As you stated the proper solution is to kill them.
The trouble is the anti’s have fallen in love with predators.
The want more and more. Thinking having them around is a good thing.
I originally come from Nahant MA, a one square mile peninsula across from Boston.
Currently the coyote problem is such that
they plan to shoot and kill any agressive coyote. It’s controversial.
Wildlife getting closer to civilization and
people are befriending them, feeding them.
Youtube videos by Jim Blackwood, a retired Mountie in Nova Scotia, show him (”Raccoon Whisperer”) and his wife Angie feeding raccoons on their back porch. They “name” them—Bashful, Steven Spielberg, Buddy, etc.
They are tame and mostly unafraid of humans.
While they sometimes growl at each other
(”Hey! Be nice!”), there are no signs of rabies.
But it is a good thing to have wildlife
lured so close via feeding? You have aggressive coyotes killing pets...
Here in Beverly MA a family of foxes near the cemetery were noticed and a seal who made it into a pond (dubbed Shoebert—after the former shoe factory that’s now a commercial development) has become beloved.
One time I was in Middlebury VT in a fairly suburban section and saw a bear casually walking across the road on a Sunday afternoon. I slowed down, etc.
A Sopranos episode had a scared Carmella and A.J. get the then-estranged Tony to try
and deal with a bear that invaded their yard
(perhaps smelling bird food).
Amen. But that is a tough call here. Looking at that video, it would have been difficult to shoot the thing without a HIGH possibility of background damage. Regular neighborhood, close houses. I might have hesitated to discharge a weapon in that area. I’m not sure a coyote would stop the bullet that comes from most carry guns. A .22 short from a small gun, yep.
He did the only thing he could in his situation, which, IMO, would have been the right thing, even if he had a pistol on his hip.