Coyotes are here to stay in North American cities – here’s how to appreciate them from a distance

KTLA ^ | August 7, 2022 | David Drake, Bret Shaw, Mary Magnuson

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Coyotes have become practically ubiquitous across the lower 48 United States, and they’re increasingly turning up in cities. The draws are abundant food and green space in urban areas.

At first these appearances were novelties, like the hot summer day in 2007 when a coyote wandered into a Chicago Quiznos sub shop and jumped into the beverage cooler. Within a few years, however, coyote sightings became common in the Bronx and Manhattan. In 2021 a coyote strolled into a Los Angeles Catholic school classroom. They’re also appearing in Canadian cities.

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Coyotes have apparently spread east since about 1900. This partly because wolves and mountain lions were killed off and/or could not adapt to agricultural and urban areas. Coyotes are not found in 49 states, as far south as Panama, and in cities and suburbs.

[ifinnegan]

Do not appreciate them. They kill pets.

Cities should control them.

[fightin kentuckian]

Appreciate them though a 3x9 -40 scope as you squeeze off a 223 round

[redcatcherb412]

In N.M. when they become a problem they offer a bounty
Y for their flea ridden pelts and hunts are organized.

[ifinnegan]

That sounds good.

[fidelis]

I live in Arizona so I see these guys all the time. Roadrunners too. Though I’ve yet to see a coyote chasing a roadrunner.

[MDLION]

“They kill pets.”

Bet they can’t kill a Roadrunner. Roadrunner would drop an anvil on their head or sucker them into something involving Acme dynamite.

[MDLION]

You beat me by 1:16!

[NoLibZone]

In Oregon you’re allowed to shoot them.

[Salamander]

They’re not “coyotes” anyway.

DNA has proven that they’re a combo of coyotes, eastern wolves and dogs.

I love all animals but I love my animals, more.

They kill dogs.

It will break my heart to kill one, God forbid, but I will if I have to.

Got a whole ridge full of them and a pack stalked my dad one day.

Ours are huge.

[Salamander]

They are big, smart and fearless.

So hell no.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_coyote

https://theconversation.com/why-the-eastern-coyote-should-be-a-separate-species-the-coywolf-59214

They’re hillbilly wolves.

Of all things, they found Doberman DNA in them.

[Secret Agent Man]

Yes

You may not WANT to kill them, but you may NEED/HAVE to.

Not like anyone hopes to. Unless I suppose they’ve killed off a bunch of your animals already.

[Salamander]

The DNR dumped a crapload of them here to “control deer”.

The first we knew of them, they were waiting behind calving beef cows and killing calves as they were being born.

[radu]

They also mate with domestic dogs, producing coydogs. They’re more dangerous because they don’t have as much fear of people and they get out and about during the day. We’re infested with them here, though a wasting disease did knock down the numbers a little. Not enough. As long as there is one, that’s too many.

[Salamander]

I hope it never happens because it will gut me to shoot a “dog” but if I have to, I have to.

We have frequent “lost” small dogs and cats here and it kills me to read people begging for others to keep an eye open for their pets.

I can bet where they went.

[Salamander]

https://www.newsweek.com/2016/01/08/part-coyote-part-wolf-part-dog-enter-coywolf-407868.html

[Don W]

I moved to a small town in May. My cat disappeared ten days ago.

I will eliminate every coyote I see.

[Salamander]

Dead "coyote"

[Salamander]

OMG.

I am SO sorry.

Praying it shows up because it got confused by the move.