Reader Pat Brayer and her cats had a scary encounter last night at their home near Lake Avenue and Palm Street:

Two coyotes broke through my screen porch, just off my kitchen, to get my cats who were sitting in the screen porch.  I was able to scare them off, and thankfully cats are safe, but a minute longer and they would have gotten one or two of them and actually invaded my home.

In the light of day, Pat wrote us again today:

Now that it’s the next day and I can see the damage – on two sides – to the screen porch, I can’t begin to tell you how scary it was.  Everyone needs to be especially careful.  They’re not fearful of people, sounds or lights anymore.

On a related note, check out this picture from Boulder, Colorado, which also has critter problems.