The cat’s head was discovered two doors down, the legs nearby.

There is a unit within the Agriculture Department’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service called Wildlife Services.

Wild Things, an award-winning film produced by the Natural Resources Defense Council, explores the age-old battle between ranchers and wild predators and questions whether this battle really need go on.

Eight months after an employee of the federal Wildlife Services agency allegedly posted photos online depicting animal cruelty, the little-known government agency said the worker is still on the job but did not say whether he or any others have been disciplined.

More than 6,000 dead coyotes have been redeemed by hunters since Utah’s Division of Wildlife Resources launched its coyote bounty program last September.

In December 2012, Phoenix-based Wildlife Services employee Russell Files trapped his neighbor’s 2-year-old dog Zoey in his unfenced front yard.

It was an August morning two years ago when Maggie, a spry, 7-year-old border collie, slipped through the backyard fence of her family’s suburban Oregon home.

Late last year, Wyoming trapper Jamie Olson, from Douglas, posted pictures on Facebook of his trained Airedales attacking a coyote caught in a leg-hold trap.

It was a productive day for Gary Strader when he pulled his vehicle up to a remote site in northeast Nevada and found nine coyotes caught in leg hold snares set by the federal government.

The state of Utah wants to pay you $50 for every coyote you kill.

On a snowy trail that cuts around the trees is a neat line of paw prints which look as though they were made by a domestic dog.

The Friends of the Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge recently sponsored a talk on coyotes by John Maguranis, the MA representative of Project Coyote.

For the past seven years, the little Modoc County town of Adin, in Big Valley in far northeastern California, has hosted an annual coyote drive.

Their eerie howl wakes residents of cities as populous as New York and Chicago.

The recent coyote hunt in Modoc County that sent environmentalists into conniptions illustrates a growing philosophical divide in California that has placed wildlife officials in a political and cultural crossfire.

A parade of angry citizens and coyote advocates showed up at the Fish and Game Commission meeting in Sacramento on Wednesday to demand that state officials stop a planned coyote killing contest in Modoc County, but commissioners said that current regulations do not allow them to interfere with the annual hunt, which is legal under state law.

Many people see coyotes as dirty pests that get into trashcans, eat dogs and attack people – but humans and coyotes can coexist peacefully, according to Belmont Animal Control Officer John Maguranis.

California’s lone wolf may be in danger.

Every once in a while you get a sobering reminder about what passes for civilized society.

The state game commission on Wednesday declined to intervene in a controversial coyote hunting contest, although members did ask for a legal opinion on whether the board has authority to regulate contests in the future.