Kill every damn skunk you see, they are famous for rabies, same as coons.
The wolf scare was probably and most likely a large coyote, there aren’t any wolves down that far south as far as I know.
We have a few packs about 200 miles north of me, moving down out of southern Oregon, when they get to my property line, they get dead.
You may be right. Just going by reportings by neighbors, and city sources. We do get coyotes, there's a report in our local news of two coyotes last night just around the corner from our house. There have been rare occurrences of Oregon wolves in California, sometimes cavorting with coyotes (very rare), but people may be confused when they encounter a coyote. A wolf is huge. Anyway, coyotes on our block last night is a concern to us because of our cats.