We live alongside railroad tracks and a field of bushes and at night we can hear the coyotes howling behind us. It is terrifying! Our cats run and hide under the bed and Sophie (the great dane that she thinks she is) growls and howls back at them - from the protection of her bed and under a blanket, of course!
One night my husband and I were out for a drive and came across two adults and two pups. The adults took off across the road into a field and the two pups kept playing until they realized they were alone, and then started running along the fence trying to find the adults. We had pulled off on the shoulder to let them four of them figure out what they were doing so we didn't accidentally hit one.
When we were living with my dad (in the middle of a large developed subdivision) we my husband and I were bringing something in from the car and a coyote ran passed us on the sidewalk - maybe 6 feet away from us. I was terrified because we used to let Sophie run from the car inside off of a leash, I was thankful we didn't have her with us that night, and since then she has never been off of her leash!
We live in an apartment now so our yard isn't fenced off and our idiot downstairs neighbour leaves vegetables and other food for the rabbits to eat. Our yard is always full of rabbits and/or food for wildlife which means we have sometimes seen coyotes in our yard eating the food or going after the rabbits.
Sophie does not go outside at all at night because of this (we have seen the reflection of eyes in the bushes the line the yard) and uses pee pads. We have hawks that live right in the field across from us that circle her all the time and coyotes in the back. Ms. Sophie uses pee pads exclusively and is taken for walks on a short leash in daylight so I can pick her up when the hawk comes around - not taking any chances! |