Coyotes can have an impact on the nests of ground nesting birds, but the bigger problem is house and feral cats,
My daughter has a rather wild tale about one of her cats and most likely a coyote.
As she was getting ready to turn in one evening, she heard her cat scream and went out, turned on the outside lights, and called it. She saw it's eyes reflecting in the light as it turned and looked her way beyond the fence in the middle of their 1-acre side-lot. It appeared to be sitting or standing on something about 2-3 feet off the ground. She called it again, but it didn't come. Since she was in her night clothes and barefoot, she didn't go after it, but just went back inside. She assumed it was on top of some construction debris (they were doing major remodeling).
The next morning she found her cat limping out from under the step. She took it to the vet, who could find no damage other than it looked like it had been mauled around and was bruised.
She went back home and looked to see what was in the field that the cat could have had been standing on. There was nothing there. She said the cat had to have been in the mouth of a coyote to have been that high off the ground.
Needless to say, her cat does NOT want to be outside at night any more.
Allan --
Allan Fish Greenwood, IN
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