Social media channels are increasingly populated with posts about coyote sightings and the occasional reports of coyotes killing cats, dogs and chickens.

Linda Peterson, communication director for Draper City, said the city’s animal services office reports that “they’re getting calls pretty much daily from people who see coyotes.”

The deaths of five companion animals in Draper — dogs and cats — are “directly connected to coyotes in the past couple of months. Something this season is maybe making them come down a little further into public areas than they have in the past even though because of Draper’s location, it’s always something to be aware of,” Peterson said.

The city has information about coyotes on its website to inform residents, which Peterson said has been on the site for several years given the city’s proximity to the foothills.

Last week, a Draper family’s 11-year-old Pomeranian Chihuahua was snatched from their front yard by a coyote.

How old is too old to run for president?

When President Joe Biden was sworn in to be president in January 2021, he was 78 years old and immediately became the oldest U.S. president ever — at the start of his first term.

In second place for the oldest president at the start of his first term is Donald Trump, who was 70 years old at his inauguration in 2017.

Now, in the run-up to the 2024 election, a rematch between the two oldest men to assume the office of the presidency is looking likely.

But is that what voters want?

A new Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll of Utah voters shows almost two-thirds of them want an age limit for presidential candidates, although they disagree about how old is too old.

Among those who want an age limit, 48% said 70 years old or younger, while 15% would put the limit at age 60. Another 22% said 80 years old, while 2% said age 90, and 13% chose “other.”

The younger the Utah voter, the more likely they were to say there should be an age limit. Among voters age 18-24, 79% said there should be an age limit, while only 53% of voters older than age 57 agreed.

Read more about how Trump's and Biden's ages are playing into their favorability among U.S. voters. 

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