I have two friends who raise cattle - both are on hundreds of acres and they have not lost a single calf to a coyote. Another friend breeds warmbloods on a uninhabited leased farm and she has not lost a single foal to a coyote.
There is only one documented case of a coyote attacking a human and there are not any pictures so I consider that Undocumented.
According to dogsbite.org in the last ten years - there have been 360 human fatalities due to dogs - primarily pitbulls and rottweilers. I believe there were 15 deaths year 2015. I have witnessed dogs ( owned - not feral or strays) killing or should I say mauling fawns and a kitten.
I am certain that domestic dogs do much more harm to wildlife and livestock than coyotes. Of course - that has been documented using dna and gps collars when studying coyotes - which documents their diet as 98% rodents - with the addition of soft mast and grasshoppers.
Still - the anecdotal stories continue.
I fell last winter when my are decided one of the coyotes in the field was a threat- apparently to me! She ran right out from under me (at about 10 pm in the dark pasture and my keys fell out of my pocket on landing) to run him down, then kept her body between me and the direction he went until I got back on. She has done that with strange dogs too, but only when I am there- If you watch from a distance she ignores the coyotes for the most part- though she still dislikes some dogs. I couldn’t be mad at her for trying to defend me, although I had some things to say as I searched the snow with a flashlight to find my keys.
