We have coyote and bear here. Regularly. Urban area. Gated. The coyote eat our small dogs and the bear eat our garbage and love to laze around in our pools. We have confiscated their habitat and it is a sad situation, really. We've an ever-growing problem with green Iguanas. They get shockingly big for a lizard. Eight or nine pounds of muscle, grown. They get pretty close and are some nasty looking. They swim faster than any reptile I've seen. Mostly underwater. Their only protection, as far as I know, lies within our anti-cruelty law. Conservancy python hunters find the largest breeding groups still south of us but they are coming. We are encouraged to kill pythons on private land and paid (during specific periods) to kill them on public lands. Preferred kill method is through the brain.
