"Our coyotes are 3 or 4 times as large as those puny western ones. Unless you keep the sheep right under the porch or have a guard dog with them, the coyotes will wipe you out."
There's a ranch about 1/4 mile from me and from time to time in the middle of the night I'll hear the Coyotes going Yip, Yip, Yip and the cattle going nuts and then I hear BLAM! Everything gets quiet after that. The Llama ranchers in the mountain use Great Pyrenees dogs and even the mountain lions steer clear of them
Gotta love em. Lots of ranchers around here use those huge white dogs ...and we've seen many a dead coyote hanging on the fence rows, due to their effectiveness.
The coyotes are so numerous and brazen... they come right into the yard during the day. I'm not complaining though...it gives me target practice. :)