Here is the biggest problem from what they said in the paper around my parts. A coyote is very afraid of people, they are solitary critters and hunt small game. However, now they are breeding with people's dogs or stray dogs ... now you get a critter that will hunt in a pack with little fear of people. That is where the big issue is coming into play. A lady in the town next to me lost her lab when she was walking through the woods. Two of the mix breed critters killed her dog. In the article she tried to hit them off her dog with a stick and they still continued the attack. The game commission killed the critters. That is becoming a concern among the game commissions throughout the states I hear tell.