[Editor’s Note: The featured photo on this post is a ‘coywolf’ photographed in New Canaan, a cross between a coyote and wolf. Read more about the species here. They’re counted as coyotes in the map.]
A pair of coyotes were sighted Tuesday at the end of Deep Valley Road (near the Grupes Reservoir and St. Luke’s School), the fourth in the past week, officials say.
With the warmer weather, we’re entering the most active season for coyotes (which officials say dwell in large numbers in the woods behind the Armory, on the Norwalk line).
According to New Canaan Police Animal Control Officer Maryann Keinschmitt, single coyotes also were sighted March 22 on Rocky Brook Road and March 23 on Cedar Lane.
The sightings come during a busy week for Animal Control. At about 3:41 p.m. on March 20, police responded to a woman saying she came upon a long-haired Chihuahua in a crate in front of CVS on Park Street, Kleinschmitt said.
The dog was very sick and was taken immediately to a veterinarian, Kleinschmitt said. The woman who spotted it is an employee at a home on Lantern Ridge Road, according to a police report. The case is under investigation.
Police also responded to two reports of bats found in homes in New Canaan—on March 19 on Canoe Hill Road and on March 23 on Anthony Lane. In each case, the bats were sent to a state lab which found them negative for rabies, Kleinschmitt said.
Here’s an updated map plotting coyote sightings in New Canaan in 2014: