We have a coyote the size of a collie (or close to it), running around our place. I don’t want to meet him in the garden or anywhere else, for that matter. Then again, lions are 100% more likely to consider you dinner - coyotes, not so much (the big one was chasing a deer). I am concerned about our old, mostly deaf/blind bird dog ... he’d be easy pickings - we try to keep an eye on him, but he likes to sneak off to the woods (his nose is still works at an ‘awesome’ level).