Crime & Safety

Coyote Attack Kills Another Altadena Dog

Residents discover their pet after a coyote reportedly hopped a fence.

Another dog was killed during a coyote attack in Altadena Sunday, NBC4 reported.

Diane and Verne Williams' dog, Abby, went out to the backyard early Sunday morning through a doggie door, daughter Bethany Williams told NBC4. Around 6:30 a.m., she found the dog, a Bichon Frise, dead, with bite marks to its neck, apparently from a coyote that had jumped a fence.

The death of the dog was only the latest in a rash of

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In nearby Sierra Madre,

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Authorities caution residents not to feed coyotes and to take precautions to secure their trash cans and not leave pet food outside.


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