VIDEO: Coyotes roam Austin backyards, city advances plan for threats

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Coyotes are known to wander Central Texas, and in some cases have eaten people’s pets.
“They just carried them right down the landing.”
Kay Aielli says coyotes got her two Chihuahuas about nine years ago, when she let them out in her Allandale backyard. Over the summer, a coyote snatched her cat. Aielli was able to scare the coyote and get it to drop her cat, but the feline didn’t survive. “I was crying because it was so traumatic,”