Found an Injured or Orphaned Animal?
If you have a coyote sighting in your neighborhood:
Do's
- Do keep small dogs and cats inside at night.
- Do keep the covers secured on your trash receptacles.
- Do contact Animal Services if you spot a coyote in your neighborhood.
- Do try to consider that they were here first.
Don’ts
- Do not feed your pets on the back porch.
- Do not offer a hungry coyote “dinner on a string” by walking your small dog in wooded areas.
- Do not approach, chase, make noises at, chunk rocks or otherwise taunt a wandering coyote.
- Do not approach a coyote if it appears trapped, injured, or sick. Contact Animal Services.
- Do not ever try to touch a coyote.
Written by Jim Dunlap & Tammy Welch, Living Material Center
Coleman JS and Temple SA. 1993.
Free-ranging domestic cats: a survey.
Wildlife Society Bulletin, 21:381(10)
Top dangers to free-roaming cats:
#1 Car Collisions
#2 Diseases (Feline Leukemia Virus, Rabies, FIV, Feline Distemper, etc.)
#3 Conflict Injuries inflicted by stray dogs and cats
#4 Poisons (antifreeze, rat bait, lawn chemicals, etc.)
#5 Complications of uncontrolled breeding
#6 Cruelty inflicted by humans
#7 Predation by wildlife (primarily by owls)
Wildlife Experts: Referrals and Resources
All Wildlife: DFW Wildlife Coalition 972.234.9453 www.dfwwildlife.org
Birds: Roger Wildlife Rehabilitation 972.225.4000
Birds of Prey: Blackland Prairie Raptor Center 469.964.9696
For other referrals: PISD Holifield Science Learning Center 469.972.1190
Texas Parks and Wildlife www.tpwd.state.tx.us
Humane Society of the United States www.hsus.org
www.coexistingwithwildlife.org