Poor kitty! It's so weird that they know the difference, even if they have never met one before.There was a coyote pup running around in our neighbor's yard, a few wks ago... at first glance, we thought it was a dog, but our cat apparently knew better; she doesn't get excited when she sees dogs romping thru the backyard, but when she saw that coyote pup, she let out this yodeling YOWL and headed, tail between her legs, for the "cave" under my husband's bed. That was what made us look more closely, and my husband (who's been to california) said it was a coyote, but a young one.
Andria