Or just shoot the @#$%ing thing with your handgun.
Depends on the neighborhood. You have to live on 10 acres, or more, in certain designated ag districts to be allowed to hunt varmints with a gun.
Also a sock full of nickles works pretty good to. If your wife still uses ammonia to clean, that mixed with water in a squirt gun will make any animal run away from you. I know this works from experience. My brother and I use to deliver newspapers and we needed something to scare away dogs that bothered us. It was my mom who came up with the idea. It works very well.
“Coyotes can’t be hunted with a gun because city ordinances do not allow firing a gun, except in self-defense or to defend a family member. However, Glider said that exception probably would hold for fending off an attack on a pet, although he advised against using a gun.
“You would have to be pretty good at what you’re doing or you would end up shooting your pet,” he said.”
Better still , call the PD and they will come out and shoot your dog for you!!