They do give you some sizzling withering looks when you disturb them, don’t they?
I’m told that it is even worse when they are tamed, they get the imperious attitude that cats have.
The coyote here are protected by law as well.
Seems the opportunistic scavenging pest has good friends in Albany.
So much so that when we had a rash of coyote attacking children, the pols and enviro groups set about demonizing humans instead of going, “Hey, there’s a problem with this critter here.”
You need a nuisance animal license and a predator license to smack one down if it is a bother.
And even then you might run into trouble.
It’s unincorporated here so technically it’s not illegal to discharge a firearm. With houses situated in every conceivable line of fire, other than a few feet in front of you towards the ground, they might bring up something like reckless endangerment. Frankly if I heard gunshots around here at 0-dark thirty I would be alarmed too. But a good reason for it is all it would take to satisfy me.