I’ve heard of them attacking toddlers.
So many areas of the country with these problems - ‘wild’ animals attacking.
Well, encroaching civilization has displaced them.
They also raid the trash at the curb.
Trash barrels have gotten a bit heavier, with fairly good closing lids. Rarely have a problem with trash.
We can hear the coyote pups crying in the hills, about one-quarter of a mile from us, and we are in a large housing tract with homes about 50 years old. Housing tracts all around.
Right now, an owl is hooting from a high tree right next door!
Sometimes it feels like ‘Us Vs The Animals!’
PS
There have also been big cat sightings over the years in our housing tracts, here in Southern California. Our daughter saw one go over her neighbor’s fence about 6 years ago.
I’ve seen coyotes make their way pretty far into the interior of Chicago, they use the forest preserves and freight train tracks to bypass the areas with a lot of human traffic. When we used to go up on the tracks at night to drink a few beers, you could spot em sneaking around in the moonlight.
Now the park near my house has a huge Northern Goshawk hunting the local squirrels. They are only supposed to rarely venture this far south, and avoid populated areas, but he seems right at home and has stuck around for over six months now, showing no real fear of us humans.