WINCHESTER, Mass. — Cheerful videos and images are how Ace’s family wishes to remember him. “So squishy and cuddly,” said Chloe Durant, dog owner.
Chloe Durant would rather forget extremely early today when she let the 11-year-old dog out to do his business. “Within seconds he was howling and screaming, and I ran outside around the corner here and he was being dragged or something by it had to be a coyote,” said Durant. “I just didn’t expect this.”
She didn’t anticipate it since besides one area six-foot-tall fences surround her Winchester lawn and she has motion-activated lights.
“I heard an owl hooting last night and I was more worried about the owl than a coyote coming over here,” said Durant.
Coyotes are coming by. “Probably a week or so ago our neighbor’s dog was attacked and survived,” said Steve Kuhlman, dog owner.
Steve Kuhlman now keeps hazel and blue on a brief leash. “We just have a rule we never let them outside by themselves and you try to be careful around dusk and dawn,” said Kuhlman.
Coyotes are more active at those times and according to wildlife specialists, it is coyote breeding season. The area is likewise near the wildwood cemetery where citizens state there is a den.
“There’s not really much we can do because part of it is we are in their space too we are just going to be extra careful in the spring and fall,” said Kuhlman.
“I don’t want people to freak out I just can’t believe how fast it happened and I feel a little blindsided,” said Durant. She drove around trying to find Ace, however she has actually resigned herself to the truth that he was most likely not returning. “If I still had him I would never do that again,” said Durant.
The area did experience coyote attacks on dogs and a couple of years back, and they did not see them once again till this year.
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