You know, it would help if the original posting primitive had given some idea, some vague idea, of his location, so the reader could understand what sort of coyotes the primitive is dealing with.
Nebraska is famous for coyotes, but in real life, they're pretty tiny things, the biggest no larger than a really scrawny medium-sized dog, and usually smaller.
There's coyotes around here, but the cats Abbie, Snow, Junior, Apricot, Floyd, Gordon, Harold, George, Ellie, and Leo generally keep them at bay, on the other side of the river.