There are coyotes, foxes, raccoons, etc. in the suburb where I live. Some coyotes come right behind my fence, luckily they never have the nerve to jump over and attack my pets but everyone is inside at night regardless. One day I looked out my kitchen window, and a coyote was having a stare-down through my fence with my cat...I ran out clapping my hands and sending him on his way.
I hear packs at night howling to each other, and I see some on my walks behind my house. I saw several closing in on a small herd of deer, and thought I was going to witness an attack on one of my walks...but one deer charged toward them, and they scattered and watched from a distance.
I was walking my dog back there once, and came around a bend and startled a coyote with her pup, it was in springtime. Well, she barked and followed us quite a way, until she was confident we weren't going to harm her little one.
Here's a picture I took of a coyote watching me on one of my walks behind my house. I just started doing walks back there again, as I mentioned in the Seniors Getting Fit group, he's just under the tree, on the right...coyotes here are pretty healthy and well-fed, I saw one carrying a fat little prairie dog he just killed, and they hunt the bushes for rabbits also. They remind me of skinny Husky dogs. There have been a few attacks over the years on pets and small children, so everyone needs to be aware of their presence. We had a black bear incident once, but that was when we were camping in Canada years ago.
