Ritzy Hudson River community thrown into chaos as coyote torments kids, pets

Residents of posh Hudson River suburbs are torn over how to handle a bloodthirsty coyote tormenting the area. After a coyote came just feet away from an unsuspecting toddler and mauled a small dog on June 12, Irvington, NY, police issued an urgent warning for locals to be on the lookout for the dangerous critters.But a petition for the picturesque village to devise a plan to handle the coyote calamity sparked surprising controversy, with animal activists demanding the town keep its paws off the wild canine.The roughly 6,500 people who live in picturesque village are no strangers to wildlife, but the two recent close calls left some parents and pet owners panicked.  Jia Altman was outside watching her two young children play when the coyote approached within two feet of her 3-year-old son riding a tricycle.“I’ve seen them before in our backyard, but they’ve always just sort of trotted on through.They don’t tend to linger,” Altman told The Post.“It took me a second to register, like, ‘OK, this is not good.

This is something dangerous.'”She snatched up her toddler while using the bike to fend off the coyote.But the unfazed animal would not budge, so she began screaming at it.Her toddler started to cry, and finally her dog ran up to the coyote, causing it to scurry away.“I was yelling, I was swinging his bike at it, and nothing I seemed to do deterred it,” Altman said. “I really think that if my dog had not done that, it would have been probably a much worse situation.” The coyote next ventured into Altman’s neighbor’s fenced-off yard, where her tiny rescue dog Becky was playing.  Morning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.

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Never miss a story.“The coyote dug a hole, got inside my fence and grabbed my dog by the neck,” Erin Reddy, a mother of two, said. “...