• Never feed coyotes or leave out foods that might attract them.  Secure your trash.  They eat fruit, cereals, meats, small animals, and carrion.  

• Never feed pets outside.

• Bring your small pets inside at night or accompany them in heavily used coyote areas – any pet woodchuck size or smaller is at risk.

• A safe cat is an indoor cat.  Outdoor cats or cat colonies are a magnet for coyotes.

• If coyotes are staring at you, or following you, they probably think you are going to feed them.  Remember many coyotes are trained to expect food from people.

• If you are uncomfortable with coyotes near you, yell or clap your hands loudly.  Coyotes are very nervous animals and should leave especially if it looks like you are going to approach them.  If this does not work yell and throw something. 

• Coyotes are not as big as you might think.  Our largest male coyotes weigh about 50 pounds – even though they are frequently reported to look 70 to 100 pounds.

• Remember:  fat coyotes are fertile coyotes.  They have plenty of natural foods here (mice, rats, woodchucks, rabbits, geese) they don’t need more.  We already have plenty of coyotes.

www.theconservationagency.org/coyote.htm