Entrepreneur and television personality Martha Stewart told social media Saturday that coyotes “devoured” her pet peacock.
“RIP beautiful BlueBoy. The coyotes came in broad daylight and devoured him and five others including the magnificent White Boy,” Stewart wrote in an Instagram post featuring her peacocks. “Any solutions for getting rid of six large and aggressive coyotes who have expensive tastes when it comes to poultry?”
Stewart noted she’s no longer letting her peafowl out of her yard, and is enclosing the top of their “large yard” with wire fencing, according to the post. Stewart resides in Connecticut, where coyotes were first reported in the ecosystem sometime around the 1950s, according to the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP).
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DEEP recommends pets are not left alone outside, as well as using fencing or small animal pens to protect farm animals. Hunting and trapping of problem coyotes are regulated in the state, where it’s safe and legal, according to the website. (RELATED: Man Uses Frying Pan In Epic Battle Against Crocodile)
Stewart’s cat Princess Peony was killed by her dogs earlier in the year. Her dogs mistook the calico cat for an intruder, and attacked her, according to Stewart’s social media post at the time.