[hinckley buzzard]

Coyotes are a versatile and adaptive species who have long since become quite at home, not only in the country but in suburban and urban environments. Chicago, for example, has a sizable indigenous population. They have been under study by urban ecologists. They mostly avoid people, are seldom aggressive, and actually perfom a valued service by their efficient hunting and eating of rodents. A typical coyote in a city can eat as many as 3000 rats a year.

So hunt away, but they are here to stay.

[GreyHoundSailor]

Now if some enterprising person could train them to eat gang-bangers, I might be persuaded to stop shooting them.

[Boogieman]

“Chicago, for example, has a sizable indigenous population.”

Yes, I can attest to this for a fact. I’ve lived here all my life, and I’ve never actually seen a live one, since they are very careful to stay out of sight of humans, but you can hear them in the forest preserves, or up on the freight train tracks at night. A few years back we did get a bold one who tried to nab a small dog in a mall parking lot, right off the owner’s leash.