Thanks. I'm a "bunny hugger" myself - unless I have a hankerin' for hasenpfeffer. Regards coyotes: They're treated as varmints here in Ohio as elsewhere. I used to think of them as a nonnative predator, almost an introduced species, but I'm reading that they've been here about 100 years. In fact, they have not run off the foxes, and we have more than enough deer. But they are a good hunting challenge available year round, and though I'm not about to start eating dog, the pelt is, to me, a good trophy.
I will call around to the few taxidermists here. Before I went to Africa, I struck out. The biggest one in this area "no longer mounts wild animals". There are a few commercial tanning operations, and one in central Pennsylvania will take retail business. But I may still give it a run myself.