It's pretty much safe to say that wild wolves and coyotes are much more afraid of you then you are of them. I would LOVE to encounter an animal like that (mostly a wolf) in the wild. At a distance of course.

I *have* seen a wild wolf...in yellowstone...but it was so far away, it looked like a black dot. I think we saw around 3 coyotes at yellowstone also. 2 of them were pretty close to the road, running. Beautiful animals.

My mom had a coyote run across the road in front of her on her way to work a few days ago. It was weird!! I knew we had coyotes in Utah, but I didn't think we had them in this particular area...I thought most of them were more in the desert type areas around here. There's been a few cougars that have showed up in the city area here. Deer also of course, but this is the first I've heard of a coyote! Anyway, she called animal control....I hope somebody from the fish and game went and picked him up and relocated him....I hope that's what they did. My mom was worried he might get hit by a car, and there's also the chance of the coyote killing domestic animals (like cats) etc.