am, and I hear them quite a bit.
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So they need to get moved out. It's unfortunate because
of you know, they're too comfortable with humans. They will
pick off a dog right in front of its owner,
especially the small ones. And they're getting big. They're getting big, and.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Well, I told her last hour. I don't know if
you were listening, but for the audience that wasn't listening
last hour. We moved into our neighborhood here this is
going to be twenty years ago. We were warned about
the presence of coyotes and a neighbor of ours, who
was a very smart, athletic woman, had been gardening and
she had a small dog in her yard off leash,
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I believe, and a coyote came out and grabbed the dog.
And this is twenty years ago. She chased the coyote
and was able to save the dog. She basically got
the dog out of the coyotes mouth. This is a
brave woman. She spent eight thousand dollars eight thousand dollars
in surgery to repair the dog. A year later, once again,
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she's gardening in her backyard. The dog is there and
another coyote or the same coyote came out, grabbed the
dog and this time never saw the dog again.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (27:54):
I mean, one unfortunate part is miss I in when
my I have a black lab and she was a puppy.
This is you know, probably in twenty twenty three or so,
I had one that was coming up to it. It
was dark out, but it was coming up to me
and it wasn't a third. It didn't fully approach me,
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but it got with intense fifteen feet. You know, if
I don't want to say, you know, on the air,
what I would do, you know for protection wise legally,
but you can't even go after these coyotes. Mass wildlife,
you know, doesn't want to recognize that there's you know,
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kyo wolves and hybrids and stuff like that, and it's
harassment of the coyote to defend it. Basically, Well, I.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Don't know that I would suggest that.
Speaker 11 (28:49):
When I called them no.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
But I'm suggesting that pepper spray is legal now in Massachusetts.
I don't even think you need.
Speaker 11 (28:57):
I'm not talking pepper spray, but I hear you.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Well, I'm just saying that you need something. And I
think women who are out at night should have pepper
spray because I think I think it's legal. I don't
even think you need an f I D card they
used to need. But I think we were the last
state in the Union to make pepper spray easily accessible
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and legal. And I just think that if you have it,
and if you know how to use it, and if
it's a windy night, make sure that you're not you know,
got to have a spray and blow back in your face.
But on a minimal there's no great wind. If something
came at you, whether it was a you know, a
coyote or any animal, I think that would disable them.
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So that's my thought. Someone to be a ball by it.
But I think we've got to protect human beings and
family pets before coyotes, in my opinion. I know not
everyone will agree. If they don't, feel free to give
us a call. Matt, I've got a schoo here. We'll
let you go. Thank you man, talk soon. Thanks for
appreciate you. Falling in. Let me get Christine in here. Hi, Chris,
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how are you tonight? Welcome?
Speaker 12 (30:06):
Good?
Speaker 1 (30:08):
You got any Christine? You got any I know you
got Christine's. Do you got any coyotes in your neck
of the woods?
Speaker 12 (30:14):
I do, we do.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Oh. Oh, it's awful. And that a.
Speaker 12 (30:20):
Couple of years ago. We were all outside walking and
during the day, and we have a neighbors. They killed
the neighbor's sense and they went after this little dog.
The poor dog didn't make it. Oh, it was awful see.
Speaker 13 (30:33):
It and hearing it.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
You heard you heard? You heard that attack?
Speaker 12 (30:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Oh oh yeah. And and the dog, the dog was
helpless to defend him herself.
Speaker 7 (30:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Do you remember what what breed it was that that
was killed.
Speaker 12 (30:53):
They said it was a you know, they got like
the fluffy ears.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Oh, they're beautiful dogs, cocker span those dogs.
Speaker 12 (31:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Well, my feeling is we got to allow that. People
should be able to trap them or have the authorities
trap them and get them out of here.
Speaker 12 (31:18):
Have you seen them in Rockford? They're traveling in past
I'm not surprised.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
I'm not surprised.
Speaker 12 (31:25):
You know, we've had around two we have here. Fisher cats. Oh,
it's awful.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Oh, fisher cats are nasty. Nasty. I don't think I've
ever confronted a fisher cat, but I'm told that is
a nasty animal, even nastier than coyotes. You know, there's
a minor league baseball team up in New Hampshire the
I think it's the Toronto Blue Jays, a double A
team in Manchester called the Manchester fisher Cats. A lot
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of people don't know what a fisher cat is, but
that is a nasty, nasty animal to confront. Oh god.
