They don’t get no respect because they’re varmints that will destroy anything they find. The things got into northern New Jersey before I left there. Mostly they bred with stray domestic dogs and produced coy-dogs. If you think coyotes cause a problem, coy-dogs cause a plague.
Here in western NC I’ve learned that they are always a few around but every few years they move in with pack strength to devour the easy pickings then move on to another area—kind of like the aliens from the movie Independence Day.
Three years ago they could be heard yipping and yapping most nights and seeing them as road kill was not uncommon. A nearby sheep farmer baited and trapped 25 of them in 2012.
They’ve moved on and have only heard one and seen two as road kill in the past couple of years.