State wildlife officials said they killed a problem coyote in Atwater Village. Then it reappearedwith a limp

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Set us as preferred After a coyote in Atwater Village bit a 16-month-old child last month, wildlife officials tracked it down, shot it, and announced that the animal was dead.Except it wasn’t.

The animal survived being shot near the 3300 block of Glenhurst Avenue on Oct.16 and soon reappeared in the area.

Neighbors, who had previously reported being plagued by the nuisance animal for months, were shocked to see the same coyote appearing in their yards and approaching them in the street.The only apparent difference about it, they said, was that the animal was now obviously injured, with a pronounced limp.

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife confirmed in a statement on Tuesday that the animal had survived the initial shooting.Officers at the time couldn’t find the animal’s body and even a K9 couldn’t track it down.

But officials believed the animal was dead, according to the agency.California A coyote captured and euthanized by state wildlife officials in Atwater Village was confirmed to be the one responsible for a recent attack on a 16-month-old child, after months of residents seeing it in the neighborhood, officials said.Wildlife officials told the public that they had collected DNA samples and confirmed that the animal they had shot was the same one that had bitten the child.“Based on the available evidence at the time, officers believed the animal had succumbed to its injuries,” the agency said in its statement.Early Tuesday morning, California Department of Fish and Wildlife and U.S.

Department of Agriculture officers responded to the neighborhood again following reports that the coyote could still be alive.Officers found the animal and it was “humanely euthanized due to the continued public safety threat it posed,” the agency said.The coyote was an issue in the neighborhood long before it ...