I live in Calumet Grove and a few months ago, I saw a coyote crossing Bueno Vista by a golf course near Lopez. One of the vets from Mulberry Grove Animal Hospital jogs in the area and has seen them. I am from a rural area in Michigan and I know what a coyote looks like. At the Outdoor Expo in The Villages this year, I asked the ranger from
Griffin Park in Lake County about them. He said the they have become a problem in the park and they encourage anyone who lives on "shoot'-able property" to dispatch them. I live on a golf course 4 houses away from a wooded horse farm area. I have a small dog (always on a leash). In the evening before dark I take him on his "long walk" and later I turn on all the front lights, close the front door so it can be heard, and talk to him. I am not paranoid, just cautious because one can't predict what a wild animal would do if confronted with a tasty dinner.
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