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I'm at my sister's home in Columbia, Missouri for a short visit. She's in a residential area in a good size city. I went out this morning to get some things from my truck and startled a coyote, which trotted at a rather leisurely pace to a yard across the street. I spotted him later, basically walking around looking in windows. I've done enough desert camping to be confident that this was in fact a coyote and not some feral-looking stray.
My sister has four small dogs and a large yard with a very solid 8 foot fence. I think her dogs are safe. I talked to a woman across the street who has a dog and a 4 foot picket fence, which a coyote would laugh at. Then I had my sister post an urgent alert on the Next Door site.
I'm accustomed to seeing coyotes "in the wild" but now I'm seeing them close to our home in Wisconsin and they don't seem particularly shy around people, which is concerning.
My sister has four small dogs and a large yard with a very solid 8 foot fence. I think her dogs are safe. I talked to a woman across the street who has a dog and a 4 foot picket fence, which a coyote would laugh at. Then I had my sister post an urgent alert on the Next Door site.
I'm accustomed to seeing coyotes "in the wild" but now I'm seeing them close to our home in Wisconsin and they don't seem particularly shy around people, which is concerning.