Over the past couple of months, the eerie nighttime yips and howls of coyotes have echoed regularly across the hills and valleys of Marin.

Coyotes howling into the night are as much a part of Calabasas as the aspiring screenwriters, retired moguls and stay-at-home mothers who crowd the coffee shops in the city’s well-manicured mall.

Join Project Coyote and the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) in urging the City of Calabasas, California to make permanent its temporary ban on indiscriminate coyote killing.

The best way to change a coyote’s behavior and prevent attacks on people and pets is to first change the way humans act, say members of the Calabasas Environmental Commission.

The Calabasas Environmental Commission on Tuesday voiced unanimous support for a new coyote management plan that emphasizes public education on how to reduce human-coyote encounters and stipulates that lethal action against the wild animals should be a last resort.

The trucks pulled up at dawn. PollyAnna, a year-old disabled goose whose wing feathers were growing back, was asleep when the trappers approached.

Calabasas announced it will temporarily outlaw coyote traps within its municipal boundaries following complaints by four speakers at a recent City Council meeting about the “cruel and inhumane trapping” of the animals.

Coyotes are top of mind with many North Oakville residents as sightings of the animals have increased in recent years and stories of conflicts with family pets have circulated.

With coyotes roaming neighborhoods in the hills, residents should take steps to keep the predators at a distance from pets and living areas.

One of the great things about blogging and Social Media is that it facilitates connecting people and organizations who share similar interests so easily.

THE ANIMAL DAMAGE CONTROL ACT (ADC Act)was signed into law in 1931.

If emails are any indication of how strongly people feel about the issue of hunt dogs chasing penned coyotes to train for the real hunt, then Wile E. Coyote’s pals have found some human friends in Indiana.

As Indiana considers whether to legalize a blood-sport even nastier than dog and cockfighting known as coyote and fox “penning”- Project Coyote joined the Animal Legal Defense Fund and the Animal Welfare Institute in filing suit against the Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and its director Robert Carter Jr. over the Department’s decision to waive state permit requirements for a controversial Greene County coyote and fox penning facility.

On the second floor of San Francisco’s animal control offices, a poster-board map of the city sports blue, yellow and red pushpins, each one marking a coyote sighting.

This week marks the 80th anniversary of passage of the Animal Control Damage Control Act (7 USC 426-426c).

Coyotes are once again in the news, portrayed as vicious predators (link is external).

Rodents can be a nuisance, especially when they move into our buildings and storage areas.

After months of debate and approximate a $12,500 price tag thus far, Arcadia City Council voted unanimously Tuesday evening to shelve the controversial coyote trapping program.

SOUTH BURLINGTON — Coyotes are coming to dinner in South Burlington. They don’t howl for their supper as they circle the Butler Farms/Oak Creek neighborhoods.