We have a coyote den right on our property, my kids set up a blind so they could watch them. They have been doing that since they were like 8 years old by themselves. The whole pack runs up and down the trails in my back forty and the surrounding forest area.
They have never been bothered and all my kids have for protection is their training and a hunting knife or bow.
We've never lost a chicken or turkey, they have an electric fence. Except to a weasel, we fixed the pen.
We've lost a couple cats, But I think that was a fisher and a big hawk, the other was a car. Daughter's cat is not allowed outside.
We're not stupid enough to have a small dog in the country, why would you have coyote treats running around? Or as my kids call them"meals on wheels".
But then no one in my family is a 95lb girly-girl in a training bra.

Same thing goes for the women.