Speaker 12 (32:01):
Couple a couple of weeks ago, I was leaving the
German Center and this turkey was out front, and I'm
like thinking, oh, no, big thing. Well, the things started
chasing me, and I'm like what do I do? I Like,
I was like yelling and everything, and so finally I'm like,
you know what I have. I have my bag on
my hand. I swung at the thing. He finally like
(32:22):
took off.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Yeah, but I was like, uh, people, we talked last
hour about that. Turkeys, particularly just two or three of them,
they get they get real brave, and they'll they'll be
nasty and they'll come and they'll peck at you and
really and they'll bite you. So you gotta be careful
out there. It's it's it's a brave new world, Christine.
Speaker 12 (32:42):
Do you know this? This this woman and she was
who was driving by deadim almost they need them line,
and she saw this animal come out. Oh it was
so mandy. And they called it a It was between
the walls of the coyote, a hybrid thing. They called
it a cucka bearra Wow, never heard of that. It
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was so gross looking like it looked like a big nest,
like a big hyena. License.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Oh yeah, that's.
Speaker 11 (33:14):
No.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
The world's a change in Christine. We gotta take we
gotta take action here. And I really mean that. I
think we should trap these and get them out of here, just.
Speaker 12 (33:23):
Just topt they've all let massachuts will allow it.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Well, that's the problem you have, all of these, you know,
these folks who consider themselves to be better human beings
than you and me and all. We can't bother the coyotes.
So now I'm not in that camp. Christine, love your calls.
We'll talk soon. Thanks so much a lot of good
information in this call. Thanks, good night. All right, Well,
I got Kelly in Marblehead coming up. I got Tim
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and Wooburn and I got some room for you. If
you want to call now, feel free, But if you
if you wait much longer, you'll never make it. Six
one six, nine thirty. We've talked a couple of hours.
A lot of coyotes spotted recently in the town of
Brookline and Brookline. They're not happy about it, and that's
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why we're talking about it. We talked last hour with
a woman who was confronted by some coyotes. Nicole Roberts.
Appreciate her taking the time to join us as a
guest at the top of the ten. We've had some
interesting calls. Let's keep it rolling, Let's finish strong. My
proposal real simple. It is time now for us to
trap and relocate coyotes. Move them to parts of the
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state or parts of the region where be more comfortable,
and we will be more comfortable when they are in
other parts of the state and other parts of the region.
And those of you who are listening out of New England,
Laurie was kind enough to call in from Idaho. Love
to hear from you. We've had a few folks from
out of state tonight. John from New York called in
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earlier and we talked with Bernie in New Hampshire. Pat
in ro the island. Feel free. We got some cops.
Some lines open join us six one seven, two fat
four to ten thirty six one seven. Those lines are
now filled. The only line that's open six one seven,
two five four to ten thirty. Back on night Side.
Speaker 10 (35:14):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
All right, I don't know if we can run the
table here. We're gonna give it a shot. Let's go
to Kelly in Marblehead. Hey, Kelly, welcome, How are you?
Speaker 7 (35:25):
I'm well?
Speaker 1 (35:25):
How are you tell me about coyotes? Should they say
or should they go?
Speaker 8 (35:30):
Oh?
Speaker 13 (35:30):
They gotta go, They gotta go. I love all the critters,
but the coyotes gotta go. They they got a cat,
my beloved cat, years ago, within a stone's throw of
the front door. So an awful, it's devastating. And there's
so many of them, so many of them.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Yeah, it's just it's got out of control and it's
only gonna get worse.
Speaker 13 (35:49):
And it's too and you can predict the role, you know,
it turns over because they migrate to the different neighborhoods.
But we'll see a zillion bunnies, tons of bunnies. Then
all of a sudden, you don't seem any bunnies anymore.
They've all disappeared. Oh yeah, then you'll see another run
of bunnies, and then the coyotes come back after the
bunnies again.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
But oh yeah, it's nature, Kelly, I could agree with you, boy,
Thank you very much. I don't know if you're a
regular caller, but I want you to become one.
Speaker 13 (36:17):
I love your first time first time, but I love listening.
But the thing is.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
Too run of bause is the first time? Call it?
Go right ahead? I'm sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 13 (36:29):
Well, I got one of those whistles on Amazon, those
shrill whistles, sure you know, to walk with. And then
somebody said, well is the whistle going to scare them
or is it going to call them to you? So
I'm like, oh, well, get.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Some pepper, get some pepper spray.
