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Toddler's close call with coyote

We have quite a few around here. We rarely see them except when night hunting hogs, but hear them often. I have watched them stalk prey from a tree stand, they seem to go about it in a roundabout way until ready to pounce. A wildlife biologist told me that about 80% of a coyote's diet is plant material, which was surprising to me.. They live well during deer season due to gut piles. I leave coyotes alone because they have learned to take wild hog piglets from time to time.
 
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I think I've posted this before. I used to have to unlock Evergreen Cemetery in Colorado Springs every other morning. On the off mornings I unlocked Fairview Cemetery on the other side of town.

Anyway back out in the old Pioneer Cemetery where nobody ever went there was a coyote den with a litter of coyotes in it.

My stupid coworkers took to feeding the coyote pups.

I showed up one morning and didn't feed them and I pissed one of them off.

It bit me. I didn't officially report it. Because I knew that if I had they would have sent a sharpshooter down there to kill them all.
 
The Night Rider said:
They're not my laws.

I would be willing to bet that there are air-powered or CO2 powered pellet guns out there that can take out a coyote without making a whole lot of noise.
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What I know about air guns (never owned a BB gun as a kid, dad wouldn't allow toys) you could write in the inside of a match book cover with a grease pencil. I do know they make em on .50 cal. and I'll bet that would knock em pissel end up.
 
When I was a kid, West Tennessee was prime rabbit and quail country. Lots of people hunted them and it was actually good for the area economy.
But around 30 years or so ago, coyotes crossed the Mississippi river. They wiped out the rabbit and quail. Ain't seen either in years. 🤬
There was the famous Mid-town coyote in Memphis for a while. It was seen fairly regularly roaming the Mid-town residential area at night. Every once in a while a pet cat or small dog would disappear. It took I think 5 years before they finally caught it.
The damned things have become a real nuisance. There is a regulated hunting season, but just about every farmer and hunter I know will kill them on sight.
 
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