Coyote Pack Chases Puppy into Home, Smashes Door

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61. were they starving or rabid?

This is my first thought also.... here in upstate NY they are everywhere. I hear them at night and have seen some passing through at dusk mostly. We do have a large deer population so they are eating pretty good around here. However, we have a lot of NYC transplants or some with summer homes and they are clearing all the wooded areas and then they are surprised and horrified when wild animals run through their property. This leads to killing them and erecting large deer fences around properties. It breaks my heart because we are invading their territory and fencing them out of their feeding grounds and people wonder why they expand their territory to include residential neighborhoods. In this case however since it was very extreme and peculiar behavior it seems to be, as LWolf pointed out, more related to starving or rabid. I am not familiar with that area and who knows what is going on out there but the animals will keep telling us something is wrong through their uncharacteristic actions. It is a hard thing to think about from both angles.