It's now Paul Zambrano's job to rid a neighborhood of one or more coyotes that have attacked dogs.
The animal trapper pulls up in his truck and gets down to business Wednesday afternoon, scouting the neighborhood for evidence of coyote scavenging. The cages are placed strategically in places where he thinks a coyote might go. He tosses pieces of frozen chicken in, then camouflages the cages with foliage. He wants them to be enticing.
Coyotes "usually go for live prey," said Zambrano, 39, of Jupiter. "But being that they're so brazen, I think we'll have a good chance of getting them with regular frozen chicken and things like that.