[PicassoCTs]

Sorry- but do you honestly belief that coyotes will hunt rats? In a city? They will eat fastfood leftovers from the garbage cans with the rats. Creatures hunt out of desperation- hunting is energy-expensive, dangerous and often not successful unless it targets the small, old or parasite riddled. That coyote will get diabetes before it gets to even start hunting rats.

[rcruzeiro]

Not sure about coyotes, but here in Norway foxes hang around near the garbage bins of restaurants because the garbage attracts rat. They will then leave happily with a huge rats in their mouths.

[SideburnsOfDoom]

London, England has a large population of urban foxes.

It seems that their favourite meal is discarded fast-food fried chicken bits, their second choice is "raid the garbage bins for anything smelly and meat-based". But for sure they'd take live prey such as rats. They also eat snails and earthworms.

In other words, a successful urban animal should be nocturnal, fast and agile, clever and above all: omnivorous.

[johngossman]

I have webcam footage from my backyard of a Coyote catching and eating a rat. The University of Washington has been doing DNA analysis of the scat of urban Coyotes and they eat a lot of rats (even more rabbits).

https://seattlecoyotestudy.wixsite.com/seattlecoyotestudy/ab...

[thefaux]

I see coyotes hunting gophers all the time in the big city I live in. I have never seen one rooting around in a garbage can.

[dboreham]

As a cat "owner" this seems not true. Cats hunt as a hobby.

[e40]

My well fed cat used to hunt rats, and eat them.