Dane County man urges vigilance after coyote attack
Cross posted in Pets
MONONA, Wis. — A Dane County man is speaking out after being attacked by coyotes while walking his dog. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is warning that the coyotes’ den could be near an elementary school.
Jeff Marks still has bruises left behind from his encounter with the coyotes last week. “My right hand was totally bloody... it was all really swollen up, and it was black and blue already,” Marks said. Marks said it happened just a few doors down from his home. He was walking his dog, Bruce, just past Nuestro Mundo Community School around 9 p.m. last Wednesday. That’s when three coyotes came after Bruce, who reacted and spun around, causing Marks to lose his balance. “The other two came in to go after the dog and got me in the back. Knocked me down,” Marks said. “Pretty quick. Pretty scary.”
Marks said the whole encounter only lasted a few minutes. Bruce, a 4-year-old Tibetan mastiff, scared the coyotes off. “I was like, okay, assessing what had just happened... I called him, and he stopped and he looked... he almost sat on me and just scanned the area,” Marks said.The DNR said it’s working to find a coyote den in the area and notified the school about what happened.
The Madison Metropolitan School District sent a statement saying Nuestro Mundo was monitoring the situation closely, and that the DNR has not recommended any changes to school operations. Leaders with the DNR are asking residents to keep an eye on their properties for evidence of a den or burrow being used by animals.
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