I was in bed last night , it was about 2am.  I heard a yipping in the back yard.  Not a barking a yipping!!  So I got up and went to the glass door in the living room.  Here came one of the cats, flying across the yard and zipping up the big oak at the back of the house.   I went and looked out the utility room door. It faces my kitchen garden, a small patch right by the back door for tomatoes and peppers and so forth.  The back porch light was on, and there was a coyote standing in my garden, about 5  ft from the back door.  My dogs were barking and having a fit.  In a flower bed about three foot from the coyote was one of our cats trying to hide under a rose bush.  I yelled and the predator ran.  We didn't lose any animals, this time!