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I don’t know about you, but if I paid half a million bucks for my condo and I got coyotes running around my neighborhood, I’d want some answers. Nothing like critters to drive down the price of property. And with this real estate bubble bursting at the seams (if it had any), I can’t afford to have ‘em dining on posh cats.

That’s if I paid half a mil for a condo. (Not that I did or anything.) From the AJC:

VININGS: Homeowners unite to fight bold coyotes

By H.M. Cauley
For the Journal-Constitution
Published on: 04/26/07

Seems the Buckhead coyotes have cousins in Vinings. Residents of the village just over the Chattahoochee River have encountered many of the same animal problems experienced by Buckhead residents around Phipps Plaza. And the biggest concern is missing pets.

“We’ve lost about 50 cats,” said Debbie Bolt, president of the Vinings Civic Club. “I got involved in the problem because so many people were calling about it.”

The problem has become so severe that homeowners have pooled resources to hire “the coyote guy” — John Underwood of Atlanta Animal Evictions. He’s not a bit surprised that the predators have shown up in another neighborhood a few miles from Buckhead.

“Coyotes have a big territory, and they’re continually making circuits of seven to eight miles,” Underwood said. “I’ve been working the area from Log Cabin Drive to [U.S.] 41 and from the river to I-285 for the past eight months, and you may only see one every seven or 10 days.”

Underwood already has captured and put down 15 coyotes from the Vinings clan, which has convinced people there really is a problem.

Only one every seven or 10 days, huh. Well, that ain’t that bad, is it?

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