Coyote-fearing locals are putting vests with spikes on their tiny dogs in San Francisco

Anna Contreras was at her home in San Francisco’s Bernal Heights neighborhood on the evening of June 21 when a neighbor called to say a coyote was running down Agnon Avenue with a small dog in its mouth. Contreras ran to the window, but by the time she got there, the coyote was gone, so she reviewed footage from minutes before on a home security camera that’s pointed directly at the street. She was horrified by what she saw.

The video, she said, showed the dog squirming wildly, trying to get out of the coyote’s mouth. “He drops it, and then the dog had its ass up in the air, it was growling and barking at the coyote. Then [the dog] took off running toward Mission and the coyote pursued it.” ---More...