Pass this info around if you are noticing a problem. Our pets are easy pickings for them, because people really don't think anything about letting their pets roam around or be in the fenced-in back yard at night. Much easier to corner a pet in the front doorway of a home or a closed in backyard that they can not escape from, than to work so hard to chase a rabbit/mouse in an open field. I feel sure they stay scrawny and smaller if they have to work hard to eat.
Stalking coyote.
Plus the ranchers have to deal with them packing up together and waiting and watching a baby calf being born and the mother gets attacked while she is giving birth. A sad thing to have to watch.
I did have a happier story to share about how some donkey's are protective. It was shared with me by a rancher family member who told of watching their donkey run around a baby calf, who's mother was no where to be found, from a pack of coyotes and it gave them enough time to at least get to the calf before he was attacked.
This donkey mom was not as fortunate to save her baby. She was very angry at the coyote.