BREAKING NEWS: Coyote Attacks 3 More in Rye Brook

September 5, 2010  10:58 p.m. — Greenwich police were informed tonight by Rye Brook (N.Y.) police that a coyote attacked three people in that neighboring village today.  One of the attacks occurred near King Street on the Greenwich border.  Details about the ages or conditions of the victims were not available at this time.  (For later details on the recent attacks click here.)

These attacks are on the heels of a Greenwich Time report that Greenwich RTM member, Donna Gaudioso-Zeale of Glenville was followed during her jog by a coyote Thursday night and had to confront the animal to get it to retreat.  Gaudioso-Zeale was listed in the article as the director of our Greenwich Hospital’s Center for Healthy Living.

The Rye Brook three coyote attacks today are the fifth or sixth people attacked in that area this year.  (Reports of two  young children attacked by coyotes occurred in June in neighboring Rye city.  There is also an unconfirmed report of a teen confronted by a coyote around that time.)

One Greenwich police source speculates that the increase in the number of “missing cats” (as evidenced by the posters around our Greenwich), suggests a coyote culprit.  Another indication of the presence of coyote is the fact that the north sector (back-country Greenwich) police have had no calls of cars hitting deer in that wooded area of town, when several calls per season are typical.  Coyotes are natural predators of deer, cats, small dogs, and other small animals.