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ONLY if he is threatening your family, or your animals..

If a coyote is in the backyard, he is a threat to any pets or small children in the neighborhood. But whether you can shoot him or if you have to call animal control will depend on where you live. In the rural setting where I grew up, we wouldn't have thought twice about it - coyote in yard = dead coyote. But now I am in an urban area and I had better not use a firearm unless someone is in IMMEDIATE danger - like the animal is gnawing on my lower extremities. Even shooting it while it was attacking my pet might be questionable.

Where I live coyote's are open season year round no perment needed. ( far east Tennessee ) there looked at as a Predator.

It depends on where you live. In Ohio, coyotes are a nuisance. We are allowed to kill them any time of the year, any weapon is allowed, and you do not need a license or a tag.

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