We're following up on a story we brought you on Monday about a coyote biting a worker on a jobsite off USA Parkway.
This attack resulted in multiple coyotes having to be put down.
The Nevada Department of Wildlife says people on the site were feeding the coyotes, which had them regularly coming back to the site.
NDOW wants to remind people that feeding wild animals is illegal.
"When you feed coyotes they become habituated to human beings. They look towards human beings to be fed and they lose their natural fear of humans and we end up in situations that we are in now," said Zac Campbell, Western Region Conservation Education Coordinator, Nevada Department of Wildlife.
They say feeding coyotes can create aggressive and demanding behaviors.
Some workers on the job site, who wanted to stay anonymous, are upset with the coyotes having to be put down.
Campbell says they get about 20 to 30 calls a day about coyote sightings.
NDOW says they only euthanize wildlife if they pose a threat to public health, which they say rarely happens.
"We're a wildlife agency that deals in conservation of all wildlife species," Campbell said. "It's our job to conserve Nevada's wildlife and habitat. So, the last thing we want is any species being euthanized."
Given that a coyote bit somebody on the site, they had to euthanize them to test them for rabies.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, this is because they have to the test the cells of the brain stem for the disease.
The coyotes NDOW tested all came back negative.
Coyotes travel all through the rural, and even urban areas of Nevada, but Campbell says they need to be dependent on their own natural food sources.
Once people start caring for and feeding them, they become dependent on it.
NDOW recommends for people in the community to just leave them alone.
"People do feed coyotes and wildlife daily and this is something that we want to harp on the public is please do not feed wildlife," Campbell said. "The reason this happened is not the fault of the coyote, it's the fault of individuals feeding the coyotes."
NDOW says that if you are caught feeding wild animals, that you can get a citation from a Game Warden.
