Posted on 12/13/2014 11:26:46 AM PST by GraceG
PLAINS, Mont., Dec. 11 (UPI) -- A dead coyote hung from a tree with a Christmas bow along a Montana school bus route is outraging residents, but police said the display is not illegal.
Plains resident Mary Ellen Siegford, who posted a picture of the less-than-cheerful holiday display on Facebook, said her daughter burst into tears when she saw the dead animal.
"A lot of people were just like, 'Well, be glad it's dead. You don't have to worry about it eating your pets,'" Siegford told KECI-TV. "But I don't know. To me, it's morbid, it rings of animal cruelty. It's just not very pleasant to drive past, and I feel it's pretty gruesome for the school kids to be passing by on their way to and from school."
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They can certainly smell death!
I live about 15 miles west of Port St. Lucie in an airpark.
Surrounded by cow pastures and citrus farms.
We get coyote in packs around here all the time. Wild pigs too. Kill em and leave em where it sends a message to their kin to stay away or this may be you next.
Get surrounded by some coyote and you’ll not feel for the criminals.,
Has this person even seen a cat with a mouse?
One time a relative was working for a cable company in West Texas. Some marketing MBA came into their company and wanted to create a mascot—The Cable Coyote.
When he pitched it to the staff, the reaction wasn’t what the guy expected.
One of the tech guys said, I don’t know where you are from, but when people see those dogs around here they shoot them. I don’t think we need any more pressure on us getting to appointments on time.
Good point.
The concept of freezing weather is pretty foreign to me.
I don’t believe the coyote is intelligent enough to act on such a message, nor comfortable enough.
They live desperate lives.
A number of years ago, when I lived in the foothills, one of them got my cat.
Recently, living a few miles down, in house dense neighborhood, one went in my back yard and got my duck.
I hate these guys. If I see one during the day I call 911 to get animal control on it right away.
I remember the first time hearing pack yipping in the middle of the night as a kid. It was scary the first time.
It's not just kittys.
Urban Coyotes are becoming a very real problem.
My daughter is attending University and she and her room mates a had three chickens in her back yard.
Coyotes jumped the fence three times and snatched the chickens, once right in front of her.
In our neighborhood, a coyote recently snatched our small dog literally right off the leash while she was walking it on the side of the road.
Animal control could care less and one fine day in the near future this boldness and lack of fear of humans is going to result in some poor two year old child being dragged off and eaten.
I can't believe the reaction of our neighbors and even my wife because they are siding with the coyotes - citing the fact they are all god's creatures and the cycle of life and other such Gaea, earth mother foolishness.
I, on the other hand , am investigating urban eradication options before one of our moronic liberal, gun and hunting hating ideologue neighbors has one of their infants enter the Animal King's cycle of life via the coyotes feeding chain.
They scoff when I warn them that their toddlers running loose are next as the incidents escalate in frequency and boldness, but then, my wife scoffed at me too when I told her under no circumstances was our little dog to be taken for a walk at the break of dawn without a rifle or shotgun present for protection.
What about all these poor dead trees we put up and hang in the form of wreaths.
Doesn’t anybody CARE?
here you can hear them at night taking down a neighboring calf they’ve split off the herd.
Seen a few wolves, Florida Panthers, pigs galore, and a Lynx here.
Ranchers hang dead coyotes up to supposedly send a message to other coyotes to not come on the property. IMO, it’s gruesome and sick and have complained about such practices but it isn’t illegal. Sick, sick, sick.
It is 37 degrees in Plains Montana. It is not likely to decay vary rapidly, like in Summer. Right now Montana is pretty much like putting it in your ice box.
Much of Montana is pretty dry as well. During the Summer it might just get desiccated and mummified!
Animals don't have the reasoning ability to think like that. It sounds cool in the sayin', but not realistic.
You’re wrong about that. Coyotes know a dead coyote and they know exactly how it got dead. No doubt about it.
There was a fence corner on a sheep ranch where I used to snare coyotes for the rancher. Laying close to the crawl with the snare were at least 30 coyotes in all conditions from fresh to skeleton and the action never slowed down. They cared not for their fallen comrades.
And a possum in a pear tree. LOL!
Around here the other yotes would have him eaten down in 2 days. As far as buzzards eating him they’ve long since left that area for warmer climate. State trappers used to always hang yotes on the fence so the land owner could see how many he had taken.
I didn’t say they cared for their comrades but I am surprised that they weren’t smarter about your snare. They are usually pretty smart about dangers. Maybe the difference is that hanging a coyote on a fence is intended to warn them off and be seen from a distance whereas you were setting snares with the intention of luring them in. Did you bait the snares?
I find the photo jarring, in view of Friday's conviction of 19 year-old crack addict Nicolino Camardi, convicted of torturing and killing a two year old Siberian Husky named 'Shadow' and a six month old kitten named 'One Tooth', after purchasint them on Kijiji. Many times, when an animal is tortured and killed, the torturer 'graduates' to humans, for example, Jeffrey Dahmer, Albert DeSalvo (the “Boston strangler”) and David Berkowitz (Son of Sam).
Link to the news report on the conviction:
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