Lexington defers coyote management to Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, with LFUCG focused on hazing education and prohibiting wildlife feeding that attracts predators.
Coyotes are common in Fayette County's rural service area and increasingly seen in Urban Service Boundary neighborhoods. Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources (KDFWR) regulates coyote hunting and trapping under KRS Chapter 150 and considers them an unprotected species year-round on private land with landowner permission. LFUCG focuses on hazing education and prohibits feeding wildlife that may attract coyotes. Pet owners are urged to supervise small animals outdoors and secure trash. Lethal control inside the Urban Service Boundary is constrained by city firearms-discharge rules.
Wildlife feeding citations under LFUCG Ch. 4; firearms discharge violations under city ordinance for unsafe lethal control attempts inside USB.
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