BOSTON -- For the second time in less than a week, a family pet has been killed by a coyote in Georgetown.

A Clark Street resident said he saw a coyote come onto his porch on Sunday night and grab his cat, the Newburyport News reported.

Just four days earlier, a Jack Russell terrier was killed by coyotes as its owner walked it in the Georgetown/Rowley State Forest.

In June, a woman reported being surrounded by coyotes while she walked her dogs in the woods of nearby Groveland. She was able to get out of the woods without being harmed.