In the last few years, I've seen coyotes that did not move from my approaching car. A pair were 30 feet away, when I stopped my car and yelled at them with the window down. They weren't scared at all.
A couple of months ago, I spotted a cougar on a road quarter of a mile from an elementary school. I called the State Patrol, and a game agent returned my call (at five in the morning). This cougar was spotted about once a month and was a good guy, keeping to regular game.
There are wild things out there. The more wimpified our culture gets, the scarier they get. We aren't being their predators anymore. Why should they be afraid?
DK
The combination of the coyote's boldness and lack of fear of humans and the size and pack mentality of wolves, combined, probably does not bode well.
When I go up on the mountain on my ATV, I have at least a lever action 30.30 on the gun rack.
I *used* to carry a piddly little .22 squirrel rifle but then the black bears came....