Back in about 1998, I was jogging one morning on Cape Cod. A coyote came out of the woods and intersected my path. We stopped and stared at each other and he gave me a look that seemed to say, “OK, biped, you can use this road today, but I don’t ever want to see you here again.” My next door neighbor in Chatham lost one of his cats to a ‘yote.
Coyotes are all over the western states including some of the bigger cities, around populated areas pets are their favorite food. If these hybrids were here the animal lovers wouldn’t raise so much heck when the trappers go after them.
Some family in New England [can’t recall which state] lost their baby to one.
They -will- eat your dogs and cats.
1/3 of their diet is deer, *maybe*; the other 2/3 is young livestock and pets.
Easier pickings.