"Don't Hurt Them"
Recently seen coyote sign with graffiti in the middle of Golden Gate Park in the City of San Francisco, one of the 10 largest urban centers in the United States! Most of us feel this way about our urban coyotes.
Please don’t hurt them, and please don’t take away their habitat. Their habitat includes thickets which offer them a protected place to live. Nativists are removing trees and thickets, and replacing them with native grasses which offer no habitat protection to our feathered and furry wildlife which now live in our parks.
Native grasses existed on sand-dunes which made up the landscape in 1776, but the ecology of the area has evolved since that time and it is because of this evolution that the wildlife we now have was attracted to the area and now lives here. This wildlife was not here in 1776 when the only plants were native grasses and four types of sparse growing trees.
PS: You can prevent uncomfortable encounters by keeping your dog on a short leash in known coyote areas.
Coyote Yipps 
Oct 31, 2011 @ 16:35:57
Janet I thought you’d like to see this article in the LA Times this morning, about living in peace with coyotes in Calabasas; the city seems to have gotten it right:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-coyotes-20111031,0,5511755.story
Nov 01, 2011 @ 01:12:45
Thank you Charlotte! We’re finally making inroads — people ARE listening to us!! Janet