FOX23 has received dozens of emails from viewers about coyote sightings all over the city.
This - after our first story aired a couple weeks ago.
One of those sightings near 81st and Memorial is where we caught one on tape.
FOX23's Janna Clark shows us how neighbors are working to trap them.
One night Jim Thomas's dogs, Sophie and Cassie, made more racket than normal.
Jim saw two coyotes on the outside of his fence.
Suddenly both coyotes charged toward him.
"I thought surely they're gonna stop... but they didn't stop," Jim said.
They dove at the fence toward his dogs.
"Scared the heck out of me then," Jim said.
Jim yelled, and the coyotes took off.
But if the fence holes had been bigger, Cassie and Sophie would be gone.
"Oh no question," Jim said.
Jim and his neighbors hired Reginald Murray with Oklahoma Wildlife Control.
He just bought new traps - made specifically to catch coyotes and set up in Jim's neighborhood, near 81st and Memorial.
A couple days later - the trap caught a coyote, only 20 feet from Jim's back door.
Murray says coyotes are becoming a big problem in the city.
"We've had an unbelievable amount of calls about coyotes... all over town," Murray said.
He says around here, coyotes don't have natural predators.
"If its not properly managed, it's going to become a public safety issue and quick," Murray said.
Jim says after seeing the coyotes so close and so aggressive, he not only worries about his dogs, but he worries about his 3-year-old grand-daughter too.
Murray may start working with the city to to set the traps because the city's gotten so many complaints.
The city says it doesn't have the manpower nor the equipment to trap coyotes.
