{"id":418,"date":"2019-10-15T16:10:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T16:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pestdefenseguide.com\/?p=418"},"modified":"2021-09-27T15:42:46","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T15:42:46","slug":"how-do-you-keep-chickens-and-dogs-safe-from-coyotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pestdefenseguide.com\/how-do-you-keep-chickens-and-dogs-safe-from-coyotes\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Keep Your Dog and Other Pets Safe From Coyotes?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
It might seem like coyotes in the big city is a far-fetched idea. But the truth is, much of the urban land sitting under concrete today used to be the wild coyote’s native wild stomping grounds. As more wild areas fall prey to urbanization, coyotes are increasingly left with nowhere else to live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nPlus, urban areas have a lot to offer the enterprising coyote. In what is perhaps the ultimate irony, with the rising trend in cities towards keeping chickens and pet dogs, prey may be more plentiful than it ever was out on the wide open plains. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nThis trend is now prompting an emerging conversation on what families can do to protect their backyard pets and poultry from becoming a local coyote’s next meal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nIn this article, learn how to keep your own pets and backyard chickens safe from coyotes. Even more importantly, learn how to protect yourself and your children from coyote predation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nIf you currently keep backyard chickens or aspire to do so, you join an estimated one to five percent<\/a> of the nation who has embraced the trend towards what researchers are calling “urban poultry.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n \nAs far as the popularity of the pet dog is concerned, even the most casual survey of backyards on your block can tell you that trend is hotter than ever. A full 60 percent<\/a> of households include at least one pet dog, according to the latest pet industry statistics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nWith statistics like these, it is truly not hard to understand why coyote attacks in urban areas are also on the rise. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \nAccording to The Urban Coyote Research Project<\/a>, perhaps the biggest source of ongoing conflict between coyotes and people is attacks on pets and – surprisingly – people. Most attacks are not related to outbreaks of rabies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nRegional studies show that smaller prey animals like small pet dogs and backyard poultry tend to draw the greatest number of attacks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \nIn one longitudinal study<\/a> of coyote attacks on humans in North America, 367 documented attacks were assessed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nOne of the most important understandings to arise from this ongoing research is that people are under increased threat of coyote attack when pets or poultry are also nearby. Hungry coyotes that have become habituated to human presence from observing their parents are not hesitant to approach or even charge humans. <\/p>\n\n\n\nBiggest Coyote Conflicts with Chickens and Dogs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Six Main Categories of Coyote Attack Patterns<\/h2>\n\n\n\n