It is wise to feed dogs in house & not outdoors. Years ago we had a coyote helping itself to the dog food on the porch.

Have had coyote's sitting on round bales across the valley watching us. Have seen them playing out in the fields jumping around etc.

We have lost cats to coyotes, & raccoons.

The dogs have cornered lone coyotes in the woods & I stayed a long distance away when that happened. Got one dog to come & tied my scarf around the dogs neck, got another dog to come & eventually the third dog joined us.

We took in a rescue dog that was not country smart. She decided to enter the woods on her own & a pack of coyotes raked her over good & took a patch of hair out of her shoulder. She made it home all right & after that didn't wonder out of the yard without us being along with her.

Coyotes like to bait dogs. They will send one coyote for the dog to follow over the hill & then gang up on it.

Our dogs are trained to stay in the yard or we have them in the house. I sleep with my bedroom window open in the spring when the cows are calving. The dogs will growl & bark if they sense the coyotes are near.

Your dogs will learn your home & yard is their territory & warn you if anything approaches.

Another thing to be concerned about are snares. Farmers will use snares to catch the coyotes. The snare works very quickly in doing the coyote in but if your dog should get caught in one it will be the end. It is good to check with your neighbors if you are in a farming community if any one is putting out snares.

That pretty much covers the coyotes in the country around here.