[x1stcav]

While I don't live in an urban area, but a small mountain town, dealing with the coyotes and foxes trying to prey on the chickens is a constant battle.

I prefer our .22 Gamo or .22LR subsonics.

[McGavin999]

I prefer my 150 lb Anatolian. They would never come near my house

[Travis McGee]

Just a little off topic.

Link is to the complete short story posted yesterday on FR.

[Rusty0604]

My daughter lived in the canyons in Santa Clarita CA, and it was overrun with cyotes because the liberals wouldn’t allow them being killed. The coyote were all over the place and everyday they would hear of a neighbor’s cat or dog getting attacked even when being walked on a leash, which is what eventually happened to their own little dog. Grabbed, yanked away from my SIL, who had to helplessly listen to his dog screaming in death, because the liberals won’t allow either guns or killing coyote.

[WayneS]

I stopped reading at: “He checked the silencer on his AR-15 assault rifle...”

Clearly this article was written by an ignorant buffoon.

[dforest]

I live in a town about 27 miles north of Indy. Several nights this week, I was awakened by a pack of coyotes about 30 feet from my backdoor. It was scary and eerie because the sounds they make are loud and feral. There is a field behind where I live and a highway, but it is residential.

This is made worse because my neighbor puts food out for the “German shepherds”. LOL

[WayneS]

There is a year-round bounty on coyotes in many counties in Virginia.

[Yo-Yo]

His AR-15 what?

[hinckley buzzard]

Urban coyotes are a net plus, not a minus. Despite the loss of the occasional wandering house cat, they feast on rats and mice which infest most cities, slowing the spread of filth and disease.

[Lurker]

Smack in the west burbs of Chicago. They’re everywhere here, and are getting pretty big. I mean like small German Shepherds big. Small dogs are being picked off right out of backyards in front of folks.

They’ve lost all fear of man. Last year our neighbor saw one at her child’s bus stop trying to take his lunch.

L

[Buckeye McFrog]

A few years ago a guy shot one within a mile of Downtown Pittsburgh.

[ltc8k6]

Coyotes won’t even touch LA’s long standing Skid-Row.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juMX31y329E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mefbHlmFk6I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14_gOERA7mQ

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5214593/Christmas-Day-2017-Downtown-Los-Angeles.html

[Georgia Girl 2]

Our neighborhood is lousy with coyotes. No stray cats though. :-)

[MD Expat in PA]

I used to live in NE Baltimore City and I swear that late one night as I looked out the front window before going to bed, making sure my porch light was on, I saw a coyote walking down the middle of the street.

We had a lot of foxes and I was used to seeing them, had a family of them living in the woods behind my house and this was no fox, nor did it look like a dog.

[truth_seeker]

In Orange County California, the population has grown from less than 200,000 n 1950 to over 3 million now.

It is a relatively small area, which has resulted in increasingly densely populated areas, in place of once open space or farmland and orchards.

At some point around 10 years ago, the coyotes must have run out of remaining areas to retreat into, decided to advance back into areas they once roamed.

Dining on cats is not that bad of a life. Coyotes are very fast, very strong. They easily jump barriers. The attack cats so quickly the prey never makes a sound.

[Bellflower]

I am wondering if I have a badger in my city yard. I saw it in the dark. It wasn’t a raccoon, skunk, prairie dog or any other animal that I could recognize, except it might have been a badger. Maybe not too. I will keep an eye out for it to see what it is, if I see it again.