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COYOTE ATTACKS TODDLER: Coyote hybrid attacks 3-year-old toddler on trampoline in Randolph County, North Carolina. - WGHP
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I wonder why the family doesn't have a fence up? It seems reasonable to me that with 2 young children and woods so close by they would put up a fence to keep the kids safe.
#1 - Mon Jun 20, 2011 2:40 PM EDTI wonder why the mother wasn't outside with her young children watching them, or at least why some adult wasn't outside watching them. Then again, parents around my subdivision do not watch their kids outside either. They let them ride their bicycles, play basketball and other things outside alone and aren't out there watching them, especially during times of heavy street traffic. They also let their children knock on people's doors to sell things unattended, which isn't a very good thing these days.
I agree, mw. I recall a story from several years ago in AZ where a little girl was collecting money for her newspaper route or something and her mother was taking her by car. The mother took the child to an apartment complex and waited in the car for the girl. The little girl never came back. She was eventually found wrapped in a blanket and thrown in the dumpster. I raised my kids in the country and we had only 2 neighbors, 1 an alcoholic that I had heard rumors about and who I made sure my kids were never around and the other a family with 2 sons that sometimes took my kids to church functions but only when it was a family outing. I never allowed my kids to go out to play alone until the oldest was 14 and could keep an eye on the younger ones. Even then I was checking on them every 10-15 minutes to make sure they weren't up to mischief :)
I just love when people/media go and blame wild animals on something happening, when it comes down to it, the parent/parents were not being responsible and watching the children to begin with. Sure, if it was a rabid animal I can understand that it would not make much of a difference if they had been there or not. It just makes me mad sometimes..
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