You have to remember that these aren't your everyday cuddly dog. These are dangerous predators who would look at little Daisy as a snack. Over in the county (Hardin Co) where I grew up, and often visit, b/c my parents still live there, there is a horrible coyote/coy dog problem. The solution here is to shoot them on site. I believe my dad told me that in a 5 mile stretch they have killed 30-40 coyotes.
My grandma lives up the road from my parents and she would watch everyday a pair of them come out of the woods, cross the woods, and go into the next woods, she watched them everyday for months. One day they finally got them and shot them both, when they opened up the female she had 4-5 pups inside, so technically they got 6-7 that day.
Call animal control, but they will proabably tell you to shoot them. If there are 10-15 of them, and say 8-12 of them are female and each female gets pregnant and has 4-5 pups think of the problem then!!!! And in this case relocation is not the answer either, they would come back or bother someone else.
In Hardin Co, they have a local, for lack of a better term, "posse" in the neighborhood that tracks the coyotes, they use dogs and ATV's. They had a similiar problem a couple years ago with groundhogs, tho obviously different, due to the danger factor. And with the dogs they would have never gotten so many.
Good luck keep us posted, I am interested in seeing what happens.
Staci

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