[Tupelo]

Coyotes are survivors.
Adapt and persevere in all kinds of places. Desert to big city.

[Vigilanteman]

“They eat rats. They eat mice. They eat small mammals,” Aucoin said.

Pets or even small children are a lot easier to catch than jack rabbits and rats. The coyote probably figured out that New York has more such game than where ever it lived before.