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Owner says cat attacked on lanai by coyote
By ERIC STAATS Monday, June 30, 2008
Worthington Country Club is trying to catch a coyote after a resident of the south Lee County neighborhood found his cat dead in his pool.
A splash in the pool awakened Southampton Drive resident Roger Randell about 4 a.m. June 14, he said Monday.
Randell, 72, said he got a light and went to investigate and saw a coyote run out of the pool and jump about 4 feet in the air and through his screened lanai.
The cat, Kermie, appeared to have suffered a broken neck and was dead in the pool, he said.
The incident is at least the second time a coyote is suspected of killing a cat in neighborhoods near the Lee-Collier line.
A Quail Creek resident reported her cat, Satchel, went missing the following day from her lanai. The screen was ripped open and a garden trampled, she said. Residents had reported seeing coyotes in the area.
Private trappers have caught three coyotes in The Brooks subdivision in Estero, where coyotes have killed three small dogs, injured three others and bit a woman.
Randell said the Lee County Sheriff’s Office took a report on the attack.
Worthington has hired a private trapper in the wake of the attack on Randell’s lanai, Randell said.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission doesn’t investigate individual attacks unless they deem them to be a chronic problem, such as the Estero attacks on dogs being walked on leashes, spokesman Gary Morse said.
“Coyotes do (attack animals) all the time. Bobcats do this all the time,” Morse said. “It’s common, really comm
[Review in RDF] By ERIC STAATS Monday, June 30, 2008
Worthington Country Club is trying to catch a coyote after a resident of the south Lee County neighborhood found his cat dead in his pool.
A splash in the pool awakened Southampton Drive resident Roger Randell about 4 a.m. June 14, he said Monday.
Randell, 72, said he got a light and went to investigate and saw a coyote run out of the pool and jump about 4 feet in the air and through his screened lanai.
The cat, Kermie, appeared to have suffered a broken neck and was dead in the pool, he said.
The incident is at least the second time a coyote is suspected of killing a cat in neighborhoods near the Lee-Collier line.
A Quail Creek resident reported her cat, Satchel, went missing the following day from her lanai. The screen was ripped open and a garden trampled, she said. Residents had reported seeing coyotes in the area.
Private trappers have caught three coyotes in The Brooks subdivision in Estero, where coyotes have killed three small dogs, injured three others and bit a woman.
Randell said the Lee County Sheriff’s Office took a report on the attack.
Worthington has hired a private trapper in the wake of the attack on Randell’s lanai, Randell said.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission doesn’t investigate individual attacks unless they deem them to be a chronic problem, such as the Estero attacks on dogs being walked on leashes, spokesman Gary Morse said.
“Coyotes do (attack animals) all the time. Bobcats do this all the time,” Morse said. “It’s common, really comm
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