DizzyDigger
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- Dec 9, 2012
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This time of year you get a bunch of adolescent coyotes out looking for
chow to help them through the cold nights to come. Being youngsters,
their going for the easiest meal they can find, and if someone is leaving
cat/dog food outside they're gonna eat it..along with any pet critters
they can catch.
Once the coyote gets accustomed to people, they become much more
dangerous. If they don't fear you, or hunting/eating in your backyard, then
that little 2-3 year old crawling across the grass while playing becomes
a "food source". 4 legs down, and smells bad, but it looks like prey to them.
Thank the Lord this rarely happens, but it has, and will likely happen again
when people wanna be "nature lovers" and feed the poor, hungry coyotes.
I've had to kill hundreds of these coyotes, and I'm sure that Kuger has
as well. I didn't want to, and at times would even go to the lengths of
hunting just the one or two coyotes in a bunch that were causing the
trouble. Still, the numbers add up quickly when it often means taking
10 (or more) in a night/day trip, and doing that 3-4 days a week. Many
of those were killing sheep or other livestock, however many others could
have gone on living had they not become "citified". Keep in mind that
just because a person has unique skills at certain tasks does not mean,
in any way, that they enjoy doing that job in the slightest. It has to
be done, but what a senseless waste of critters lives, and some of
it can be avoided.
Please, don't feed wildlife...discourage them from being in your yard,
and let them find their own, natural foods. This includes possums, skunks,
'coons, coyotes or any other wild critter (aside from birds and city squirrels).
You're doing them a huge favor, and may be saving their lives as a result as well
as saving some ADC hunter the awful task of having to put the animal down.
chow to help them through the cold nights to come. Being youngsters,
their going for the easiest meal they can find, and if someone is leaving
cat/dog food outside they're gonna eat it..along with any pet critters
they can catch.
Once the coyote gets accustomed to people, they become much more
dangerous. If they don't fear you, or hunting/eating in your backyard, then
that little 2-3 year old crawling across the grass while playing becomes
a "food source". 4 legs down, and smells bad, but it looks like prey to them.
Thank the Lord this rarely happens, but it has, and will likely happen again
when people wanna be "nature lovers" and feed the poor, hungry coyotes.
I've had to kill hundreds of these coyotes, and I'm sure that Kuger has
as well. I didn't want to, and at times would even go to the lengths of
hunting just the one or two coyotes in a bunch that were causing the
trouble. Still, the numbers add up quickly when it often means taking
10 (or more) in a night/day trip, and doing that 3-4 days a week. Many
of those were killing sheep or other livestock, however many others could
have gone on living had they not become "citified". Keep in mind that
just because a person has unique skills at certain tasks does not mean,
in any way, that they enjoy doing that job in the slightest. It has to
be done, but what a senseless waste of critters lives, and some of
it can be avoided.
Please, don't feed wildlife...discourage them from being in your yard,
and let them find their own, natural foods. This includes possums, skunks,
'coons, coyotes or any other wild critter (aside from birds and city squirrels).
You're doing them a huge favor, and may be saving their lives as a result as well
as saving some ADC hunter the awful task of having to put the animal down.
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Along with raccoons, possums, squirrels, skunks with baby skunks 'way cute' wild parrots...I live in Redondo Beach Ca. half block from the ocean
