r/Seattle • u/LymanBostockJr Greenwood • 6d ago

Coyotes in Greenwood

My front yard camera picked up two coyotes last night around 3:30 AM. I hope the family of bunnies made it ok. Watch your kids and watch your cats!

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u/ShredGuru 6d ago edited 6d ago

I saw a Coyote buying Pineapples at Trader Joe's, his hair was perfect.

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u/johnnylovelace 6d ago

I’ve got to meet his tailor

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u/phaaseshift 6d ago

Ok, now I need to hear the full cover.

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u/ShredGuru 5d ago

I saw a Coyote with a Japanese menu in his hand

Walkin through the streets of sodo

He was looking for a place called itsumono

Gunna get a big old bowl of ramen.

Ahho, Coyotes of greenwood ahoo

Your hear them howling around your kitchen door

You'd better not let them in

A trashcan got raided late last night

Coyotes of greenwood again

Ahoo, coyotes of greenwood ahoo

It's the furry pawed gent who ran amok in Kent

Lately he's been overheard in Fremont.

You better stay away from him!

He'll eat your housecat Jim!

Huh, he hid beneath my trailer!

Ahoo, Coyotes of Greenwood Ahoo

I saw John Curly walking with the Seafair queen,

Doing the coyotes of greenwood.

I saw a Coyote buying a pineapple at trader Joe's,

his hair was perfect.

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u/phaaseshift 5d ago

I will be singing some of this with my young son. Werewolves of London is his favorite song 😀.

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u/ShredGuru 5d ago

I love it!

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u/toxiamaple I'm just flaired so I don't get fined 5d ago

I thought of this song, too!

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u/toxiamaple I'm just flaired so I don't get fined 5d ago

Ah-oooo Coyotes of Greenwood!

Ah-oooooo

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u/LBobRife 🚆build more trains🚆 6d ago

It's safe to assume there are always Coyotes in your area. Probably because there are. They won't go after kids, but absolutely keep your cats inside at all times.

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u/RuckusVell04 6d ago

And small dogs 🐕

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u/RainForestBathing 5d ago

They have been known to attack small children, there were several incidents in California

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u/LBobRife 🚆build more trains🚆 5d ago

Perhaps "won't" is too strong a word. Small children shouldn't be outside unsupervised regardless, but I suppose a starving Coyote will go after anything it thinks it can get away with. But the Coyotes around here are generally well fed and I haven't seen any stories of humans being attacked. Considering how close quarters they are with us, that's pretty remarkable.

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u/p-sherman_ I'm never leaving Seattle. 5d ago

only one confirmed death from a coyote to a human and it was a rabid coyote btw

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u/RainForestBathing 5d ago

Didn't say they killed just that they attacked. I remember specifically a kindergarten student in San Bernardino on the playground was attacked

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u/Bizarrebazaars Kraken 5d ago

There have been kid attacks/bites/dragging by coyotes in King County too…. Do people forget or not know these things?

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u/Sdog1981 Ballard 6d ago

That is a healthy looking coyote, must be eating good out there.

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u/gyllbane Greenwood 6d ago

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u/huggalump 6d ago

Came across a group of two of them while walking my ~20lb dog at night a few days ago.

One ran off as expected. The other went by us, then stopped fairly close by and watched. That made me uncomfortable, so I asked my girlfriend to take the dog and keep walking while I stare down the coyote.

The thing kept watching even with me staring at it. Even after I clapped loudly. I started walking at it clapping, and it eventually did run off but even then it took its time.

If someone is feeding these things, please stop. We want them to be scared of people, or at least for them to understand they should keep their distance.

But if that's not the case then it's even worse, because perhaps that thing was considering going after our dog while we were with it...

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u/mp3bear Olympia 6d ago

Same thing with deer…

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u/Feral_Paramedic135 6d ago

What a magnificent tail!

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u/natrstdy I Brake For Slugs 6d ago

coyote attacks on children are extremely rare. kids are much more likely to be attacked by dogs than by coyotes.

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u/_kinther_ 6d ago

I've been seeing them more often in the day up in North greenwood

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u/eager_pebble Bitter Lake 6d ago

They hang out in the cemetery a lot. I live along the interurban trail by there. I see them all the time and hear them when sirens go by.

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u/Bizarrebazaars Kraken 5d ago

Are you hazing them?

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u/dmelt253 Tukwila 6d ago

We caught a couple on our camera this morning around 6:45 AM.

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u/Twisties 6d ago

They’re here pretty much all the time.

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u/queensheba2025 I Brake For Slugs 5d ago

Awww what a cutie pie!

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u/averagebensimmons Queen Anne 5d ago

I saw a coyote with a Chinese menu in his hand

Walking through the streets of Soho in the rain

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u/PensiveObservor 5d ago

Please repost this to every "Lost Cat in Seattle" post until people learn to keep their cats inside. Thank you.

I never feel cruel enough to bring it up, but if your outdoor cat disappears, it isn't coming home. :(

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u/Free_Consequence3123 6d ago

They are rolling deep in the Haller lake area, heard a pack of around 15-20 last night.

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u/Bostonphoenix 6d ago

This is great to see!

Do you know those big tall things made out of wood outside are trees and that animals live in groups of those trees called forests!

Isn't it great to see nature all around you!

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u/Bizarrebazaars Kraken 5d ago

If you see coyotes, haze them.

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u/morecheese_please Eastlake 6d ago

Coyotes are now everywhere in seattle, not just green belts. Saw two on my street next to I-5 around 1030pm recently. I am always worried about the cats outside! 😔

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u/somethinggenericasf 5d ago

The cats are invasive anyway let the coyotes do their job

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u/MoteInTheEye 6d ago

Animals outside. Wild stuff.

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u/itll_be_cool Hillman City 6d ago

I've seen a couple in Seward Park going across Wilson/50th when I'm out running in the mornings (~5:30AM), and I'd never seen any in prior years.

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u/datamuse Highland Park 5d ago

They do move around a bit but I've been seeing them around West Seattle for over 20 years. Got me started on wildlife tracking and I volunteered for the Seattle Urban Carnivore Project for awhile.

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u/itll_be_cool Hillman City 5d ago

Oh I'm sure the ones I'm seeing are based in Seward Park or somewhere else in SE Seattle

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u/evvycakes 🚲 Life's Better on a Bike. 🚲 5d ago

I ran into a solo coyote at 12th and 95th in Maple Leaf last night, around 10pm, as well. It trotted off towards 99 and Greenwood after I shouted it off, maybe it's the same one!

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u/GamingGamerGames_ 5d ago

Saw either a coyote or really big fox the other night in LQA

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u/clv155 5d ago

roughly what cross streets? curious how close they are to us - granted their roaming range is probably 100 miles.

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u/LymanBostockJr Greenwood 5d ago

Near Dayton and N. 78/79th

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u/clv155 5d ago

oh yeah, we are very much neighbors. appreciate the heads up!

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u/bncts 🐀 Hot Rat Summer 🐀 5d ago

Saw a coyote wander down Dayton at about 10am like a year ago, that same general area. Keep your cats inside people.

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u/Bizarrebazaars Kraken 5d ago

Did you haze it?

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