[bd476]

Thanks for the update. Somehow though, I don't feel safer and probably won't be going on any wilderness hikes in the near future. The cats have less and less territory and not a lot of food.

Coyotes come down from the hills looking for food. They stay when they find pets cocker spaniel size and smaller. Then Wild Animal Control people come out with live traps, catch the coyotes and kill them. Once coyotes find a good feeding area with plenty of pets in the suburbs, they always find their way back.

[buffyt]

We lived in LA all of 2002. Claremont, actually. Coyotes lived across the road, where there was a wilderness preserve. Odd, since that was right across the street from Claremont Colleges. Saw a dead stray cat one morning, coyote had killed it. Kept my cats INDOORS at all times. Also when we lived in San Marino 1988-1990 I saw a coyote in town one day over on Canterbury Rd.