Speaker 13 (36:46):
Yeah. Well, and but the whistle's a lot easier. I
can see me holding the leash if I'm walking the
dog and the bags and the flash light and hold
a minute. I got to get my pepper spray and
you know, spray it in the right direction.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Oh yeah, the whist although you could just put in
your mouth like a referee. That'd be perfect. Here.
Speaker 13 (37:03):
There you go, There you go.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
I love it. Come on back soon. Well yeah, I
really appreciate it. Thank you, well, love it. Thank you
about you too, Tim and Wilbur and Tim want to
get you in at least a couple more.
Speaker 7 (37:15):
Go ahead, Tim, you won't believe this because I don't
believe it. I'll listen to the program. Since eleven o'clock, right,
I slept and I woke up, okay, sitting in my
car and what the heck of eleven? Toy and I
hadn't seen a coyote? You all winter? White comes walking
up to my driver side door. For the coyotes?
Speaker 1 (37:37):
How about that? Huh?
Speaker 7 (37:38):
Timely, I haven't seen in all winter. He comes right
up to the car door and he's standing there for
about five or ten seconds, and he left.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
No, I'm glad he left him left.
Speaker 7 (37:50):
No. Will they attack humans?
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Uh? There have been very infrequent examples of that. But
do I think they have the capacity? I certainly do.
I think any animal has the capacity to attack a human.
Speaker 7 (38:04):
Wow, Now I have jack rabbits, right, bunny rabbits. Bunny
rabbits a million, and then I got a million squirrels,
the bunny rabbits, I get a kick out. I like them.
But this guy comes walking right up to the car
and I said, I'm sitting here listening to this program.
I got about Kyo. He said, I love the clock
and here he comes, mystic I would not.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
I'm glad you did not get out of the car
because we don't want to lose you. Okay, okay, all right,
thanks him, all right, thanks to checking in. Okay, let'
see if we get a couple of more in here
real quickly, Jeff and wit. Jeff, you're next to a
nice I go right ahead.
Speaker 10 (38:40):
Yeah, I'm like the lady of Marblehead. But with me,
it was my chicken. One came right in the yard,
grabbed it. I've called the police, I've called the dog officer,
and nobody wants to deal with them. They say, don't
call us. So I'd like to get rid of them.
But we need a plan to have people actually work
on it.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Well, that's what we're trying to do tonight. We're trying
to stir it up a little bit. Jeff. And the
fact that you called in, even though you called in late,
it was very helpful. Look, you know you have a
right to have some domestic chickens in your yard and
not have to worry about coyotes. We got to do something.
We got to move them out, simple as that.
Speaker 4 (39:13):
Oh yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Jed, thanks thanks for calling. Let me get one more
in a least. Let me go to Lino in Wakefield.
Lino next on nightside. Welcome.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
Yes, sorry, man, how are you doing good?
Speaker 1 (39:25):
We're tight on time. You've called late, but you go
right ahead. You want to should coyotes?
Speaker 5 (39:30):
Should they go the sugo?
Speaker 1 (39:33):
Then sugar? That's the problem.
Speaker 6 (39:34):
And they don't have any predo they you know here
in New England they are not even no pre only humans.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
Yeah, you're the Laurie from Idaho is making that point
when when there were no other predators. Yes, they they
will proliferize. Great point, Lino, first time call her, Your
first time call.
Speaker 12 (39:55):
Her, first time call.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Got to give Lino a round of applause. Here, good night,
good night. I'm gonna try one more rob real quickly
and we'll try to get it done quickly.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
Here.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
Let me go, Jimmy and Asheville. Jimmy, I'm gonna give
you thirty seconds.
Speaker 8 (40:08):
Go all right. The big point about the coyotes. They
get worse during droughts because they can't drink, and then
they get especially fierce and rabid during the drought period.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
I appreciate it. You got it in final point. Thank
you much, Thank you everybody to the callers in the line.
I apologize got a call earlier. We're done for the night, Rob,
great job tonight, very busy night. Marie, a great job
as always. My name's Dan Rayl and there's always all dogs,
all cats, all pets go to him. And that's my
pell Charlie rays who passed fifteen years ago. That's where
all your pets are who have passed. I know you
(40:46):
love them and they loved you, and I believe you'll
see them again. We'll see again tomorro night on Night's side.
Have a great Thursday. Everyone. Please stay dry and stay safe.
Drive safely tomorrow. Don't want to lose any night side listeners.
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