The coyotes were out in force this evening.

[panader0]

A nice rain shower came through about 6 PM. Very welcome here in S Az. We've had a few so far and the vegetation
is responding. I live at 4650 ft in an area with thick mesquite, some up to twenty feet tall. So after the rain, in the fading sun, the coyotes gather at the nearby BLM pond, and tonight went wild, howling for almost two minutes. I was outside talking to a
rabbit (they seem to know that I feed them) when the coyotes started. His ears stood straight up.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Sounds like the rabbit thought those coyotes might want him for dinner...

I have never heard a coyote howl. It must be cool!

[Skittles]

2. when I lived on a farm, they sounded like teenagers having a party in the distance

WOOT!!!

[Joe Shlabotnik]

3. They reminded me of a pack of yipping chihuahua marauders.

Never got none to worried about them myself, but sadly I did lose a fearless kitty to them once.

[Skittles]

4. I saw my cat up in a tree, puffed up to twice his size once

then I noticed the coyote a the base of the tree and chased it off

[Joe Shlabotnik]

5. They actually sound smaller than they are.

Late one night, I was driving down my rural road on my way home and I came to a stop, and watched a pack cross from one big ditch on one side to the other in groups of 2. It was quite interesting to watch, and many of them looked as if they weighed 50lbs or more. Your kitty is lucky that there was only one.

[panader0]

7. The early spring rains brought grass, which begat a larger than normal rabbit population.

Come now the coyotes. They do sound smaller than a dog their size, high pitched. They are very smart animals.
I have heard them imitate a cat, trying to lure it.

[panader0]

6. They gather in the evening, calling to each other.

Then hunt at night. Early in the morning, before heading to their dens, they whoop it up again.
I love it. So wild. Their voices are different, maybe a status thing.

[Kali]

8. and two of them can sound like a dozen

[Laffy Kat]

9. It's such a wild sound.

I respect them even though they totally creep me out.

[magical thyme]

10. I often hear them at night or very early in the morning

hundreds of acres of woods behind my house. Moosetrail runs along side my property and crosses my back pasture, so I've occasionally seen one, although not since I got my 2nd dog.

Algiers chased one off once that was making a bee line for his goat. Good pony.

The scariest thing I heard, though, sounded like coyotes except was a full octave too low. On the moosetrail, right beside the house. I had let Jake out for his last pee of the night and saw him standing stock still. Opened the door and the deep howls flooded in. I called to him and he bolted inside, ran top speed through the family room, kitchen, hallway, up the stairs and into his "safe" place in the back room in the attic. I think it may have been a wolf pack.