
{"id":126,"date":"2007-04-11T16:13:30","date_gmt":"2007-04-12T00:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2007\/04\/11\/coyote-spotted\/"},"modified":"2007-04-11T16:14:03","modified_gmt":"2007-04-12T00:14:03","slug":"coyote-spotted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2007\/04\/11\/coyote-spotted\/","title":{"rendered":"Coyote Spotted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Susan Dickson<\/strong><br \/>\nStaff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When Carrboro Animal Control officer Robert Nekoranec responded to a call about a &#8220;fox that looked confused&#8221; on Friday, he wasn&#8217;t expecting to find a coyote. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I got on it right away,&#8221; he said. Nekoranec arrived at a home on Woods Walk Court, near the intersection of Hillsborough Road and North Greensboro Street. He spotted the coyote about 50 feet away.<\/p>\n<p>Nekoranec said the animal he saw was &#8220;smaller than a wolf, bigger than a fox&#8221; and &#8220;it looked like [a coyote].&#8221; Although the animal was not aggressive, he said it was &#8220;running back and forth&#8221; in the backyard of the property, trying to figure out how to get back to the woods.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The sound of nearby lawnmowers and curious neighbors further spooked the animal, he said.<br \/>\nNekoranec said he tried to chase it, but got caught in some brambles, and the coyote finally retreated to the woods.<\/p>\n<p>If caught, the animal would likely be relocated, Nekoranec said. He said coyotes tend to stay away from people and are night hunters. <\/p>\n<p>The coyote remains at large.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Susan Dickson Staff Writer When Carrboro Animal Control officer Robert Nekoranec responded to a call about a &#8220;fox that looked confused&#8221; on Friday, he wasn&#8217;t expecting to find a coyote. &#8220;I got on it right away,&#8221; he said. Nekoranec arrived at a home on Woods Walk Court, near the intersection of Hillsborough Road and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}