I'm not so sure.  Last January, we lost a cat to a couple of coyotes.
The bastards came right into our front yard and took him.  And he's
not the only cat from our (old) neighborhood that they helped
themselves to.  My husband and I went looking for them one night, and
found them, eating someone else's cat right next to the play yard of a
day care center down the road.  We were standing maybe 50' from them,
and they weren't in the least bit scared of us.  They took off though
when DH fired his cross-bow at them.  We walked over and saw pieces of
a few different cats that they'd been dining on recently.  Called
Police.  Police said call Animal Control.  Called Animal Control.
Animal Control said that for $60 per coyote, they would re-locate
them.  

Yea, right.  Like we're going to pay someone $120.00 to relocate a
couple of opportunists that killed and ate (most of) our cat.  

What we did do, was the next morning, DH went and informed the day
care center of what was going on within a few feet of their play yard
fence, and I went about and told all the neighbors to keep their cats
and small dogs inside after dark.  Then, we moved.

So Victor, give Animal. Control a call, maybe they'll do it for free,
maybe they'll even do it this weekend.  But the teenagers........they
need the money, and I'll bet they'd do it right now.  Plus, they'd
have something to tell their friends about.

-bonbon

There was no evident sign of trauma, but I didn't actually examine the
body. I saw it alive Friday morning, he was just napping (or so it
seemed). Tom said he saw it dying, gasping and stuff. :(