We have hundreds of coyotes and coy-dogs around here. At my parents house you can hear them howling at nite. When I had Shaianne I couldn't tie her to the tree at nite to potty and now with Keegan, I try not to let her go out of the lite of the secuirity lite. In the county where my parents live, they are hunted. And that is all I am going to say in the matter, I do not plan to discuss it further, just so anyone knows, before someone tries to blister me. My dad does not hunt them, noone in my family hunts.
My aunt and uncle have an outside Lab/GR mix and she runs all over the 100+ acres of their farm with no problems. They also have about 20 cats. Some of them may come up missing, I am not for certain. But as with outside cats anything can happen.
The coyotes are big around here, probably close to 50 pounds but a lot of them are mixed.
I live in town about a block away from the country (can walk to the end of my alley and see fields, this country girl likes that!!!) and on a clear night, if I stand out in my yard, I can hear them howling to each other.
Up where Amy lives (Cincy's mom) in Toledo they have them
downtown, I remember seeing on the news one running thru the streets. There have also been cases up there where people let their little dogs out to potty at night and the coyotes came up and snatched it, before the people could do anything. Kinda like Ozzi!