My neighbor shot my Cat with a pellet gun, right under the eye. The Cat ended up with a giant abscess leaking puss.

I told him he was an ass, if he felt he had to kill the Cat, lure him in with food, use a baseball bat and finish it.

He was old as dirt and senile, I let it pass without raising to much trouble.

Sure all pellet guns aren't created equal, few are up to the job of dispatching a Coyote.

Wounding an animal, is in my opinion, a bad alternative. If you wound it, you have a responsibility to track it down and finish the job. If it is a lactating female, you have the responsibility to track down the young and euthanize them. Not something anybody wants to hear, but IMO a distasteful responsibility you have when you are an ethical hunter. In the end a Coyote is just doing what Coyotes do, they aren't evil, but they can be dangerous and certainly a pest.

I watched a misguided young woman walk up to a lactating female Yote and offer her a pork chop, the Yote said *uck you very much and shredded her fingers. This was a desert spring that was a very good spot to see all the wildlife in the desert. Signs up all over the place which said come no closer than fifty yards to the spring.