Like so many people living in the greater Southern California area, Justin Long and Kate Bosworth are no strangers to coyotes. The genre power couple, who previously met on 2022’s House of Darkness , often see the furry little guys in their Los Angeles neighborhood—not to mention bobcats, mountain lions, and a surprisingly wide array of wildlife.

“We have bears that go through our trash all the time,” Bosworth admits with a wry smile. “I’ve come nose to nose with a bear in our neighborhood that I nicknamed Sugar, and we [run into] him quite often.”

Yet it remains the coyotes who capture the media and pet owners’ imagination. John Mulaney did an entire episode about them being a common concern in the first episode of his Netflix talk show, and the occasional attack on someone’s dog can

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