Well, it will be interesting to see now that this thread is going again if the OP will join in on the conversation.

Robert Frost has nothing to worry about with that one:1rotfl:

wow I hope this particular reporting really is an apocryphal tale because if it is true, oh my, welcome to the mean streets of TOTV. (Cringe)

What I do know is that if I were a coyote, I would want to live in TV. If I were a coyote, I would think of TV as a smorgasbord.

Coyotes are here to stay. No need to panic. But we do need to educate ourselves on coyote behavior and try to be as smart as they are.

Article this morning in the other on line news about what sounds like is another one snatched. Here is the headline: Villagers mourn pet snatched from lanai after screen ripped open

That's the Saluda Street one here in Lynnhaven for Friday night's loss of the 20 year old cat.

If you do a little digging in her web-site you can find her house address and then Google it as well as put it on Mapquest. I do not want to post private information like her address on here. Click on whatever is colored and looks like it will lead to a home address. It is her choice to leave up access points to her web-site and through that to her home address.

Hey golfing eagles: Perhaps I am mistaken but in the long run it doesn't matter because of time place and affect.

I will take people at face value for purposes of feeding TOTV threads and respond in a good faith manner. What is written here does not affect me or mine. If it did then well that's another conversation. Whether its true this person lost a cat to a coyote or not does not affect me in the least. (ie have no skin in the game) However, if a poster tries to convince members that Canal Streets runs all the way to Ocala well that's a different animal (excuse the pun)

You know as a medical doctor that virtually the one time people are always going to be truthful is when the are admitted to the emergency room for emergency care...they are not going to lie for fear of not properly being treated.

I know a number of ways to test a person's veracity. My past occupational disciplines required it. Now that's when my Sherlock Holmes brows furrowed and I'd begin to eliminate the possibilities to focus on the probabilities. It always amazed me on how gifted people were of telling tales and even more so that they under any circumstances would never back away from their story even if you had evidence in hand of their mis-dealings

As to this OP again I say bravo on your creativity and imagination and if true sorry for your emotional trauma

Well----I remember singing this song when my kids were little. It's gruesome and probably nobody sings it anymore, sort of like Grimm's Fairy Tales. Wow- how times have changed.

This reminded of another song we use to play in the car whenever we were driving---A for Apple---aaa B for Baby ba ba ba. No wonder I'm a little left of center. It's those damn songs. They're still in my head.

:agree:

A possum can tear thru the screen and drag a cat away????

Neighbors have been reporting sighting coyotes all around Bonnybrook neighbors and hence one can conclude Lynnhaven.

One neighbor told me she often sighted an alligator trying to get into her lanai at get at her small dog.

I suspect the OP may be upset at the number of doubting Thomas's and just decided to abandoned her interest in responding...and it is a fair and justifiable response

I think the problem comes in when someone posts not long ago saying this happened to them in January, then makes another similar post that it just happened to them in October.
And, of course, never comes back to answer any questions about it.
Creative imagination ? Definitely not what I would call it.

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Had large possums up north. They could tear through screens, soffits, and siding easily. And once they got into the attic it was home. But I hever heard of them carrying off a dog or cat.

There are so many inconsistencies to this tale that I'm sure by Halloween it will have morphed into a ghost story.

Oh I don't know. Sorry, but I think OP saw the posts.

If lightening did strike twice, don't you think the OP would have said something about having to endure this "heartbreak" twice in one year? Raise your hands if you would have not mentioned the first event while you were issuing a "warning" to folks.

This gets my goat. It's always Thomas.
There's doubting Thomas, and Peeping Tom and Tom's have been accused of stealing a pig and running away.

Who says Doubting Fred? no one
Who says Peeping Arnold? no one

hmphhhhh

I think an apology is in order....

As all have said....if any animal was injured in the midst of these tales, I'm truly sorry. Don't want any animals injured or killed.

I am aware of three individuals, living in TV that post on social media that appear "obsessed" by this whole coyote thing. I believe that once they went to whomever they went to and tried unsuccessfully to make the coyote population disappear; they made it their mission in life to prove to the world that coyotes need to be gone.

We all know that there ARE coyotes. Those of us with pets KNOW that we must take precautions.......but IF any of these accounts are false....shame on anyone who would do this.

I'm not enjoying my walks with my pup cause I'm constantly on the watch for any predator. Other folks have stated that they are very frightened to even venture outside with their dogs.

Obviously, the poster here with the fluffy white "Siamese" cat who seems to disappear when questioned is another one of the coyote obsessed villagers. I for one, do not want to be told anything but the truth when it comes to reporting an animals death....especially if it didn't happen.

Cmon OP give us details please.

Did you ask your parents to apologize?:1rotfl:

Great point!!! I would have titled the thread "I can't believe this happened again" or something similar

I see four possibilities:

Both events occurred. Tragic.

Neither event occurred. Therapy.

