Coyote Awareness in Nashville, TN

A recent study published in the Journal of Wildlife Management confirms another danger: coyotes find cats quite tasty.

Shannon Grubbs of the University of Arizona and Paul Kraus of the University of Montana captured, radio-collared and tracked eight coyotes in Tucson, Ariz., during the winter of 2005-2006. They report that in 19 of 36 coyote-cat interactions they observed, coyotes killed cats. In another 45 cases where coyotes were observed eating, 42 percent of the meals were cats. The authors concluded that outdoor cats are vulnerable to coyote predation.