SARASOTA, Fla. ( WWSB ) - For pet owners, losing a pet can feel like losing a family member. One homeowner is feeling just that after she says she witnessed a coyote attack her cat of 11 years - right outside her front door.

Scaring the neighbors, the coyotes are starting to cause a ruckus in one Sarasota neighborhood near Bahia Vista Street...

“I called him Goof...

He was sitting right here on my porch rail. I just happened to wake up around 2 a.m. about a week ago. He came up in the yard, grabbed him off the porch and took him away, and I couldn’t do anything." Homeowner Mary Jo Weidrick says that she explained the night she watched her cat get taken.

In a statement from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, they said in part, ”Coyotes help control populations of r

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