This is a coyote decoy and why would I write about that?

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In our little manufactured home community, there is a small lake along the east side. It attracts ducks and geese and the geese nest there in the spring. The goose families come ashore to feast on the new spring grass after their eggs hatch and things get a bit messy on the lawns that adjoin the lake. Someone had the bright idea of getting some decoys like that in the photo in he hope of scaring the geese away from the shore. I am not sure how many "coyotes" we now have living here. The thing is, by the time the decoys arrived, the geese had grown their goslings and now just visit from time to time. And another thing, putting predator decoys around to scare off any birds just does not work. I learned that when I worked at the bird seed store. Decoys don't move and look phony, so birds get wise quickly. There are no actual coyotes in the vicinity here, just occasional bears and cougars. I had never seen a coyote decoy before.