Chaos Causing Coyotes

We'd just gone to bed one night, shortly after moving in, when we heard it. A high-pitched wail that made me sit upright in bed and nudge my husband. "Did you hear that?" I asked worriedly. He had but had no more idea than I what had made the sound. Suddenly the wail was joined a chorus of high-pitched Yip-Yip-Yip-Yip... I wondered later if our city dogs, who had thundered forth their objection to this obscene night noise, had instinctively known that our land was being crossed by a pack of coyotes. I was told later that coyotes would kill chickens, cats and lure dogs away and kill them. I decided right then that we didn't want coyotes - but want them or not, they were there.