Here in PA we're developing a problem too. I got one 2 years ago on the first day of rifle buck season. Big male, about 45 pounds. Shot him in the neck, that cured him for eternity but I'm sure his pups live on. I heard that the coyotes we're getting in the east are really a hybrid of coyote and some kind of wolf. Anyone else hear this? I truly think that some animal lovers are breeding them in some clandestine effort to restore the predator/prey relationship so that hunting will become unnecessary, or maybe I'm just paranoid.