I am out in the country. The dogs stay in a fenced yard. I have a couple packs of coyotes that cruise the ranch all night. I enjoy their singing and they, along with the resident hawks and owls, keep the ground varmints at bay. The only livestock I’ve lost to wild animals are the raccoons got in to the chickens once and some raptors ate all the trout in the pond. It’s live and let live out here.
we had coyotes trying to kill the calves of the bison we were taking care of- my sister-in-law had to fire off a couple shots when we weren’t there, to get them to leave- one kept coming back, she was able to shoot it-
We’d hear them howl in the evenings too- mostly they kept away, chasing down deer- but during calving time, they would always be around-