Hal Coyote's autopsy

The NY Department of Environmental COnservation released the results
of the necropsy done on poor Hal, the spunky but ill-fated coyote
caught in Central Park a couple of weeks ago. The animal had
heartworm (keep up those meds, everybody), and traces of rat poison in
his system.

It's hard out there, folks.


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"Kreisleriana" wrote in message
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The NY Department of Environmental COnservation released the results
of the necropsy done on poor Hal, the spunky but ill-fated coyote
caught in Central Park a couple of weeks ago. The animal had
heartworm (keep up those meds, everybody), and traces of rat poison in
his system.

It's hard out there, folks.

I hadn't realised he'd died, last thing I knew I'd thought he'd been
relocated. Very sad.

Tweed

Kreisleriana wrote:
The NY Department of Environmental COnservation released the results
of the necropsy done on poor Hal, the spunky but ill-fated coyote
caught in Central Park a couple of weeks ago. The animal had
heartworm (keep up those meds, everybody), and traces of rat poison in
his system.

especially when your eyeballs bleed because someone put a loop around
your throat, a muzzle over your mouth, and held you down to be "tagged"

you're "it" for the day and dead

he was in bad shape but no doubt the rough handling for tagging him
killed him.

he may have died anyway but there is little excuse for what they did to
him which caused his death. he had a weak heart. i'm not sure how they
missed the heartworms but that's another issue. and the blood thinner?
that also should be the common blood test for clotting times. rat
poison is warfarin for use in humans and quite commonly monitored.

what's good is that now, supposedly, they will review the protocols and
try not to kill other animals or at least, not hasten their demise

Christina Websell wrote:
"Kreisleriana" wrote in message
...

The NY Department of Environmental COnservation released the results
of the necropsy done on poor Hal, the spunky but ill-fated coyote
caught in Central Park a couple of weeks ago. The animal had
heartworm (keep up those meds, everybody), and traces of rat poison
in his system.

It's hard out there, folks.

I hadn't realised he'd died, last thing I knew I'd thought he'd been
relocated. Very sad.

Tweed

I thought the same thing. Why did they kill him? Why didn't they just
leave him alone? He wasn't bothering anyone. Central Park is home to drug
dealers, street hustlers (prostitutes) and thieves, but they chose to go
after a coyote who had probably been living there without a problem for
years. It's sad. We are pushing animals out of their habitats, then unruly
humans push other humans out of the areas they chose to be a nice relaxing
park, only to have this animal come and try to live and get killed for doing
so. So sad.

I saw on the news the other night police in Boston trying to get a wild tom
turkey across the road into the woods. It wanted to get to the other side
(stop with the obvious jokes!) because it's mating season. But why couldn't
it get across the road? Because we've cut into the natural habitat with
highways and cars. The poor thing was hopping up on dividing walls,
flapping its wings and refusing to be 'herded'. Well, you can't herd cats,
either, can you? (And yes, I've seen the cat herding video, pretty funny;
but I wonder how all those British shorthairs wound up in America LOL)

Jill

On 2006-04-09 03:49:33 -0500, "jmcquown" said:

Christina Websell wrote:
"Kreisleriana" wrote in message
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The NY Department of Environmental COnservation released the results
of the necropsy done on poor Hal, the spunky but ill-fated coyote
caught in Central Park a couple of weeks ago. The animal had
heartworm (keep up those meds, everybody), and traces of rat poison
in his system.

It's hard out there, folks.

I hadn't realised he'd died, last thing I knew I'd thought he'd been
relocated. Very sad.

Tweed

I thought the same thing. Why did they kill him? Why didn't they just
leave him alone? He wasn't bothering anyone.

I dont' think they killed him. I think he died while they were trying
to relocate him. If he had rat poison in his system, I imagine he was
scavaging in areas where people put out poison for rats and may not
have been long for the world if that kept up. I imagine it's pretty
dangerous to eat stuff lying around NY since there ARE so many rats.

Karen wrote:
On 2006-04-09 03:49:33 -0500, "jmcquown"
said:
Christina Websell wrote:
"Kreisleriana" wrote in message
...

The NY Department of Environmental Conservation released the
results of the necropsy done on poor Hal, the spunky but ill-fated
coyote caught in Central Park a couple of weeks ago. The animal
had heartworm (keep up those meds, everybody), and traces of rat
poison in his system.

It's hard out there, folks.

I hadn't realized he'd died, last thing I knew I'd thought he'd been
relocated. Very sad.

Tweed

I thought the same thing. Why did they kill him? Why didn't they
just leave him alone? He wasn't bothering anyone.

I don't think they killed him. I think he died while they were trying
to relocate him. If he had rat poison in his system, I imagine he was
savaging in areas where people put out poison for rats and may not
have been long for the world if that kept up. I imagine it's pretty
dangerous to eat stuff lying around NY since there ARE so many rats.

He died while being relocated, they thought of the stress of being
relocated, but wanted to be sure, hence the necropsy.

On 2006-04-09, Karen wrote:

I dont' think they killed him. I think he died while they were trying
to relocate him. If he had rat poison in his system, I imagine he was
scavaging in areas where people put out poison for rats and may not
have been long for the world if that kept up. I imagine it's pretty
dangerous to eat stuff lying around NY since there ARE so many rats.

Rat eats poison, coyote eats easily caught rat, coyote gets rat poison.

--
The night is just the shadow of the Earth.

Bev A. wrote:
They didn't kill him, he died when they were tagging him just prior to
releasing him in a new location. The necropsy revealed that he'd
ingested rat poison and also had heart worms.

Warfarin causes bleeding and he was bleeding from his eyeballs by their
putting his neck in a noose and a muzzle and bonding his feet - that's
the immediate cause of death, not the heart worms. Why did they not
look for clotting times and heart worms - that would have been
reasonable and considerate. Sounds like sloppy and cruel treatment of a
coyote by people who should know better but could care less. Not
atypical for New York city. There will be a review because the death
was preventable. He was treated way too roughly. And he did not deserve
this. If you saw the picture where the look in his eyes was that of one
who knew his life was not going to be good. A very sad look in his
cage.

Central Park is home to drug
dealers, street hustlers (prostitutes) and thieves, but they chose to go
after a coyote who had probably been living there without a problem for
years. It's sad. We are pushing animals out of their habitats, then unruly

-- Bev A.

Your characterization of Central Park is does not jive with my
observations. Are you talking from recent experience then? About the
only hustling I saw in Central Park was three card monte.

wrote:
That's confusing. Help me out here with the clarification, okay? I was
a bit suprised but now I am confused if it was not you, or were not
you. Subjunctive is not working today.

Thanks for the attempt at clarification. Let me pursue this since I am
confused.
This is the post I was respond to. It makes it seem as though you
posted that:

Here it is straight from Google's mouth:

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