I suggest you consider using a .22cb cap in a rifle. It's essentially a .22 short with a reduced powder charge. It sounds like a pellet gun when it goes off....so your neighbor is very unlikely to hear it - or probably won't know what it was if he does hear it. I used one regularly when I was in Navy housing in New London, CT on raccoons getting into my garbage cans. I'd shoot them and then grant their last wish....and put them in the garbage can.
“I suggest you consider using a .22cb cap in a rifle”
I wouldn’t risk shooting and a run in with police unless it was life and death. Even if the coyote ran off with my dog, I couldn’t take the risk shooting.
There is a kid in the neighborhood who I consider expendable. Much like Obama, he has lip audacity. Maybe I could stake him out as bait and then save him by shooting the coyote. The only problem with the plan is explaining the stake thing or if I slept through the shooting thing.