Dave Davidson,
I whole heartedly agree with your aproach to pest control on
own property!
I would only add that a coyote
has at least one other redeeming quality. He will kill & eat all the cats he can catch!
I like dogs too, but cats ... they're too self-centered, untrainable, too independent.
I guess they're too much like me!
People should keep their pets up! Why is it that they think
everybody else wants their pets around too? I live in the middle of a 60 ac tract & can't leave my muddy boots on the porch without a neighbors dog dragging them off!
Maybe BigPond has the answer with the Blue cats! Grow fish bigh enough to eat the water turkeys!