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COYOTES LIVE HERE
It takes the whole community to keep everyone safe—people, pets, and coyotes:
Whether you love coyotes, hate coyotes, or don’t really care, tame coyotes are not okay. Coyotes that are comfortable around people get into trouble and could hurt someone or or end up dead. |
Never (EVER) Feed Coyotes
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Never feed coyotes and remove food sources.
As The Humane Society of the United States says, "Deliberately feeding coyotes is a mistake. You may enjoy hand-feeding animals, but this is a surefire way to get them accustomed to people and will ultimately lead to their demise." |
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Protect Pets
Although attacks on humans are rare, coyotes are opportunistic and will prey upon free-roaming cats and small dogs. The best prevention is to keep pets supervised, indoors, or on a leash.
The thought of losing a pet for any reason is awful. Keeping them supervised and safe has benefits beyond protection from coyotes. Pets are also vulnerable to cars, toxins/poisons, and free-roaming dogs and cats.
The thought of losing a pet for any reason is awful. Keeping them supervised and safe has benefits beyond protection from coyotes. Pets are also vulnerable to cars, toxins/poisons, and free-roaming dogs and cats.
PUCP Director's Dog on a Leash
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PUCP Director's Cat in a Catio
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Scare Off Bold Coyotes
Learn to Haze Coyotes Correctly
Make noise, clap, wave, blow a whistle, or clang together pots and pans until the coyote leaves the area.
Assess Coyote Behavior
Learn to assess coyote behavior to understand whether a coyote is behaving normally or if you should take additional steps to keep the coyote and the community safe.
As coyote habituation goes from low to high, the type of response should similarly increase. If coyotes are rarely seen and it’s generally at night, simply reducing attractants and taking reasonable precautions with pets is probably enough. If a coyote is being seen regularly during the day, an active and consistent effort to haze the animal is recommended. Effective, community-wide hazing can help prevent the need to lethally remove (kill) coyotes.
If a coyote is very difficult to scare away from you, is acting aggressively, or appears to be seriously injured or sick, please call the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife at 971-673-6000 to report the coyote's behavior.
Figure adapted from the Urban Coyote Research Project and the Humane Society of the United States
As coyote habituation goes from low to high, the type of response should similarly increase. If coyotes are rarely seen and it’s generally at night, simply reducing attractants and taking reasonable precautions with pets is probably enough. If a coyote is being seen regularly during the day, an active and consistent effort to haze the animal is recommended. Effective, community-wide hazing can help prevent the need to lethally remove (kill) coyotes.
If a coyote is very difficult to scare away from you, is acting aggressively, or appears to be seriously injured or sick, please call the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife at 971-673-6000 to report the coyote's behavior.
Figure adapted from the Urban Coyote Research Project and the Humane Society of the United States
Share This Message
Proactive, non-lethal* coyote coexistence only works when the whole community works together to keep people, pets, and coyotes safe.
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*Can we just remove all the coyotes? Short answer, no. Even if we wanted to, it is not practical or effective to remove coyotes. It is logistically very difficult to safely or humanely remove coyotes from urban areas and other coyotes quickly fill in vacancies and reproduce. Read more about relocation and removal here.