Category Archives: animals

Some Wellesley residents are on edge in the wake of several coyote attacks over the past week, and local WHDH and WBZ and WCVB news stations hopped on the story to capture our angst:

At least a couple of freshly reported attacks on Wellesley dogs by coyotes are being investigated by the town’s animal control officer, Sue Webb. We received email from a reader Sunday night alerting us to the attacks. One dog was attacked by a coyote by Cliff Road on Friday, though the dog is home recovering [...]

Wellesley’s David Dew sent us these fine shots of a bald eagle soaring over Reed Pond that he took after his son Evan, and friend Chris Gentes, spotted the bird. As David mentions, the Boston Globe just published a story about the bald eagle count in Massachusetts being way down, though bad weather interfered with [...]

Pretty wild story in the Wellesley Local Town Pages (you have to kind of scroll around to locate the story) about the Wellesley Health Department, DPW and Natural Resources Commission joining forces with a business to kill off some beavers whose dam or dams caused flooding in neighborhoods near the Wellesley Recycling & Disposal Facility. [...]

We heard tell earlier this year of some darned big coyotes prowling around Wellesley — almost wolf-like creatures — that resulted in someone from a nearby town being called in to take care of business. More recently, Wellesley Animal Control Officer Sue Webb was speaking at a Rotary Club of Wellesley meeting and touched on [...]

We try to stick to Wellesley as much as possible on The Swellesley Report but this dumb sign for Natick Days, a townwide celebration taking place Sept. 10 in case you can’t tell from the sign, deserves special recognition. OK, we get that some people might want to take their dogs to the event and [...]

This pup looks ready to kick off summer as he/she cruises through Wellesley Square. Thanks to KM for passing along.

UPDATE (6//13): Wellesley Police have found the dog and returned Holly to her owners. Holly, a small, three-year-old Sheltie dog was reported missing Sunday evening at Centennial Park.  She is sable and black in color and resembles a Collie.  She was last spotted near the corner of Oakland Street and Brookside Road. If you see [...]

Maybe the severe weather spooked snapping turtles out of the water the past 2 days, but spotted this snapper below laying eggs  in our backyard around 7pm Wednesday night and this huge one above outside the Wellesley College track at around 6:30AM Thursday. RELATED: Turtle-mania grips Wellesley Turtle photo contest