When we lived in East TX we used to hear them late late at night, yipping, I assume they were hunting. We lived in a small subdivision but it was out in the county, so pretty rural. I would never have an outdoor cat out there, it would be a coyote meal in a heartbeat. My large dogs (goldens and spinoni) were kept in a fenced yard and in the house but I worried when I took small puppies out in the dark, between owls and coyotes.
I also used to see them on occasion, driving to work, right in the middle of town. It was right before sunup and I guess they were headed home, but that means they were wandering around town during the night.
To be fair, I don’t blame coyotes for doing what they do. It is what they are made to do,and what they should do. Neither should WE be blamed for doing what WE should do.
S-S-S indeed.
I regularly hear them at night. My neighbors have a Great Pyranees which protects their free range chickens and goats. Since they are about 25 acres away from me...I don’t get much benefit from that.
I have chickens and of course cannot free range them. Their chicken yard has fence wire across the whole top. Otherwise, the owls and hawks would have had them in no time. But...I did have to hire a guy to come out and remove 2 chicken snakes from my nesting boxes, one was 6 feet long. They feasted on my hen’s eggs.
In spite of and because of the wild life...I do love living out here in the country. You name it...its here, from foxes, raccoons, possums, snakes, turtles, deer,coyotes, bob cats, wild boars, squirrels, rabbits, turtles, frogs, toads, lizards, skinks, etc. For a couple of years we even had a ‘puma’ ranging the area. The vet says the bears are back, but have seen no trace of them.
I had heard people say they saw coyotes in Houston but I had my doubts even though cats disappeared a lot. Then I saw one in Tanglewood about 1/4 miles west of the West Loop 610, not far from my house. It was 1pm the coyote was sprinting toward Buffalo Bayou. I hear yapping sometimes at night but have only heard them howling in south Texas. My next door neighbor saw one come through the fence from my back yard into his before it turned around and ran.