Reply #24: I'm not familiar with that area.....

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

....not living there, but I can tell you that having worked in a state park for ten years, wild animals over time become almost domesticated. Squirrels especially. I've seen raccoons, who avoid coming out during the day, approach picnic tables to get food from people in the middle of the day. It's a real problem, because raccoons can become very aggressive if they think the reward of food is great enough for them. Plus the fact they are very prone to having rabies making it difficult to figure out which are sick and which are just being overly curious for their own good.

I can't imagine these coyotes were around anyone long enough to become "domesticated" however. There is a mutual fear between humans and coyotes, so one or the other runs. They must have been rabid. But sometimes, you wonder if the attacker was really a fox. You'd be surprised at how many people confuse the two, and foxes can be shockingly vicious.