[The Duke]

Coyotes just started showing up this past year here in North Tampa. The local tree-huggers are telling us that we must learn to live with our new canine neighbors - that they are indigenous (even though, until this year, I had not heard a thing about coyotes in the 30+ years I've lived here).

So, they tell us to just bang pots and pans together when they come to close.

In the meantime, and in unrelated news, local pet owners keep posting messages about their sweet pet dogs and cats that seem to have mysteriously disappeared.

[BTerclinger]

Trap the coyotes,
knock on tree huggers door
toss cage with coyote and unlocked gate into the house.

[major_gaff]

Here in PA we just shoot them...nasty beasties.

[IYAS9YAS]

In the meantime, and in unrelated news, local pet owners keep posting messages about their sweet pet dogs and cats that seem to have mysteriously disappeared.

I live in the Albuquerque metro area (Rio Rancho). Coyotes everywhere. Raptors too. Signs all over the place for missing cats and dogs.

We had a Great Horned Owl around for a couple of weeks. Came around at dusk. Sucker was huge. Our local wild rabbit population has dwindled from several to a couple in that time. The owl has since moved on, but the coyotes remain.