If you've got rats, you want coyotes in your area because they eat primarily rodents.

Coyotes don't howl because they made a kill. They howl strictly for communication with each other and with another group.

It's such a strange noise at first.

Later, when the coyotes came into this area, he got a license and started trapping coyotes. One year, he trapped 15 coyotes near his house. The coyotes had taken over so much of the land where there used to be rabbit, mink, fox and pheasant. He saw it as keeping the balance in nature a bit. He'd go out in the early morning and be gone eight hours. My mother would call and say, 'It's getting dark out,' and he'd come strolling in.

What you can do is, you should discourage coyotes from coming around.

Primarily snakes eat live prey, occasionally carrion – and they get used to it, if they are in captivity.