Irie, wish I was closer to you... spent many a day perfecting the art of killing coyotes. Easy to perfect ones skills when employed on a 54,000 acre ranch. I also have traps. Are (leghold) traps an option where you are (that is, what is the likely hood of catching the neighbors retriever?) I'd be glad to give ya some tips.

You need anyone to do some calling for you, give me a shout. I started varmint hunting back in 1977, and even placed well in the Nat'l competitions in the early 80's.

Problem is, you start blowing a call around a neighborhood and every damn dog there will be going nuts...LOL

Twitch: We should get together and go bust a few song-dogs...been a lot of years but I ain't forgot how.

Still...it might be fun!

Mike

I live in a neighbourhood where every other house has at least one retriever/hound/terrier. A call would set of everything within a mile.

Leg Traps were banned in this state a few years back w/o a 'special' permit.
I'm told Coyotes are too clever for cage traps.

Maybe I can rig up an oversized snare like on Road Runner. Use the coyote's own inventions against them. Maybe with 1/8th inch aircraft cable and a winch I can pull taught a 50' doug fir and rig up a bait snare that severs their spinal column at the 10th vertebrae, launching their upper torso skyward and leaving their hindquarters and thorax down on the ground still twitching.

It may be worth looking into.

I've used snares, They are superbly efficient.
No bait needed & they work 24/7.
Just find the coyote hair on the barbs of a fence where they come under it on a travel corridor.
Hang the snare at head height and make the loop big enough for their head including the ears.
The traveling Coyote comes trotting through and Voila!

They choke out very quickly without the hours of agony felt by legholds, if you want something a tad more humane (?)

The bad news?

They work just as well on Rover, the neighbors dog.
If you have neighbors that let their dogs roam at night the snares will clean up that mess in short order.
Going out to check the snare with your kid and finding your own dog strangled might not go over so well either.
Best not to use them in urban areas as returning a dog with a sore foot beats returning one with rigor mortis and bulged out eyes.



They are also classified as "body gripping devices" and illegal in places that have banned trapping.

Again, I'd call your Animal damage control office.
They are there exactly for this type of thing.
They can legally use all of the above methods to remove the offenders.

Here in California since the do gooders banned the hunting of Mountain Lions, their numbers have skyrocketted.
A good friend is mine is our local animal damage control agent (government trapper).
He has killed 10 Mountain Lions around my house in about the last eight years.
The lions find 4H animals far easier to catch than deer.
The last one killed a neighbors goat and drug it under my deck a few years back while we were in Oregon deer hunting.



This one killed some sheep across the creek from my place...



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If you want to get some more cats get dark colored cats.
They last longer then lighter colored cats around Coyotes.
Harder to see at night.they still smell them but harder to locate them.