Only the first event occurred and the OP resuscitated it and modified it to make an impact. OK, she is a lawyer.

Only the second event occurred. She should abandon law and become a prophet.

Upset? Nah! Seekiing attention and/or stirring the pot!

I'd like to know which of the folks who have lost a cat due to its being snatched from within a lanai by a coyote has actually OBSERVED the snatching so as to be able to verify that is was a coyote doing the snatching. Without an eyewitness accounting all the coyote blame is hogwash - or at least doubtable!

Bobcat or coyote. I do not think we get the subadult humans who do these kind of things sometimes in other communities. There were paw prints in at least one of these cat snatchings in the Villages.

I just want the wild life to leave the pets alone. However that can be accomplished with minimum pain and injury to both the pets and pet owners as well as the wild life should be the issue.

I know that the 2 women (1 home, 1 cat) that were featured on Channel 9 a few weeks ago owned a ferrel cat that they adopted. Tha cat was an "outside" cat. The cat didn't return and they "assumed" a coyote took it. They saw a coyote one day in their neighborhood.

I don't believe that any coyote was actually SEEN by anyone that had a cat that disappeared. The only one I know of is the gentleman that said a coyote took his unleashed dog in the dark.

When there are legitimate reasons to address this issue, then maybe some thought can be put into it.

One unleashed dog supposedly being snatched by a coyote does not warrant any action......except for owners to be cautious and aware.

Just by looking at the screen you should be able to tell if an animal broke into it or out of it. Same principle as glass on the inside of a house or on the outside for whether a burglar actually broke in or someone is looking for insurance by claiming one broke in. The threads of the screen should show. https://youtu.be/UPDzZYDkWMU

So sorry. Where do you live?

The OP (original poster) lives in Duval.

A screen might be more difficult. An animal can certainly pushed a screen jumping, etc. or use their claws to scratch at it and maybe pull the screen in.

Would you not be able to tell if a cat ran through a screen or got through it some other way from how the hole looks? I suppose a con artist trying to fool an insurance investigator could tamper with the evidence as could some troll looking to create havoc on a web-site. Trolls are rarely very subtle though and usually go for instant gratification in trying stir the pot. They rarely play a long con game.

What's up with this OP????? Seriously, if all of this happened to you, just come on here and explain!! NOBODY wants to believe you are making this up. Just explain your post. We are all ears.

I doubt if she is making this up as her real name and address are easy to get to from the web-site she used to post the pictures.

Some kind of cognitive dissonance may be involved here too. Cognitive Dissonance Theory | Simply Psychology


I would be rather upset if I went on a site hoping for sympathy and just got disbelief. That actually has happened to me a lot on other sites when trying to tell people about my own biographical history and instead of trying to understand it, they attack the messenger.

Most trolls want to be anonymous for a reason.

I first read about a woman out walking early and she saw a coyote near Buttonwood Run. It ignored her. Then I read about a small dog being taken from his front lawn with the owner standing there--and a cat taken from a lanai overnight. After reading about another cat in the other "news source" I decided to be safer than sorry and fixed my cat door so my cats can't get out to the lanai unless I let them into the lanai. It seems these happenings are early morning mostly, except the small dog. This is serious for pet owners. If it is a hoax it is a terrible thing to do. I also think derisive comments don't help matters if it is not a hoax.

But where is the OP and why not answering anyone's questions? Tal, usually when someone comes on, states something fantastic, and then disappears despite dozens of posts, it's questionable.

I had TWO Siamese cats taken from our lanai this year!!!! Teo was taken from our lanai the night of January 15, 2015, but I found our screen door was not tightly latched and there was a muddy smeary print the size of a large dog's paw on our lanai - it was cold and raining that night, and I posted on this forum about it. I lost Timmer the night of October 1, 2015 - just three days ago -- and I had the checked the screen door and it was tightly latched. The screens were all intact, and I had no idea he was at risk. This time, the coyote tore through the screen. Here are Teo and Timmer together, before Teo was taken: http://www.lawmarkets.com/images/2-siamese-cats.jpg

I lost BOTH of my Siamese cats from our lanai within nine months - and both, I believe, to coyotes. Timmer was very shy and never wanted to even go on the patio unless he was with me. Just one week earlier, I took Timmer to the vet for his annual shots and teeth cleaning, and the vet tech clipped his claws very short. He could never have torn a big hole in our lanai screen, nor would he - he had been sitting out every day and night for the entire six years we have been here. We live on Bramble Terrace in the Village of Bonita, on the Kenya golf course, and our neighbors had met both cats many times. I would never have let Timmer go out on the lanai had I not believed he was safe with the screen door tightly latched and all screens completely intact. Here, again, is a photo of Teo and Timmer before Teo disappeared in January: http://www.lawmarkets.com/images/2-siamese-cats.jpg

Su2009... I'm so sorry of this has happened to you again. I would be heartbroken if one of my boys was attacked.