Coyotes in your backyard?
For assistance to permanently resolve your human-coyote conflict:
Contact mary@littlebluesociety.org or call usToll Free at (866)702-9290
Please reference the partial list of areas (below), where we have succesfully resolved human-coyote conflicts.
Coyotes are Keystone predators and they play a crucial role in controlling the population of mesopredators e.g. foxes, raccoons, oppossums and skunks. Rodents make up 80% of their diet, making them Nature's natural rodent control (especially helpful where there is Hanta Virus and Plague endemic in rodent populations). They consume carrion, which helps to keep the environment and watersheds clean and free of disease.
When left to do their "own thing," we benefit tremendously from their activities. But due to our expanding population and their shrinking habitat, these remarkably adaptable animals have learned to live closer to us.
Human-coyote conflicts may arise when we intentionally feed them or inadvertently create free-food opportunities around our properties i.e. pet food left outdoors, free roaming pet cats and small dogs, unharvested fruit, and bird feeders that spill seeds on the ground that attract rodents, which in turn attracts their predators.
We must understand that some of our personal habits may have to change in order to permanently resolve conflicts we are having with coyotes, and to maintain a safe and peaceful co-existence with all of our wild neighbors. We resolve immediate conflicts, and instruct people across the U.S. in the most current techniques to avoid conflicts with coyotes.
The following is a partial listing of areas, where we have succesfully resolved human-coyote conflicts
San Bruno, CA Coyote Conflict
Consultants. Coyotes taking up residence in the backyard.
Vinings, Georgia Coyote Conflict
Consultants. Trapping of Coyotes stopped. Alternative strategies to deal with human-coyote conflicts presented.
Atlanta, Georgia Coyote Conflicts
Consultants for alternative human-coyote conflict management strategy.
Laguna Hills Coyote Conflict, CA
Consultants to resolve dog-coyote conflict.
Los Gatos Coyote Conflict
Consultants to preventing cat-coyote conflict in a residential neighborhood.
Marin Coyote Conflict, Marin Wildcare Center
Consultants to the Wildcare Center on proper release of rehabilitated coyotes back into their homerange.
Cervantes Coyote Conflict, Portola Valley
Resolved coyote intrusion onto property and conflict with pet dogs.
Parkridge, Illinois Coyote Conflict
Resolved dog-coyote conflict
Vista Verde Coyote Conflict, Portola Valley
Consultants to resolve/help a coyote with an injured front right leg.
Golden Gate Park Coyote Conflict After the lethal removel of 2 coyotes from the Park, San Francisco Animal Care and Control asked LBS to advise on proactive, non-lethal methodologies to avoid a repeat incidence.
Marin Headlandfs, Golden Gate Recreational Area (GGNRA) Coyote Conflict Consultants to the Marin Wildcare Center to dehabituate coyotes in the Park. (read more)
Portola Valley Coyote Conflict
Consultants to the Portola Valley Ranch Association to educate the
community and to disperse a family of coyotes that were attacking pet dogs.
Coyote Conflict City of San Ramon
After a dog was killed by a coyote while being walked on a leash, the
City of San Ramon considered using the Federal Wildlife Services to trap and kill the coyotes, but instead, contracted with LBS to launch a public educational
campaign and implement a proactive strategy to keep the coyotes from
loafing in an area frequented by people. The City generated much
positive PR for choosing a non-lethal approach to solving their coyote conflict “problem.”
City of Scotts Valley Coyote Conflict After several
pet cats were taken by coyotes, the City of Scotts Valley contracted
with LBS to mediate and assuage the anger and fear of residents
concerned about their own safety and that of their pets. The residents
were educated on proactive methods for avoiding coyote conflicts.
City of Belmont Hills Coyote Conflict Because coyotes were
loafing and foraging in the residential neighborhood of Belmont. The
Belmont City Police Department invited LBS to launch a public education
program to teach the public on how to safely and peacefully coexist
with the coyote. And to provide the City with a proactive plan to minimize conflicts with coyotes.
City of Pacifica Coyote Conflict LBS acted in an
advisory capacity to the City of Pacifica on how to deal with coyotes
in their open space areas that had become acclimated to human presence.
Town of Woodside Coyote Conflict
LBS acted in an advisory capacity to the Town of Woodside, to educate
the residents on safely and peacefully coexisting with coyotes and minimizing conflicts.
Coyote Conflict in North Clacamas County
Portland Oregon LBS acted in an advisory capacity to the North
Clacamas Parks and Recreation Department, on creating policy dealing
with “problem” coyotes in public areas.
City of San Jose Coyote Conflict, Almaden Villas Consultants to the City of San Jose to disperse coyotes from a gated community and educate the residents on how to avoid conflicts with coyotes.
Coyote Conflict Guadalupe Elementary School Educational presentation on canine and coyote safety. Grades K2 and 3-6.
City of San Jose, Corte De Rosa Coyote Conflict Consultants to the City of San Jose on habitat modification and dispersal of coyotes to eliminate conflicts.
City of San Francisco, Bernal Heights Coyote Conflict Advisors to the City of San Francisco Animal Care and Control on public education and strategies to safely encourage the coyote to leave the area and to avoid potential conflicts.
San Mateo County, Sawyer Camp, Coyote Conflict The Founder and President of LBS, Mary A. Paglieri, was the Chair of the Wildlife Subcommittee, San Mateo County Fish and Wildlife Advisory Committee. She helped write the Coyote Conflict Protocol for San Mateo County Parks and Recreation Department. She also designed the Coyote Safety Informational Brochure currently in use by the County.
The San Mateo County Coyote Conflict Forum 2000 LBS helped coordinate this meeting, attended by leading coyote experts in the County and throughout the United States. LBS presented the coyote VEXING™ program, designed to recondition the animals to fear and avoid humans and populated areas.
Little Blue Society is doing a tremendous job in resolving human-coyote conflicts and helping people and coyotes safely coexist. I support this program.
