Any information I personally post in this forum is intended to be accurate and helpful. Nice to hear that the coyotes in areas you've visited are little puppy dogs. I'm originally from Nova Scotia and there the coyotes have interbred with stray dogs, run in packs, and have become a problem so serious that the government has put a bounty on them. You just have to do a Google search using 'Nova Scotia coyote attacks' to confirm that over the past four or five years there have been numerous attacks, maulings and deaths from coyotes in that province.