What coyotes kill very often is family dogs.Not if you protect them (the dogs, that is).
My dogs live indoors. When the weather is nice we go on walks through my woods. At night, they go into our front yard to "do their business." But Dad is standing on the porch with a .22 automatic pistol with an extra magazine in my pocket, and a pump 12-gauge as a stand-by. No coyote is going to hurt my dogs.
My friend always took her dogs for a walk in the woods, until one day the coyotes formed a circle around her and grabbed onto of her dogs. She hung onto that dog with all her might.
A man heard the yelling and shot some of the coyotes. My friend almost lost her leg from the bits she took saving her pet.
Be very careful while out walking.